How many animals can you get on the bed? Can you put the cow on top of the tiger? BlocksĮncourage the children to make a bed and load it up with animals. Put lullabies on during the day as background music. Mathematics/Patterns & Measurement shows increasing abilities to match, sort, put in a series, and regroup objects according to one or two attributes such as color, shape, or size. I use the Russian nesting dolls and talk about smallest, bigger, bigger, and largest.

If you have nesting toys these would be good to put into the center. Literacy/Book Knowledge & Appreciation demonstrates progress and abilities to retell and dictate stories from books and experiences to act out stories in dramatic play and to predict what will happen next in a story. Use the copy of the characters to put onto the bed in the correct order (Who was the first one on the bed? Who was second, third, fourth, etc). Go back through the pages and look for the flea. After reading the storyĪsk the children if they noticed the flea in the first half of the story. When you get to the page where the flea bites the mouse, change your voice to one of surprise and a quicker pace. Point to each critter as they climb onto the bed. Reading the StoryĪs you read the pages where everyone is sleeping, use a soothing voice and yawn as you turn the pages. Social & Emotional Development/Self-Concept begins to develop and express awareness of self in terms of specific abilities, characteristics, and preferences. Turn off the light if you have window light to darken the room slightly. Talk about how the children sleep (Kerry always falls asleep first, Roger likes to read a book before he takes a nap, and Ryan you are usually the last to fall asleep). Ask the children why they think naps are important (we grow while we sleep, when we are tired we do not think as well, naps help us from getting crabby). Hold up the cover of the book and say the title.

Construction paper that has been made into a weaving frame (see resources).

Colored construction paper cut into one-inch lengths.

Pictures come from Projecto A casa sonolenta em LIBRAS Make into flannel pieces by covering with contact paper and taping to the board. This fun story is about a house that is napping, until a wakeful flea arrives, then everything goes crazy.

Helping Your Child to become Creative so that they can help change the world.īook Play Everyday Teaching Preschoolers Through the Love of Books.

Helping Your Preschooler Prepare for Reading.

Multiple Intelligence and Children’s Learning.

The Value of Play Dough in Early Childhood.The Importance of Teaching Classroom Rules.

The napping house book