Books for Preschool Lesson Plan: Four Seasons
Summer by Nuria Roca
Fall by Nuria Roca
Spring by Nuria Roca
Winter by Nuria Roca
Reading Center for Preschool Lesson Plan: Four Seasons
Fill your preschool reading center with books about the four season: spring, summer, winter and fall.
Snack for Preschool Lesson Plan: Four Seasons
Some spring fruits and vegetables are:
– strawberries
– avocados
– mangoes
– pineapple
– sugar snap and snow peas
Some summer fruits and vegetables are:
– blackberries
– cucumbers
– nectarines
– plums
– raspberries
– tomatoes
– zucchini
Some autumn snack ideas are:
– pumpkin pie
– pumpkin cake
– pumpkin seeds
– vegetable soup
– apple pie
– warm cider
Some winter snack ideas are:
– hot chocolate
– holiday cookies and cakes
– snowball hostess snack cakes
– marshmallow snowmen
Concepts for Preschool Lesson Plan: Four Seasons
Letter: S/s
Number: 4
Shape: square
Color: blue
Fine Motor Activities for Preschool Lesson Plan: Four Seasons
Design a dot-to-dot picture of a tree. Make it simple: a rectangle for the trunk and a circle for the top. Print off enough copies for each preschool student in your class. Give them pencils and let them connect the dots.
Gross Motor Activities for Preschool Lesson Plan: Four Seasons
Depending on what season you are teaching this lesson plan in, take your students outside for a gross motor activity appropriate to that season. For example, you could have your preschool students play T-ball in the spring and summer seasons. In the autumn season, take your students on a hike. Enjoy the beautiful scenery of the changing leaves. In the winter season, go outside and let your preschool students make a snowman!
Art Center Activities for Preschool Lesson Plan: Four Seasons
Give each of your preschool students a long sheet of light blue construction paper. Show them how to fold the construction paper in four parts, lengthwise. Help those students who need help with the folding. Fold the paper onto itself. Have your preschool students draw a picture of a bare tree in the winter season on the first section. On the second section, have them draw a picture of a budding tree in the spring season. On the third section, have your preschool students draw a picture of a tree fully leaved in the summer season. On the fourth folded section, have them draw a picture of a tree full of colorful and falling leaves in the autumn season.
Songs/Finger Plays/Rhymes for Preschool Lesson Plan: Four Seasons
Songs, rhymes and finger plays celebrating the four seasons can be found here. Scroll down to the section titled Seasons.
Pre-math Center Activities for Preschool Lesson Plan: Four Seasons
During calendar time, talk about the four seasons. List them on the flannel board. You can either put up pieces of flannel with the words spring, summer, autumn (or fall) and winter written on them in black sharpie marker or you can just put up 4 flannel trees representing the four seasons. Have your preschool students count as you point at the words/trees one-by-one.
Have your preschool students cut out a number 4 shape that you have printed on blue paper. Then let them draw four pictures on the number 4: one picture of something they like about spring, another of something they like about summer, and so on for autumn and winter.
Pre-writing Center Activities for Preschool Lesson Plan: Four Seasons
For younger students, provide sheets of paper with the letters S and s lightly printed on them. Have the children trace the letters. do the same with the number 4.
For older students, provide an example of the letters S and s and the number 4. Have the students practice writing the letters and number freehand.
