Preschool Lesson Plans: New Year's Day
This preschool New Year's unit will give preschoolers a fun and engaging way to learn with about New Year's Day. These New Year preschool lesson plans contain a variety of activities that cover the alphabet, beginning sounds, preschool math skills, art, and so much more!
What is Included:
- There is a lesson overview that lists the activities with the subject or skill area the activity falls in.
- Art and Crafts Activities: There are instructions for New Year crafts as well as a dot painting page.
- Math Activities: Students will count to 10, recognize shapes, and order by size.
- Language Activities: The activities in this section include a beginning sound sort to review each letter of the alphabet as well as a New Year writing page.
- Handwriting Activities: There are tracing lines and shapes activities as well as worksheets for practicing the correct letter formation of capital and lowercase letters.
- Fine Motor Activities: This section includes playdough and counting cube activities.
- Games and Indoor Recess Ideas: There are some fun games for students to play indoors. Students are also able to play a pocket chart game that practices letter recognition.
- Science Activities: There is a fireworks themed science experiment in this packet.
- Snacks and Cooking Ideas: This section includes snack ideas with a New Year theme.
- Sensory Bin Activities: This section has sensory bin ideas for students to explore with a New Year theme.
- Dramatic Play: This section includes ideas on how to set up your dramatic play area as a New Year's Eve party.
- Circle Time Posters: This section includes posters to use during circle time that focus on the letter counting, relevant colors, and shapes.
- The final two pages are suggestions for more activities if you need more on a particular skill or subject.
This New Year themed preschool unit is designed to be used during a New Year themed week. By connecting the theme to concepts being taught, students will have a meaningful way to remember what they are learning. The activities can be stretched to use over 2 weeks if needed, as many of the activities are reusable.
There is a mixture of no prep and low prep activities on a variety of skills and subjects. This allows teachers to be flexible and use only the activities that the teacher desires to complete. The activities in this packet can be completed in any order.
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