on what makes us grow an class size of 15 kids.

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Choose a short story that applies. Could be fiction or non-fiction. Growing vegetable soup might be a good one. Then talk about healthy foods and let the kids cut up veggies and put them in a pot with some beef broth to make vegetable soup for lunch.Or put on quiet music, turn the lights down, and read Good Night Moon. Tell the children how important rest is and ask them to tell you who they say good night to before they go to bed. You could ask them to draw a picture of themselves sleeping.Look at children's books on line to get more ideas. There's a million lesson plans you could build on this concept. Think about exercise, rest, and healthy eating.

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This is a pretty obscure topic for a preschool class! Literally, sit down and brainstorm. What are your objectives for this lesson? What do you want them to get from it? How long do you have? For example, if you have a week, that's very different than a day. Things that come to my mind in a quick brainstorm are food, sunshine, water, love from parents, the things that happen inside our bodies (like hormonal changes, but this is a little advanced from preschoolers). Stay basic, spend a day on each one of these if you have a week - sunshine for a day, food for two days, water for a day, parents for a day. Come up with activities based on those themes. Like sunshine on Monday - you'll need a sunshine activity for each one of your activity areas. When I was teaching preschool, I tried to have an outdoor game, an arts and crafts project, a dramatic/act it out activity, a book for story time, and anything else I could think of each day for the same theme. Then you could also add something to focus on for the whole week, like if you have a class pet, you could spend some time each day talking about how these different themes apply to the class pet or to the plants outside. Then, you should have your other regular activities that you can make "themed" to the topic. For example, if you have a letter of the week that you teach, whatever activities you do with that can be "what makes us grow" themed. Like if you come up with words that start with that letter, come up with just foods that start with that letter on food day. Do you see where I'm going with this?

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http://www.preschoolexpress.comwww.p...eschool.comTwo great websites to help with ideas and suggestions on MANY different topics & themes.

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How do children grow:Babies course of study; love, and hugs, eat, play, and rest.Read them a story -- feeding the mind.Cuddle them -- feeding the soul.Prepare, and show them some different foods.Let them eat it. -- nourishment, feeding the body.Take them out to play -- exercise, lifting their spirits.Let them take a nap -- rest, so the cycle can repeat itself.

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