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LESSON 2 Babies
LESSON 2 Babies
LESSON 2 Babies
Babies
6 Good Books:
I Kissed the Baby by Mary Murphy
Baby Knows Best by Kathy Henderson
Happy Birth Day! by Robie H. Harris
Whose Baby Am I? by John Butler (animal babies)
Owl Babies by Martin Waddell
Peter's Chair -‐ Ezra Jack Keats
Babies name tags
Babies theme announcement poster
Creative art
a) Baby blanket – paint with pastel liquid watercolor on white paper. When dry, crumple it a few times
to make it soft, like a “blankie”. Use it for a doll or stuffed animal.
b) Make some pink and aqua colored playdoh. Use with cookie cutters related to babies. Add some
baby lotion for a good smell, if your children do not eat playdoh.
c) Create a collage using pastel paper or fabric scraps. Older children can cut up their own collage
pieces. Also use baby shower wrapping paper, and pastel ribbons.
Music and finger plays
Pat-‐a-‐cake, pat-‐a-‐cake, baker's man, (clap own hands, or tap child’s hands)
Bake us a cake as fast as you can,
Mix it and roll it, (do the actions)
And mark it with B, (hold up a letter B, or draw it on the child’s hands)
And put it in the oven for baby and me.
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(Chant) With a hoop and a holler, and a crisp, new dollar,
There was a little baby and his/her name was _______ (Chn. in group take turns)
She wiggled and she giggled, and she danced and she pranced,
Then when she turned around, we heard this sound:
WAAH! I WANT MY MAMA!!!!
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(Children do the actions)
Babies wiggle,
Babies giggle.
Babies bounce,
Babies pounce.
Babies cry,
Babies sigh,
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Babies wave, and say bye-‐bye.
BYE-‐BYE!
Language and Early Literacy
a) Touch and Tell: In a paper or fabric bag, place items such as a baby brush, a bar of baby soap, a
cotton ball, a pacifier, a teething ring, a rattle, etc. Have the children take turns feeling an item in the
box and guessing what it is. Take it out and check it.
b) Concept of big and little. Collect a set of pairs of similar items, where one is obviously bigger than the
other. For example: a 16 oz paper cup and a little bathroom size paper cup; a large adult shoe and a
small child’s shoe; a long wooden unit block and a small unit block; a 20 oz can of food and a small
can such as tuna; a large easel brush and a small watercolor brush; a picture of tall adult and a
picture of a baby, etc. Mix all the items up, and have the children match the pairs. Also, you can
categorize all the big items, and all the small items.
c) Guess what is inside a collection of baby food jars and packets by the pictures on the packaging.
Number and Logical Thinking
This rhyme can be a flannelboard activity, or have the baby pictures laid out on the floor or table. Younger
children might be able handle 3.
Five little babies were playing together one day.
One saw a ball, and so he crawled away.
Four little babies were playing together one day.
One saw a rattle, and she crawled away.
Three little babies were playing together one day.
One saw a kitty cat, and he crawled away.
Two little babies were playing together one day.
One saw a teddy bear, and she crawled away.
One little baby was playing by himself one day.
He cried and his mommy came and took him away.
Counting.
Babies love to dump things out of containers. Count together some toys, such as blocks, into a container.
Teacher, pretend you are a baby, and dump them out onto the floor. Let each child take a turn at being the
“dropper” (while everyone counts), and the “dumper”.
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Science and Nature
a) Match baby and parent animals. Suit this activity to the age of the children. Start with 3 or 4 pairs,
and add more if there is interest. I prefer using photos of real animals, but clipart is fine, and, as a
last resort, cartoons.
b) It would be perfect to observe a young baby in a well supervised situation. Talk about the tiny fingers
and toes; soft, short hair; large head; jerky movements; small clothes and shoes. Compare with an
older child or an adult. Refer often to this observation throughout your Baby Theme.
Sensory discrimination (visual, tactile, auditory, taste and smell)
a) Give baby a bath: Use a waterproof doll in a water play container. Show the children how to test the
water to make sure it isn’t too hot. Add a little baby shampoo to create suds; show the children how
to place the “baby” in the water, and wash gently with a wash cloth. Have a towel ready to dry the
baby.
b) Baby puzzles
Physical development
a) (Tune: Did You Ever See a Lassie?)
When I was a baby, a baby, a baby,
When I was a baby.
Oh here’s what I did ……crawl, lie on back and kick and say goo goo ga ga, drink bottle, roll over, give
hugs etc
b) Set up a simple “obstacle course” and have the children crawl through and over it.
c) The children can practice attaching snaps together on baby clothes.
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Name tags – cut out as rectangles, or around the shape. Use to tape on clothes, cubbies, or for any other use during the theme unit.
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Flashcards – cut out and use for theme vocabulary and matching games (2 copies)
ball stroller
bottle pacifier
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bag blocks
crib rattles
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Cards for counting and matching sets to numbers.
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Parent and baby animals matching cards
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Order by size – start with 2 or 3, and then add more.
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Five Crawling babies rhyme – for flannelboard, back with felt or Velcro strip
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Baby Puzzles – cut into 3 or 4 pieces.
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Shape Lacing Print on cardstock. Cut out on the line, and use a hole punch to make holes around the edge
of the picture, about a half inch in. Make a lot or a few, depending on the level of your children. They can
weave through the holes using a piece of yarn with some tape around the end. The weaving does not need
to be “correct”.
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