Preschool Lesson Plan: Labor Day

Book for Preschool Lesson Plan: Labor Day

Labor Day by Carmen Bredeson

Reading Center for Preschool Lesson Plan: Labor Day

Fill your preschool reading center not only with books about Labor Day, but also with books about picnics, parades and occupations.

Snacks for Preschool Lesson Plan: Labor Day

Some ideas for snacks to offer your students during your preschool Labor Day lesson plans are as follows (most of them finger foods appropriate for picnics):

-Swedish meatballs
-cheese bites with fondue
-chex mix
-trail mix
-popsicles
-ice cream cones
-peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
-watermelon
-lemonade
-fruit salad

Lunch: Spend lunch time during your preschool Labor Day lesson plan having a picnic. Preferably, spend your Labor Day picnic outdoors in the sunshine with traditional picnic foods, such as peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, potato chips and cookies.

Concepts for Preschool Lesson Plan: Labor Day

Letter: Ll for labor
Number: 4
Shape: half-circle, like a watermelon slice
Color: green, like the outside of watermelon and the grass that we picnic on

Fine Motor Activity for Preschool Lesson Plan: Labor Day

Let your preschool students refine their fine motor skills by cutting pictures of picnics, picnic foods and picnic games from old magazines. Then let your preschool students glue the pictures onto a piece of construction paper for a pretty and celebratory Labor Day collage.

Gross Motor Activities for Preschool Lesson Plan: Labor Day

Play lawn games with your preschool students, as you would on a Labor Day picnic.

-croquet
-badminton
-obstacle courses
-gunny sack race
-3-legged race

Art Center Activities for Preschool Lesson Plan: Labor Day

Your preschool students will probably be exhausted from all of the outdoor games and picnics that you have been having during your Labor Day lesson plan. Let's make one of their art projects simple and enjoyable. For preschoolers, there's nothing much simpler and more enjoyable than coloring pages. Go online and find free coloring pages to print off for your preschool students. Print off coloring pages of picnic scenes and various occupations. Let your students choose which pages to color.

Watermelon slice: Have your preschool students cut out a half circle from red construction paper. Now have them tear small pieces of green construction paper to glue to the curved edge of the half circle as the watermelon rind. Finally, let your preschool students glue either tiny bits of black construction paper or real water melon seeds to the red construction paper. You might choose to have them use black thumbprints as the watermelon seeds.

Songs/Finger Plays for Preschool Lesson Plan: Labor Day

The song Family Helper, found here, is appropriate for your Labor Day lesson plan. It reminds your preschoolers that they, too, are helpers within their family communities.

Pre-math Center Activity for Preschool Lesson Plan: Labor Day

Give your students each a piece of paper with the number 4 outlined on it. Have your students count out four watermelon seeds and glue them to the number 4.

Pre-writing Center Activities for Preschool Lesson Plan: Labor Day

For younger students, provide sheets of paper with the letters L and l 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 L and l and the number 4. Have the students practice writing the letters and number freehand.