Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
What types of ice How many scoops tall Is ice cream kept in What do you like on
Discussion What is ice cream? cream are there? can it be? Why? the fridge? your sundae?
Word Wall Ice Cream Stop What Rhymes with
English Sentence Wall (Silverstein) Ice? Describe Ice Cream Hippy Hop
Writing Name Practice Letter Practice Number Practice Free Writing Friday Stories
Skill(s) Spelling/Reading Poetry Rhyming Adjectives Syllables
How Many Scoops?
Math Our Favorite Flavors Scoop It Up! ws ffg How Cold Is It? Build a Sundae
Skill(s) Graphing Patterning Rote Counting Temperature/Graph Die/Count/1-1
Science/Reasoning Where did the cold Ice Cream
Problem Solving 5 Ice Cream Cones fb Ice Cream Bingo Cold Versus Hot go? Making
Skill(s) Reasoning Observation Venn Diagram Heat Transfer Viscosity/Matter State
Ice Cream Popsicle Painting Ice Cream Cones Ice Cream Sundaes
Craft/Fine Motor Journal Painting Cut & Paste Sculpture Cooking
Skill(s) Creative Expression Unusual Media Cutting Curves Unusual Media Following Directions
Gross Motor/ How Do You Eat an Ice Ice Cream Boogie
(Shake Ice Cream Bags)
Dramatic Play Making Ice Cream Cream Cone? Eat Quickly! Ice Cream Shop Dance Party
Skill(s) Following Directions Dramatic Interpret Dramatic Play Full Body Movement
Music/ 5 Little Ice Cream Take Me Out for Ice Scream for Ice Cream On Top of My Sundae
Finger Plays Cones Cream Ice Cream Instruments Dance Party
Ice Cream the Full Ice Cream (Older) Simply Delicious! Ice Cream Larry The Hokey Pokey Man
Library/Reading Scoop (Gibbons) (Mahy) (Pinkwater) (Kroll)
Other for Week
CIRCLE TIME includes: Pledge of Allegiance, name songs, manners song, alphabet song, days of the week song, months & seasons, shapes, Spanish 1-25/
colors/vocabulary new & review, word wall, sentence wall, sight words review, vowels, weather, money, time, ordinal count, math facts, odd/even song,
positional/relationship review, art discussion, share time, library reading, and child presentations.
ta-teacher’s aid, fb=flannel board, ffg=file folder game, dtd=dot-to-dot, ws=worksheet,*Item Owned
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We seperate the cream, we separate the cream
Second thing to make ice cream, we seperate the
SONGS/FINGER PLAYS cream.
Five Little Ice Cream Cones (5 Little Ducks)
Five little ice cream cones standing in a row, We put it all in, we put it all in
Each has a scoop and an ice cream cone, Cream and milk and flavoring we put it all in.
Out came the sun and it shown all day,
One little ice cream cone melted away... We have to churn it up, we have to churn it up
and so on with 4-3-2-1 (Sarah Bear) We have to make it cold and churn it all up.
Take Me Out For Ice Cream (Take Me…Ballgame) Now we have ice cream, now we have ice cream
Take me out for some ice cream, Now we can eat it down because we have ice
Take me out to the store. cream. (LS)
Buy me a triple scoop jumbo cone.
I won't share, I'll eat it alone! How Do You Eat an Ice Cream Cone?
For its scoop, scoop ,scoop up the ice cream-- Everyone does appropriate actions as you read this poem.
Give me three kinds I adore! Some folks taste it daintily,
For it's one, two, three, scoops to go Others gulp it down quick-ily.
At the ice cream store! Some lick around and around,
So it never, ever comes dripping down.
Ice Cream (Twinkle Twinkle) Some shove the ice cream
Ice cream, ice cream it’s too cold Down with their tongue,
It’s too cold for me to hold So at the bottom of the cone,
So I put it in a cup You're left with some.
Then I eat it all up But some lick in just one place
Ice cream Ice cream it’s so good So it gets sort of sloppy,
I’d eat it always if I could. (LS) And the top plops off
In a great big bloppy!
Scream for Ice Cream
Scream off by teams. Eat Quickly!
I scream you scream My ice cream cone is good to eat. (lick slowly)
We all scream for ice cream. But I must lick it quickly (lick fast!)
Or it will melt from the heat. (melt to the floor)
On Top of My Sundae (On Top of Spaghetti) And become quite sticky! (act like stuck to the floor)
On top of my sundae
All covered with sauce ACTIVITIES
I lost my poor cherry Journal- Your favorite flavor of ice cream, people eating
It really got lost. ice cream, making ice cream.
It rolled off the table Painting- Provide popsicles in different colors and large
And onto the floor sheets of paper.
And then my poor cherry
It rolled out the door. Cut and Paste- Have children place a white piece of
paper over plastic canvas and rub with a brown crayon.
It rolled to the garden Provide base paper, colored paper and tracers: triangle for
And under a bush cone, clouds or circles for scoops depending upon
And then my poor cherry tracing/cutting ability. Have them glue pieces to base
It turned into mush. paper.
If you like your sundae Sculpture- Provide a cheap large tub of ice cream to the
All covered with sauce sand and water table and have them go at it.
Hold onto your cherry
Or it will be lost. Cooking- Put:1/2 cup whole milk, 1T sugar, and 1 t
vanilla into a sandwich bag. Seal this bag and then put it
DRAMATIC PLAY/CREATIVE MOVEMENT
into a larger zip-log bag. Put rock salt and ice into the large
Making Ice Cream (Farmer in the Dell)
Everyone does appropriate actions as they sing. bag. Let your children make ice cream by shaking and
First we milk the cows, first we milk the cows rolling the bag (It usually take between 5 and 10 minutes
First thing to make ice cream, we have to milk the to make the ice cream.)
cows.
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OBJECTIVES
Ice cream is a dairy product
5 Ice Cream Cones
Ice cream is a liquid and a solid
Place vanilla cones on flannel board and color words in a Heat exchanges between objects and air
corner or side of board. Give each child a colored scoop. Temperature is measured with a thermometer
When you get to the color, let the children come up with
which one it is. Let that child place the color scoop on top Describe the process of making ice cream
of the vanilla one and find the color word to put above it, Ice cream can be made into a variety of products
then use his/her name to finish the line.
People have different taste preferences
Five ice cream cones at the ice cream shop,
But no one wanted to buy them with vanilla on top.
One little ice cream took some time to think.
He mixed in some bubblegum and turned himself to pink.
Little (student) came along,
And took that yummy ice cream home
4…blueberries/blue
3…lemonade/yellow
2…raspberries/red
1…all the colors/rainbow
Reasoning: Where is the vanilla ice cream?
Hippy Hop to the ice cream shop to buy an ice cream
soda. Which flavor would you like (Child's Name)?"
The child tells the flavor he wants and then the group
repeats and claps his choice in syllables. i.e. straw-ber-ry
is three claps. The group sings the song again for each
child's turn.
Ice Cream Stop
http://poemsbyshelsilverstein.blogspot.com/2009/01/p
oem-by-shel-silverstein-pg-51.html
How Cold Is It? Using a digital thermometer, take the
temperature of the ice cream in the water table several
times through the session and record the time (1/2 hour or
hour only) and temperature. Before starting, have children
feel the air around the ice cream to see that it is colder.
(Teaches: 2 digit numbers, greater/less than, time,
graphing, prediction, procedure)
Where did the cold go? Before starting the sculpture
activity, have children feel the air around the ice cream to
see that it is colder. Afterward, discuss How Cold Is It?
And move into the science of heat transference at a
preschool level.
SUPPLIES (Unusual)
Tub of cheap ice cream
Popsicles
WEBSITES
http://www.first-school.ws/t/alpha_tracers_zb1/i4.htm
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