A suggestion of activities for a weekly lesson plan to teach your preschooler(s) about Eskimos.
If you’re looking for an Eskimo lesson plan for preschool-age children, you’ve come to the right place. I’ve searched the ‘net for the best activities to teach your child or children about Eskimo/Inuit peoples who live in the Arctic.
Theme: People who live in the Arctic
Week Of: 1/15/2018
Teacher/Classroom: Ms. Whitney 3-4s
Purpose: To educate preschoolers about groups of people who live in the Arctic, such as Eskimos/Inuit
Concept: Like animals, there are people who are native to Arctic climates. How do they survive? What do they wear? What do they eat? What are some customs native to them?
| This Week: | |
| Food (Fruit or Vegetable) | Seaweed |
| Recipe/Cooking | Eskimo Pie |
| Blocks | Use Styrofoam, (white if available) to build an igloo. If Styrofoam isn’t available, choose something soft so children can safely crawl inside |
| Dramatic Play | Provide winter coats, heavy clothing so children can dress for the winter |
| Number | 5 |
| Letter | E |
| Sensory | Snow Rice. Add rice and glitter to the sensory bin with toys |
Art: Eskimo Craft. Try this one!
Language: Discuss Seaweed as a food. Provide seaweed snacks for children. Ask them to describe how they taste. Record answers. Do they like or dislike? Try different flavors but make sure they get original as well.
Large Motor: Let’s Get Moving Winter Activity. Randomly select activities to pretend. Go outside and play in the snow weather permitting.
Manipulative: Winter STEM: Build a Snow Fort. Fine Motor play with Styrofoam “Snowballs.”
Math and Science: Feed the Penguin Counting Mats. Mitten Math Snowflake Count. Polar Ice Fishing Science Experiment.
Music and Movement: Tissue Dance.
Monday:
| Group Time: | Hidden Snowball Game. Use felt cutouts to hide snowball. Children try to guess under which mitten the snowball is. |
| Special Activities: | Introduce the food, number, and letter of the Week. Discuss Eskimos.
Use a globe (or map) and stickers to show children where Eskimos live. |
| Social-Emotional | Calm Down Yoga Moves |
| Books: | Read: Here Are My Hands by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
Alaska ABC Book by Charles Kreeger |
Tuesday:
| Group Time: | Sesame Street Letter of the Day “E” Video
Discuss words that begin with “E” such as Egg and Eskimo. |
| Special Activities: | Tasting and Discussing Seaweed, Letter “E” Craft–Big E, Practice Writing Big E |
| Social-Emotional | Arctic Animals Yoga Moves |
| Books: | Read: Mama, Do You Love Me by Barbara M. Joosse
Read: The Story of Owinga: A Little Eskimo Girl by George Stankovich |
Wednesday:
| Group Time: | Watch and Sing “Five Hungry Ants” |
| Special Activities: | Eskimo Craft, Number 5 Play-Dough Mats, Practice Writing Number 5 |
| Social-Emotional | Read: The Grateful Giraffe by Giselle Shardlow. Ask children what they are grateful for. |
| Books: | Read: Kamik, An Inuit Puppy Story by Donald Uluadluak
Read: The Polar Bear Son: An Inuit Tale by Lydia Dabcovich |
Thursday:
| Group Time: | Sesame Street Letter of the Day “E” Video |
| Special Activities: | Making Eskimo Pies, Little e Craft |
| Social-Emotional | Read: The Secret of Saying Thanks by Douglas Wood |
| Books: | Read: Berry Magic by Teri Sloat and Betty Huffman
Read: Kamik’s First Sled by Matilda Sulurayok |
Friday:
| Group Time: | Iyaga Game, a Traditional Game for Inuit Children |
| Special Activities: | Watch “Mama, Do You Love Me?” |
| Social-Emotional | Calm Down Yoga Moves |
| Books: | Read: Polar Bear Polar Bear What Do You Hear? by Eric Carle and Bill Martin Jr. |
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