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Let Your Class Create Their Own Lesson Plan

It's important that each student in your classroom understands the information that you discuss everyday in your classroom, but it's just as important that the students have fun. If you gave the students one afternoon to create a lesson plan every couple of weeks, they would appreciate every minute of that unit. After the students have all agreed on one specific subject, you can just take a couple of days to set up actual assignments and games to make out of their lesson plan. This idea is something I'd like to try my first year in the classroom. I hope it works!

Lesson Plans Made For Springtime

It's always nice (around this area of Illinois) when school goes back into session for the fall. But August turns into September and then September to October and before you know it, it is freezing outside! The long Illinois winters tend to slow a lot of people down, even kids. So, what better way to start off the beginning of spring (usually the end of March) then by doing a lesson plan over plants and flowers. You teach your students the vocabulary of plants and all of their important parts that help them stay nourished. You can have a lot of fun and let each student grow their choice of a plant or flower in the classroom. And best of all, the children can have a perfectly educational reason to spend some time out in the fresh air during school. I learned things about flowers I never would have known otherwise in Horticulture, and it was probably the funnest class I took in High School.

My Favorite Lesson Plan Themes

Considering that I would like to teach a younger age group of students, I really like lesson plan themes that have to do with bright colors. For example, when teaching Kindergarten students all of the most common colors, you have to incorporate the rainbow. You can also stretch this lesson plan for days or weeks by having a specific color for each day of the week. Monday can be yellow day, Tuesday can be orange day, etc... It'd be a lot of fun for the kids to dress up in the colors to match their outfit with the days of the week.
Another one of my favorite lesson plan themes is holiday themes. The holidays come and go every year, so you can splurge on decorations your first year and then just use those decorations for the years to come. My favorite holiday lesson plans as a kid were for Halloween because the teachers even dressed up and we always made tons of spooky cookies. Yum!

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