Free Pre-K 3 lesson plan · Unit 4: Home and helpers
Pre-K 3, week 15: helping at home, long and short
This week your learner will help with simple chores, compare long and short, and use tools at home. Each activity takes about 5 to 10 minutes. Print the pages, or do them with things you already have at home.
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5-minute parent prep
- Pick one simple chore your learner can help with every day.
- Find a long and a short scarf, ribbon or sock.
- Print pages 2 to 5, or skip printing and use the no-supplies swaps.
Household supplies only: Paper, crayons, a long and a short scarf or ribbon, a cloth. No supplies? Every activity has a no-supplies swap.
The week at a glance
| Day | Focus | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | Talk and listen | Clean-up time page, Little helper card |
| Tuesday | Math | Long and short page, Long or short? card |
| Wednesday | Explore | Tools at home page, Wipe and clean card |
| Thursday | Make and move | Draw my home page, Sock basketball card |
| Friday | Story and review | Song of the week, Parent notes page |
| Every day | Read, sing, play | Read a picture book together, sing the song of the week, play outside and check in on feelings with the free feelings cards. |
Printable pages
Clean-up time
Say: "Where do the toys go? Where do the books go?" Your learner points to each thing and says where it goes.
Long and short
Say: "The train is long. The car is short." Your learner colors the long train and circles the short car.
Tools at home
Say: "What do we use to eat? To clean?" Your learner names each tool and shows how we use it.
Draw my home
Say: "Draw your home. Who lives there?" Your learner draws their home any way they like and tells you about it.
Activity cards
Little helper
- Choose a chore: putting socks in a basket, wiping the table.
- Show how.
- Your learner helps and you say thank you.
Easier: Do it together, hand over hand.
Next step: Your learner does it alone while you watch.
Say this: "Thank you for helping. You are a good helper."
No supplies: Help carry something light, like a towel.
Social-emotional: helping
Long or short?
- Lay them side by side.
- Your learner points to the long one, then the short one.
- Find other long and short things.
Easier: Use things that are very different.
Next step: Line up 3 from short to long.
Say this: "This one is long. This one is short."
No supplies: Compare a long step and a short step.
Math: measurement
Wipe and clean
- Wipe the table together in big circles.
- Talk about wet and dry.
- Hang the cloth to dry.
Easier: Wipe a small spot.
Next step: Wipe from left to right in lines.
Say this: "Big circles. Now it's clean."
No supplies: Wipe with a dry cloth.
Science: tools at home
Sock basketball
- Your learner throws socks into the basket.
- Count the ones that go in.
- Move back one step and try again.
Easier: Stand close.
Next step: Throw with the other hand.
Say this: "In it goes. Two socks."
No supplies: Throw socks onto a towel.
Physical: gross motor
Song of the week: Clean-up song
Clean up, clean up, one, two, three,
Toys in the box, help with me.
Books on the shelf, shoes by the door,
Look how clean, a tidy floor.
Actions: March as you put things away. Try next: Sing it every time you clean up.
Parent notes for Friday
Not a test. Notice what your learner does this week, and practice the rest later. Nothing here is sent to UpOnly Learning.
- Helps with one chore
- Points to the long one and the short one
- Shows how to use a spoon and a sponge
- Throws a sock into a basket
Want the bigger picture? See developmental milestones by age and the child development guide for ages 3 to 5.
Safety for this week
- Use objects too big to fit in your learner's mouth, and stay close during any counting or sorting with real objects.
- Water play only with an adult within arm's reach the whole time, even in a small tub.
- An adult handles anything hot or sharp, knives, and rocks or heavy objects.
- Dry beans and seeds only with an adult watching closely, and not with a learner who still puts things in their mouth.
- No scissors needed: tear paper instead. If you do use scissors, use child safety scissors with an adult right there.
- Choose crayons, markers and paint labeled for young learners (look for the AP seal).
Questions parents ask
Small, safe ones done together: putting toys in a box, socks in a basket, wiping a table, carrying a towel, watering a plant with a little water. Show how, help, and say thank you. Helping builds confidence.
Make it short and the same every time: a clean-up song, one kind of toy at a time and a clear place for each thing. Clean up together and praise the helping.
Stop, name the feeling ("You are frustrated"), and take a calm break together. Try the easier step on the card next time. Short, happy tries teach more than long ones.
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