BYU-Idaho Preschool Lesson Plan 

Lesson Plan #​21 

Lab #1 
 
Muscles 
 
Date: Monday, June 24​th​, 2019 
Supervisor: Julee Dykes 
Lead Teacher: Keelie Potter 5 
 
Children Receiving Specific Focus Today: 
1. Miguel​-Art 
2. Cora​-Small Focus 
3. Raleigh​-Manipulatives 
4. Drake​-Outdoor 
5. Griffin​-Small Focus 
 
Preassessment and Findings: 
The children in our lab have shown a lot of interest in movement and it has been fun to 
see them exploring how different parts of their bodies work. The main question that I asked the 
children while doing my preassessment was, “how does your body move?” or “what is inside of 
you that helps you move?” I received many answers from the children.  
Raleigh​ told me that our bones are what help us move. After really prying, ​Skylar​ told me 
that your bones and muscles help you to move. ​Paisley​ gave me and interesting answer and 
told me that bones and your blood are what help you to move around. ​Peter’s​ ​answer was 
great and he told me that our skeletons are what moves us. I had a great conversation with 
Drake​ and he told me that your bones are what help you move, and your bones all connect 
together, and that is what makes your skeleton.  
There were several answers that I got that told me that the children aren’t exactly sure 
how our bodies move. ​Griffin​ told me that food is what helps us to move. ​Hunter​ ​reported that he 
gets better and better every day and that is what helps him to move his body. When I asked 
Hawkins​, he just told me that he didn’t know what made his body move.  
My gathering time will be focused on teaching the children that there are muscles in our 
body, and that is what helps us move. I will also teach them that joints are where our bodies 
bend and how we move our arms and legs. Our developmental focus will be gross motor skills so 
that the children can work on balance and learn how to use their bodies to move.  
 
Ideas to be Emphasized and Overall Developmental Focus​: 
1. Our muscles and bones help us move our bodies.  
2. We have joints that help our bones and our muscles do things every day.  
3. Today’s developmental focus will be gross motor skills.  

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