Good Night Sleep Tight Lesson Plans for Infants and Toddlers

This week my daughters and I concentrated on "Night Night Time." I should explain that many of my lesson plans depend on my daughter's interest that week. For example, on Mondays we go to playtime/story time at the local library. She delightfully chooses her own books from the children's section and with some guidance from me, she chooses her movies. Then once I get home that afternoon, I pull together the lesson plans for the remainder of the week. This may not work for all mothers, teachers, or home schoolers, which is why I post them. Now there is a resource that you can access whenever you have a topic - or maybe it will just give you some ideas of what to do to keep your child entertained and informed while you are home with them.

This week, we came home with ten books. But the favorites by far were, "A Child's Good Night Book," by Margaret Wise Brown and "Good Night, Mr. Night," by Dan Yaccarino. We already had at home "Good Night Moon," by Margaret Wise Brown and "Dora the Explorer's Outer Space Adventure." So, this week our lesson plans focused on night time and the moon.

For Circle Time (as referred to in many preschools) but we call it quiet learning one day this week we had a pajama day, my daughters and I got up, had breakfast and kept our pj's on when we started our lessons. On another day we had foam cut out pictures of the moon and stars and foam sheets to peel and stick the several different pictures of the moon (different phases) and start.

Toy Time

Great toys to use during the night time lesson plans are the shaper sorts that include star shapes as well as round and crescent. We also had play time and pretended to put our "babies" to bed. The girls had their own baby dolls that they put diapers on in their household center, gave the babies baths in the bathtub and fed them a bottle and tucked them in to bed. We also pulled out the play dough and the shape cutters/shape "squeezers" for the play dough and made stars and moons from the play dough.

Imagination time