Year-Round Early Childhood Themes, eBook: 12 Fun Theme-Based Activity UnitsThe thematic units in this valuable resource provide a variety of hands-on activities, fingerplays, and songs, as well as family letters and many timesaving reproducibles. Children will enjoy exploring these twelve thematic units: All About Me, Animals, Community Helpers, Dinosaurs, Fall, Family, Five Senses, Friends, Insects, Nursery Rhymes, Shapes and Colors, and Transportation. |
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... each of us is like other people and how we are unique. • Matching each child's ... write a letter to the class to tell us all about him or her. For example ... the following items during our. All About Me 7.
... each of us is like other people and how we are unique. • Matching each child's ... write a letter to the class to tell us all about him or her. For example ... the following items during our. All About Me 7.
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... children to tell a story. These ideas can be discussed and then used to write group stories for children to ... each child on a separate piece of paper. Ask children to illustrate their work, and bind their pages together to make a class ...
... children to tell a story. These ideas can be discussed and then used to write group stories for children to ... each child on a separate piece of paper. Ask children to illustrate their work, and bind their pages together to make a class ...
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... each child , connect one linking cube for each letter of his or her name . Directions Read aloud Chrysanthemum . Write on chart paper the names of the children in the story . Draw a box around each letter in each name . Invite children to ...
... each child , connect one linking cube for each letter of his or her name . Directions Read aloud Chrysanthemum . Write on chart paper the names of the children in the story . Draw a box around each letter in each name . Invite children to ...
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... a graph with grid squares on a piece of chart paper. Label the columns with the months of the year. Directions Record each child's birth month on the graph by writing his or her name in the correct grid square. Help children count the ...
... a graph with grid squares on a piece of chart paper. Label the columns with the months of the year. Directions Record each child's birth month on the graph by writing his or her name in the correct grid square. Help children count the ...
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... Write each child's name on a separate sentence strip . Directions Give each child his or her sentence strip and a spoonful of pudding on waxed paper . Ask each child what his or her favorite color is , and add food coloring to the pud- ding ...
... Write each child's name on a separate sentence strip . Directions Give each child his or her sentence strip and a spoonful of pudding on waxed paper . Ask each child what his or her favorite color is , and add food coloring to the pud- ding ...
Contents
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Dinosaurs | 107 |
Fall | 146 |
A Family | 180 |
Five Senses | 212 |
239 | 269 |
Nursery Rhymes | 309 |
Shapes and Colors | 344 |
Transportation | 378 |
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2006 Creative Teaching Alphabet Activities alphabet cards animals Apatosaurus apple Art Recipes Ask children assorted colors bowl butcher paper butterfly card stock chart paper child's name circle class set classroom Community Helpers construction paper cookie cutters Cooking Activities Copy a class craft stick create Creative Teaching Press Directions Give Directions Invite children Directions Show children Early Childhood Themes Encourage children Eric Carle Explain to children Family Letter feel fingers Flannel Board Activities food coloring friends Give each child glue Preparation graham cracker Greenwillow Humpty Dumpty Ingredients insects ladybug leaf leaves Lois Ehlert matching mixing spoon Motor Skills Activities name strip Nursery Rhymes paint pads pair paper plates paper Preparation pasta play dough Preparation Cut Preparation none Materials reproducible sentence strip shape Songs spider spoon Stegosaurus story Sung tape Tell children Triceratops tune Tyrannosaurus rex Year-Round Early Childhood yellow
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Page 336 - SIMPLE Simon met a pieman Going to the fair; Says Simple Simon to the pieman, "Let me taste your ware." Says the pieman to Simple Simon, "Show me first your penny"; Says Simple Simon to the pieman. "Indeed I have not any.
Page 330 - BAA BAA, BLACK SHEEP. BAA Baa, Black Sheep, Have you any wool ? Yes, Sir, yes, Sir, three bags full.
Page 334 - OLD Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard, To get her poor dog a bone: But when she got there The cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none.
Page 335 - The Queen of Hearts She made some tarts, All on a summer's day; The Knave of Hearts He stole those tarts, And took them clean away. The King of Hearts Called for the tarts, And beat the Knave full sore; The Knave of Hearts Brought back the tarts, And vowed he'd steal no more.
Page 334 - One, two, Buckle my shoe; Three, four, Shut the door; Five, six, Pick up sticks; Seven, eight, Lay them straight; Nine, ten, A good fat hen; Eleven, twelve, Who will delve?
Page 93 - This Is the Way We Row a Boat" sung to the tune of "Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush" This is the way we row a boat, Row a boat, row a boat.
Page 333 - MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went, The lamb was sure to go.
Page 334 - Oh, do you know the muffin man, The muffin man, the muffin man; Oh, do you know the muffin man That lives in Drury Lane?