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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... spoon vanilla pudding • waxed paper • food coloring • craft sticks Preparation 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 ...
... spoon vanilla pudding • waxed paper • food coloring • craft sticks Preparation 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 ...
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... spoons Preparation Cut white paper to fit the height of the cans . Wrap the paper around the inside wall of the cans ... spoon , put the marbles in their can , and secure the lid . Encourage children to shake the can and roll it across ...
... spoons Preparation Cut white paper to fit the height of the cans . Wrap the paper around the inside wall of the cans ... spoon , put the marbles in their can , and secure the lid . Encourage children to shake the can and roll it across ...
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... spoon • waxed paper ⚫ baking sheet • permanent marker Directions Mix all of the ingredients except the jelly into a stiff dough . Give each child a scoop of dough . Have children use clean hands to shape their dough into a small ball ...
... spoon • waxed paper ⚫ baking sheet • permanent marker Directions Mix all of the ingredients except the jelly into a stiff dough . Give each child a scoop of dough . Have children use clean hands to shape their dough into a small ball ...
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... spoons Preparation Cut elephant shapes from finger-painting paper. (You can enlarge and trace the Elephant Chain reproducible on page 66 if needed.) Directions Give each child an elephant-shaped paper and a paint smock. Put a spoonful ...
... spoons Preparation Cut elephant shapes from finger-painting paper. (You can enlarge and trace the Elephant Chain reproducible on page 66 if needed.) Directions Give each child an elephant-shaped paper and a paint smock. Put a spoonful ...
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... spoon Preparation Copy and cut out a class set of the Zebra reproducible. Write each child's name on a separate zebra cutout. Place each zebra cutout faceup in a gift box. Pour black paint in a shallow paint tray. Place marbles in the ...
... spoon Preparation Copy and cut out a class set of the Zebra reproducible. Write each child's name on a separate zebra cutout. Place each zebra cutout faceup in a gift box. Pour black paint in a shallow paint tray. Place marbles in the ...
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?