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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... 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 to make the color . Have children use a craft ...
... 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 to make the color . Have children use a craft ...
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... Directions Give each child one half of a puzzle . Invite children to find the child with the other half of their puzzle . Invite these children to share with each other what makes them have the same expression as the one on their card ...
... Directions Give each child one half of a puzzle . Invite children to find the child with the other half of their puzzle . Invite these children to share with each other what makes them have the same expression as the one on their card ...
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... directions on page 416 to make red , black , brown , and yellow pasta . Draw a large circle on the matching color of skin - colored construction paper for each child . Directions Give each child his or her piece of construction paper ...
... directions on page 416 to make red , black , brown , and yellow pasta . Draw a large circle on the matching color of skin - colored construction paper for each child . Directions Give each child his or her piece of construction paper ...
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... Directions Give each child four paper squares . Help children press their hands on a paint pad and print their handprints on two squares . On the third square , invite children to draw a picture of themselves or a face that represents ...
... Directions Give each child four paper squares . Help children press their hands on a paint pad and print their handprints on two squares . On the third square , invite children to draw a picture of themselves or a face that represents ...
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... Directions Give each child a paper plate with a craft stick and half of a graham cracker. Have children use the craft stick to spread cream cheese on their cracker. Invite children to ... Directions Give each child a rice cake and a craft.
... Directions Give each child a paper plate with a craft stick and half of a graham cracker. Have children use the craft stick to spread cream cheese on their cracker. Invite children to ... Directions Give each child a rice cake and a craft.
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?