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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Page 20
... Preparation Use a permanent marker to write each child's name on a separate plastic bag . Cut card stock into small squares , and write the letters of each child's name on separate squares . Put the letter squares that make up each ...
... Preparation Use a permanent marker to write each child's name on a separate plastic bag . Cut card stock into small squares , and write the letters of each child's name on separate squares . Put the letter squares that make up each ...
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... Preparation Make enough card - stock copies of the Feeling Cards so that two children can share one card . Cut each card from top to bottom into two pieces with a unique puzzle cut . Directions Give each child one half of a puzzle ...
... Preparation Make enough card - stock copies of the Feeling Cards so that two children can share one card . Cut each card from top to bottom into two pieces with a unique puzzle cut . Directions Give each child one half of a puzzle ...
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... Preparation Remove any inappropriate pictures from magazines and catalogs . Directions Have each child lie down on top of a piece of butcher paper , and trace and cut out each child's outline . Ask children to look through the magazines ...
... Preparation Remove any inappropriate pictures from magazines and catalogs . Directions Have each child lie down on top of a piece of butcher paper , and trace and cut out each child's outline . Ask children to look through the magazines ...
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... Preparation Cut out large magazine pictures of different animals . Cut a sheet of construction paper to make several flaps or " doors . " Directions Place an animal picture behind the paper with the flaps . Invite a volunteer to open ...
... Preparation Cut out large magazine pictures of different animals . Cut a sheet of construction paper to make several flaps or " doors . " Directions Place an animal picture behind the paper with the flaps . Invite a volunteer to open ...
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... Preparation Copy on card stock two sets of the Animal Cards per group of children . Cut apart the cards . ( Begin with five pairs of cards per group and increase the number of cards as children's abilities improve . ) Place the cards ...
... Preparation Copy on card stock two sets of the Animal Cards per group of children . Cut apart the cards . ( Begin with five pairs of cards per group and increase the number of cards as children's abilities improve . ) Place the cards ...
Contents
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69 | |
Dinosaurs | 107 |
Fall | 146 |
A Family | 180 |
Five Senses | 212 |
239 | 269 |
Nursery Rhymes | 309 |
Shapes and Colors | 344 |
Transportation | 378 |
Common terms and phrases
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
Popular passages
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?