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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... stories , tapes and copies of stories written in class • Manipulatives Center - animal counters • Math and Science Center - animal counters , balance scale , fur , snakeskin , feathers , bird nest , magnifying glasses • Reading Center ...
... stories , tapes and copies of stories written in class • Manipulatives Center - animal counters • Math and Science Center - animal counters , balance scale , fur , snakeskin , feathers , bird nest , magnifying glasses • Reading Center ...
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... story and invite children to add their own animal to the story. For example, you could ask a child Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see? and the child could answer I see a chimpanzee looking at me. Variation After reading aloud a ...
... story and invite children to add their own animal to the story. For example, you could ask a child Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see? and the child could answer I see a chimpanzee looking at me. Variation After reading aloud a ...
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... stories for children to illustrate . 1.Tell children that snakes crawl around on their belly all the time . Ask How do you think the world looks to them ? Have children get down on their stomachs and look around . Discuss with chil ...
... stories for children to illustrate . 1.Tell children that snakes crawl around on their belly all the time . Ask How do you think the world looks to them ? Have children get down on their stomachs and look around . Discuss with chil ...
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... stories about community helpers , tapes of stories written in class Manipulatives Center - puzzles featuring different community helpers , sewing cards • Math and Science Center - microscope , postal scale , boxes of varying sizes ...
... stories about community helpers , tapes of stories written in class Manipulatives Center - puzzles featuring different community helpers , sewing cards • Math and Science Center - microscope , postal scale , boxes of varying sizes ...
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... story. These ideas can be discussed and then used to write group stories for children to illustrate. 1. Show children the reproducibles of different community helpers. Point out that some of the workers wear everyday clothes but some ...
... story. These ideas can be discussed and then used to write group stories for children to illustrate. 1. Show children the reproducibles of different community helpers. Point out that some of the workers wear everyday clothes but some ...
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?