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Kindergarten Themes, Thematic Units Teaching Resources, Supplies, Books and Classroom Materials

Early Childhood Themes, Activities
Food and Nutrition / Health / Dental Health
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Seasons
The Ocean
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Pets
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Families
Safety
Plants
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Animals
The Zoo
Bugs
Weather
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Early Childhood Themes / Activities (2 products)

Early Childhood Themes Through the Year

Grade Level: Preschool - Kindergarten
Price: $26.99
Product #: 1000146
Sample Pages

Each of 36 weekly themes is accompanied by a list of materials, patterns, activities, follow up materials, sample schedules, and weekly calendars.

The beginning pages will prove invaluable to the busy teacher. In them you will find detailed instructions for making teaching materials that you will use throughout the school year. These include detailed directions for file folder activities, art recipes, glove puppets, fishing poles, and feelie boxes.

Each section of the book is arranged around a theme appropriate to the early childhood classroom. This theme is carried throughout the entire week.

Each weekly section contains suggestions for:

• Materials needed for the week
• Sharing Time
• Art
• Story Time
• Circle Time
• Food Experiences
• Theme Activities

Classroom additions include complete listings of materials that will enrich your classroom environment, a teachers' aid section, bulletin board ideas and patterns, tips to send home to parents, and a related thematic bibliography.

400 pages

Year Round Activities & Mini Books

Grade Level: Preschool - 1st Grade
Price: $24.99
Product #: 1003226
Sample Pages

Monthly themes-each with mini-books, calendars, recipes, and activity pages-get kids excited about school while building skills in coloring, alphabet and numbers, reading, mazes, and more!

This book was designed specifically for early childhood students. It is divided into twelve months, each month containing themes and activities. The themes are an excellent way to discuss topics such as holidays, families, animals, friends, and seasons.

Each month contains a wide variety of activities that allow students to learn a variety of skills and academic basics. The alphabet, colors, numbers, writing, reading, and math activities presented develop skills that, if practiced, will give students an edge as they continue their schooling.

Each month offers the following:

• The Bear Coloring pages are the first page of each month. Coloring this bear can be a great way for the students to get excited about learning the months. They can even be turned into a "Bear Through the Year" book.
• Next is a Calendar page which can be used in several ways. In the first few months, add the numbers for the days and recite them with the children. Later, have the students trace the number and maybe even fill in the numbers themselves.
• The Learning Letters pages cover all the letters A-Z throughout the year and end with review pages.
• The Alphabet Recipe pages are a fun way to reinforce the letters learned that month.
• The Mini Book can also be used in multiple ways. They are fun books, covering one of the month's themes, that can be read to students or they can read themselves.
• The Mazes and Dot to Dot pages follow the themes of the month and can help students with eye/hand coordination.
• The Activity pages each month cover two themes. Some are teacher pages with directions for activities. Others are student pages that can be copied and used as worksheets.

The following are the themes for each month:

• September - School and Apples
• October - Halloween and Autumn
• November - Thanksgiving and Families
• December - Holidays and Jack Frost
• January - Bears and Penguins
• February - Groundhog Day and Valentine's Day
• March - St. Patrick's Day and Spring
• April - April Showers and Bunnies
• May - Mother's Day and Caterpillars/Butterflies
• June - Father's Day and Birds
• July - July 4th/Canada Day and Friends
• August - Oceans and Farms

This book is filled with entertaining and lively activities that will excite children and encourage them to want to learn. Given a safe, stimulating, colorful environment, students will thrive and learn to love coming to school.

Pages: 304

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Kindergarten Food & Nutrition, Health, Dental Health Themes/Thematic Units (2 products)

Food & Nutrition Thematic Unit

Grade Level: Preschool - 1st Grade
Price: $9.99
Product #: 1002373
Sample Pages

This reproducible resource is filled with ready-to-use lessons and cross-curricular activities.

The book is based on the following pieces of literature: Growing Vegetable Soup; Bread Bread Bread; and Gregory the Terrible Eater.

For each of these featured books, activities are included which set the stage for reading, encourage the enjoyment of the book, and extend the concepts gained. In addition, the theme is connected to the curriculum with activities in language arts, math, science, social studies, art, music, and life skills.

Suggestions and patterns for bulletin boards are additional time savers for the busy teacher. Furthermore, directions for student-created Big Books and culminating activities, which allow students to synthesize their knowledge in order to create products that can be shared beyond the classroom, highlight this very complete teacher resource.

This unit includes:

• literature selections - summaries of three children's books with related lessons (complete with reproducible pages) that cross the curriculum
• language experience and writing ideas - suggestions as well as activities across the curriculum
• bulletin board ideas - suggestions and plans for student-created and/or interactive bulletin boards
• curriculum connections - in language arts, math, science, art, music, and life skills such as cooking and physical education
• group projects - to foster cooperative learning
• culminating activities - which require students to synthesize their learning to produce a product or engage in an activity that can be shared with others
• a bibliography - suggesting additional literature and nonfiction books on the theme
• homework suggestions - extending the unit to the child's home

Pages: 80

Dental Health Theme Book

Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
Price: $7.95
Product #: 2061059
Sample Pages
Table of Contents

Save time and energy planning thematic units with this comprehensive teacher resource. Included in this book are units, single ideas to extend a unit, and a variety of reproducible activities. Use these activities to develop your own complete unit or simply to enhance your current lesson plans. You're sure to find everything you need for strengthening student learning about dental health!

Some of the features you'll enjoy include:

• basic-skills reinforcement
• literacy activities
• math activities
• craft ideas
• learning centers
• timesaving patterns and reproducibles

Pages: 48

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