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Preschool Bugs Theme / Thematic Unit

Bugs Theme Thematic Unit Preschool Teacher Resource BookBugs Theme Book

Grade Level: Preschool
Price: $7.95
Product #: 2061055
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Save time and add energy to your lessons with this fun and engaging resource! This handy teacher resource book features entire units, single ideas to complement these units, and reproducibles your kids will love! You'll find everything you need on bugs in one great book!

Some of the features you'll enjoy include:

  • literacy activities
  • math activities
  • basic-skills reinforcement
  • craft ideas
  • songs, poems, and fingerplays
  • snack ideas
  • learning centers
  • timesaving patterns and reproducibles

Pages: 48


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Preschool Friendship Theme / Thematic Unit

Friendship Theme / Thematic Unit Teaching MaterialsFriendship Theme Book

Grade Level: Preschool - Kindergarten
Price: $7.95
Product #: 2003232
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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!

Some of the features you'll enjoy include:

  • basic-skills reinforcement
  • language experiences
  • whole-class and small-group activities
  • skill-based games
  • literature connections
  • writing activities
  • timesaving patterns and reproducibles
  • follow-up and extension activities

Pages: 48


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Preschool Five Senses Theme / Thematic Unit

five senses theme / thematic unit teaching suppliesFive Senses Theme Book

Grade Level: Preschool - Kindergarten
Price: $7.95
Product #: 2003233
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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 active learning fun!

Some of the features you'll enjoy include:

  • basic-skills reinforcement
  • language experiences
  • whole-class and small-group activities
  • skill-based games
  • literature connections
  • writing activities
  • timesaving patterns and reproducibles
  • follow-up and extension activities

Pages: 48


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Early Childhood Themes / Activities (4 products)

teacher resource - themes for early childhoodEarly Childhood Themes Through the Year

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


early childhood themesThemes on Parade

Grade Level: Preschool
Price: $17.95
Product #: 2060890
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Strike up the band and start a parade of simple and fun thematic activities in your classroom with this resource! In this one book you'll find a rich assortment of activities on popular preschool themes such as the body, the farm, nursery rhymes, and many more.

Pick one activity today, another one tomorrow, and another one next week. You'll have plenty to choose from! Students will enjoy building their beginning skills with creative literacy ideas and other curricular activities, fun-to-make crafts, engaging games, simple songs and rhymes, kid-friendly snacks, and exciting classroom parades.

Ready-to-go reproducible patterns and step-by-step instructions make activities quick and easy.

The developmentally appropriate ideas in this book will help your youngsters build their beginning skills in literacy, math, science, and much more. Inside the thematic units, you'll find an array of activities such as the following:

  • Art activities
  • Games
  • Movement activities
  • Snacks
  • Songs and rhymes
  • Centers
  • Dramatic play suggestions

Each section of related thematic units concludes with a kid-pleasing parade that will help your little ones remember all they've learned. Come and join our themes on parade!

Thematic Units:

All About Me

  • My Home
  • My Family
  • My Body
  • Nutrition
  • My Community
  • All About Me Parade

Places in My World

  • Farm
  • Ocean
  • Pond
  • Space
  • Places in My World Parade

Weather in My World

  • Sun and Shadows
  • Snow
  • Wind
  • Clouds
  • Rain and Rainbows
  • Weather in My World Parade

My Favorite Things

  • Nursery Rhymes
  • Friends
  • Birthdays
  • Teddy Bears
  • Transportation
  • Pets
  • Ice Cream
  • My Favorite Things Parade

Pages: 144


early childhood mini-books and themesYear Round Activities & Mini Books

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


teaching supplies - themesJumbo Book of Preschool Activities

Grade Level: Preschool
Price: $24.99
Product #: 1002322
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This huge collection of weekly units includes daily activities that can be stapled together and sent home at the end of each week, providing that important link between school and home.

The book contains a collection of weekly units, including objectives, discussion ideas, and five daily activities. Detailed directions for the pages within each unit are found on the teacher sheet at the beginning of each section.

Each unit comes with a cover sheet that can be attached to a large, folded piece of construction paper. Children can color the cover sheets. As the discussion and activity are completed each day, they can be placed into the folder. By the fifth day, the booklet can be stapled together and sent home.

The weekly booklets will provide parents with a record of the ideas covered during the week. Teachers will also have a way to organize thoughts and materials. Finally, the children will have an organized way to take home their weekly work, and they will enjoy making a new book each week.

Following the units is a series of alphabet activities, one for each letter. These activities can be introduced in a variety of ways. Patterns, directions, and a list of necessary supplies for these activities can be found in the back of the book.

Pages: 304


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Preschool Food & Nutrition Theme/Thematic Unit

teaching supplies - foodFood & Nutrition Thematic Unit

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


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