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Self-Esteem
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Five
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Community
Workers / Helpers
Families
Safety
Transportation
Food
and Nutrition / Health / Dental Health
Weather
Solar
System
My
Body
Plants
Farm
Animals
The
Zoo
The
Ocean
The
Circus
Pets
The
Beach
Bugs,
Butterflies
Seasons
Holidays
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Themes / Thematic Units / Activities (9 products)
Early
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
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Day-by-Day
Preschool Plans
Grade Level: Preschool (PreK)
Price: $24.95
Product #: 2061175
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Keep preschoolers busy with more than 1,000 fun activities for 52 popular
themes. Thematic plans for EVERY week organized in an easy-to follow weekly
lesson plan grid. Plus, get access to more than 200 BONUS pages online!
- five theme-based centers for the week - Each center
uses basic materials so ideas are quick to prepare and simple to do.
- daily theme-related activities - Get activities for
group time, literature, art, gross-motor skills, and more.
- patterns, picture cards, and printables - We've included
plenty of timesaving patterns, plus you can get dozens more online!
Whether you're teaching colors, shapes, seasons, holidays, or another
favorite theme, this teaching resource book helps you cover the preschool
basics-with ease!
256 pages.
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Day-by-Day
Kindergarten Plans
Grade Level: Kindergarten (K)
Price: $24.95
Product #: 2061176
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Keep kindergartners busy learning with more than 800 fun activities for
40 popular themes. Thematic plans for EVERY week of the school year (more
than 20 simple activities per week) organized in an easy-to-follow weekly
lesson plan grid. Plus, get access to more than 200 BONUS pages online!
- five theme-based centers for the week - Each center
uses basic materials so ideas are quick to prepare and simple to do.
- daily theme-related activities - Get activities for
group time, math, literacy, art, literature, and more.
- patterns, picture cards, and printables - We've included
plenty of timesaving patterns, plus you can get dozens more online!
Whether you're teaching letters, numbers, seasons, holidays, or another
favorite theme, this teaching resource book helps you cover the kindergarten
basics-with ease!
256 pages.
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Themes
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
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Themes
for Inclusive Classrooms: Lesson Plans for Every Learner
Grade Level: Preschool - First Grade
Price: $29.95
Product #: GH18003
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This is the perfect book for teachers who have typically
developing young children ages 3-6, as well as children with special needs
in their classrooms.
Each lesson plan features objectives, a materials list,
a circle or group time activity, assessment strategies, accommodations/modifications,
and curriculum connections. The curriculum connections expand the children's
learning into many areas, such as social studies, art, literacy, science,
and music. The modifications and accommodations make the lesson plans
accessible for all children, including those with:
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Speech or language impairments
Hearing impairments
Visual Impairments
ADHD
Cognitive and/or developmental delays
Emotional disturbances
Orthopedic impairments
By using the lesson plans in this teaching resource book, teachers can
meet the needs and interests of all the children in their classrooms with
a balance of child-initiated and teacher-directed activities.
Themes included:
- Transportation (Land, Water, and Air)
- Pets
- Animals (Farm, Forest, Ocean, Birds, Insects, Reptiles and Amphibians, Arachnids, Zoo)
- Celebrating People (People We Meet, Living in America, Celebrations)
- At Home and at School (Food, Clothes, Toys)
- Literature,Rhythms, and Rhymes (Books, Nursery Rhymes, Music)
Reviews
"Teachers who have developing young children as well as special needs
kids in their classes receive a powerful collection of lesson plans complete
with materials lists, group activity objectives, assessment strategies,
and modifications to make the lesson plans accessible for all children,
including those with special needs.....Very highly recommended as a keystone
acquisition for any early education library."
The Midwest Book Review, January 2009
Pages: 384
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Daily Preschool Experiences for Learners at Every Level (GH 18765)
Grade Level: Preschool
Price: $29.95
Product #: GH18765
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Engage every child in your classroom with activities written specifically for learners at every level.
With 100 days of plans, Daily Preschool Experiences has learning center activities for preschool learners at every developmental level. The daily plans are organized by theme into 20 units. Each has a 5-day plan, that takes teachers through an entire week of activities.
Each daily plan includes:
- A morning circle activity
- Differentiated activities for 4 learning centers
- A related children's book
- Vocabulary words
- Extension activities
- A review of the day's experience
Because every child is unique, teachers can select the activities that fit the developmental levels of the individual children in their classes. To make this easy, the learning center activities for each unit in the book have three developmental levels of learning: beginning, developing, and experienced.
This learning center approach to teaching allows all children to explore a fun-filled learning environment by actively using all of their strengths to develop and grow.
Pages: 448
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Year
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
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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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Big
& Easy Patterns: Themes
Grade Level: Preschool - 5th Grade
Price: $16.99
Product #: 1002592
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Hundreds of patterns are grouped by curriculum area (language arts, social
studies, math, and science) and accompanied by great teaching ideas.
There are several ways to use the patterns in this book.
They are big and easy to cut out, so they can be used by students for
easy-to-prepare art projects. They can also be used for classroom decorations,
story prompts, word banks, puppets, paper dolls, big books, and shape
books.
Pages: 224
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