Themes

  • Pretty Colors

  • I Feel so Good & Silly Too!

  • Rhyming

Social Development/Values 

  • Helping

  • Working Together

Pre-Math

  • Shape: Rectangle

  • Continuation/Introduction to Numbers: 6

 Opposites

  • On & Off

Language

  • Continuation/Introduction to Letters & Sounds (phonics): Ll, Mm, Nn

Physical Skills Focus

  • Gross Motor

     

    - Exercise & Dancing 

    - Games: Red Light/Green Light, I Spy, Ooo, I Feel So Good, The Chicken Dance, The Monkey 

       Dance, The Hokey Pokey.

     

  • Fine Motor

             On-going - Cutting practice – scissor books, wooden lacing beads, sequencing beads, lace &

             trace, puzzles, magnet blocks & pattern sets, coloring, stencils, etc.

 

Sensory Awareness

  • Make peanut butter cookies, blueberry muffins & personal rectangle pizzas.

Creative Expression

  • Color Focus: White

  • Crafts:
                   - Lion foldout book
                   - Mouse bag puppet
                   - Mouse belonging book
                   - Nifty nest tachistoscope

Pretend/Dramatic Play  

  • On-going – Free Choice:
                   - Puppet theatre
                   - Playing house
                   - Kitchen/cooking
                   - Dolls
                   - Train table & floor track
                   - Blocks, etc.
     

Theme Songs

  • I'm Happy

  • If You’re Happy and You Know It

  • Boom, Boom Ain’t It Great To Be Crazy

  • It's No Fun When Ya Gotta Eat An Onion

  • Purple People Eater

  • John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

  • Stinky Feet

  • Tickle Time

  • Yecch

  • Word Opposites

  • One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

  • I Need a Hug

  • The Rainbow Song

Theme Stories

  • I Love You, Blue Kangaroo! by Emma Chichester Clark

  • Do You Know Colors? by J.P. Miller

  • A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni

  • My World Of Color by Loretta Krupinski and Klaus Baumgart

  • The Happy Bee by Ian Beck

  • Sometimes I Like to Curl Up Like A Ball by Vicki Churchill

  • Mrs. McNosh and the Great Big Squash by Sarah Weeks

  • Mary Had a Little Jam and Other Silly Rhymes by, Bruce Lansky

  • One, Two, Skip a Few! First Number Rhymes by Roberta Arenson

  • Hop on Pop, Fox in Sox & There’s a Wocket In My Pocket by Dr. Seuss

  • Catalina Magdalena Hoopensteiner Wallendiner Hogan Logan Bogan Was Her Name by Tedd Arnold

  • Smelly Socks by Robert Munsch

  • Imogene's Antlers by David Small

  • Franny B. Kranny, There's a Bird in Your Hair by Harriet Lerner and Susan Goldhor

  • Super-Scrumptious Jelly Donuts Sprinkled with Hugs by Barbara Johnson

  • AlphaTales Series by Scholastic

  • Special Occasions

    • The New Year

    • Opposite Day

    • National Hugging Day!