Find the Year Long Theme Calendar
here and follow along with us!
The preschool curriculum that is all inclusive and provides hours of fun and engaging learning! The "December Preschool Packs" contain 7 theme based lesson plans, a total of 205 pages of lesson plans and activity printables. My preschooler has begged to do his "homework" because it's a wonderful time that we spend together learning age appropriate concepts! These plans are intended to be taught in a 10 month sequence from Aug-May, though may be adapted to use individually.
You can now download the bundle of December Preschool Packs
HERE, or get them individually by following the links below.
What can possibly be better than starting the holiday season with a good dose of sharing and manners review? Start the month off on the right foot with the fun games, activities, books and lots of learning in the Sharing and Manners Preschool Pack. We'll practice the letters and words that have been introduced already this school year and continue talking about syllables. Work together to create a paper chain and start a study about graphing. Continue your conversation about super friends and how they share!
28. Gingerbread Friends
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The gingerbread theme is one of my favorites to teach. We have so much fun on gingerbread day. It's filled with baking, sorting, graphing, syllables and ideas for Gingerbread based learning that leaves everyone happy! Preschoolers will practice writing their letters, play with puzzles and size sequencing, read a fun position words book and explore graphing!
29. Snow
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The Snow Preschool Pack continues our learning about syllables and graphing. The letter F is introduced, don't you say /fffff/ when you're freezing? There is so much fun to be had with different tracing pages, activities about symmetry, patterning, individuality of snowflakes and people, Tic-Tac-Toe, a spinner counting activity and a play-dough mat!
30. Polar Express
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I am thrilled with the (now 2nd) remake of the Polar Express Preschool Pack. You'll find word family bells to practice reading all the letters that we've learned thus far. There are counting pages and a Do-A-Dot train. You'll also find a hop along the path large motor game (one of our favorites to play at Little Adventures Preschool). It's been introduced before as a jumping game, but now we'll start making it more challenging by adding dice. There is a pattern block train as well as patterning pages. You will practice making tally marks and discus comparison words like larger, smaller, fatter, skinnier. There is a train for standard and non-standard measurement and a short path game with a spinner. There are also train cards with sight words that we've learned this year for a game of Matching, Go Fish, or Memory. You'll also find beginning sound clip cards with all the letters we've learned thus far and a few extras for an extra challenge!
31. Ocean Animals
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The Ocean Animals Preschool Pack introduces the letter J with a focus on phonemes (specifically initial phonemes). We continue graphing with goldfish crackers and a cut and paste activity. There is Sea Star Bingo, a play-dough mat, a beginning reader book, size sequencing activities, color matching games and a mini lesson on the different ways we can observe Ocean Animals since they live under water and we live on the ground!
32. Winter Holidays
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December is considered the holiday season because there are so many holidays that we celebrate. Different families from different cultures and backgrounds celebrate the holiday season in different ways. This theme gives a few tidbits from a few of the December holidays. You'll find beginning sound presents, a letter to Santa and a Santa paper doll, New Year's activities and countdown chain toppers!
33. Thank You Notes
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This is a nice little set of plans to remind us to teach the importance of writing thank you notes. There are a few letters that are set up as tracing templates to add details and write thank you notes. We review counting the quantity of items, read a few beginning reader books, practice our graphing, play Go Fish and match uppercase to lowercase letters, and even cut out our own envelopes and practice folding it and a note card.
**Preschool packs are lesson plans intended for a small preschool classroom or homeschool. They are not to be used individually as they follow a year long curriculum that builds upon itself. The themes specify what the underlying topic is that we'll be talking about with literature, in our art, and any science or social studies activities. Reading and Math activities most often do not relate to the theme and these lesson plans are heavy in the reading and math department. Printables expand on what we're able to cover in our 2.5 hours allotted to learn the materials and are often used as homework practice. The reading lesson plans are designed to be used with all the materials from the
Amazing Action Alphabet and have been proven to teach children to be successful readers.
**Each preschool pack has 3 pages of lesson plan ideas. Each child should be introduced to activities that don't involve something you can print from a computer, such as building blocks or painting. These first 3 pages of lesson plans have all of the ideas that match the theme in one easy spot. The lesson plans pages are organized by subject for easy referencing. I've linked many of the materials listed to Amazon.com to provide you with more information about products you might want to consider using. These packs have a lot of research behind them as I am a licensed teacher with experience teaching PreK-2nd Grade for 10 years.
