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The preschool curriculum that is all inclusive and provides hours of fun and engaging learning! The "November Preschool Packs" contain 6 theme based lesson plans, a total of 179 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.
November
{Download all 6 November Preschool Packs}
21. Insects {Download}
The insects preschool pack contains 43 pages of lesson plans and activities for preschoolers all about insects. We introduce the letter "I" and the sight word "my". We spend November talking about comparing attributes of objects and rhythm in music. We talk about ant pheromone trails and how that relates to following a path and standing in a line. There are mini books about insects and insect safety. We match beginning sounds to pictures, follow instructions in art, find shapes in pictures, and talk about attributes of objects.
NOTE: This pack is meant as an introduction to Native Americans and Pilgrims. I have intentionally used the word Indian to introduce the letter I. Indian, however, is not an accurate description of Native Americans. For more information please see this link. There are also many different tribes of Native Americans that have very different traditions. Though the Pilgrims were in contact with the Wampanoag, this pack introduces ideas from many different tribes.
The Indians and Pilgrims pack has 17 pages that will teach all about the group of pilgrims that settled on the east coast of America and celebrated the first Thanksgiving. Activities include listening skills that will lead into phonics instruction and math skills that build upon each other week after week. There is a long path phonics game, sorting the words into a sentence, science activities about corn, a letter I headband, matching words to pictures (from the initial sound), and an introduction of a Venn Diagram.
Scarecrows is a super fun day with oodles of scarecrow activities! You can play "Old Scarecrow" just like "Old Maid" but fall themed, and even make your very own dancing scarecrow. There is an alphabet dot-to-dot with the introduction of letter L. There are scarecrow puzzles and mazes. There is a scarecrow mini book as well as the anatomy of a scarecrow and looking at scarecrow characteristics.
The Thanksgiving Pack is jam packed with activities. With 36 pages of lesson plans and activities there are plenty of review games and new games! There is a large motor hopping and counting turkey game, a word game with animals to talk about how words can be long or short and are defined by a set meaning. There are also 5 piece puzzles, a short path game and a grid game. There are 8 different 3D shapes as well. Kids need a lot of experience playing with 3D shapes. You can cut out and glue together all 8 shapes in this pack. I like to laminate mine and Velcro them so they can be put together and laid flat over and over again. Did you know that being able to recognize what a flat outline will turn into in a 3D shape is a skill that is tested through the school years?
The Play Ball pack has 28 pages of lesson plans and activities all about baseball. We introduce the letter P and the sight word "ball". There are baseball letter and word wheels to play with, football picture and numeral matching, a ball game for practicing letters and the sight word 'ball'. We also learn about words having meaning in context and out of context. We take the sentence "Take me out to the ball game" and play with the word order to find out what makes sense. There is an activity where preschoolers manipulate the baseball players around the field as they answer questions such as what color, quantity, shape, or word is on the card. There is also a tracing page full of words that the preschoolers should already be reading, a long path bouncing ball game, a one to one correspondence game, matching upper and lower case letters, and a word wheel to practice their reading.
Animals in Winter has 30 pages of preschool lesson plans and activities all about what animals do in winter. This is a fun pack that talks about the changing season and how that affects different animals. We talk about adaptation, migration and hibernation. We sort summer and winter clothing and play a short path game to help the squirrel get his acorn! We also match pictures to beginning sounds and words, follow mazes to get the animals that migrate to their new destination, play a winter snowball reading game and read a book "Goodnight Summer" written by my best friend based on the children's book Goodnight Moon.
We have so much fun playing with the November packs and learning oodles along the preschool path. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do!
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