Circle Time, daycare, preschool, Weather, Calendar, Songs, Art, Stories, Group, Free Downloads! Preschool Curriculum Program About Our Program. Our preschool curriculum program is geared towards children between the ages of 2.
If you would like to view one of our other programs please click the following links toddler , Young Toddler or infant Circle Time Learning Letters. In the picture above, we are working on teaching the children their letters. One child was working on A and it is completed above in the picture, the other child is still working on her letter. Each child received the first letter of their name to work on. The children are using mega blocks to go onto the masking tape onto the outline of each letter.
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I'm Getting Very Hungry added 8-7-97 Original Author Unknown. Sung to: "Frere Jacques" Time for Lunch, Time for Lunch, Lets get ready, Let's get ready. A collection of Circle Time Songs for preschoolers including songs about the weather, colours and shapes as well as musical guessing games and listening games. Start your preschool circle time with these activities and ideas. Included are ideas for name recognition, a circle time bulletin board, music, story and drama, and.
Fun hands on ideas and Activities for daycare or preschool circle time, free printable stories, games, songs, rhymes, weather cards, craft ideas, learning about.
We provide the children with fun activities to help reinforce learning their letters. This activiy can also be done with numbers or shapes. Above are our letters posters for the month of September. These posters are paper sized and can be printed from your computer and placed on the wall for your children to be able to view them each day. Each month you will receive three new letter posters to place up on the wall.
You will also receive the number, shape and color posters to print out. During the summer months . You can download all 2. Some children love coloring pages others do not. If you have children in your daycare that love to color then you may want to click the link above to go over to the ABC coloring page to download these for free to share with the children in your daycare.
Coloring pages are a fine motor activity. It teaches children to color inside the lines.
Younger children may not color inside the lines they may just scribble all over the page, don’t worry if they are only scribbling on the page, as they mature they will learn to color inside the lines, encourage each child to be creative and let them color the page however they want, inside the lines.. Make it a relaxing social time for the children, put on some relaxing music . The key point is to try and be flexible, not every child is going to like the same things. Try to think how you can offer them something similar but a bit different to make it more enjoyable for them. I try to get all the children to sit together in a circle on the floor. I never force any child to participate, but I do try to encourage participation. We cut out some circles from heavy paper and put letters on the circles.
We then took a muffin pan and wrote the same letters onto the muffin pan. The children take turns picking a letter from the bag and matching it to the muffin pan.
During the month of September the children will be learning the letters A.. B.. C. Above is a pre reading activity where the children glued on buttons onto the letter B.
If you have children under the age of 3 in your daycare, you may not want to use buttons, you could use pieces of blue paper or use blue stickers. In our preschool curriculum children will be using glue, paint and working on learning how to cut, trace plus we try to include sensory and fine motor into our lesson plans.
Sometimes the children will be using rice in a sandbox or planting fake flowers outside or sticking clothespins into holes in an egg carton. We try to recycle items such as milk cartons, toilet paper tubes, paper towel rolls, plastic jar covers, egg cartons when we can and when these items are no longer usable they can be placed into your recycle bin. They are painting paper plates to make a caterpillar.
We have a toddler and a preschool program and combine the children to work as a group whenever possible. The children like art time best of all. The children have art projects that they complete each day, usually associated with that week’s theme. Each week we have a new theme, such as; butterfly week, pet week, flower week, plus many other weeks of themes. She is holding up the very large caterpillar she made. The children painted paper plates and the teacher stapled them together to make a caterpillar.
We provide a daily program for the preschoolers in our care. Our program includes circle time, art time, learning time and a special activity for each day of the week. Today the toddlers and preschoolers are working together on their art project. Whenever possible we have the children work on their art projects together as a group. They are making a winter picture – that shows it is snowing outside. They are applying the glue first and then they will place some pieces of small white paper (for the snow) after. This activity is from our preschool December curriculum you can view all our preschool lesson plans by clicking the link.
She is placing black stickers on her ladybug. Free Download! Have the children color the letters different colors. Explain to the children that they are going to color the letters different colors. Color Aa green, tell the children that alligator begins with an a and they are going to color the a’s green like an alligator. Color Bb blue, tell the children that blue begins with the letter b and they are going to color the b’s blue. Color Cc yellow, tell the children that corn starts with the letter c and they are going to color the c’s yellow like corn.
To begin have them start with one color such as Aa and give them some green crayons and after they are done, have them do the letter Bb and color it blue, and then the letter Cc and color it yellow. If you find this it too hard for some of the younger preschoolers in your class then use the page as a point page instead. Place the page into a plastic sheet protector . Oh look, your coloring the letter a, now you’re coloring the letter c, do you know which letter this is? As they are coloring with the dry erase markers you can say something like, can you find the A? Can you find the B? Can you find the C?
Help them as needed. Dragonfly Writing Page Trace The Letter DColor The Picture Math Activity How Many Dots? Learning About Numbers What’s Missing? Her Foot Science Activity Other areas we focus on in our preschool curriculum would be pre math, pre reading, pre writing and science. Above you see the letter D dragonfly from our May curriculum. The children will be learning the letters Y and Z this month and then the last weeks of the month they will be reviewing different letters from previous months.
In the second picture above is one of our many number activities. This one is focusing on the numbers 0 through 5.
The children will put dot stickers into each section of the paper by looking at the number that is in that section. In the last picture above you will see one of our science activities from our preschool September curriculum. This one is from our all about me lesson plans.
Each month that you purchase will include four weeks of lesson plans. Some of our other simple science activities include parts of a fish such as the ! Each month includes four weekly themed based lesson plans. Children will be learning about the themes through circle time, singing .
They will be learning how to cut, trace, tell time plus working on pre math, pre reading and science. Some of the simple science projects would be sorting fruit’s and vegetables, growing grass, watching an ant farm and so many other exciting activities! Our monthly curriculum is available in four separate programs. Our curriculums are broken down into four weekly themes per month.
Our preschool curriculum has a circle time, story time, songs & rhymes, arts & crafts, learning activities, pre reading, pre writing, math, letters, numbers, colors, shapes, science, large motor activities, fine motor activities, worksheets, coloring pages, games and much more! These items are included in each month of lesson plans purchased. Our preschool curriculum is designed to promote school readiness skills; help develop good manners, strength of character, social skills; and to foster creative play. Square Craft Large Caterpillar Craft Flower Garden Craft Art Time For Kids Having Fun With Paint, Glue & Other Art Materials Our preschool curriculum program provides a daily art project . After circle time we have the children come to the table and sit down to get ready for art time. You can refer to the preschool daily lesson plans to see which craft you will be doing that day, and if you need to print anything out for that day’s craft. If we are going to use glue I place the glue into tiny plastic cups.
I have found that the sample size of play dough cans work great for this. I only put a small amount in each child’s cup; just enough for that days project. I then proceed to pass out child sized paint brushes for the young preschool children to use and for the older preschoolers we offer them smaller brushes. If we are going to paint I make sure each child has some type of paint shirt on. If you do not have enough paint shirts, you can always use an old sweat shirt and cut off the arms.
Anything will work. You will also want some rags ready.
We use our old washcloths for paint rags. You may find it works best to keep a wet rag handy for spills or for a child who is done before the others. Or you may want to have a dish pan with a small amount of water in it for the children who finish early can rinse off until they can get into the bathroom to wash up with soap and warm water. Arts & Crafts For Kids Is Teddy Bear Happy, Sad, Scared Or Surprised?
Free Download! Print out our free printable craft page. Print out the teddy bear craft onto white copy paper. Ask the children how they think teddy bear is feeling.
Does he look sad? Does he look mad? Or is he smiling to show he’s happy? Do they think he is happy ? Would he be smiling? Would he be crying?
Then ask the children if teddy bear was mad how would they know? Would he be smiling? Would he be stamping his feet? Explain to the children that they can decide how their teddy bear feels today. Have them begin by coloring their teddy bear. More Craft Ideas: When they are done coloring they can make him a face.