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Curriculum from Previous Months
January
Celebrations of the New Year Around the World
Winter is Here!
January 1 - 4 ( No school Jan 1 & 2) - Celebrate
Japanese New Year!
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Make and send Postcards to honor Japanese New Year
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Shape: Oval
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Collage of ovals of all sizes
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Story of “Shapes and Sizes”
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Sharing Time for each child
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Stories:
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Story of Ping
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Tikki Tikki Tempo
January 7 – 11 Celebrate Chinese New Year
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Make mobiles
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Letter: J
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Number: 10
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Color: Blue
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Bio colors of Blues
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Stories:
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Learn Chinese Jump Rope
January 14 – 18 Winter Animals in Hibernation
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Pastor Time Wed & Thursday (“Does God Sleep?”)
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Letter: I – Igloos and Penguins
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Raccoons, Squirrels, and Deer
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Color: Yellow
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Winter Animals A - Z
January 21 – 25 Ring Around the New Year in European
Countries
(No School on January 21st to honor Martin Luther
King Day)
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“Who is Martin Luther King?”
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Letter: Y
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Colors Blue and Yellow = Green
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Number: 11
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Counting games with egg cartons
January 28 - Feb 1 It’s a Wintery Day Out There
(No School on January 30th)
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Sensory Table “SNOW”
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The Snow Child
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Color White; add colors to white
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Make snow globes
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Stories: Color of Snow, Many different designs
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My Snowman Book
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Looking at snow under magnifying glass
Continue to
talk about the weather and winter (the 4 seasons)
Curriculum for
December 2007
“Festival
of Lights”
Thursday
December 6th at 6:30 – 7:30 for ALL preschoolers!!!
This
program will include “Time with the Pastors” for the month of December
December 3
- 7
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“Festival of Lights” rehearsals
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All
classes combine for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
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This
week we will be learning about different cultures around the world in
preparation for our holiday program this will include but not limited to
creating and exploring activities to support our program as well as
embracing our diversity.
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Hanukah
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Kwanza
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Christmas in Ethiopia
and
more
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Shape:
Stars, stars and more stars
December 10
- 14
Back to our
normal schedule
Start gifts
for families
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Letter:
L for “lights”; 9 lights for Joyful Hearts Preschoolers
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Science: Bio Colors & Mixing colors using eye drops on coffee filters
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Play
the Dreidel Game
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Colors:
Silver & Gold
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Sensory
Table with SOUNDS
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Letters: M & C – collage
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Big
Books of M and C
December 17
- 19
December 20
– January 2 Winter Vacation
…many
blessings to your family from the staff of Joyful Hearts Preschool, Preschool
Council and Pastor Paula and Pastor Jim…
Curriculum for November 2007:
November 5 - 10:
Harvest Time
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Fall Vegetables
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What are cornucopias?
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Pumpkins to Pie
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Corn and more corn!
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Indian corn painting
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Letter: T
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Color: Brown
November 12 - 16:
Manners Matter
No classes November 12:
Happy Veterans Day
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"Please, Thank you and
Excuse me" story
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"Waiting our turn"
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Number: 5
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Shape: Triangle
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Five Little Turkeys in a
Roll (make turkeys, sequence storytelling)
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Natives & Pilgrims
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Totem Poles/Storytelling
November 19 - 23:
Let's be Thankful
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Thanksgiving placemats -
What we are thankful for
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Cooking Project and
Story: Stone Soup
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Native Storytelling using
pictures
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Color: Orange
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Letter: N
No classes November 22 -
23: Happy Thanksgiving!
November 26 - 30:
Prepare for Festival of Lights Program
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Number: 4
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Letters: Review T &
N
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Colors: Review
Orange & Brown
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Prepare for Festival of
Lights program on Dec 6th with art projects, singing & costumes/dress-up
Curriculum for October 2007:
October 1 - 5: It's a New Month!
- Fall Animals
- Squirrels in the Tree
- Make bird feeders with pine cones
- Owl project
- Spiders are Special
- Counting & Matching Animals
- Stories
- Who is Mr. Owl?
- Night Noise
- Animals A to Z
- COLOR: Red
- SHAPE: Triangles
October 8 - 11 (No School October 12)
- Nature Week
- Going on a Nature Walk
- Movement in the gym: Going on a Bear
Hunt
- Sensory Table: Pine cones & leaves
- Leaf rubbings
- Stories
- All Kinds of Colors
- All Kinds of Leaves
- Three Little Pinecones Laying on the
Ground
- October 10 - 11: Time with Pastor Paula
and Pastor Jim in the sanctuary at 9:30am. Parents are welcome!
October 15 - 19
- Fall Vegetables
- Trip to the Pumpkin Patch (Weds & Thurs)
- Stories
- Who's in the Pumpkin Patch?
- Cooking Project: Squash and more Fall
Squash! (Mon & Tues)
Bake and add raisins & apples (measuring,
pouring & mixing)
October 22 - 26
- Weather and Seasons
- Make a weather vane
- Change in the weather & the seasons wheel
- Talk about rain and make a rain stick
- Science: Watch water turn colors and
why?
- Water colors of the rainbow
- Stories
- What's the Weather?
- How Weather Changes
- Autumn
- Why is the Leaf Falling?
October 20 - November 2: Harvest Time!
Moving into a New Month!
- National Apple Month: Bake apples for
snack
- Explore and taste different kinds of apples
- Make Play-dough
- Shadows: Make our own!
- Stories
- The Pumpkin Patch
- Harvest Time
- COLORS: Red and Yellow make Orange
- SHAPES: Circles and Triangles/Collages
Curriculum for September 2007:
September 10 - 15
- WELCOME! Getting to know you and your
family!
- Photos taken of each child
- Creation of each unique "family tree" for
bulletin board
- Write a family story
- COLOR: Green
- SHAPE: Circles
- Stories
- About My Family
- You Are Special
- We Are All The Same and We Are All
Different (multi-cultural)
- Songs: Make New Friends; The More We
Gather
September 17 - 21
- Safety Curriculum (safety rules for indoors and
outdoors)
- Safety kits to send home with each child (parent
resource)
- Visit from Fire Department!
- COLOR: Yellow
- Finger Plays and Songs: The Little
Firehouse
September 24 - 28
- Our Community Helpers
- Dramatic Play and dress-up as roles in the
community
- Mail Delivery person
- Fire-fighter
- Nurse/Doctor
- Grocery Clerk
- Pizza Delivery
- COLORS: Green and Yellow
- Stories
- When I Grow Up
- The People in My Neighborhood
- Community Helpers A-Z
- Jobs People Do
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