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The Winter Preschool Activity Theme has 2 web pages filled with pre-school and kindergarten learning suggestions for science melting experiments, art & craft activities and snow activities which don't require snow. Build a few indoor snowmen or cook up popcorn snowmen with your young children. All of these chilly early childhood ideas are in the Winter Theme plus songs and fingerplays.
In
the Christmas and Kwanzaa Theme
you'll find art & craft activities together with ideas for decorations
that are sure to encourage youngsters to use their fine motor skills.
Young children learn the letters of the alphabet with the Alphabet
Christmas Tree and teachers promote the skill of estimation
with Colored Pasta Counting.
If you're looking for early childhood education themes for Colors,
Shapes or Recipes for Art Activities,
you'll also find them along with the theme Popcorn
Fun for Everyone.
There are 2 black & white printable coloring pages available for the Christmas & Kwanzaa Theme.
- Christmas Tree
- Kwanzaa Kinara
Run,
run as fast as you can. You can catch the 
Gingerbread
Man story with early childhood
education activity plans, recipes, family projects, literacy activities,
action rhymes plus more in the Gingerbread
Man Theme.
There are 3 black and white printable coloring pattern pages associated with the Gingerbread Man Theme.
- Gingerbread House
- Gingerbread Man
- Gingerbread Lady
The Puppets Can Teach Theme has 2 web pages filled with craft ideas and activities that use puppets to enhance and stimulate the creative and cognitive abilities of young children. Invite preschool and kindergarten youngsters to learn key concepts in the areas of language, early mathematics, social studies, science, music, movement and dramatic play with the help of the puppet ideas that you'll find in this Puppets Can Teach Theme. There are also Easy Santa Puppets and a Father Christmas Puppet in this early childhood theme.
Try one of the 4 printable Puppet Pattern Pages associated with this theme.
- Paper Bag Hand Puppet Dog / Cat
- Sock Puppets - Teacher Made
- Tooth Puppet
- Hand Puppet - Emotions
In the Food & Nutrition Theme you'll find healthy and yummy treats that preschool and kindergarten children enjoy cooking and eating along with 4 black and white printable coloring pages.
- Bowl of Cereal
- Container of Milk
- Cracked Egg
- Apple with a Worm
The
Feelings & Emotions Theme
has activity plans that encourage young children to recognize, verbalize
and cope with their emotions. Help preschool and kindergarten children
understand their feelings of frustration, anger, sadness etc. with these
early childhood learning activities. Don't forget to take advantage
of the black and white Printable Pattern Page
of a reversible Happy / Sad Puppet which is available
for this theme.
There
is also an If You're Happy and
You Know It collection of early childhood education
action songs, rhymes and learning activities that help young children
learn about their feelings and emotions.
Planting an indoor classroom garden all year-round provides preschool children with lots of science experiences. You'll find activities and ideas for summer, spring, fall and winter in the Plant Growth Theme.Try Sprouting Seedlings in a ziploc bag or planting an Egg Shell Garden. Sing a few of the songs or create your own classroom Greenhouse Garden and develop a plant growth bulletin board while preschool youngsters become familiar with natural science. There are 4 Printable Coloring / Pattern Pages that help with this Plant Growth Theme.
- Seed Growth and Flower
- Bean Plant
- Plant Growth
- Flower Cross-section
You'll find these themes and 60 more in the Rainbow Resource Room.
How to Choose a Picture Book In this article written exclusively for the Preschool Rainbow, award winning author Ellen Jackson offers advice that early childhood teachers can give to parents about choosing good picture books for preschool children.
Preschool Books Listed by Themes
A pre-k curriculum resource of suggested picture books for early childhood
teachers and parents of young children. With more than 20 lists
of kindergarten and pre-k books for story time and the library areas
of early childhood classrooms.
The Preschool Rhyme Theme Collection is a curriculum resource with tons of finger plays, action poems, songs and nursery rhymes grouped according to early childhood education themes. Rhymes that enhance early learning about insects and bugs, animals, family, transportation, counting, community helpers and so much more!
Animal Activities promotes pre-k and kindergarten learning with literacy, science and dramatic play ideas. Activities for Zoo Themes are here.
Activities for Toddlers has 4 seasons of learning ideas and activity plans for very young preschoolers.
Preschool Activities for a Dinosaur Theme
Lots of early childhood classroom activities for teaching preschool
children about these fascinating creatures.
Alphabet Theme
Preschool children have fun learning the letters of the alphabet when
early childhood teachers use these activity plans and games in their
classrooms.
Counting and Number Theme
Active learning ideas that engage both small and large groups of young
children in the development of counting skills.
The Preschool Links page has informative resource sites for preschool and kindergarten teachers, plus places of interest for both parents and young children.
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