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Take a look at the 2 web pages of the Fall Activity Theme which has a harvest of preschool curriculum activities and songs for the Autumn season. The Outdoor Play Theme includes summer activities that promote the gross motor and observation skills of young children. There's even a few activity plans that will help youngsters create volcanoes.
Inside the Rainbow Resource Room:
There
are lots of early childhood art and craft activities in the Thanksgiving
Theme along with centerpiece ideas and a recipe for
delicious Pumpkin Cones. Read
the Tommy Turkey Story, create
a Thanksgiving Quilt or help
preschool youngsters make a Thanksgiving Greeting
Card with the holiday activities in this Thanksgiving
Theme. There is also a Food
& Nutrition Theme filled with healthy and yummy treats that
preschool and kindergarten children will enjoy cooking and eating.Don't
forget to take a look at the 4 black & white
printable coloring pages available for the Thanksgiving
Activity Theme.
- Turkey
- Pilgrim Turkey
- Pilgrim Man Puppet
- Pilgrim Woman Puppet
In
the Food and Nutrition Activity
Theme preschool & kindergarten children are introduced
to tasty and healthy recipes that they can help cook for snack. Try
making Healthy Orange Juice,
Apple Pancakes, Apple
Bread or cook some Yummy Shapes.
Enjoy these recipes with youngsters for Thanksgiving
Themes and try some of the Christmas
Treats too! Don't
forget to take a look at the 4 black & white
printable coloring pages available for the Food
& Nutrition Activity Theme.
1. Bowl of Cereal
2. Container of Milk
3. Cracked Egg
4. Apple with a worm
In Mask Making Activities you'll find early childhood learning activities for making a variety of masks for use all throughout the year. There are masks for expressing feelings and emotions, animal masks for circus themes, a mask for helping preschool children learn how to blow their noses, a mask made from nylon stockings, and a Turkey Mask for Thanksgiving too!
In
the Christmas and Kwanzaa Theme
you'll find art & craft activities together with ideas for decorations
that are sure to encourage young children to use their fine motor skills.
Youngsters 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 themes for Colors,
Shapes or Recipes for Art Activities, you'll also find them along
with the theme Popcorn Fun for
Everyone in the Rainbow
Resource Room. There are 2
black & white printable coloring pages available
for the Christmas and Kwanzaa
Theme.
- Christmas Tree
- Kwanzaa Kinara
In
the Fire Safety
Theme there
are preschool learning activities about smoke
detectors and Stop, Drop &
Roll. You'll find songs, chants, fingerplays, dramatic
play ideas, a poem and a cooking activity plus 2
black & white Printable Coloring Pages in this Preschool
Fire Safety Activity Theme.
- Firefighter and Dalmatian Puppy
- Firefighter and Hose
Planting an indoor classroom garden all year-round provides preschool children with lots of science experiences. You'll find activities and ideas for fall, winter, spring and summer 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 all these Preschool Activity 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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