Traditional Preschool 4-5's

Theme: Dinosaur Week

Date: 05-04-15

Color of the week: Green

Number of the week: 29
Letter of the week: M,N,O,P,Q,R
Effective Purpose and DAP

Activity

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Enhance Large & Fine motor skills,

audio visual and verbal skills

Music &
Movement
Circle Time

Finger Play
Good morning
Colors, Shapes,
ABC's, 123's

Finger Play
Good morning
Colors, Shapes,
ABC's, 123's

Finger Play
Good morning
Colors, Shapes,
ABC's, 123's

Finger play
Good morning
Colors, Shapes,
ABC's, 123's

Finger play
Good morning
Colors, Shapes,
ABC's, 123's

Group Work
HWT Work book

Group Work
Letter of the week

Group Work
Number of the week

Give a roar

Dino Stamps

Promotes Cognitive/ Language skills

Colors, Shapes, ABC 's & 123's

Learning to work together in small groups

Fine motor skills for writing

Learning about people and our
world
Stimulate touch, feel, taste & smell
Explore our world and surroundings
Early Math
Promotes Fine and Large Motor Skills
Self expression
Physical development
Large Motor and Social Skills
Independent Play
Enhance Social and Individual play
Promotes Play and Fantasy
Daily Living exercises, Fine/large motor skills

Enhance language, cognitive and

audio skills, make predictions
Stories on video/DVD

Cooperative Groups
Handwriting Curriculum
Social Studies

Matching letters
Science/Cooking
or
Math Works
Art

texture rubbing

Dino Foot prints

Play Ground

Play Ground

Play Ground

Play Ground

Play Ground

Manipulative/Centers
Dramatic Play
Home Life Skills

Blocks
Home Living
Centers
How does a
Dinosaurs
Say goodnight

Blocks
Home Living
Centers

Blocks
Home Living
Centers
How does a
Dinosaur
Eat their food

Blocks
Home Living
Centers
What Happened

Blocks
Home Living
Centers

to Patrick's

Story on
DVD

Story Time

Emath

MB Aug/Sept 2003 pg.52

pg.80,130,162

Terrific Themes 114

count and sort

What is a
Dino Fossil

Outside Time

Resources

MB Aug/Sept 2005 pg.12

Dinosaur Skin

My favorite Dino

Arts and Crafts pg.13

MB Feb/March 2009 pg.4

yikes! Spikes!

Dinosaur Caf

Dinosaurs?

Traditional Preschool 4-5's

Theme: Zoo Week
Date: 05-11-15

Color of the week: Black

Number of the week: 30
Letter of the week: S,T,U,V,W,X,YZ
Activity

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Enhance Large & Fine motor skills,

Music &

audio visual and verbal skills

Movement
Circle Time

Finger Play
Good morning
Colors, Shapes,
ABC's, 123's

Finger Play
Good morning
Colors, Shapes,
ABC's, 123's

Finger Play
Good morning
Colors, Shapes,
ABC's, 123's

Finger play
Good morning
Colors, Shapes,
ABC's, 123's

Finger play
Good morning
Colors, Shapes,
ABC's, 123's

Effective Purpose and DAP

Promotes Cognitive/ Language skills

Colors, Shapes, ABC 's & 123's

Learning to work together in small groups

Cooperative Groups

Group Work

Group Work

Group Work

Fine motor skills for writing

Learning about people and our
world
Stimulate touch, feel, taste & smell
Explore our world and surroundings

Handwriting Curriculum
Social Studies

HWT Work book

Letter of the week

Number of the week

What is a Zoo?

Animals and
their habitat

Early Math
Promotes Fine and Large Motor Skills
Self expression
Physical development
Large Motor and Social Skills

Math Works
Art

Independent Play
Enhance Social and Individual play
Promotes Play and Fantasy
Daily Living exercises, Fine/large motor skills

Enhance language, cognitive and

audio skills, make predictions

Science/Cooking
or

Mb Aug/sep 2008 pg.

parade
Brilliant feathers

Zoo Field Trip

Iguana art

How to make
a Hippo

Outside Time

Play Ground

Play Ground

Play Ground

Play Ground

Play Ground

Manipulative/Centers
Dramatic Play
Home Life Skills

Blocks
Home Living
Centers

Blocks
Home Living
Centers

Blocks
Home Living
Centers

Blocks
Home Living
Centers

Blocks
Home Living
Centers

Story Time

Zoo Animals

Good night Gorilla

Never shout in
a Zoo

K for Kangaroo

Field Trip

Resources
Paper Tube art pg. 66,4

Zoo animals on

animal graph

Paper Elephant

Stories on video/DVD
Arts & Crafts pg. 49

Favorite zoo

EM p. 124

Traditional Preschool 4-5's

Theme: Bug Week
Date: 05-18-15

Color of the week: Red

Number of the week: 1- 30
Letter of the week: Whole Alphabet
Activity

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Enhance Large & Fine motor skills,

Music &

audio visual and verbal skills

Movement
Circle Time

Finger Play
Good morning
Colors, Shapes,
ABC's, 123's

Finger Play
Good morning
Colors, Shapes,
ABC's, 123's

Finger Play
Good morning
Colors, Shapes,
ABC's, 123's

Finger play
Good morning
Colors, Shapes,
ABC's, 123's

Finger play
Good morning
Colors, Shapes,
ABC's, 123's

Effective Purpose and DAP

Promotes Cognitive/ Language skills

Colors, Shapes, ABC 's & 123's

Learning to work together in small groups

Cooperative Groups

Group Work

Group Work

Group Work

Fine motor skills for writing

Learning about people and our
world
Stimulate touch, feel, taste & smell
Explore our world and surroundings

Handwriting Curriculum
Social Studies

HWT Work book

The Grouchy

Letter of the week

Number of the week

Science/Cooking
or

Counting game
The Hungry

Diary of a Worm

Early Math
Promotes Fine and Large Motor Skills
Self expression
Physical development
Large Motor and Social Skills
Independent Play
Enhance Social and Individual play
Promotes Play and Fantasy

Math Works
Art

Caterpillar

Sequence the story

Outside Time

Play Ground

Play Ground

Play Ground

Play Ground

Play Ground

Manipulative/Centers
Dramatic Play
Home Life Skills

Blocks
Home Living
Centers

Blocks
Home Living
Centers

Blocks
Home Living
Centers

Blocks
Home Living
Centers

Blocks
Home Living
Centers

Story Time

The Hungry
Caterpillar

The Grouchy
Lady Bug

Diary of a Worm

Butterflies

DVD bug collection

Daily Living exercises, Fine/large motor skills

Enhance language, cognitive and

audio skills, make predictions
Stories on video/DVD

MB Aug/Sep 2006 pg. 28

MB April/May 2007 pg. 28

MB June/July 2007 pg. 11

Emath
pgs. 78, 82,80

Ants go marching
one by one
Tissue paper
Butterflies

Ugly bug collage

Resources
See file folder for resources.
MB June/July 2009 pg. 41

Butterflies
life cycle

Lady Bug