Themes Through the Year

by THOMP/HARD

Each of 36 weekly themes is accompanied by a list of materials, patterns, activities, and more. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743936477
• ISBN13: 9780743936477
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Taken from the introduction

Teachers of young children will love organizing their curriculum using a thematic approach. children and their parents will love it, too. Thematic teaching enhances learning by allowing children to make connections between the various experiences during a school day. This book provides the busy teacher with ideas, follow up materials, sample schedules, and weekly calendars. The beginning pages of Early Childhood Theme Through the Year will prove invaluable to the busy teacher. In them you will find detailed instructions for making teaching materials that you will use throughout the school year. These include detailed directions for file folder activities, art recipes, glove puppets, fishing poles, and feelie boxes. Each section of the book is arranged around a theme appropriate to the early childhood classroom. This theme is carried throughout the entire week. The section is introduced with a weekly activities calendar. The calendar is designed to serve many purposes. It will help you to organize you week. Use the calendar not only to plan, but also to check off what you have completed. The calendar is designed to be reproducible. Parents will love receiving a copy outlining their child's school week so that they can discuss and reinforce school experiences. Each weekly section contains suggestions for: Materials needed for the week; sharing time; art; story time; circle time; food experiences; theme activities Classroom additions include complete listings of materials that will enrich your classroom environment, a teachers' aid section, bulletin board ideas and patterns, tips to send home to parents, and a related thematic bibliography. DEVELOPMENT OF SKILLS The activities listed in this book will help encourage and promote various developmental skills for children in early childhood classrooms. Since all of the skills are inter-related, it would be too lengthy to name each activity and the skills used throughout the book. GROSS/FINE MOTOR Children will develop both gross and fine motor skills through activities such as: Dancing, Hopping, Games, Pretending, Outside Play, Taking walks, Cutting, Pasting, Painting, Writing, Coloring, Finger Plays, File Folder Activities, and Puzzles. COGNITIVE Children will learn sequencing, pre-writing, classification, visual/object discrimination, language, math, and science skills through the use of: Books, Flannel Stories, Poems, Finger Plays, Discussions, File Folder Activities, Songs, Science Activities, Puppets, Food Experiences, and Field Trips. HEALTH/SAFETY/SOCIAL Children will learn health, safety, and social skills through the use of: Food Experiences, Field Trips, Classroom Visitors, Books, Puppets, Art, Dramatic Play, and Multi-Cultural Themes. Book has 400 pages