Thematic unit lesson plans and printables for elementary, kindergarten and preschool, perfect as a screen-free homeschool curriculum too.
Pre-K & Preschool theme ideas for learning about families Find more Family Theme Activities for Pre-K on the category page. Books Check here for a
This post contains the animated short film "Glued." Download the accompanying handout leveled for upper elementary students to teach theme.
Add elements of sight, sound, touch, taste and smell to your preschool centers to integrate science and play while students explore their senses.
Montessori-inspired Africa themed learning activities and free printables for kids.
Here you'll find free unit studies and lessons for each month. Includes holidays, historical events, seasonal themes, monthly themes, & more!
Love unit studies? And fall? Don't miss this collection of free and frugal fall-themed unit studies!It’s officially fall, although you wouldn’t know it in my part of the country. Here we’re still making temperatures in the high 80s or even low 90s in the hottest part of the day. But, we can pretend it’s really
ALL ABOUT EARTH Get ready for a month filled with so many fun activities to teach your kiddos all about our planet Earth . I teach this unit in April so it coincides with Earth Day. I’ve loaded up this blog post post with read aloud book ideas, free videos you can share with your students,
Learn about squirrels with your students. Pick activities from our list to build your own squirrel theme week or squirrel unit study!
If there is one thing I have learned from working with preschoolers and now, homeschooling my own preschooler, it is that they love, more than anything else,
Need a break from curriculum? Why not try some unit studies? We've complied over 170 unit study ideas to inspire the next adventure in your homeschool or classroom.
If your older students love detective and mystery stories they will love learning about Sherlock Holmes.
These bear crafts for kindergarten and preschool will go great with all of your bear themed units and activities. Check out all 19 ideas!
Need ideas for a hands-on, literature-based Middle Ages unit study? This post has got you covered with projects, literature lists and resources.
Learn about France with this France preschool unit! Activities, crafts, food, songs, etc to give your child a taste of France.
From the moment we started this week of Cowboys, there have been four gun-toting, bandana wearing, {rain} boot wearing cowboys running around my house and
This week, our Carmel Mountain Preschool kids created silhouettes from water color paints.
20 Preschool thematic units with fun and creative activities based on books. Step-by-step lesson plans that are done for you and perfect to enhance your preschool curriculum!
No matter what season you are currently experiencing, one thing is for sure, weather is all around us! Preschool is the perfect age to begin learning about weather, because it is a concept that kids experience first hand on a daily basis. If you’re planning a weather themed unit, or just looking for some engaging weather activities, you have come to the right place! We have compiled a list of our favorite art, math, literacy, STEM, sensory, and fine motor skill weather activities that are sure to be a hit with learners of all ages!
Handy free printable leif erikson for kids worksheet and coloring pages to make into readers to learn about famous early explorer!
Over 20 Fun Italy Themed Activities for kids, perfect for Learn more about the Beautiful Country. Includes Many Fun Crafts and Printables!
Need some ideas for transportation centers and activities? I'm here to help! I'm sharing my favorite, most engaging transportation-themed activities with you. I also created Road Number Mats FREEBIE for you, too! AND a train name craftivity FREEBIE! Go grab your lesson plan book and get ready to be inspired!
CUTE printable Construction Worksheests make practicing counting, matching upper and lowercase alphabet letters, and more FUN!
DIY Paper Dinosaur Hat- Craft for preschool, kindergarten, or elementary kids.
Check out these teaching ideas for the novel Wonder by RJ Palacio and grab free Wonder Novel Study samples and discussion questions.
Fun STEM activity for outdoor play and makes a great science lesson! (Includes a printable rocket template).
Grab this entire week of amazing 5 senses preschool activities and worksheets. Use them for circle time, science centers, and fun learning.
Our theme this week was "Our Five Senses" and we focused on the letter B and the shape circle. We read this week: Ferdinand by Munro Leaf Paddington by Mark Brown Paddington and the Busy Bee Carnival by Mark Brown The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle Stellaluna by Janelle Cannon Our question of the week was "What is something that you are really good at?" For our theme of the week, we talked a lot about our senses, what they help us do and why we need them. We made texture collages: This week is full of some of my favorite activities from the year, these texture collages being one of them. I love how each one is different, and the kids are so proud of the texture choices that they make. AND they look amazing on the wall. We tasted sweet, salty and sour things, and the kids had to vote on their favorite taste. (They think it's awesome when they get to eat things as part of a project.) We tested their sense of smells with this project where I asked them to describe the things that they were smelling. I used perfume, shampoo, chocolate syrup, pickle juice, toothpaste and (the most tricky) water. Out on our schools nature trail we talked about the different sounds that we could hear. We did this at various points of our walk, close to the school, by the parking lot and deeper in the woods. Lastly we did another activity with the sense of touch. I set up my table with different texture objects. I used flour, rice, oatmeal, sand and a scrubbing sponge. As the students felt each thing, I asked them to describe what they were feeling. It was hard to get them away from just telling them what the items were and to use describing words, but we got there in the end. For our shape of the week, the kids practiced drawing circles with this cool worksheet of circles and another with squares and circles. We also worked on recognizing circles out of other shapes. We talked a lot about things that are circles. We sang the song "This is a circle, this is a circle. How can you tell? How can you tell? It goes round and round, No end can be found, It's a circle, it's a circle." -Found Here For our letter activities, we used our handwriting sheet for the letter B, the sheet that helps work on letter recognition, both were mentioned in the "All About Me" post. The students also wrote in their journals for the letter B. We turned B's into Bees! After we read Ferdinand we all made our own bees. This was a great way for the kids to practice their cutting skills. I love how each child's bee is different. Another project that we did (another one of my favorites all year) is the Boat Builder activity. I love it because I give the students the materials and the end result is something completely their own. Each child got a piece of white paper, a square of brown paper, a skinny black rectangle, scissors, a glue stick and crayons with the instruction of make me a boat however you want to. (They love when I say that). If I get "I don't know how..." or " I can't do it.." We go back a few steps and talk about boats.. what do they look like, where do we find them, what do they do, and then the creative juices start flowing. Here's the end results! Love it! For our Alphabet wall we made butterflies with coffee filters and water color paint. After the children painted their coffee filters and they dried I used small pipe cleaners to turn them into butterflies! And with the B addition, our wall now looks like... Our list for words beginning with B's was very impressive. Here it is! As a side note, teachers always need to be flexible, and as such, it was in the best interest of the flow of the classroom to switch two centers, the library and dramatic play center. And I'm always telling the kids to make sure that they turn off the water faucet after getting a drink or washing their hands. I tell them to "Save the water for the fishes, so I painted a mural for above the sink to remind them. Up next week: The letter C, Triangles and "Our Feelings".
Australia-themed printables gathered here would help you to organize fun and educational activities for kids. Australia Day is just around the corner – it is a perfect time to stock […]
Studying the ocean with kids is so much fun! There are so many different things to explore! Beautiful blue water, interesting ocean creatures, and unique sea shells are just some of the many incredible parts of the ocean that can can captivate the attention of kids! Create an awesome ocean unit study with these hands-on science, STEM, math, literacy, sensory and art activities. You will keep your kids busy and engaged in fun activities all summer long!
Teach force and motion with style by using experiments free printables and resources that will help bring science concepts alive. This collection of force and motion ideas should help you cover the topics of texture, gravity, incline and some simple machines.
Apple Unit Study bundle with 40+ apple activities and 325+ printable pages covering sensory, fine motor, art, science, math, and language. Preschool - Gr 2.
Airplane themed learning activities for kids with free printtables
This spider web slime is a MUST any time your kids are learning about spiders, doing a spider unit study, or it's perfect for Halloween.
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FREE printable ant farm mazes for preschoolers to practice pre-writing and fine motor skills. Great activity for a bug theme or Spring/Summer learning.
This week ended up being more of a ‘spur of the moment’ unit after Kaleb saw some clip art on my computer and ‘helped’ me put together printables for him
Planning a rainforest theme for your preschooler? Looking for all the best rainforest activities for play-based learning? Rainforests are the oldest ecosystem on Earth and have such beauty to them. I’m sure your children will have as much fun learning about their plants, animals, ecology, and climate as much as mine did. In this post, … Rainforest Unit Study for Preschool Read More »
This is a fun Free Egypt printable for your little ones. Children will get to practice math skills, writing skills and more as they learn about Egypt.
Preschool themes: Doctor Theme
