Traditional Preschool 4-5's

Theme: Pumpkins
Date: 10-3-2016

Color of the week: orange

Number of the week: 1
Letter of the week: L
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

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
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

Handwriting Curriculum
Social Studies

Letter of the week

HWT Work book

Number of the week

Letter of the week

Review

Science/Cooking
or
Math Works
Art

Living and Nonliving

Movement patterns
officer game

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

Happy Halloween
Froggy

Arthur's Halloween

Pumpkins, Pumpkins

Ten little ghost

Story on Video

Daily Living exercises, Fine/large motor skills

Enhance language, cognitive and

audio skills, make predictions
Stories on video/DVD

Resources
MB p.37, p.40 2008

EM - pg 298,300,40,44

Oct arts and crafts pg. 15

Library - Pumpkin Pumpkin Jeanne Tigherington
MB pg. 18 2004

City and Country

Sort

Fall
Brings ?
Exploring Pumpkins
Freeze dance
do what I do

Brown bag
Pumpkins

Pumpkin Seed
Count
Jack-o-lantern
Picture

Traditional Preschool 4-5's

Theme: Spiders, Bats and Owls
Date: 10-10-2016

Color of the week: Black

Number of the week: 2
Letter of the week: F
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

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
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

Handwriting Curriculum
Social Studies

Letter of the week

HWT Work book

Number of the week

Letter of the week

Review

Daily Living exercises, Fine/large motor skills

Enhance language, cognitive and

audio skills, make predictions

Science/Cooking
or
Math Works
Art

What's in the jar?

Bats and how

they live
Bat Facts
Attribute Match
Shape Walk

Number Board Game

Number stations
Spider Legs
Jumping spiders

Owl Mask
Flying bat
Bats chow time

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

One Halloween Night

Night Creatures

Little Spider

Froggy's Halloween

Story on Video

Stories on video/DVD

Resources
Arts and Crafts Oct. pg.10

EM Pg 98,106,296,250

MB 2006 oct pg. 4-8, pg. 25, 45

MB 2008 oct pg.24

October idea book pg 58, 41

Organizer Oct

MB 2009 oct pg.52

Spiders and
how they live

Traditional Preschool 4-5's

Theme: Fire Safety and Pizza week
Date: 10-17-2016

Color of the week: Yellow

Number of the week: 3
Letter of the week: E
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

Cooperative Groups
Handwriting Curriculum
Social Studies

Group Work
Letter of the week

Group Work
HWT Work book

Group Work
Number of the week

Group Work
Letter of the week

Group Work
Review

Science/Cooking
or
Math Works
Art

Painting a fire truck

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

Fire Trucks

Fire dogs

Rescue Team

Pete's a Pizza

Story on Video

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

Resources
Monthly MB Oct. P. 30-33 43-57
MB 2004 Pg. 4-10

EM pg. 248,180

Fire mans Job

calling 911

The country of
Italy
Fire Hats
Shaving cream play
Class voting

Play dough shapes

Sticker Collage
Fire safety cards

Recap
on Fire safety
Pizza Slice
Pizza play dough

Traditional Preschool 4-5's

Theme: Happy Halloween
Date: 10-24-2016

Color of the week: Purple

Number of the week: 4
Letter of the week: H
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

Cooperative Groups
Handwriting Curriculum
Social Studies

Group Work
Letter of the week

Group Work
HWT Work book

Group Work
Number of the week

Group Work
Letter of the week

Group Work
Review

Science/Cooking
or
Math Works
Art

Cute Suit Monster

Real or Pretend

One more Elephant

Sorting Leaves

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

Recap Math
who's that

Orange and
black collage

Scarecrow's

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 night before

Halloween

Arthur's Halloween

Froggys Halloween

Five little
pumpkins

Story on DVD

Resources
Pg. 62 Oct Organizer
Mailbox oct 2006 pg. 38

What is a
neighborhood

Monsters Magic Mirror

EM pg. 140,306