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Help Planning Web preschool?

I have to do a site planning for children in preschool, you can choose any theme and then the subcategories are: language, health, Food / Nutrition Music, movement, blocks, social studies, art, sensory, science, mathematics, dramatic play. Each of the subcategories that have at least two curricula to go with the theme. So I need a total of at least 24 lesson plans. Any idea? Suggestions? What issue would be the easiest to get away from? Thank you very much!

You can do any theme you want: Here are seasonal theme suggestions: Thanksgiving turkey harvest pumpkins autumn / maize leaves family for a lot of ideas for topics and ideas for lessons planning check this link: How http://www.preschooldirectory.123child.com/ about the elements of language corn corn: bring a corn cob and talk about the parts of corn. Ways to cook corn: talk about the ways in which children have had corn. Corn on the cob, cream style, corn muffins, corn tortillas. Corn health is a big part of a healthful diet, the children try to eat the corn from a variety of ways. Vote and figure that children vote for their favorite way to eat corn and graph the results. Of coarse they are somehow healthier than others. Talk about how to prepare the corn in a healthy way. Cooking / Nutrition that two of his favorite recipes little corn Music Blue Boy Little Boy Blue, Come Blow Your Horn sheep in the meadow the cow in the corn, but where is the child, who looks after the sheep? He's under a haystack, fast asleep. Try this one: Http://www.sesamestreet.org/video_player/-/pgpv/videoplayer/0/fa65263c-1576-11dd-9bc7-777dea8a73e7/the_corn_song Movement has children make maracas corn by placement of dried maize grains in a bottle with a lid or seal between two paper plates and decorate. Play music and have children shake Shaker corn. Print up lots of pictures of corn that are the size of the feet of children. Cut them out and then place them on the floor with contact paper. Take the jump to children an ear of corn to another. Block printing pictures fit corn in blocks, paste the pictures with paper and the children create a corn maze. Print to pictures of objects related to property that meets the blocks and attach them to the blocks with contact paper. Have the children pretend they are on a farm. Social Studies Corn is used ways to talk about all the ways that corn is used in our communities. The discovery of corn: Talk about how corn came to be used in the United States, talks about the history of corn. Art Pick a couple of the activities of this page: http://www.123child.com/UBB/showthread.php?t=6328 sensory nuclei in the cores of Sand Table popcorn place in the sand and water table. Providing children with measuring cups, funnels, and other toys. Bring corn for children to explore with a magnifying glass. Science Maize planting corn planted some seeds in small clay cups. Place in a window and have the children use a drip of water every day. Check the seeds for the growth and germination. Children can use a magnifying glass to inspect more closely. Corn sequence Cards Make cards for your child simple sequence. Draw the different stages of corn grown, planting seeds, to see the stems that are short stems, high, then collect corn. Mathematics How much does a handful? Graph the kids take a handful of corn and count how many of each child grabbed. Graphic results. To graph the results you can write each child's name and number on a small rectangle of cardboard and then place in order from smallest to largest at the bottom of a bulletin board. If you have more than one child with the same number who would stack them. To make it more interesting can trace the child's hand, and write your name and number on the hand instead of the rectangle. Label the chart "How much is a handful?" Core Jar For older children. Fill a small jar with corn or a piece of popcorn. Ask each child to guess how the nuclei are in the jar. Record each child's guess. Count the grains. Dramatic Play Farm play use cows, pigs and other animals and a box for the barn. Have your child seeks with animals. Supply farmer wears overalls, straw hats, scarves, and boots to pretend to be a farmer. Gardener play Supply your child with gardening tools plastic hats, gloves, seeds, pots, flowers and packages showers pretending to be a gardener.

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