EARLY CHILDHOOD THEME STUDIES
 The
Best of Totline Flannelboards by Kathleen Cubley. Illustrated by
Gary Mohrman. Totline Publications, 2002. For ages 3-6. This book contains the
best collection of flannelboard teaching ideas from more than 20 years of
Totline Publications. You will find 130 simple rhymes and stories for teaching
basic concepts and the seasons, including ready-to-copy patterns and easy
directions for creating your own flannelboard cutouts. There are also directions
for making the flannelboards themselves. Activities are arranged by season. 279
pages. A $22.99 value. BTH-4017. $7.93-B
 Early
Childhood Themes Through the Year by Debbie Thompson and Darlene
Hardwick. Teacher Created Resources, 2005. At the beginning of this book you
will find detailed instructions for making teaching materials that you will be
able to use throughout the year, including directions for file folder
activities, art recipes, glove puppets, fishing poles, and feelie boxes. Each
section of the book is arrange around a theme appropriate for the preschool
classroom, and each theme lasts a week. Themes are seasonal when appropriate,
following the school year. Some of the included themes are Pets, Apples and
Worms, Community Places and People, Senses, Halloween, Colors, Children of the
World, Thanksgiving, Mother Goose, Shapes, Winter Holidays, Christmas Around the
World, Snowmen, Bears, Birthdays, Monsters, Shadows and Groundhogs, Valentine's
Day, Time, Dinosaurs, Pigs, Nutrition, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Spring, Farm,
Frogs, Butterflies, Mice, Families, and Circus. 400 pages. BTH-1467. $23.39-D
 Early Childhood
Themes: Using Art Masterpieces by Sandra E. Fisher. Teacher Created
Materials. This year-long curriculum introduces young children to fine art while
incorporating it into math, science, language arts, and even snack time. The
book consists of eight 3-week themes: Colors, Shapes, Lines, Numbers, Animals,
People, Places, and Stories. Each theme is based on specific artists and samples
of their works. At the end of each section there is a brief biography of the
artists studied. 304 pages. TCM-3084. $22.49-D
 Farm Thematic Unit by
Cynthia Holzschuher. Teacher Created Resources, 1997. For grades PreK-1. This
unit study features activities related to the books Family Farm by Thomas
Locker and My Farm by Alison Lester. Other activities go across the
curriculum into language arts, math, science, social studies, and art. The
culminating activities are A Country Breakfast (recipes included) and / or an
Animal Lotto game (instructions for making game provided.) Also included are
bulletin board suggestions, songs and poems, an answer key, and a resource list.
80 pages. BTH-2561. $8.99-D.
 Food and Nutrition by
Mary Ellen Sterling. Teacher Created Resources, 2000. For grades PreK-1. This
unit study features activities related to the books Growing Vegetable Soup
by Lois Ehlert; Bread, Bread, Bread by Ann Morris; and Gregory the
Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat. Other activities go across the
curriculum into language arts, math, science, social studies, life skills,
and art. Culminating activities include Food Fair, Healthy Eaters Game,
(instructions and patterns included). AT the end is a section on unit management
and a bibliography. 80 pages. BTH-2562. $8.99-D
 Let's
Read! Storytime Crafts Books by Kathryn Totten. Edupress, 2006. Part of
the Storytime Crafts series, the programs in Let’s Read! support the role
of storytime in emergent literacy. Each storytime program includes information
on preparing the children, theme-related annotated book lists, rest activities
and a craft. Within each program, several of the multiple intelligences are
touched upon so that all of the intelligences are included over a period of
several sessions. Throughout the programs, you’ll find literacy tips for parents
as well as nursery rhymes and folktales for cultural awareness. The book
includes 20 storytime themes, such as Bedtime, Dance, New Baby and Shapes, along
with library skills rhymes and songs and handouts for parents. For Pre K -1, 120
pages. BTH-3585. $11.66-D
 Preschool
Literacy Calendar by Judy Nyberg. Rigby-Steck-Vaughn. 320 pages. This
research based resource for preschool teachers covers phonemic awareness,
lessons for a full year, and great literature suggestions. it includes 48 weekly
themes, over 200 daily themes, and over 1,300 activities. Student activities are
reproducible. Here are the weekly themes:
September: Hello,
Hello; My Family; Apples and Orchards; It's Fall
October: Being Safe; Do You Know a Dinosaur?; At the
Fire Station; It's Halloween
November: In My Neighborhood; Going to the Grocery
Store; Winter is Coming; Thanksgiving
December: How Things Work; Pajama Party!; In My Home;
Holiday Time
January: Happy New Year!; Getting Along; Let It Snow!;
Going to the Zoo
February: Pick a Pet; Lots of Love; Staying Healthy;
Oh, Those Five Senses
March: By Body; Creepy, Crawly Creatures; Food from
the Farm; Jobs People Do
April: What's Green?; It's Spring; Hey, Birdie!; Watch
the Garden Grow
May: Now I Know; All About Baby Animals; Good, Better,
Best; Off in Space
June: Beautiful Butterflies; A Week of Celebrations;
Bug Hunt; It's Summertime!
July: Red, White, and Blue; The Best Stories; Story
Bears; Rhyme Time
August: When I Grow Up; Into the Woods; Water
Fun; Circus, Circus
This all-in-one resource makes planning the
curriculum easy. SV-85588. $21.59-D
 Sensational
Seasons: Spring edited by Diane Jasinski. Harcourt Achieve (Steck-Vaughn),
2008. Pre-K. 96 pages. This book is great for teachers, parents, and
homeschoolers who need age-appropriate spring themes that meet NAEYC educational
guidelines. Spring themes include Seed; Bees; Frogs; Rain; Rabbits; Chicks and
Hens; Dr. Seuss; Caterpillars; and Earth Day. Each theme includes bulletin board
ideas, book lists, circle time activities, interactive snack activities, writing
activities, cross-curricular center activities, and reproducible patterns and
activity pages. Also included are an ABC / Phonemic Awareness Assessment; an
Emergent Reading Checklist; and an Emergent Writing Checklist. A Standards
Correlation Chart is also included. BTH-3417. $12.59-D
 Sensational Seasons:
Summer edited by Diane Jasinski. Harcourt Achieve (Steck-Vaughn),
2008. Pre-K. 96 pages. This book is great for teachers, parents, and
homeschoolers who need age-appropriate summer themes that meet NAEYC educational
guidelines. Summer themes include Ants, Sea Horses, Camping, Cows, Fourth of
July, Space, Crocodiles and Alligators, Counting, and Circus. Each theme includes bulletin board
ideas, book lists, circle time activities, interactive snack activities, writing
activities, cross-curricular center activities, and reproducible patterns and
activity pages. Also included are an ABC / Phonemic Awareness Assessment; an
Emergent Reading Checklist; and an Emergent Writing Checklist. A Standards
Correlation Chart is also included. BTH-3601. $12.59-D
 Sensational
Seasons: Fall edited by Diane Jasinski. Harcourt Achieve (Steck-Vaughn),
2008. Pre-K. 96 pages. This book is great for teachers, parents, and
homeschoolers who need age-appropriate summer themes that meet NAEYC educational
guidelines. Fall themes include A is for Alphabet; An Apple A Day;
Spectacular Spiders; Bears, Bears Everywhere; Picking Pumpkins; Thanksgiving:
Then and Now; At the Fire Station; looking at Leaves; and Monster Mania; Each theme includes bulletin board
ideas, book lists, circle time activities, interactive snack activities, writing
activities, cross-curricular center activities, and reproducible patterns and
activity pages. Also included are an ABC / Phonemic Awareness Assessment; an
Emergent Reading Checklist; and an Emergent Writing Checklist. A Standards
Correlation Chart is also included. BTH-3827. $12.59-D
 Sensational
Seasons: Winter edited by Diane Jasinski. Harcourt Achieve (Steck-Vaughn),
2008. Pre-K. 96 pages. This book is great for teachers, parents, and
homeschoolers who need age-appropriate Winter themes that meet NAEYC educational
guidelines. Winter themes in this book include Holiday Celebrations; Winter Fun;
Castles in the Kingdom; Digging Up Dinosaurs; B is for Birthdays; Perky
Penguins; At the Post Office; Valentine's Day; and Brush Up on Dental Health.
Also included are Rhyming Picture Cards, an ABC / Phonemic Awareness Assessment;
an Emergent Reading Checklist; and an Emergent Writing Checklist. A
Standards Correlation Chart is also included. BTH-3967. $12.59-D
 Thematic Activities and Patterns
for the Early Childhood Classroom by Beverly Ann Beckman. Teacher
Created Materials, ©1999. This resource for preschool teachers has five daily
plans, one for each day of the week, for fifteen different themes. (Some themes
have ten daily plans to cover two weeks.) Each day's plan includes individual
activities; group activities; games; songs, action poems or finger plays; and
transitions. The fifteen themes are Introduction to School; Bears; Clothing;
Color; Communication; Cookies; Dogs; Elephants; Families; Food; Monkeys; Plants;
Shapes; Time/Measurement; and Weather. In case it matters to anyone, the unit on
families is fairly traditional, though activities take into account that Mom, as
well as Dad, might be going to work. The patterns for families for the bulletin
board include families of various ethnic backgrounds. Two have a mother, father,
and two or three children. Another adds a grandmother to the mix. One shows a
mother with two children, and another a father with a daughter.
Patterns are provided for activities and
bulletin boards. Recipes are provided for cooking and baking activities. Some
activities make use of resources such as books and music you will need to have
on hand from other sources. Some of these we can supply you with. Others may be
found at the library. There is a materials list for each unit, as well as a
literature list. There is also a bibliography at the back of the book. 304
pages. TCM-2470. $22.49-D
 Theme Days for Younger Years:
Complete Plans for Fun-Filled Days by Joyce Hamman, Edupress, 1993. This
book provides plans, material lists, and activities for 20 days of thematic
learning. You will find a teacher's guide to the book, an activity guide
with objectives for the theme days, a resource list, and the theme plans
themselves. The themes covered are Pillow Day, Hat Day, Spple Day, Balloon Day,
Circus Day, Popcorn Day; Pajama Day, Bubble Day, Scarf Day, Shape Day, Animal
Day, Color Day, Foot Day, Hand Day, Shadow Day, Snow Day, Penguin Day, Heart
Day, Water Day, and Moving Day. 127 pages. EP-154. $11.99. Now out of print, so
supply is limited. .
Three Cheers for ..... Series: These
monthly activity books for grades PreK and K link activities to state and
national standards. There is one book for each month, August through May and a
June/July combo summer title. Center activities are identified with the state
and national standards they meet. Each book contains five theme topics; a
list of poetry, songs and books; unique bulletin board ideas; patterns; and
blackline masters. This is a new series in 2005. As I get titles in stock I will
print details of contents. I will try to have titles in stock within two months
of their appearance on the calendar. Books may be ordered at any time. It takes
about ten days for me to get books that are out of stock.
Three Cheers for
January by Margaret Fetty and Diane Jasinski. SV-93122. $11.66-D
Three Cheers for
February by Margaret Fetty and Diane Jasinski. SV-93130.
$11.66-D
 Three Cheers for
March by Margaret Fetty and Diane Jasinski. Units include Teacher
Resources; All Kinds of Weather; Pigs; Saint Patrick's Day and the Leprechauns;
The Wild West; Eating Healthy Foods; and Author Study: Dr. Seuss. SV-9840X.
$11.66-D
 Three Cheers
for April by Margaret Fetty and Diane Jasinski. Units include Teacher
Resources; Spring; Gardens; Eggs-actly Eggs; Our Earth; The Moo-velous Farm; and
Author Study -- John Burningham. SV-98418. $11.66-D
Three Cheers for
May by Margaret Fetty and Diane Jasinski. SV-98256. $11.66-D
Three Cheers for
June-July by Margaret Fetty and Diane Jasinski. SV-98264.
$11.66-D
Three Cheers for
August by Margaret Fetty and Diane Jasinski. SV-98272.
$11.66-D
Three Cheers for
September by Margaret Fetty and Diane Jasinski. SV-98280.
$11.66-D
Three Cheers for
October by Margaret Fetty and Diane Jasinski. SV-98299.
$11.66-D
Three Cheers for
November by Margaret Fetty and Diane Jasinski. SV-93106. $11.66-D
Three Cheers for
December by Margaret Fetty and Diane Jasinski. SV-93114.
$11.66-D
 Year-Round Units for Early
Childhood by Joan Burda. Teacher created Materials, © 2001. For
Pre K - 1. This contains two themes for each month from September - June.
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September: Johnny Appleseed and Pets
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October: Five Senses and Halloween
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November; Native Americans and Thanksgiving
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December: Frosty the Snowman and Christmas
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January: Sea Life and New Year's Day
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February: Valentine's Day and Presidents' Birthdays
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March: Dinosaurs and St. Patrick's Day
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April: Eggs and Easter
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May: Space and Occupations
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June: Teddy Bears and Real Bears
Reproducible for classroom use. 304 pages. TCM-3100.
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