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RESEARCH BASED TEACHING IN PRESCHOOL

  • Language Experience Approach

www.literacyconnections.com/inthierownwords.php

 

  • 1-2-3 READ Curriculum Modules by Adrienne Frank and Sheri Osborne (2007)Child Development Resources.

www.cdr.org

 

  • Preschoolers at Play: Building Language and Literacy through Dramatic Play by Alice  Wiggins (2006)Thinking Publications

 

  • Scaffolding With Storybooks: A Guide for Enhancing Young Children's Language and Literacy Achievement by Laura M. Justice and Khara L. Pence (1968) Reading Association

 

  • The Mailbox Magazine  by the Education Center

http://www.theeducationcenter.com/cgi-bin/tec/guest.jsp

  • Virginia's Foundation Blocks For Early Learning: Comprehensive Standards for Four- Year- Olds (2007) Virginia Department of Education

www.doe.va

 

  • Tried and True Teaching that gives results

  • Back to School

  • The Kissing Hand

  • Our 5 Senses

  • Apples

  • Old Mac Donald had a Farm

 

         

  • Apples

  • Spiders

  • Owls

  • Pumpkins

  • Halloween

  • Fall (Harvest/Scarecrows)

  • Leaves

  • Squirrels

  • 1st Thanksgiving

  • Being Thankful

  • Sights and Sounds of the Holiday Season

  • The Gingerbread Boy

  • Winter: Hot- vs- Cold

  • Animals in Winter

  • Bears

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  • Transportation

  • Friendship/Emotions

  • Valentines

  • Colors

  • Dinosaurs

  • What is the Weather

  • Dr. Seuss

  • Opposites

  • St. Patrick's Day

  • Spring

  • Rabbits

  • Eggs

  • Spring: Rabbits and Eggs

  • Things One Sees in the Grass; Bugs

  • Things Ones Sees in the Sky: Birds and Butterflies

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  • Things One Sees in the Pond

  • Flowers

  • Under the Sea

  • Butterfly & Moths

  • Nursery Rhymes

  • Who Wants Pizza?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hot Summer

Watermelon and Ice Cream

Camping

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Miscellaneous Themes

  • Space

  • Colors

  • Shapes

  • Transportation /& Trains

  • Bears

  • Zoo

  • The Farm

  • Zoo

  • Nursery Rhymes

  • Out in Space

  • My Body

  • Dinosaurs

Summer Academy!

  • Hot Summer

  • Camping

  • Under the Sea

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
     
     
     
   
Math Activities

Teacher-Made Stories

Drama Centers
          1 - 2- 3

Pumpkin Math Ideas

Happy Birthday USA!

The Apple Orchard/Pumpkin Patch
Pictures-coming soon    Teacher Fact Stories

The Grocery Store and Deli

 

Relocated to that Unit's month!

 The Polar Express Train
  Spring and Rabbit/Egg Stories are in March and April Section. Donahoe Bakery
    The Donahoe Florist Shop
    Donahoe Pizza Parlor Menu