My favorite way to organize preschool is to focus our activities around preschool themes!
You can choose themes based on holidays, your preschoolers' interests, or just fun topics! Using a theme groups learning activities together into a more cohesive format so your children remember new things better. Click here to learn more about how young children's brains work.
Sometimes it's just helpful to have theme ideas when you're planning, so today I am sharing 52 fun preschool themes and weeks that they could correspond with for the 2016-2017 school year! They are the same themes that I feature in my new preschool curriculum (more on that at the end of this post)!
I'm also sharing a FREE theme planning page for this school year (2016-2017). I'll put the link for that after the theme list!
UPDATE: I'm linking preschool themes I've published to the topics below! The activities are different than in HEEP, but they're still AWESOME!
UPDATE: I'm linking preschool themes I've published to the topics below! The activities are different than in HEEP, but they're still AWESOME!
So, here you go...
52 FUN preschool themes:
52 FUN preschool themes:
August 1-5: Apples & Princesses
August 8-12: All About Me
August 15-19: Cookies
August 22-26: Colors, Groups, & Bullies
August 29-2: Trucks
September 5-9: Busses
September 12-16: Leaves & Trees
September 19-23: Alligators
September 26-30: Sticks
October 3-7: Bats
October 10-14: Spiders
October 17-21: Pumpkins
October 24-28: Bones
October 31-4: Seasons
November 7-11: Dinosaurs
November 14-18: Harvest
November 21-25: Thanksgiving
November 28-2: Mittens
December 5-9: Elephants
December 12-16: Quilts
December 19-23: Gingerbread
December 26-30: Christmas
January 2-6: Penguins
January 9-13: Bears & Hibernation
January 16-20: MLKJ & Multiculturalism
January 23-27: Arctic Animals
January 30-3: Winter (or Snow)
February 6-10: Firefighters
February 13-17: Valentine's, Friendship, & Slugs
February 20-24: Teeth & Dentist
February 27-3: Dr. Seuss & Cats
March 6-10: Baby Animals
March 13-17: Rain & Umbrellas
March 20-24: Rainbows
March 27-3: Creating & Building
April 3-7: Cows
April 10-14: Farm
April 17-21: Ladybugs & Butterflies
April 24-28: Insects & Camping
May 1-5: Flowers & Seeds
May 8-12: Dots & Circles
May 15-19: Africa
May 22-26: Family **********
May 29-2: Where the Wild Things Are
June 5-9: Volcanoes
June 12-16: Windows
June 19-23: Kites
June 26-30: Nests & Birds
July 3-7: Patriotic
July 10-14: Ocean
July 17-21: Zoo
July 24-28: Watermelon
July 31-4: Space
Bonus Theme: Problem Solving
To get your own FREE theme planning page, just click here! I included two pages: one with these themes and one blank one if you'd rather just fill in your own plans!
Have you seen HEEP? It is a preschool homeschool curriculum! Learn more here!
And to learn more about my brand new, hands-on curriculum, click here! I have book-based activities for each of the themes above...everything from math and science to reading, letters, emotions, and so much more!!
To see a collection of preschool themes organized alphabetically, click here!
And today I'm joining with a wonderful group of kid bloggers to bring you all sorts of Back-to-School ideas! Check out these other great resources:
Back to School Teacher Gift {Free Printable Bag Topper} from Crafty Mama in ME
Back to School Interview for Kids from CraftCreateCalm
Free Kissing Hand Songs, Poems, & Videos to Ease Separation Anxiety from Living Montessori Now
How to Help Kids Back to School from iGameMom
Middle School Student Organizers for Tweens from Look! We're Learning!
Back to School Party Ideas from Schooling a Monkey
Not Back to School Picnic from Tales of Education at Home
Back to School Hand Washing Water Play from Play & Learn Every Day
52 Preschool Themes (& FREE 2016-2017 Preschool Theme Calendar!) from Preschool Powol Packets
Homeschooling? Have a Not Back to School Day from Adventures in Mommydom
Happy Educating,
Carla
I may share at any of these parties!
Never miss another post again! Sign up for our weekly updates newsletter and get links to all our posts once a week in your inbox! Sign up here!!
Great articles. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI love your 52 theme ideas for kids. What i like even more is how you have them spread out over the 52 weeks in a year with a different theme for each week. That is great! I suppose that is a really great way to stay prepared and organized. I will definitelt have t oconsider doing something similar! Great post ! thank you!
ReplyDelete