- ISBN: 9781453140642
- Copyright: 2024
- Grade: Ages 3-5
Meet March's Preschool Curriculum Kit!
The kit’s four weeks of learning about change and growth can be your complete March curriculum or enhancement to existing preschool lesson plans.
Want more guided play in your center’s day? Need help going deeper with learning? Need more lesson and activity ideas to reinforce kindergarten-ready skills? Struggling to engage families? We’ve got you covered!
In our individual kits, timeless preschool themes rule the day. Educators can unbox and organize the kit’s contents around their existing themes and units for use any time of year, ensuring teachers are supported and in control of their days.
March Theme: Change & Grow
March Theme: Change & Grow
Weekly Themes: Rain & Rainbows, Watch It Grow, Changing Seasons, Pond Life
Whether you need lessons about spring or learning to celebrate and take care of Earth and all its wondrous creatures, this kit has got it!
Through hands-on experiments, games, art projects, and guided play, this kit delights the senses, body, and mind. Children make choices and create, explore their environments, and have fun as they learn about the planet’s seasons and cycles, how their surroundings impact their daily lives, and pledge to be planet protectors.
Across this kit’s four weeks’ worth of lessons, students:
- Get their hands wet and describe how water moves on different surfaces
- Dance like darling ducks in the rain
- Role play as weather reporters in costumes and makeshift sets in dramatic play
- Discuss ecosystems and biology as they count gummy worms
- and so much more!
Foundational skills:
- Letters: Aa, Ww, Vv, Xx
- Numbers: 19, 20; review 11-20
- Shape: Oval
- Logic & Reasoning: matching, sorting, classifying shapes
- Phonemic awareness: segmenting, adding and blending syllables
- Vocabulary: violet, visible, evaporate, wiggle, sprout, hydrate
What else comes in the kit?
What else comes in the kit?
Good question! Each kit ships in one box and includes:
- Portable box with a weekly time-saving organizational system
- Monthly theme posters provide an overview of each month's four weekly themes for quick reference for teachers and families
- Monthly teacher guide provides a step-by-step plan and overview of core topics, activities, songs, and materials lists
- Weekly theme templates feature teacher-led activities and child-directed STEAM activities.
- Circle Time cards explore core activities at welcome and reflection circle times (19 cards per week)
- Learning Lab cards (centers/stations) with play-based small-group and independent STEAM activities. (16 cards per week)
- Weekly Family Newsletters to keep families engaged in what their child is learning. (newsletters to send home each week for up to 24 students)
- Weekly Tell-Me-More wristbands for families get children sharing about all their joyful learning. (wristbands for up to 24 students)
Purposeful Play, the Highlights Way!
In every resource, we seek to stoke a child’s sense of creativity, agency, and joy.
Pledge to the Planet Circle Time Card
Social Impact
Play With a Purpose: What does it feel like to make a promise? What do you notice about working with others on something that matters?
As children discuss the joy of collaborating to do good things, they commit—through painted handprints to create a shared mural—to doing something to protect the planet. Students exercise choice, practice concrete action and personal responsibility, and experience the power of promise.
Rain Shelter for Animals Learning Lab Card
Design and Build
Play With a Purpose: If you were a squirrel, what kind of shelter would you want from the rain and why?
Children get their imaginations going as they think critically through how to protect animals from harsh weather. Problem-solving skills meet creativity and empathy meets action as students use common classroom materials to design and build shelters for various animals. A corresponding Hidden Pictures puzzle—of earthworms eating books!—builds memory and shape recognition.
Weekly Family Newsletters for At-home Connections
The weekly Family Newsletter is an excellent way to engage families and—psst—show off all the excellent learning at your school!
Just some of the activity ideas that little ones and families love in the Watch It Grow Family Newsletter (one of the four included in the kit):
- Kids love going on a walk to collect nature’s music makers—like sticks, pinecones, and rocks—to build a wind chime. Bonus: “w” gets reinforced!
- Families have a blast creating a beautiful hanging garden. Scissors, paper plates, wrapping paper, glue, string, and families have all they need to bring a pop of spring into their homes. Bonus: fine motor skills get a workout!
Looking for more themes or a full curriculum?
Looking for more themes or a full curriculum?
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