- ISBN: 9781453140628
- Copyright: 2024
- Grade: Ages 3-5
Meet the January Preschool Learning Kit!
Four weeks of learning in one kit – where little explorers go from cozy burrows to outer space through art, movement, music, and make-believe – can be your complete January curriculum or enhance your existing preschool lesson plans.
Want more guided play in your preschool center’s day? Need help going deeper with learning? Need more lesson and activity ideas to reinforce kindergarten ready skills? Need help engaging families? We’ve got you covered!
In our individual preschool learning 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.
January Theme: Cold Climates
January Theme: Cold Climates
From cozy hibernation dens to icy polar lands and the chilly wonders of outer space, this kit takes preschoolers on a seriously cool adventure. They’ll explore how animals stay warm in freezing climates, dive into the mysteries of light and dark, and blast off to space to marvel at stars and planets. Along the way, they’ll build empathy, curiosity, and a sense of awe and respect for the world—and cosmos!—around them.
With silly songs, seriously “cool” stories, science experiments, sensory and imaginative play, each theme sparks big wonder and joyful discovery.
Across this kit’s four weeks’ worth of lessons, students:
- Waddle, hop, and glide like polar animals on “icebergs” to music, then chat about which moves made them giggle or wobble.
- Scurry like squirrels to gather hidden nuts, then wonder together, what’s all the cold-weather nut-collecting fuss for?
- Craft cardboard binoculars with personalized flair then use them to explore like mini scientists on nature walks and in classroom stations.
- Build sky-high towers with blocks to “reach space,” then problem-solve together to keep them from tumbling back down to Earth.
And more!
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.
Circle Time: Logic and Reasoning
Light and Shadow Challenge
Children use flashlights to explore which objects—like paper, fabric, or stuffed animals—let light through and how much, which ones block it, and why. They notice how shadows change when the light moves and compare the shape of each shadow to the real object. Their discoveries lead to fun conversations about sunglasses, streetlights, and all the shadows we see in everyday life.
Centers/Stations: Imagination/Dramatic Play
Space Station
From cardboard boxes, bottle caps, tubes, and other space-y props, children build space stations and then gear up in costumes. Using walkie-talkies, they take turns as astronauts on the Space Station and engineers in mission control. Working together to launch rockets, run space experiments, and explore what they’ve learned about stars, light, dark, cold, and the wonders of our universe, kids go on an adventure that’s out of this world!
Weekly Family Newsletter 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 Polar Adventure Family Newsletter (one of the four included in the kit):
Cold-weather conundrum: What to do with little ones cooped up indoors? This newsletter is full of cozy (and silly!) ideas—like stirring up a warm mug of easy mac and cheese, waddling like penguins with a ball between your knees, or curling up with a wintery read (library list included).
Every Family Newsletter includes a QR code packed with ideas. This one takes families to all kinds of fun follow-up activities that connect to what their kids are learning—perfect for curing the “I’m bored” winter blahs.
Looking for more themes or a full curriculum?
Looking for more themes or a full curriculum?
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