- ISBN: 9781453140710
- Copyright: 2024
- Grade: Ages 3-5
Meet the December Preschool Learning Kit!
Four weeks of learning in one kit – where joyful preschool art-making sparks creativity, kindness, cultural curiosity, and hands-on discovery– can be your complete December curriculum or enhance your existing preschool lesson plans.
Looking for more guided play, deeper learning, and fresh lesson ideas? Need support engaging families? We’ve got you covered!
In our individual preschool learning kits, timeless preschool themes rule the day. Educators can use the kit’s contents to support their existing themes and units for use any time of year, ensuring teachers are supported and in control of their days.
December Theme: Messy & Process Art
December Theme: Messy & Process Art
Ready, set, create! This kit celebrates the joy of the journey – where preschool art is less about the final product and more about the fun, freedom, and feelings along the way. Children dive into messy, meaningful play as they experience art as an avenue to self-expression, sensory exploration, teamwork, and tradition.
From solo masterpieces to collaborative creations, little artists make choices, play with new materials, and practice kindness through shared projects and respect for cultures and their celebrations. Whether swirling paint or molding clay, students notice, compare, and contrast how making art feels – to the touch and to the heart.
Across this kit’s four weeks of lessons, preschoolers:
- Strike a pose like statues in a game of “night at the museum,” freezing when the “guard” looks your way.
- Mold playdough into silly, serious, or surprised faces to explore emotions.
- Journey to Japan to discover Yayoi Kusama’s dot art, then create their own polka-dot ornaments with punches, stickers, markers, and more.
- Skate across laminated “ice” in socks, then “warm up” with cocoa and a chat about favorite winter traditions.
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: Community and Culture
The Friendship Dance
Dance around the world! Little ones follow a lively poem– “five, six, we do high kicks!”– as they twirl, boogie, and move in friend pairs, just like dancers in celebrations across the globe. Afterward, they share favorite moves or dance traditions in their families.
Centers/Stations: Science
Museum Day
Field trip! The classroom turns into a mini gallery filled with kids’ creations and famous masterpieces. Little artists “visit” the exhibits, noticing colors, shapes, and feelings sparked by the art. Then it’s back to the studio to make their own inspired masterpieces–maybe even in the style of a favorite artist!
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 Winter Wonderland Family Newsletter (one of the four included in the kit):
Cold calls for comfort food! In this newsletter’s activity, families make a simple lasagna that’s perfect for children’s hands. No worries about tearing delicate lasagna pasta; instead, ravioli separates layers of healthy veggies. Isn’t “crafting” at its best when it culminates in a delicious, nourishing meal the family can enjoy together?
Every Family Newsletter includes a QR code packed with ideas. This edition takes families to resources that help manage the stresses and sadnesses that can sometimes come with the winter season.
Looking for more themes or a full curriculum?
Looking for more themes or a full curriculum?
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