- ISBN: 9781453140680
- Copyright: 2024
- Grade: Ages 3-5
Meet the September Preschool Learning Kit!
Four weeks of learning in one kit–all about the skills most foundational to a super school year–can be your complete September curriculum or enhance your 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? Need help engaging families? We’ve got you covered!
In our individual preschool learning kits, timeless 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.
September Theme: Welcome to School
September Theme: Welcome to School
What are the ingredients of joyful school year full of wonderful learning? A sprinkle of early literacy – like the strokes that form letters and learning how to spell names. A scoop of number fun, like counting and sorting. A dash of self-awareness, including exploring the five senses and learning about our bodies. And, of course, a big helping of the fundamentals of friendship.
This kit is packed with playful activities that help little learners build routines, foster friendships, and create a happy, harmonious classroom where imaginations run and learning shines.
Across this kit’s four weeks’ worth of lessons, students:
- Take turns being leader and direct classmates in silly movements, like hopping on one foot or spinning around
- Think like engineers to construct string-and-cup telephones to explore how sound travels
- Act like architects and design and build a school from wooden blocks, thinking about the spaces it needs
- Practice being – shhh – so quiet that children can hear different sounds and decide if they’re quiet, loud, or somewhere in between
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: Shape Fundamentals
Classroom Scavenger Hunt
Let’s go on a classroom treasure trawl! Little explorers search for important preschool supplies–backpack, check; glue, got it; stuffed animal, of course!–while getting to know their classroom. As they find each item, they chat about how to use it and where it belongs, turning organization into an adventure and applying critical thinking and reasoning skills.
Centers/Stations: Literacy and Reading
Self-portrait
Create your mini masterpiece! Which shapes make a face? A triangle nose? Oval eyes? Little artists peek into a mirror, then draw a self-portrait as unique as they are. With a dose of creativity and a splash of fun, their one-of-a-kind masterpieces come to life.
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 Friends and Feelings Family Newsletter (one of the four included in the kit):
Take a mindful moment! This newsletter invites families on a nature walk, pausing to soak in the present, spot vibrant colors, and marvel at the world around them. Or lie back and find fun shapes in the clouds – because nature is full of little wonders!
Every Family Newsletter includes a QR code packed with ideas. This edition takes families to research-backed article about why friendships are so important to every child’s well-being.
Looking for more themes or a full curriculum?
Looking for more themes or a full curriculum?
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