Curriculum:
We are using "Core Knowledge" Preschool Curriculum as a
base for our daily lesson plans.  G.P.A. Preschool is registered
as a "Friends of Core Knowledge" Preschool Program.  
We are also using the "Hands on Bible" Curriculum for our
bible lessons.  Follow the links for further information.
Bellow you will find the skills covered this month along with the
daily lesson plan.
Please click on the month to see
it's curriculum:
Yearly Themes:
August:
 September:
 October:
 November:
 December:
Welcome!
I am special
Assessments
All about school
A,B,C
1,2
Circle
Red, Blue
 Transportation
Bears
Parent's Day
Friends & Manners
D,E,F.
3,4
Square
Purple
 Health & Safety
Nursery Rhymes
Opposites
Fall, Nature
G,H,I
5,6
Octagon
Orange, Black
 Nutrition & 5 Senses
Family
Thanksgiving
Fall Harvest
J,K,L
7,8
Rectangle
Yellow, Brown
 Around the World
Holidays
Christmas Program
Parent Conferences
M,N,O
9,10
Triangle
White, Green
January:
 February:
 March:
 April:
 May:
New Year & Winter
Community Helpers
Animals
Martin Luther King Jr.
P,Q,R
11,12
Star
Silver, Gray
 Day & Night
Love, Valentine's Day
Rodeo, Dental Hygiene
Dinosaurs
S,T,U
13,14
Heart
Pink, Gold
 Dental Hygiene
How Things Grow
Spring & Bugs
Outer Space
Farm Animals
V,W,X
15,16
Oval
 Easter
Rainy Days
Mother Earth
Sea Life
Assessments
Y,Z
17,18
 Review
Parent Conferences
Summer Fun
Mother's Day
Graduation
19,20
MONTH:  March/April 31-4       WEEK OF:  April 2-6    THEME:  Spring & Farm Animals   
April:
Movement:
Tag, Maintain momentum on a swing by
pumping legs.  Relay races.
 Autonomy / Social Skills:
Follow the rules for simple childhood
games, circle games and board games.
Easter
 Work Habits:
Organize and plan what is needed to carry
out a project or task, with adult assistance
when needed.
 Oral Language:
Express a personal opinion, understand and
use complex sentences with clauses: so,
that, verb +ing.
Nursery Rhymes, Poems, Fingerplays, Songs:
"I Know an Old Lady, Teddy Bears Picnic,
You are my Sunshine"
 Storybook Reading and Storytelling:
Demonstrate book and print awareness,  
"Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice
Sendak
 Emerging Literacy Skills in Reading and
Writing:
Give the beginning sound of a spoken word.
Letters:  Y & Z

Bible verse: "Do onto others as you would
like them to do to you" Luke 7:31
 Mathematical Reasoning:
Seriate at least 3 items by length, height
or size.  Add and subtract problems
represented by numerals 1-4, using objects
or pictures as needed.  Indicate that a
dollar bill has more value than a penny or
quarter.
Numbers: 17,18
Orientation in Time & Space:
Left to right, Name city, state or country in
which we live, locate own state on U.S.
map, talk about "city"
Rainy Days
Mother Earth, Sea Life
 Scientific Reasoning:
Create or construct a project.
 Music:
Move to music using a sequence of
choreographed steps or movements to
music.
 Visual Arts:
Examine details and tell story of a work of
art.
  Monday
 Tuesday
 Wednesday
 Thursday
 Friday
Circle
Time:
Prayer, Sign-in, Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  Review the stories of
Jesus' Miracles.  Talk about
how He gave us a job to do
here on earth...tell everyone
of God's love.  
Read: "My Sheep" by
Paradise Press
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  Talk about the new
month: April
Talk about the various farm
animals and what they do:
milk, food, work, farm, etc;
Read: "Down on the Farm" by
Greg Scelsa
Sing "Old Mac Donald"
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  Show-and-Tell
Read: "Farm Animals" by
Usborne Beginners
Sing and do actions for "The
Farmer in the Dell"
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs  Talk about the letter
"Ww" is for Watermelon, Write
down things that begin with
the letter "Ww" on the large
tablet, then have children
underline the "Ww"
Read: "Pancho El Patito Feo"
by Grandreams
Prayer, Sign-in, Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs
Read: "Ruby in Her Own
Time" by Jonathan Emmett
Small
Group
/Class
Activity:
Children will build a "marble
run" creation together.  Each
person will take turns picking
a piece to go on next.
Children will paint "muddy pigs"
with chocolate pudding (Gives
them an opportunity to "eat" the
paint)
Read: "The Flea's Sneeze" by
Lynn Downey
Children will color and cut a
rainbow umbrella
worksheet practice letter Uu
Children will paint a
"springtime" watermelon.
Read: "The Grumpy
Morning" by Pamela
Duncan Edwards
Free
Choice
Centers
Children will see what signs
are on the "April" month, we
will talk about the springtime
showers and how the trees
are blossoming.  Children will
place "popcorn" blossoms on
a tree.
Read:
"Click-Clack-Quackity-Quack" by
Doreen Cronin
Children will draw a line to the
first letter of various farm
animals.
Read the "Let's Find Out -
What's on a farm?" magazine
talk about all that goes on in
the farm.
Read: "Duck and a Book" by
David Shannon
Children will identify the
farm animals by their
shadow (duck, horse,
sheep, pig and a cow.)
Closing
Circle
Time:
Read: "All You Ever Need"
by Max Lucado
Read: "Giggle, Giggle, Quack"
by Doreen Cronin
Read: "Who Will Tuck Me In
Tonight" by Carol Roth
Read: "Percy the Piglet" by
Grandreams Limited
Read: "Buttercup, the
Clumsy Cow" by Julia
Moffatt
MONTH:   April           WEEK OF:  7-11         THEME:    Rainy Days                          
MONTH:   April    WEEK OF:   14-18     THEME:   Mother Earth                      
MONTH:   April         WEEK OF:   21-25    THEME:     Sea Life                                
  Monday
 Tuesday
 Wednesday
 Thursday
 Friday
Circle
Time:
Prayer, Sign-in, Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.
Talk about what happens in
the "Spring" and why we call
the rain spring showers.  Talk
about the rain and where it
comes from: the water cycle.  
Show children diagram of the
water cycle and each step.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  Review all about
evaporation and
condensation, talk about
math and addition, today we
will be adding rain drops
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  Talk about rainbows
and how they are created by
mixing moisture and light.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs
Read: "Let's Find Out - What
do animals do in the rain?"
magazine
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs

Talk about the order of
colors on the rainbow: red,
orange, yellow, green,
blue, purple.  
Small
Group
/Class
Activity:
Children will draw and cut
out a cloud on which they
will attach falling raindrops
from.
Play game / song of "Rain,
Rain, Go Away!" as children
take turns passing on the
raindrop to someone else.
Children will create their very
own rainbow by "sizing" the
color strips from largest to
smallest.  They will glue them
onto a rainbow pattern.
Children will put an X on
pictures that begin with the
letter R.
Children will get sticker
labels with the color words
written on each.  Then
they must look at each
crayon and match the
word with the sticker then
color it.
Free
Choice
Centers
Children will color a "Water
Cycle" diagram.

I will demonstrate
"evaporation" and
"condensation" by boiling
water and covering it with a
clear lid.
Children will pretend that it is
raining indoors as we hang
up their rain clouds.
Children will arrange the
chairs in a circle in the
kitchen and place the
parachute on top to create a
tent - teacher will use spray
bottle to "make it rain"
Children will tell me what
they like about their moms,
these will be used for our
"Mommy and Me Tea"
Children will begin
decorating the "tea pot"
invitation.
Children will do a rainy day
worksheet where they will
count the raindrops.
Children will stick their
colored labels in their
journals then write the
color words on their own.
Closing
Circle
Time:
Read: "Raindrop Plop!" by
Wendy Cheyette Lewison
Read: "Rainy Day Alphabet
Book" by Jackie Posner
Read: "Rainbow Fish and the
Big Blue Whale" by Marcus
Pfister
Read: Child's choice
Read: child's choice
  Monday
 Tuesday
 Wednesday
 Thursday
 Friday
Circle
Time:
Prayer, Sign-in, Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  Talk about our "Earth"
and why we call her "Mother
Earth" Talk about how
everything around us is
connected and our decisions
affect our planet and other
people as well,..recycling.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  Practice graduation
song.
We will begin seeing the
story of "Joseph and his coat
of many colors."  We will talk
about how God wants us to
be happy for others and not
"jealous"
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  Practice graduation
song.  Talk about how plants
provide oxygen, so we need to
take care of our trees and
plants - then they can take
care of us.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs  Practice graduation
song
Children will see pictures of
our "Planet" they will see
beautiful pictures of the
different environments,
habitats, rural and man-made
places on earth.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs
Talk about "Earth Day" on
Sunday  Practice
graduation song.
Small
Group
/Class
Activity:
Children will decorate a bag
with "Mother Earth" and take
home to talk about the things
that can be recycled with
their families.
Children will decorate bag
with items that can be
"reused, reduced and
recycled."
Children will color the page
that has Joseph and his coat
of many colors.
Children will begin making
their handprints for our
special poem: white
handprints on blue paper
Children will go on a "Nature
Walk" and place items on
their nature bracelets around
theri wrists. (Inside out tape)




Children will begin making
their handprints for our
special poem: white
handprints on blue paper
Children will take home a
packet of seeds as their
"homework" with their
families.  We need to do our
part - even as young as our
children are.  The
preschoolers can help out by
providing plants that will in
turn provide oxygen for us.
Children will take home a
packet of seeds as their
"homework" with their
families.  We need to do
our part - even as young as
our children are.  The
preschoolers can help out
by providing plants that
will in turn provide oxygen
for us.
Free
Choice
Centers
Sing and do song "The letters
on the Bus" Children will take
turns picking a letter to put on
the bus.
Sing and do song "The
letters on the Bus" Children
will take turns picking a letter
to put on the bus.

Children will begin
decorating the tea pot
invitations for their moms.
Children will read a poem
about the "Layers of the earth."
Children will see the "Let's
find out magazine -
Sunflowers."
Children will begin their
"Mother's Day gift"
Children will begin their
"Mother's Day Gift"
Closing
Circle
Time:
Read:"Rainy Day Alphabet
Book" by Jackie Posner &
Sara Wiener
Read: "Mama Loves You." by
Caroline Stutsong
Read: "Mama, Mama" by
Jean Marzollo
Read: "Mommy Mine" by Tim
Warnes
Read: "All the Colors of
the Earth."
  Monday
 Tuesday
 Wednesday
 Thursday
 Friday
Circle
Time:
Prayer, Sign-in, Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  
Talk about: Earth Day!
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs
 
Small
Group
/Class
Activity:
Children will review the
alphabet and trace only the
capital letters.
 
 
 
Closed for
Staff
Development
Free
Choice
Centers
Begin interviewing children
about their "moms"
Continue interviewing
children about their moms.
 
 
 
Closing
Circle
Time:
Read: "Whoever You Are" by
Read: "Alphabet Mystery" by
Audrey Wood
Read: "Alphabet Adventure"
by Audrey Wood
Read: "I Love My Mommy
Because." by Laurel
Porter-Gaylord
 
MONTH:  April / May            WEEK OF:  28-2       THEME: Bugs and Insects                            
  Monday
 Tuesday
 Wednesday
 Thursday
 Friday
Circle
Time:
Prayer, Sign-in, Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  Read and talk about
caterpillars and butterflies;
metamorphosis.  Read: "The
Very Hungry Caterpillar" by
Eric Carle.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  Read: "Diary of a
Worm" by Doreen Cronin and
talk about the survival skills
and attributes of bugs and
insects.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  Read: "I Love Bugs" by
Philemon Sturges
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs  Read: "The Lamb and
the Butterfly" by Arnold
Sundgaard
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs
Small
Group
/Class
Activity:
Children will trace capitol
letters.

Children will cut out 10
circles to create a caterpillar
which they will place inside a
"cocoon"  We will hang the
cocoons around the class
and mark a calendar for
"more than two weeks" where
we will then discover our
butterflies.
Children will make a
calendar and decorate it to
show how long our
"caterpillars" will be in their
cacoons.
Take children's pictures
against measuring tape to
show how much they have
grown since the beginning of
the year.
Take children's pictures
against measuring tape to
show how much they have
grown since the beginning of
the year.
 
Free
Choice
Centers
Children will create a
"symmetrical" butterfly by
blotting paint on one side,
then folding butterfly in have
to create a symmetrical
design on other side.  These
will be placed in "cocoons"
Read: "The Very Hungry
Caterpillar" by Eric Carle and
have children place stickers
on the missing pictures.
Work on Mother's day gift.

Simply call her mom poem.
Simply call her mom poem.

Work on Mother's day gift.
 
Closing
Circle
Time:
Read: "Love You Forever" by
Robert Munsch
Read: "Little Racoon's Big
Question" by Miriam Schlein
Read: "No Matter What" by
Debi Gliori
Read: "What Mom's Can't Do"
by Douglas Wood
Read: "Mama Loves You"
by Caroline Stutson