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:  August        WEEK OF:   11-15       THEME:    Welcome / All About Me!              
August:
MONTH:  August     WEEK OF:   25-29     THEME:  "F.R.O.G. - Fully Rely On God!"          
  Monday
 Tuesday
 Wednesday
 Thursday
 Friday
Circle Time:
Prayer, Sign-in, Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs. Jobs.  
Review the good choices / bad
choices out of the David series.  
Song: "Say Hello" and children
will practice repeating a verse of
the song.  Introduce the puppet
theatre and the proper way to
use and put away the puppets.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  Talk about another
"David" from the Bible story of
"David and Goliath"  Show
children how big Goliath was by
having Mr. A stand on a chair.  
Children will take turns being
"David" and throwing a bean bag
at "Goliath"  Talk about how we
need to have faith in God and
not our own strength.
Introduce Bible verse: "My God
will meet all your needs" Phil
4:19
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs. Jobs.  
Children will each have a picture
of an animal from the story
"Brown Bear, Brown Bear" and
they will take turns placing their
picture on board when the animal
comes up in the story.  Go on a
bear hunt with song from Greg &
Steve. Read: "It's the Bear!" by
Jez Alborough
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs. Jobs  
Introduce the letter bus.  Tune of
"The wheels on the bus" but used
with sound letters instead.  Read:
"My Friend Bear" by Jez
Alborough
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs  Read: "Ten Little Bears"
by Kathleen Hague
Song: "Teddy bear, teddy
bear, turn around"
Small
Group
/Class
Activity:
Children will glue "Apple Jacks"
to a letter "Aa"
Children will see their
uniqueness in a "mirror" they
make along with an "I am
special" poem.

Explain the meaning of the
"Pledge of Allegiance" by using
the pictures on reading area.
Children will place a letter "Aa"
on a paper bag and a letter "Bb"
then they will sort picture / word
cards into the appropriate bag.
"Bb" is for "Banana Smoothie"
children will take turns putting
in the ingredients into the
blender to make their very own
banana smoothies.
Free Choice
Centers
Children will work individually
with "Mrs. Mari" to complete
their assessments.
Talk about the letter Bb, read the
"Bb" picture word booklet.  Write
other B words on the large tablet.
Children will paint brown bears
and go on a bear hunt.
Children will make a "sandpaper"
anthill by gluing ants on a hill.
(raisins)
Song: "The ants go marching on"
Children will "read" and take
home an alphabet worksheet /
song.  Trace the upper case
letters of the alphabet.
"Bb" is for bubbles!  Children
will learn how to softly blow to
make bubbles outside.
Closing
Circle Time:
Read: "You Are Mine" by Max
Lucado
Read: "Brown Bear, Brown Bear,
What Do You See?" by Eric Carle
Read: "I Like Myself" by Hans
Willhelm
Read: "Chicka, Chicka Boom,
Boom" by Martin / Archembault.
Read: "My Bb Book" by Jane Belk
Moncure
Read: "The Brambleberry's
Animal Book of Colors" by
Mariana Mayer
Read: "The Big Hungry Bear"
by Don & Audrey Wood
MONTH:  August   WEEK OF:   18-22    THEME:   Assessments / All About School       
  Monday
 Tuesday
 Wednesday
 Thursday
 Friday
Circle Time:
Prayer, Sign-in, Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs. Jobs.  
Introduce the calendar: "Cc" is
for calendar.  See how each
child will get a turn to write the
number for the date. C is for
camouflage: see animals that
are camouflaged.  Review our
Bible verse
Song: "The people on the Bus
just praise The Lord"
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  Talk about the theme
throughout the classroom:
FROG's, which will represent to
"Fully Rely On God!"  
Talk about the parts of the face,
children will come up to board
and place a missing piece onto
a girls face. Song: The B.I.B.L.E.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs. Jobs.  
Talk about our "Personal space"
and how we respect each other.  
Play "Pat-a-cake" with someone
that we've asked permission to
play with.  Review our "Good
choice / Bad choice" procedure.  
Read: "Sheila Rae's Peppermint
Stick" by Kevin Henkes
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs. Jobs  
Review the Bible verse.  Talk
about "Numbers" and how they
are all around us and we use
them daily.  Talk about the
number 1, review our Bible verse
and talk about God as #1 in our
lives. Song: "My God is so big"
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs  Introduce the "Star of
the Week" and place their
picture / certificate on bulletin
board.  Let that child take
home "Froggy" and tell us
about it in the journal.
Song: "Head, Shoulders,
Knees & Toes"
Small
Group
/Class
Activity:
"Cc" is for calendar, children will
trace the "days of the week".
Using the bingo blotters, children
will fill in the dots on the colorful
dog w.s.
Children will make a "Frog" out
or a paper plate and they will
glue on the acrostic "Fully Rely
On God"
Children will paint a pet rock (a
frog on a lily pad)  with the words
"F.R.O.G." Fully Rely On God
Children will water color a #1 for
"God is #1"
Introduce clapping pattern
that gets children's attention:
long, long, short, short, short.
Children will make a card for
their parents in gratitude to
them for working so hard and
whishing them a "Happy Labor
Day!"
Free Choice
Centers
"Cc" is for colors: children will
make a "color crown" with cut
out crayons.

Go outside and play "Red Light,
Green Light" to practice stop /
start
Children will get a certificate
that states: _____ makes our
days more colorful.

Talk about Jesus' miracles, how
he healed a blind man.  
Children will close their eyes
and try to understand what it
would be to be blind.  They will
be asked to follow the sound of
teachers voice, without opening
their eyes.  Take home page of
Bible curriculum.
Cutting practice: "Cc" is for Circle
Children will mix the two colors
they've learned about this month:
red and blue.  They will get a
sandwich bag and squirt shaving
cream into it, then add drops of
red and blue to it and mix to
create purple.  They will paint on
a paper that states: Red and Blue
make Purple
Children will sit in a circle and
pass around the "Raindrop" as
we sing: "Rain, Rain, Go
Away" inserting each child's
name into the song.
Children will tear tiny pieces
of blue construction paper to
simulate raindrops and the
glue them onto a cloud cut out
Closing
Circle Time:
Read: "A Color of His Own" by
Leo Lionni
Name game: "Doggie, Doggie,
where's your bone?"
Read: "Five Little Speckled
Frogs" by Fran Thatcher
Children will take turns being a
frog and jumping into the "pool"
Read: "Marsupial Sue" by John
Lithgow
Read: "Numbers" by Susan
Canizares
Read: "Do Princesses Wear
Hiking Boots?" by Carmela La
Vigna Coyle
Movement:
Attention: stop-start with signal
Relax specific body muscles and/or the whole
body, from high activity level to quiet
state.  Throw and kick object with
increasing accuracy at a target.  
Game: "Red light, Green Light"
 Autonomy / Social Skills:
Name recognition: oral and written.  Body
parts: face.  Teacher and classmates by name.  
Sit among others; stay in own space.  Carry
out chores and responsibilities. Draw
a dimensional picture of a person.  
Recognize, call by name and indicate
role of school personnel.
 Work Habits:
Return toys and
materials to their proper location.
 Oral Language:
Adapt volume of
voice.  Object / person / picture match with
description. Understand and use intonation and
emphasis to ask a question, express surprise,
agreement, displeasure, urgency. After
listening to an oral description of a scene,
recreate the scene in picture.  Sequence and
describe 3-5 images of events or phrases of a
single event that have been experienced.
Nursery Rhymes, Poems, Fingerplays, Songs:
Memorize and recite nursery rhymes.   
Pat-a-cake, This Little Piggy, Happy Birthday,
Rain, Rain, Go Away. Memorize and recite
independently a simple rhyme,  poem, fingerplay
or song. Rhymes: "Who Stole the Cookie
from the Cookie Jar?" "Pledge of Allegiance"
"Doctor Foster" "Rice a Cock Horse"
"Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star"
 Storybook Reading and Storytelling:
Listen to picture books read aloud.  
Find the object / illustration being
described.  "Three Little Pigs"
Attend and listen to picture books
with storylines as well as
nonfiction.  Sequence 5
illustrations of story events.
 Emerging Literacy Skills in Reading and
Writing:
Recognize written first name.  Small muscle
control activities.  Tear, fold and paste.
Use a simplified, illustrated daily schedule of
activities.  Read the first names of classmates.
 Hold a writing instrument correctly.  
Writing strokes: horizontal,
vertical lines, spiral, circle.
 Mathematical Reasoning:
Pairs of objects / pictures as same
or different.
Identify pairs of objects / pictures
as same or different.  Sort objects /
pictures according to color, shape,
size or function.  Complete puzzles
of at least 18 pieces.  Recite
number sequence 1-10.
Orientation in Time & Space:
Space: in a line / row.
Time: Sequence chronologically and describe
3-5 images of events or phases of events that
have been experienced.  Time: Name the days  
of the week in sequence.  Time Name the days
of the weekend. Time: use a simple, illustrated
schedule of daily activities to indicate which
activity preceded and which will follow the
current activity.  Space: in-on-outside,
inside-outside, under-over.  Space: follow or
give oral, spatially oriented directions to move
from one location  to another.
 Scientific Reasoning:
identify  
body parts: face.
Identify
body parts, including the following
organs: heart, lungs.  Identify the
body part and sense associated with
certain sensations.
 Music:
Sound localization.
Identify pairs of sounds as
either the same or different.  
Identify and associate sounds with
the rhythm instruments that make
them.
 Visual Arts:
Collage, tear, paste.  
Colors: red, blue.
Play games requiring
matching of like images, such as
domino games.  Collage.
  Monday
 Tuesday
 Wednesday
 Thursday
 Friday
Circle Time:
Prayer, Sign-in, Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs. Jobs.  
Give welcome and introduce
teachers.  Play game "Who stole
the cookie from the cookie jar"  
Tour the classroom, explain each
center and how we care for our
room by putting things away.  
Explain bathroom procedures
and handwashing technique.  
Talk about our "rules" from the
bulletin board with pictures.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  Introduce the "sign-in"
procedure.  Introduce the
children's color coded schedule.
Review classroom expectations.  
Introduce calendar and jobs.  
Song: "Who Stole the Cookie
From the Cookie Jar?"
Learn sign language to song:
"Jesus Loves Me"
Read: "The Kissing Hand"
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs. Jobs.  
Introduce the Bible, sing
"B.I.B.L.E."  Introduce the verse
for the next two weeks: "Rejoice
in the Lord always." Phil. 4:4  
Talk about how God made us all
special, each different and all
loved.
Song: "If You're (Child's Name)
and you know it, clap your hands!"
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs. Jobs  
Talk about "Good choice / bad
choice" and give examples so
that children can put thumbs up
for a good choice and thumbs
down for a bad choice.
Talk about "Inside Voices" from
the "Let's Find Out" magazine.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs  Review our good choice
/ bad choice procedures.  
Review what options "David"
had and what the
consequences were from his
bad choices. Talk about what
options David has in the new
book when he goes to school
Small
Group
/Class
Activity:
Children will by painting apples
red, green, yellow and brown.  
"Aa" is for "Apple"
Take pictures for color coded
schedule
Children will choose the color
water cup they'd like and what
color folder they would like.  
Children will make a handprint
Introduce the letter "Aa" by
reading the picture word book
for "Aa"  Children will write letter
"Aa" for "apple"
Children will continue painting
apples, choosing colored folders
and handprints.
"The Kissing Hand" activity to
take home and work with moms.
Children will make a self portrait
to remind themselves that "God
made me special"
Practice getting "in-a-line" and
"in-a-row"
Talk about the Olympics.  Make
"God's Gold Medals" for our
bulletin board "God's Gold
Medalist!"
Children will experiment with
shaving cream on the tables,
drawing, writing letters, exploring
consistencies, etc;
Children will participate in
"Preschool Olympics!" and
everyone will get a "Gold Medal!"
Take pictures for bulletin board
Gymnastics, races, riding bike,
monkey bars, balancing beam.
Children practice working
together and sharing / taking
turns while playing and
constructing with the marble
run.

Children will color in the
corresponding color in the
"Olympic rings" and glue their
pictures onto a rectangle.
Free Choice
Centers
Talk about apples, where they
grow, the different colors. Talk
about how our parents take care
of us, bring us to school but
"Always Come Back"  
Take children's pictures on
"growth chart" to record
beginning of the year and end
of the year growth.
Lacing practice animals.
Send home the "Meet ____
worksheet" for family to work on it
together.
Children will make their name
clips for the "Good choice / Bad
choice" stop sign.
Playdough fun.
Closing
Circle Time:
Read: "I'll Always Come Back" by
Steve Metzger
Songs: Listen & Move, The world
is a rainbow, Open Shut Them,
Children will choose which
cubby they would like and glue
their picture onto it.
Read: "Adorable Apple
Dumplins Book, an Everything
Apple Adventure" by Scholastic
Songs: "Jesus Loves Me" and
"This Little Light of Mine"
Read: "We Are All Alike, We Are
All Different" by Cheltenham
Kindergartners
Read: "No, David" by David
Shannon
Read: "David Goes To
School" by David Shannon