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.
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, Presidents
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
February:
Movement:
Up/Down steps, balance: change body
position, same space
Duck, duck, goose
Walk forward, backward, sideways
 Autonomy / Social Skills:
Attempt to solve problems / conflicts using
words.
"Valentine's Day"
Presidents
 Work Habits:
Describe and evaluate one's own work,
identify and correct errors, refine work
with the assistance and feedback of an adult.

 Oral Language:
Carry on a simple conversation on the
phone, give simple, multi step directions, un
derstand and use sentences with clauses
because, if, who, that, and when.
Nursery Rhymes, Poems, Fingerplays, Songs:
Finish a recitation with a rhyming word
other than that of the actual rhyme.
"Roses are Red"
 Storybook Reading and Storytelling:
Attend and listen to books with minimal or
no illustrations.  Point to words that begin
with same letter as own name. "Tiki Tiki
Tembo"
 Emerging Literacy Skills in Reading and
Writing:
Use a simple, illustrated telephone listing,
give the beginning sound of a word, identify
the name and sound of the letters in one's
own name.
Letters: S, T, U
 Mathematical Reasoning:
Compare pairs of objects and use
comparative vocabulary to describe them:
size, mass, temperature.  Use a tool for
measurement to compare the length and
height of objects.  Identify and count
pennies up to six.
Numbers 13 & 14
Orientation in Time & Space:
Time: mark events across several
generations with a century timeline.
Space: color squares on a blank grid to
reproduce designs on other grids
Islands
 Scientific Reasoning:
Observe, describe and record some basic
properties of light, its presence and effects
in the physical world.  Plant and care of.
Rodeo & Cowboys
Dental Hygiene
Dinosaurs
 Music:
Carry a large object from one location to
another with a partner or a group.
Country music, rodeo songs
 Visual Arts:
Describe one's own artwork, explaining
the materials and techniques used.
Heart, gold, pink
MONTH: February   WEEK OF: 11-15   THEME:    "Valentine's Day!", Rodeo, Dental Hygiene, Abraham Lincoln
MONTH:  February   WEEK OF: 18-22    THEME:    Love, Dinosaurs, Presidents    
MONTH: February   WEEK OF: 25-29    THEME:    Love, Dinosaurs, Dental Hygiene.
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it's curriculum:
MONTH: February   WEEK OF: 4-8   THEME:    Love, Valentine's Day, Dental Hygiene  
  Monday
 Tuesday
 Wednesday
 Thursday
 Friday
Circle
Time:
Prayer, Sign-in, Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs  Talk about our
weekends and children will
take turns sharing in front of
the class.  Talk about
Valentine's Day and our
preparations for our party!
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  Talk about different
kinds of Love: God, family,
friends, etc;

Visit from Mrs.
Julie who will talk
about going to
Kindergarten!
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs. Jobs.
 Show-and-Tell
Talk about different ways we
show our love.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs  
Talk about giving our heart
to Jesus...do movement
song: "The Hokey Pokey for
Jesus"
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs  Talk about our heart,
where in our bodies it's
located and what functions
it performs.  Talk about
how we need to take care
of our heart: healthy foods,
exercise. Song: "This Is the
Way We Do It" (an exercise
song)
Small
Group
/Class
Activity:
Children will make a
matching game using
Valentine cards that they will
color, cut and glue onto pink
rectangles,  They will use
these to flip over and play a
memory matching game at
home with their families.
Children will make
Valentine's for Jesus by using
watered down glue to paint
onto wax paper and glue
tissue paper squares.  When
these dry, we will peal them
off and cut out hearts for our
"Valentine"
Children will make a Valentine
Pin by gluing on beads to a
cardstock heart and attaching a
pin to the back along with a
bracelet they also make by
beading.
Children will create a
Valentine for parents using
sand paper and cotton balls.
Children will make a
Valentine decoration
about Jesus' love, using
different shapes, sizes,
colors and design of hearts.
Free
Choice
Centers
Talk about the color pink and
rectangle vs. a square.
Marble Run
Painting
Large cardboard blocks
Trains
Closing
Circle
Time:
Talk about the first three
creation days in Genesis.
Read: "Love Me Tender" by
Elvis Presley
Read: "I love My Mommy
Because" by Laurel
Porter-Gaylord
Read: "The Day it Rained
Hearts" by Felicia Bond
Read: "You Are My
Sunshine" by Steve
Metzger
  Monday
 Tuesday
 Wednesday
 Thursday
 Friday
Circle
Time:
Prayer, Sign-in, Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs  Children will read the
words to poem, "Roses are
Red" from the large tablet
and take turns coming to the
front of the class to point out
the words.
Talk about President
Abraham Lincoln's Birthday!
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  Talk to children about
proper way to brush our teeth,
each child will get their own
toothbrush with which they
will practice brushing their
teeth, then they will take
home their toothbrushes.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs. Jobs.
 Show-and-Tell  
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs  Show children pictures
of teeth that have been
taken care of with brushing
and flossing then pictures of
teeth with cavities and
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs
Talk about "President's
Day" and why we will not
come to school on
Monday.  Show children
money and the Presidents
that are honored on our
coins and bills.
Small
Group
/Class
Activity:
Children will create a booklet
about what the various colors
of flowers represent.

Talk about how Abraham
Lincoln ended slavery with
the "Emancipation
Proclamation" and was
known as "Honest Abe", the
importance of speaking the
truth!  Children will make
"Honest Abe" hats and color
the Lincoln Memorial.
Talk about the "Rodeo"
coming up.  Let children
know of the events we will
have at the rodeo: Milking a
cow, digging for gold, bull
riding, horse barrel racing, a
Sheriff station, lasso
competition, Three legged
race.  Children will make a
"WANTED" poster using their
pictures.
Children will "Deliver" their
Valentine's to each other by
looking at the name on the
envelope and finding that name
on the decorated shoe boxes
arranged on chairs in a semi
circle.

Children will make a very
special Valentine depicting the
Bible Verse: John 3:16
Talk about our Rodeo,
cowboys and cowgirls, what
life is like taking care of
horses, cows, and events at a
Rodeo.

Children will make
horseshoes
Children will make a
"medal" to wear and
remember why we
celebrate "President's Day"
using a star shape in red,
white and blue, onto which
they will glue on a penny.
Free
Choice
Centers
Children will continue
decorating their Valentine
Box.
Children will make a
Valentine Chart using
"Conversation Hearts"
separating them by color and
counting how many of each
color they have.
Children will make Valentine
Roses out of Hershey Kisses.

Children will take turns calling
their parents and telling them
how much they love them!
Children will make cows out
of construction paper.  
These will be used to "lasso"
during our Rodeo.
Children will make
saguaros and stick horses
for our races.

Children will practice
bouncing and balancing
on our "Horses" (A covered
ball with handles)
Closing
Circle
Time:
Read: "I Love You With All
My Heart" by Noris Kern
Read: "I Will Always Love
You" by Paeony Lewis
Read: "Mouses First Valentine"
by Lauren Thompson
Read: "No Matter What" by
Debi Gliori
Read: "Tiki Tiki Tembo"
  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 a Rodeo
and what events take place.  
Talk about what it takes to get
into the Rodeo: Money.  
Children will separate and
count out various coins.  
They will have to pay six
pennies to get into our
"Rodeo"  R is for Rodeo
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs. Jobs.
 Show-and-Tell   Begin talking
about dinosaurs!  Talk about
words: Extinct, carnivore,
herbivore and omnivore.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs  
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs
Small
Group
/Class
Activity:
No School
Presidents
Day!
Rodeo
Tonight!
Children will make a model of a
Dinosaur using glow in the dark
pieces that are numbered.
Children will make their very
own t-rex skeleton to take
home,
Children will get a
worksheet that states: My
name starts with_____, and
so do these...
Then they will look for
things in magazines that
begin with the same sound
as the first letter in their
own name,
Free
Choice
Centers
 
Children will go outside and
pretend to "Lasso" a horse, a
bull, a pig (Chairs)
Children will re-arrange
classroom, help move furniture
back into the class after Rodeo.
Children will practice writing
the letter "Rr" for "Rodeo"
and Rabbit!
 
Closing
Circle
Time:
 
Read: "What Do You Love?"
by Jonathan London
Read: "Dinosaur Roar" by Paul
& Henrietta Strickland
 
 
  Monday
 Tuesday
 Wednesday
 Thursday
 Friday
Circle
Time:
Prayer, Sign-in, Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs  Talk to children about
the importance of brushing
our teeth, sing Raffi's song
"Brush your teeth"  Talk
about cavities and loosing
our teeth.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  Review dental hygiene.
Talk about and see the
different characteristics that
show us what dinosaurs ate
and where they lived:
herbivore, carnivore, land,
water, air.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs. Jobs.
 Show-and-Tell  Talk about
author and illustrator.  Talk
about Dr. Seuss and his
collection of rhyming books.  
Get ready to celebrate Dr.
Seuss' birthday on Friday, March
2nd. Get ready to say good bye
to February and hello to March.  
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs  Talk about Jesus'
miracles, and how more and
more people wanted to hear
about Jesus.  Tell children
the story of how Jesus fed
more than 5,000 people with
just two fish and five loaves
of  bread.  Say hello to our
new month: March
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs  Sing Happy Birthday
to Dr. Seuss, read: "Green
Eggs and Ham" and talk
about the rhyming words in
book.  Children will try and
guess what word is going to
be used next.
Small
Group
/Class
Activity:
Children will make a large
toothbrush by cutting slits on
a paper to resemble the
bristles.  Then they will use
this oversized toothbrush as a
reward sticker chart for
brushing their teeth daily.
Children will pick out a
dinosaur from our Dino box,
and tell us what they know
about the dinosaur just by
looking at it.
Children will begin their Dr.
Seuss hats for Friday's
celebration.  They will create a
stripped red and white
alternating pattern on a
rectangular piece of paper for
their top hat, then attach it to a
circle edge for the bottom half.  
Count the stripes that are red
and the ones that are white, add
them together for the stripe total.
Children will each get a loaf
of bread or a fish and sing
song: "Five loaves of bread"

Song #12 "The Miracle
Lunch" from Bible
Curriculum c.d.  p. 109 for
words.
Mr. A will help each child
make their very own green
eggs by cracking open an
egg on the skillet and
adding a drop of green
food coloring, then they
will make green scrambled
eggs.
Free
Choice
Centers
Tt is for Toothbrush and Tt is
for Turtle, children will
practice writing the letter Tt
from left to right and starting
at the top down.
Children will "Discover" a
dinosaur on a blank piece of
paper by rubbing crayons on
paper.  A dinosaur cutout will
be under the paper and will
show up during the crayon
rubbing,
Children will practice being
"Illustrators" as they create
pages for our "Friends" book.
Children will make a "Fish"
by cutting slits onto a fish
and when they are opened,
they look like the bones of a
fish.
Children will finish their
stripped red and white hats,
wear them during our Dr.
Seuss party!
Closing
Circle
Time:
Read: "Tooth Trouble" by
Jane Clarke
Read: "How Do Dinosaurs
Learn to Read?" by Jane
Yolen
Read: "The Cat in the Hat" by
Dr. Seuss
Read: Bible John 6:1-14
Read: "Hop on Pop" by Dr.
Seuss