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:
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
How Things Grow
Spring & Bugs
Daddy Day Camp
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
Mommy and Me
Tea Party
Summer Fun,
Birthdays
Graduation
19,20
Yearly Themes:
Bible:
Jesus feeds more than 5,000 with two fish
and five loaves of bread.
Jesus heals a blind man.
Miraculous fish catch.
Autonomy / Social Skills:
Follow the rules for simple childhood
games, circle games and board games.
Work Habits:
Organize and plan what is needed to carry
out a  project or task, with adult assistance
when needed.
Oral Language:
Give a detailed, sequential explanation of
how to do something so that the activity
can be carried out by another person.  
Understand and use sentences with clauses:
before, after, while, as, as soon as.
Nursery Rhymes, Poems, Fingerplays,
Songs:
"John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt"
Storybook Reading and Storytelling:
Demonstrate book and print awareness.
"Where the Wild Things Are."
Emerging Literacy Skills in Reading and
Writing:
Begin to use invented phonetic spelling in
writing.  Indicate the number of phonemes
(1-3) heard in a real or nonsense word.
Letters: V,W,X
Mathematical Reasoning:
Play a simple game using a die to move
number of spaces shown.  Compare pairs of
numerals, 1-6 using more/greater than or
less than, identify a quarter by name,
illustrate the concept of "put together" and
"Take away"
Orientation in Time & Space:
Name city, state and country in which we
live, locate own state on a U.S. map,  talk
about "City"
Scientific Reasoning:
Observe some basic properties of air, its
presence and effects in the physical world.
How things grow.
Spring and bugs
Outer Space
Farm Animals
Music and Movement:
Move to music using a sequence of
choreographed steps or movements to
music.  Maintain momentum on a swing by
pumping legs. Relay races.
Visual Arts:
Painting, green, yellow, blue
MONTH: March   WEEK OF: 3-7   THEME:   Outer Space / How Things Grow  
  Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Circle
Time:
Prayer, Sign-in, Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs  Talk about where we
live, on earth, talk about
where earth lives, outer
space, our universe, the solar
system, a galaxy.  Show
children the poster of our
"Solar System"
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  Teach children the
story found in John 21:1-13
and talk about what a miracle
it was for the men in the boat
to catch so many fish.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs. Jobs.
Show-and-Tell  Show children
pictures of how a seed grows to
be a plant, tree, etc.  Children
will put laminated pictures in
order of what comes first.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs   Talk about the names
of the planets in our solar
system.  Children will
identify what planet I'm
talking about by pointing to
the first letter  sound of each
planets name
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs  Talk about shapes:
circle, triangle, square,
and introduce the
pentagon.
Small
Group
/Class
Activity:
Children will make get well
cards for fellow student
having surgery
Begin assessments on
children for parent
conferences.
Children will pretend to go
fishing by using a fishing pole
with a magnet adapted to the
end instead of a hook.  Then
they will "Fish" fish labeled
with letters and identify what
letters they caught.
In a sandwich bag, children will
add 10 beans and 5 cotton
balls, squirt some water to
moisten the cotton ball, then
place outside, over the next few
days, children will be able to
see the different parts of the
plant to emerge, roots, stem,
leaf.
Children will get to color
their very own take home
page of our solar system.
Talk about the moons
around planets.
Children will color and
point to the shapes we
talked about at circle time.
Free
Choice
Centers
Talk about space exploration
and how astronauts are able
to breath, oxygen, and
gravity.  Take home
worksheet about astronauts.
Do song of Greg and Steve:
"Adventure in Space"
Children will practice their
cutting and gluing skills with
a letter match worksheet for
letters: M,F,T
Children will get pots and
decorate them with paint and
foam shapes, then add soil,
seeds and water so we can
watch them grow.
Children will count planets,
rockets and satellites, then
circle the corresponding
number.
Children will turn a pot
upside down, paint the
bottom of it with their
choice of colors, then press
a paper on top to create a
print of therr very own
"Planet"
Closing
Circle
Time:
Read: "Big Book of Space"
Read: "A Seeds Needs" poem
Read: "A First Discovery Book:
Flowers" by Scholastic.
Read: "A Seeds Needs"
poem
Read: "Barbie, Shooting
for the Stars" by Grolier
Books
  Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Circle
Time:
Prayer, Sign-in, Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs  Talk about our "Father"
God, and how we have
special people on earth that
also take care of us, like our
Father.  The positive male
role models in our lives:
Dad's, grandpas, friends,
neighboors, uncles, etc;
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  We'll talk about the
special things dads do, the
sacrifices and hard work that
they do and all of the things
we should thank them for.
Ask children what is special
about their daddies and write
it on the large tablet.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs. Jobs.
 Show-and-Tell  Talk about the
seasons and how winter will be
over soon, Talk about the first
day of Spring which will be
March 21st.
Talk about the "Spring Showers"
and "Uu" is for "Umbrella"


"Daddy Day
Camp!"
 
Small
Group
/Class
Activity:
Children will begin
decorating a "Tie" for their
fathers to wear at the Daddy
Day Camp.
Children will decorate the
C.D. label for their gift to their
fathers at Daddy Day camp.

"Uu" is for "umbrella" Cliffor
worksheet.  Children will find
the letter Uu inside the
umbrellas.
Read: "Diary of a Worm" by
Doreen Cronin

Children will make an
"umbrella" for the letter "Uu"
and complete the "Clifford"
weather worksheet.
-Sports dance
-Water balloon toss
-Three legged race
-water wall painting
-fishing
-photo studio
-fingerpainting
-shaving
-parachute
-dance
NO
SCHOOL!

Parent
Conferences
Free
Choice
Centers
Children will trace uppercase
alphabet on outer space
sheet.
Read: "I Love Bugs" by
Philemon Sturges
Children will make a "Dragonfly"
using watercolors, glitter, wax
paper.  These will hang from our
ceiling
Chili cheese nacho buffet
Banana split buffet
 
Closing
Circle
Time:
Read: "Papa Papa " by Jean
Marzollo
Read: "Dad Mine" by
Apperley, Kemp, Walters
Read: "Papa, Do You Love
Me?" by Barbara M. Joose
Read: "Daddy Promises" by
Kerry Arquette
 
MONTH: March   WEEK OF: 10-14   THEME:   Spring and Bugs, Daddy Day Camp   
MONTH: March   WEEK OF: 17-21   THEME:    Easter!      
MONTH: March   WEEK OF: 24-28   THEME:    Closed for "Spring Break"      
  Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Circle
Time:
Prayer, Sign-in, Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs  
Talk about the signs of
"Spring" and how we know
the seasons are changing
Read: "Grumpy Bunnies" by
Willy Welch
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  
Talk about the picnic at the
park and our "safety rules"
Talk about "Sin" and how
Jesus makes us brand new.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs. Jobs.
 Show-and-Tell
Read: "The Story of Easter!"
Talk about the picnic at the park
and our "Safety rules"
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs  
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs
Small
Group
/Class
Activity:
See and read the "Let's Find
Out - Spring" issue, that
shows the signs that spring is
coming.  Children will find
the hidden pictures on back
of magazine.
Children will make their
Easter baskets using a gallon
jug.  
Children will continue making
Easter baskets using a gallon jug
Easter
Picnic at
the Park
Closed for
"Good Friday"
Free
Choice
Centers
Children will make the "Story
of Jesus" on a felt cross.
Children will make the "Story
of Jesus" on a felt cross.
Children will color and cut
bunny signs that they will put a
number on to "put in order"
 
 
Closing
Circle
Time:
Read: "The Wonder of
Easter" by Matt Mitter
Read: "Fluffy Bunnies" by
Creative Child Press
Read: "The Night Before Easter"
by Natasha Wing
 
 
  Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Circle
Time:
 
 
 
 
 
Small
Group
/Class
Activity:
 
 
 
 
 
Free
Choice
Centers
 
 
 
 
 
Closing
Circle
Time: