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
Graduation
19,20
MONTH:   November      WEEK OF:   5-9      THEME:   Nutrition & 5 Senses                  
November:
Movement:
Ride a tricycle, act out a nursery rhyme,
poem, fingerplay or other charade.
 Autonomy / Social Skills:
Take turns using toys and sharing
materials.
 Work Habits:
Choose and use a toy or activity
independently for a sustained period of
time.
 Oral Language:
Use present, past and future tenses.  Sort,
classify and describe objects / pictures
according to a conceptual category.
Nursery Rhymes, Poems, Fingerplays,
Songs:Finish a recitation with the correct
rhyming word.
 Storybook Reading and Storytelling:
"Read" / tell a story based on the
illustrations of a book with text that has
not been read previously.
 Emerging Literacy Skills in Reading and
Writing:
Match written word with spoken word,
writing strokes: bowl, bridge, diagonal line.
 Mathematical Reasoning:
Select and object / picture according to a
description that includes two properties.  
Find examples of circles and rectangles in
every day objects.
Orientation in Time & Space:
Sequence images, understand high-low,
face-to-face, back-to-back.  Copy a tower or
construction that has been made by another
person, using blocks of different shapes,
colors or sizes.
 Scientific Reasoning:
Observe, describe and record some basic
properties of water, its presence and
effects in the world.  Select and use an
appropriate tool for a particular task.
 Music:
Sing and "around song" with two groups:
"Row, Row, Row Your Boat"
 Visual Arts:
Use "needle and thread" to complete a
project, work with other children to create
a collective work of art.
  Monday
 Tuesday
 Wednesday
 Thursday
 Friday
Circle
Time:
Prayer, Sign-in, Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  Talk about our new
month and review months of
the year.  Talk about the
pictures in our classroom that
remind them of November
(Fall, Turkey, pumpkins, etc;)
Talk about the 5 senses.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  Sing the sensory song
Talk about the letter "Kk"
read words from the Kk
booklet.  K is for "King" and
hear story of how God
announced Jesus birth to
Isaiah a long time ago.  
Jesus would by our "King"
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs. Show and Tell. Sing the
sensory song  Talk with
children about the "First
Thanksgiving" and how we
are going to tell parents the
story of the "First
Thanksgiving" in our play and
feast. Read: "
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs  Sing the sensory song
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs  Sing the sensory song
Small
Group
/Class
Activity:
Children will get a piece of
tape on their wrist to use as a
bracelet onto which they will
stick things from outdoors that
they can see, touch, smell,
hear or taste.
Children will make a tissue
paper flower then spray it
with perfume to remind them
of their sense of smell.
Children will make a hand
print with items glued on that
are different senses of touch.
Children will make their "Big
Fat Turkeys"

Children will make their
costumes for the play.
Children will make their
"Big Fat Turkeys"

Children will make their
costumes for the play
Free
Choice
Centers
Children will use their sense
of smell, taste and hearing to
guess what is in the bag.

Fingerprint corn invitations
for the "Thanksgiving Feast
and Play"
Fingerprint corn invitations
for the "Thanksgiving Feast
and Play"
Children will make a
handprint placemat for
Thanksgiving.
Children will write a "Thank
You" letter to their parents,
these will be mailed home
with the invitations to our
feast.
Children will write a
"Thank You" letter to their
parents, these will be
mailed home with the
invitations to our feast.
Closing
Circle
Time:
Read: "Me and My Senses"
by Joan Sweeney
Read: "The Noisy Book" by
Margaret Wise
Read: "Color Surprises" by
Chuck Murphy
Read: "Julius's Candy Corn"
by Kevin Henkes
Read:
MONTH:   November    WEEK OF:  12-16     THEME:      Fall Harvest                  
MONTH:   November     WEEK OF:    19-23      THEME:    Thanksgiving                    
MONTH:  November      WEEK OF:   26-30       THEME:     Family and Zoo Animals                
  Monday
 Tuesday
 Wednesday
 Thursday
 Friday
Circle
Time:
 
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  Children will tell each
other what they did over the
holiday weekend
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs. Jobs.  
Show-and-Tell.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs. Jobs
Review Thanksgiving Play and
go over rules for the nights party.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs
Small
Group
/Class
Activity:
Closed for
"Veterans Day"
 
Children will make pumpkin pies
for the "Thanksgiving Feast"
Thanksgiving
Feast and Play
from 6:30-8:00
 
Free
Choice
Centers
 
 
 
Children will make pumpkin pies
for the "Thanksgiving Feast"
 
Closing
Circle
Time:
 
Read: "When the Leaf Blew In"
by Steve Metzger
Read:
Children will have a "Dress
Rehearsal" of the "Thanksgiving
Play & Feast"
Read:
  Monday
 Tuesday
 Wednesday
 Thursday
 Friday
Circle
Time:
Prayer, Sign-in, Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs. Jobs.
 Talk about "Thanksgiving" and
children will tell what they will
be doing on this day.  Talk
about getting ready for
Christmas.  Getting ready for
Jesus' birth!  Show children the
story of Mary and the angel,
how God sent  angels to tell
Joseph and the shepherds about
Jesus also.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  Practice bilingual song
for Christmas.  Talk about how
people all around the world
have different languages.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs. Jobs.
Show and Tell.  Talk about the
song "Rudolph the Red Nosed
Reindeer" and how he was
different but he had a very
special purpose.  Talk about
how all of us have something
different than everyone else and
we all have a special purpose in
life.
 
 
Small
Group
/Class
Activity:
Children will make a manger
with hay and prepare it for the
birth of Jesus.
Children will paint stripes on a
candy cane, when turned
around, it forms the letter J.  J is
for Jesus.  Talk about the
pattern of red and white.
Children will practice cutting
curves as they cut out holly
leaves for decorations for our
Christmas celebrations.
Closed for
"Thanksgiving"
Closed for
"Thanksgiving"
Free
Choice
Centers
Children will get "Let's Find
Out" magazine about Pilgrim
children.  They will circle the
activities that children did when
they lived as pilgrims.
Children will make new name
tags for the center sign ins.
Children will make stockings for
Jesus.
 
 
Closing
Circle
Time:
Read: "The Christmas Story"
Read: "I Know An Old Lady
Who Swallowed a Pie" by
Alison Jackson
Read: "The Crippled Lamb" by
Max Lucado & Family
Talk about how the little lamb
couldn't run & jump like all of
the other sheep, but when Jesus
was born, he kept Jesus warm
and had a very important job to
do.  
Read:
Read:
  Monday
 Tuesday
 Wednesday
 Thursday
 Friday
Circle
Time:
Prayer, Sign-in, Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  Children will take turns
sharing what they did over
the Thanksgiving Break.  Talk
about getting ready for
Christmas!  Thank God for the
best gift to us - Jesus!
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  Talk about our trip to
the zoo and go over safety
rules.  Talk about the
animals we might see at the
zoo.
Prayer, Sign-in,  Calendar,
Pledge, Movement Songs.
Jobs.  Show and Tell.  Talk
about our trip to the zoo and
go over the safety rules.
 
 
Small
Group
/Class
Activity:
Children will begin doing the
mid-year assessments.

Take pictures for Christmas
cards.
Continue mid-year
assessments.

Take pictures for Christmas
cards.
Continue mid-year
assessments.
Field Trip
to the
Phoenix
Zoo
 
Free
Choice
Centers
Children will begin making
decorations for Christmas by
using bowtie pasta and red
beads.

Children will make a
"present" for Jesus and talk
about what they would give
Jesus.
Children will continue
making decorations for
Christmas by using bowtie
pasta and red beads.

Children will make a
"present" for Jesus and talk
about what they would give
baby Jesus.
 
 
 
Closing
Circle
Time:
Read: "Curious George Visits
the Zoo" by Margaret & H.A.
Rey
Read:
Read:
 
Read: "She'll Be Coming
Round the Mountain" by
Chriss Demarest