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What's Coming Up At Family Resources
of La Crosse?

 



Click on the following links to print monthly calendars of what's going on at
Family Resources!

La Crosse
Sparta
Tomah

 


MONDAY

Go for a walk
and count squirrels.
 
TUESDAY

Eat blueberries and strawberries dipped
in whipped cream.

 

WEDNESDAY

Color on the sidewalk
with chalk.
 
THURSDAY

Go to the library and check out a music tape or CD.
 
FRIDAY

Say the nursery
rhyme "Little Boy Blue."
 
Click here to view the Home Preschool Curriculum

 

 


 

 

 

Home Preschool Curriculum
Developed by: Community Collaboration for Four Year Olds
School District of La Crosse

 

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This month follows these theme related ideas:

Shape: Diamond
Color: Purple
Nursery Rhyme: Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker
Song: Ring Around the Rosie
Suggested Stories: Spring Planting by Anne Rockwell
And a Sunflower Grew by Aileen Fisher
Sensory Material:  Potting soil or dirt

MON TUE WED THU FRI
Grow a bean plant. Put bean seeds on a folded, wet paper towel. Make an X on the calendar for each day until the seeds sprout. Spray paper towel with a spray bottle. Continue to keep the beans wet by spraying each day. Predict how long the beans will take to grow and write down the prediction. Get out all of your plastic storage containers. Have your child match lids with containers to see if any are missing. Sort cereal. Pour 3 kinds of cereal in a bowl and have your child sort by kind and then eat them.
Cut pictures of flowers from old magazines. Glue on paper to make a garden. Go to the library and check out children's gardening books. Sing and the the motions to "Ring Around the Rosie."

 

Put potting soil/dirt in the sensory pan. Add plastic flowers, pots, garden tools, spoons, etc. Make Dirt Cups for a snack.
Draw a self-portrait. Read a book outside (if weather is nice). Look for signs of Spring. Play a board game. Look for 5 diamond shapes around your house. Say nursery rhyme of the month in the bath tub!
Practice summersaults (outside if it's nice). Play drums with pots and pans, plastic containers, etc. Use wooden spoons or other spoons for drumsticks. Trace diamonds. Cut them out. Parents cut templates from cardboard or a cereal box. Talk about what you might see at a green house. Draw a picture of what you might see. Visit a greenhouse or nursery. Or any place that sells flowers. Look for purple flowers.

 

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August    September    October    November    December

 

July 19th
9AM-12PM @ Myrick Park


 

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Family Resources will be closed on the following dates:

July 4th
September 1st

Closed the last
Thursday of each
month beginning
in April

 


 


 

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