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

 

____DECEMBER____


This month follows these theme related ideas:

Shape: Star
Color: Green
Nursery Rhyme: Jack Be Nimble
Song: Your favorite holiday song!
Suggested Stories: Mercer Mayer Family Series
Berenstain Bear Series
Sensory Material:  Rice

MON TUE WED THU FRI
Make a picture of yourself with someone in your family. Go to the library. String Fruit Loops on a shoe string or licorice to make a necklace. Read a book to your child from your own childhood. Trace two triangles. Ask your child to cut them out. Have them try to make a star out of the triangles.
Go for a walk and look for evergreen trees or bushes. Color a picture of the tree or bush that you saw. Use rice in your sensory pan. Draw a picture for a friend or relative. Say the nursery rhyme while your child practices jumping. Use your child's name instead of Jack.
Make cut out cookies. Walk through the lights at Riverside Park - bring a canned food to donate. Tell your child a story about your childhood. Use play dough with holiday cookie cutters. Make an AB pattern chain using green/red. Count how many are green and how man links are on the chain.
Go to the library. Sing your favorite holiday song. Mix blue and yellow food coloring with water. What color does it make? Find 5 things this color. Sing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." Dance to your favorite music.
 

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