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All About My World is the ultimate resource for teaching children about different aspects of their world and for practicing important language and math skills that help children make cross-curricular connections. This wonderfully illustrated thematic unit has an easy-to-use format that makes it a must-have! The five My World themes explored are: All About Me, All About My Family, All About My Friends, All About My Home, All About My Neighborhood, The five sections in this book are overflowing with fun stories and activities such as: storybooks: "Amazing Me!"; "Families Are Special"; "My Friends"; "Hide and Seek"; "My Neighborhood", full-color storyboard pieces that make it easy and fun to review concepts while you re-tell the story, art projects: All About Me; Meet My Family; Friendly Flyers; Just Picture My House!; Spider Headbands, cooking: Funny Face Sandwiches; Family-Style Vegetable Soup; Friendship Bracelets; Graham Cracker House; Spider Snacks, story comprehension, language, and math activity pages that are engaging and offer essential skills practice, learning centers: Using My Senses; Twins in the Family; What Are We Playing?; Everything Has a Place; Good Bug Dominoes; Flies for Lunch, outdoor: Exercise Makes a Healthy Me; Mother May I?; Watch Us Move; Relay Races; What Time Is It?, music/dramatic play: "Sing Along Body Song"; "You Are My Family"; Playing House; "Friends Sing-Along" Finger Play; "This Is the Way I-", alphabet cards: charmingly illustrated, full-color, theme-based, upper- and lowercase alphabet cards, #160; Top The colorful All About- thematic series provides the busy teacher with full-color stories and ready-to-use activities that teach skills and concepts across the whole early childhood curriculum. Each thematic unit contains five sections that support reading readiness and beginning math skills such as: vocabulary and concept development, listening and comprehension, rhyming, letter and sound recognition, patterning, numeral recognition, beginning computation, geometric shapes, Each of the five sections focuses on a different aspect of the central theme. Each section contains: a full-color, wonderfully illustrated story that introduces the subject of each unit - perfect for circle time, a reproducible minibook of the same story, full-color storyboard pieces that include a teacher script, a story comprehension page, an art project that includes a photo and teacher directions, a cooking project that includes teacher directions and a parent letter with recipe, reproducible language and math activity pages that practice early childhood acquisition skills, a learning centerthat comes with instructions and materials, a music/dramatic play activity that includes teacher directions, an outdoor activity that includes teacher directions, Plus colorful alphabet cards, teacher scripts for stories and storyboard pieces, directions on creating a bulletin board, parent letters, and much more! |