All About My Body is the ultimate resource for teaching children about their body 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 Body" themes explored are: My Body Parts, My Five Senses, I Grow and Change, Taking Care of My Body, Keeping My Body Safe, The five sections in this book are overflowing with fun stories and activities such as: storybooks: "My Body"; "A Surprise for Miguel"; "I Grow and Change"; "Healthy and Strong"; "It Keeps Me Safe", full-color storyboard pieces that make it easy and fun to review concepts while you re-tell the story, art projects: My Portrait; Texture Collage; Picture Me; I Take Good Care of Myself; Walk, Don't Run, cooking: Popping Popcorn; Gingerbread Children; Vegetable Bits; Healthy Snack Kabobs; Fruit Salad; Traffic Light Cookies, story comprehension, language, and math activity pages that are engaging and offer essential skills practice, learning centers: Body Puzzles; Match the Sounds; Sequencing Puzzles; See What I Can Do!; Safety Riddles, outdoor: Let's Play Looby Loo; A "Listen and Look" Walk; Relay Race; Exercise Time; Red Light, Green Light, music/dramatic play: "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes"; Popcorn Rap; "I Am Changing as I';m Growing"; "Early in the Morning"; "To Keep My Body Strong"; Stop! Look! Listen!, alphabet cards: charmingly illustrated, full-color, theme-based, upper- and lowercase alphabet cards, 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!