All About the Pond is the ultimate resource for teaching children about a pond 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 pond themes explored are: A Pond, Pond Plants, Pond Animals, A Frog's Life, Pond Seasons, The five sections in this book are overflowing with fun stories and activities such as: storybooks: "A Pond"; "Pond Plants"; "Pond Animals"; "A Frog';s Life"; "Seasons", full-color storyboard pieces that make it easy and fun to review concepts while you re-tell the story, art projects: My Very Own Pond; Floating Waterlily; Dragonfly Finger Puppet; A Popping, Hopping Pond; Winter Pond, cooking: Waterlily Cookies; Pond Jell-O; Duck's Nest Crunch; Tadpole Surprise; Summer Celery, story comprehension, language, and math activity pages that are engaging and offer essential skills practice, learning centers: Pond Life; Frogs and Lily Pads; Animals Magnified; Animal Memory Match; Draw and Write, outdoor: Come to the Pond; Pond Hoops; Fish in the Pond; Where Did Froggy Go?; Skating on the Pond, music/dramatic play: "Ducklings"; Paper Bag Duck Puppet; Animal Yoga; "Then and Now" Chant; "Sing a Song of Seasons", 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!