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March Program Themes
With March comes the first taste of Spring. The seasons are changing and so are our program themes. Below is a sampling of activities that your child may experience in the month of March.
For infants, the theme is “It’s Raining.” Sample activities include:
- Library & Language: Reading the featured Books: Animal Babies on the Farm by Kingfisher Publications and Baby Pets by Margaret Miller; Singing songs; Discussing photo cards
- Motor: Practicing sitting up; Rolling balls; Building with blocks
- Sensory: Exploring water with hands and sponges
- Cognitive: Experiencing air blown through a straw; Placing objects in and out of a box
For Toddlers, the theme is “The Sky.” Sample activities include:
- Library & Language: Discussing photo cards of the sky; Featured Books: Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
- Creative Arts: Creating sculptures with materials such as cardboard boxes and tubes, craft sticks, and cotton balls
- Sensory: Exploring cotton balls, shredded paper, and feathers
- Dramatic Play: Pretending to fly and making objects fly in a sky-themed area
For Discovery Preschool, the theme is “The Sky.” Sample activities include:
- Library & Language Arts: Telling stories with flannel pieces and finger puppets; Featured Books: Little Cloud by Eric Carle and Goodnight Gorilla by Peggy Rathman
- Creative Arts: Creating individual and group sculptures with play dough, two- and three-dimensional collage materials, and boxes
- Science & Sensory: Exploring water with a variety of kitchen tools; making bubbles by whisking water
- Dramatic Play: Role playing going on a picnic with props
- Math & Manipulatives: Sorting by size using terms small, medium, and large
For Preschool, the theme is “The Earth.” Sample activities include:
- Library &Language Arts: Writing in sand, making sand rubbings, tracing sand letters; Telling stories with flannel pieces; Featured Book: And the Good Brown Earth by Kathy Henderson
- Creative Arts: Creating colored-sand art
- Science & Sensory: Polishing rocks with sandpaper; Exploring rocks with variety of gardening tools
- Dramatic Play: Pretending to be scientists in a laboratory
- Math & Manipulatives: Estimating rocks
For Prekindergarten, the theme is “The Earth.” Sample activities include:
- Library & Literacy: Creating letters and words in sand; Featured Book: And the Good Brown Earth by Kathy Henderson
- Creative Arts: Creating collages with recyclable materials
- Science & Sensory: Cleaning and polishing rocks; Exploring potting soil with gardening tools
- Dramatic Play: Pretending to be astronauts traveling to outer space
- Math & Manipulatives: Matching and using one-to-one correspondence by playing Dominoes; Building with paper-bag blocks
Take a glance behind the curriculum curtain with Three Questions with... the Director of Program Development, Megan Riede
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