Themes and Ideas

 

-Set up a farm set for the students to interact with  and role play

-Books: Tractor

 

-Books: Brown Bear Brown Bear

-Label the classroom as a class (example: What colour is the chalkbard, what colour is the rocking chair,etc) 

-Painting hands (Make two hands primary colours example Hand A + Hand B = make the third hand a secondary colour) 

 -Discuss what animals are in the zoo

-Put students in small groups with sheets that have information on certain animals

(example: have pictures of what the animal eats, where the animal is from, etc...) 

-Life of a Butterfly

-The Hungry Caterpillar

-Tye Dye Caterpillar (make with water and food colouring, dip coffee filters in the colours and put clothespins in the middle) 

-Explain why the sun is important

-Tye Dye Suns

-Books: The Carrot Seed (What helps the carrot grow besides water?) 

-Link this to plants and how the sun helps everything grow

-Parts of a plant 

-Discuss recycling

-Book: The Three R's, We Recycle, etc

-Make recycling posters 

Space

-Make a space book that counts down from 10 to blast off. Have the book include star, comets, etc...

-Make each student a passport

-Make each student a ticket for an airplane and ask them where they are traveling to

-Song: I've Got Canada in my Pocket

-Have students make their own version of a Canadian Flag 

-Set up a store and have toy money for the students to use (price everything as 25 cents to start and gradually integrate nickels, dimes, loonies and toonies)