2009-2010 Planning Calendar

• PRINT
• EMAIL

SEPTEMBER

• Back to School
• Apples
• Constitution Day
• School Safety
• POSTER: Hispanic Heritage Month

OCTOBER

• Firefighters/Fire Safety
• Christopher Columbus
• Pumpkins
• Autumn Changes
• POSTERS: Bats/Autumn Leaves

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER

• Pilgrims
• American Indians
• Bears
• Winter Holidays

JANUARY

• Winter Weather
• Arctic/Antarctic Animals
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Reading Skills Practice Test

FEBRUARY

• Presidents' Day
• Dental Health Month
• Groundhog Day
• Valentine's Day

MARCH

• Spring Weather
• A Fog Grows
• Meet Dr. Seuss
• A Trip to Ireland
• POSTERS: Science Posters

APRIL

• Earth Day
• Plants and Seeds
• Baby Animals
• Reading Skills Practice Test
• POSTERS: Birds/Insects

MAY/JUNE

• Summer Safety
• Butterflies
• Ocean
• Animals Keep Cool
  

ECT Interviews Early Childhood Teacher Lauren Lawson on Art, Writing, and Young Children
Lawson believes that children need to be introduced to symbolic ways of communicating at an early age, and that they need experiences that help them understand how materials work and what possibilities these materials offer them.

Help Students Settle Into Your Classroom
Ideas and getting-to-know-you activities for making students feel welcome and comfortable in their new learning environment.

From Where I Sit: An Hour of Play - What For?
As the academic content taught in school becomes more demanding, young children need to spend more, not less, time in play--to experiment with symbols, ideas, and relationships not tied to any particular content. Children who miss out on play in their early years may have gaps in their social, cognitive, and linguistic development.

LESSON PLAN

Time to Rhyme An activity plan for teachers of four and five year olds to do with their students.