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Evansmom 06:20 AM 05-04-2011
You know what's really fun with kids this age and that they understand is doing curriculum based on books that they love. It's free to plan you own and really easy!

Just pick one book a week that they love like Very Hungry Caterpillar or Brown Bear, Brown Bear (both by Eric Carle) and then when you do the curriculum do something like this:

Read the book title including author and illustrator
Read the book with the children
Talk about it while you are reading, ask questions like "who will come next...", explain the pictures etc. (dialogic reading)
Play a game based on what they did in the book. You can look this up online or improvise your own. For Brown Bear you could play a game where you take turns saying what you see and what color they are like in the book ex: "Brown Bear, Brown Bear what do you see? I see a yellow couch looking at me." (we have a yellowish couch
You could act out the book like a play or a section of the book, you could dress like the characters.
You could link a theme with Brown Bear about colors, you could link a theme with Very Hungry Caterpillar and trying new fruits and veggies.
Just anything that you can do to make associations for the children to the book. And to expose them to words and things that they haven't heard about yet.
One of the most important things for early childhood education is to give children a good and wide base of information. This helps them become good readers later! Each time you read or talk about something new it expands that base that they will need when they go off to Kindergarten.
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