Pratt's Early Childhood Education
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Educational Resources Including themes, songs, arts & crafts,
literature, online activities, and more.
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On this page, you will find resources for toddlers through early
elementary education.
Learning
Singing helps children learn body parts,
learn about
lots of themes, and do different actions. I have lots of songs on
my Children Songs
Page.
They like nursery rhymes, like action verses, and finger plays.
They love repetition.
Children also learn through play. They use
their imagination to have fun and learn about themselves and
what they can do as a person. Let your children play with things that
you have around the house. For example, clothes, toilet paper and paper
towel rolls, empty containers of baby wipes, boxes of all types, hats,
books, old calendars, bean bags (where you have your child toss a bean
bag into a decorated box), balloons (where you play with the balloons
by kicking it around the house), and many more things that are safe for
children to play with.
Children learn more if they are not forced to do
something. Most of the times (if not all) they will not want to
do it. Let them do what they enjoy to do.
Art: Do crafts that the children choose how
they want their art project to look like. Put
out paints and different tools (cotton swaps, paint brushes, etc) out. Let the child make his/her own creation (it will be
different than any other childs work and you won't get bored at looking
at the same thing that is on the wall).
Fun and Games: Children love to have fun and
do lots of games. Play with bubbles, have fun
with tangrams
(shapes), etc. A child can learn science, math, and more from
playing. Integrate
all subjects into one so children will have fun.
If you are trying to find a list of what your child or students should
know at a certain age, go to Typical Course of
Study. I feel children learn when they are
ready to
learn something and you shouldn't push them to learn anymore if they
are
not ready to do so. Use it as your guide but you don't have to
follow it exactly (especially homeschoolers).
Also at Skills
Lists By Michele Lewis (a homeschooler) has other recommendations
for ages 2, 3, and 4. She also has other resources for
unpreschooling.
Apples4theTeacher
Free interactive educational activities sorted by subject (ages 3-9) -
math, science, social studies, language arts, creative arts, and
foreign language. Talking books and games reinforce concepts and
language skills (English, Spanish, Gaelic, Polish, American Sign
Language).
Easy Fun School
Education Atlas - Online Map
to Education, Online Degrees and Distance Learning New 5/11/07
Free Download Music
Resource site for people that want to download free music.
Hundreds of
articles, newsletters and links to make it convenient and easy to
download free music. All these resources are FREE.
Letter of The Week Preschool
Curriculum
Free Worksheets
for kids (Preschool-fifth grade)
More links at: Reciprocal
& Viewers Links.
Viewers Links
Everything Preschool
We have thousands of ideas sorted by theme, alphabet, etc.
(Including coloring pages.)
KinderSite Project "Where
kids play and teachers learn."
Marys
Curriculum Seeds
A free educational site that helps teachers K-3
bring their curriculum to life.
Natural & Waldorf Toys
at Three Sisters Toys
Preschool Express by
Jean Warren
A free on-line activity newsletter for parents and teachers of young
children by Jean Warren. Each issue contains, crafts, music, learning
games, a day-by-day activity calendar and articles about how children
learn.
She also have FREE patterns to download and activities to go with them.
More links at: Reciprocal
& Viewers Links.
Printables & Other Resources
A Child's
Place Themes (including printables), felt boards, charts &
printouts, recipes, party ideas, and more. New 8/18/04
A Kids Heart
Holidays, Bible, Clipart, Greeting Cards, Sun Shine Room, For Teachers
(including manuscript paper that you can type what you want and print
it), Shapes, All Sorts, and more.
abcteach
Activity sheets and Project Helpers, Theme
Units, Fun Activities, Links, and more.
abcschoolhouse:
Freebies Stuff Activities, recipes, charts.
April's
Preschool Activities Activities and printables and
traceables (for the first two topics): Letters, Numbers, Shapes and
Colors New
4/21/04
Bry-Back Manor
Lots of printables, coloring pages, holidays, garden fun (seasons),
games (including holidays and books)!
Copycat Press Inc.
Nature notebook, Valentine note, seminole doll, election page toppers,
3-D Fish, monkey manners with a moveable monkey, bunny letter,
groundhog coin, turkey work holder, border page, shoe clues, poetry
booklet (front page), valentine turtle tote, ancient Egyptian
hieoglyphs, dog stuff (birthday certificate & lost tooth envelope),
carp kite, field trip carryall, bird joural, and more will come.
These are wonderful for different holidays. I don't know if they will
keep these there so go download what you like.
DLTK's Educational
Activities
Eduplace.com:
Shape Books
First-School
Activity pages, crafts, printables, etc.
Free
Worksheets.com Free worksheets, free
software, activities, and
more; including Ages 3-6 and Other Ages
Free
Worksheets: preschool worksheets Big, Bigger, Biggest, How Many? -
Count/write how many to 1-5 and 6-10,
Trace and Color (shapes), Dinosaur Number practice - Numbers 1 -
5 & 6-10, Number recognition 0 - 3, Larger Number, ABC Maze, Number
Match, Patterns (shapes), Alphabet Fun, Dino Numbers, Animal Mix-up,
Cupcake
Fun - Number recognition to 9, Dinosaur Same or Different, and Fishy
Fun
(shapes).
KidZone
KinderPrintables New 5/19/06
LearningPage.com
This site has pdf files, books, and more to download or to view
on thier site. You need to sign up to view most of these.
Planning (Oceans, Zoo Animals, Dinosaurs, Insects,
& Spiders), Basic Sheets (Alphabet Worksheets), Theme Sheets:
Funsheets, Murals, Cut Outs for math, language arts, science, and
fundamentals.
Lessonplanz.com:
Preschool Lesson Plans and Resources Book Activities, Dramatic Play
Activites, Health and Nutrition,
Language Arts, Mathematics, Physical Education, Science, Social
Studies,
Thematic Units, Songs and Poetry, and Worksheets and Printable Pages
including
Coloring Pages
Oley School Misc.
Worksheets It has a bear clock to learn to tell time and other
worksheets.
Preschool
Activities @ TeachersandFamilies Lots of themes!
Preschool Education
Preschool
Lesson Plans, Activities, & Worksheets
Preston
Online - Free Worksheets for English, Mathematics, and Science
(Preschool through High School)
Sesame
Street Workshop Coloring Pages
Scissor
Skills These are cute!
TeachNow.com Free patterns
everyday, free award maker, free downloadable book
"Reading Activities for Fun" if you register, and products you can
purchase.
Under 5's - Pre -school
Education Worksheets Find worksheets under the different themes.
Other Worksheets:
Alphabet, numbers, shapes, pencil control, counting, matching, and spot
the difference.
Worksheets
Unlimited
Zini Activity Pages
This has different concepts that children can learn and they are for
different holidays.
Themes & More
See Viewers Links.
A Home
Away From Home - Preschool Curriculum Themes
with Ideas and Crafts: Children Around the
World, The Five Senses, and Birds.
A Kids Heart
Holidays, Bible, Clipart, Greeting Cards, Sun Shine Room, For Teachers
(including manuscript paper that you can type what you want and print
it), Shapes, All Sorts, and more.
A World of
Kindergartens
abcteach Free Activity sheets and Project Helpers, Theme
Units, Fun Activities, Links, and more.
Acorn
Academy
Activities
List: Toddlers - Early Elementary Grades
Art, songs, games, snacks, rhymes, and other
activities 57 themes at this site. Theme: Apples, Balloons,
Bears, Bees, Bells, Birds, Boxes, Bubbles, Bunnies, Butterflies,
Buttons, Cameras, Candles, Cans, Caterpillars, Cats, Circles, Clowns,
Cookie Cutters, Corn, Cowboys, Dinosaurs, Eggs, Feet, Fish, Gingerbread
People, Groundhogs, Hands, Hats, Hearts, Leaves, Lions & Lambs,
Milk, Paper Plates, Peanuts, Pizza, Popcorn, Potatoes, Pumpkins, Rain,
Reindeer, Rocks, Sand, Shadows, Shapes, Snow, Spiders, Stars, The Sun,
Teeth, Trees, Turkeys, Water, Watermelons, Worms, Yarn, and, Zebras
Activity Idea Place:
Activity Index Themes (including holidays).
Alphabet
Soup Thematic units, holiday units, games and activities for
kids; teacher
and parent resources; and crafts, humor and recipes for all! The
thematic units include bears, zoo animals, Johnny Apple Seed, and
dinosaurs.
Childcare and Beyond
Child Care Division of J & S
Enterprises Themes, recipes, etc.
ChildFun.com Activities and
printables!
Cozy Cottage:
Monthly Themes & Ideas Dinosaurs, Apples, Colors,
Groundhog's Day, Valentine's Day, Zoo, and
Jungle Animals, Father's Day (could be used for Mother's Day too),
Under the Sea Adventure, All About Fish, Summer Ideas, Alphabet
Ideas, December Holidays, Fall, Winter, April Showers Bring May
Flowers,
Spring Ideas, Let's Visit the Farm!, Math, Foods, Easter, Thanksgiving,
Halloween, Fourth of July, Pizza Anyone?, and Grandparent's Day.
Creation Kids - creative
Christian curriculum for today's creative kids
De-Lite
Creations @ Bry-Back Manor
Early
Childhood Education Lesson Plans: Infant, Pre K through Age 7
First-School (English
& Spanish Resources)
Has lots of activity pages, crafts, printables, etc.
FunSchooling: Unit Study Archives Based on:
Literature, Geography, Science, History, Holidays, Music, and
Others (Emergency Preparedness, Clocks & Time, Sports, &
NASCAR).
Gayle's Preschool Rainbow -
Activity Central
Gryphon
House Free Activities
Hummingbird Lesson Plans
Idea Box Activities, Seasonal, Games, Music and Songs, Recipes,
Craft Recipes, Crafts, and More
Inside
Kindergarten Goin' Batty!, Potato Day!, Great Groundhogs!, Quaint
Quilts!, All
Aboard!!! The Train Unit, Beary Fun Activities, Fun on the Farm!, I
Love Ladybugs!, Mexican Christmas Unit, Mice Are Nice!, Proud to be
Americans!, Pumpkin Potpourri, Space Unit: Exploring The Final
Frontier, Spiders:
No arachnophobia here!!!, Whatever the Weather, Wonderful Watermelon
Unit
Iteach345's Page
kidsactivities
Yahoo! Group
Preschool-Kindergarten!
KidsbCool
Preschool Themes & Recipes
Kindergarten Kafe
Kinderhive: Theme and
Unit Ideas New 12/17/04
KinderStartAnimal Friends,
Learning Activities & Crafts, Food and Nutrition,
Education / Daycare / Childcare, resources for parenting, and much more.
Kinder Korner
Links
for Tots Learn to Read, Learning is Cool,
and Coloring &
Games
Little Giraffes: Mrs.
Flanagan's Kindergarten
Love To Teach:
Themes For K-3
Monthly
Themes for Kindergarten: Themes and Book Ideas It has
animals and it can be used for other early elementary grades.
Mrs.
Petersen's Preschool Page: Thematic Units
Mrs. Ross's First Grade Class
Mrs.
Williamson's Kindergarten Page - Units & Mini-Units
Perpetual Preschool
Pitter Patter
Preschool
Activities @ TeachersandFamilies
PRESCHOOL by Stormie
Monthly curriculums & activities and more.
PreschoolEducation.com
LOTS of ideas for younger children; songs,
fingerplays, coloring pages, and more.
Preschool
Zone
- Teaching Ideas for Early Chidhood Special Educators
SESD:
Theme Links Seasonal And Holiday, All About Me, Transportation,
Dinosaurs, Bears,
Spiders, Animals, The Farm, Magnets, Nutrition, Apples, Senses, Fairy
Tales, Circus, Colour, Friendship, Weather, General Science, Bus
Safety,
Fire Safety, Dental Health, and Crafts
Songs4teachers.com Poems,
songs, and printables.
Step By Step Childcare
Themes, songs, fun foods, science, games, links, and more.
Story Time
Sunshine
Online Themes & Games
The
Activity Cupboard - crafts for kids Animals, Autumn, Christmas,
Bugs, Dinosaurs, Earth and Arbor Day,
Easter, Halloween, Hanukkah, Musical Instruments, Spring , St.
Patrick's Day, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, and Winter
More Ideas: Fun Science Experiments, Fun Snack Ideas, General Crafts,
Gifts to make, Home Made Games, and Home Made Supplies
The
Chalkboard: Early Childhood - Preschool and Kindergarten Education
Teaching Activities
The Preschool Connection
The Virtual Vine
Thematic
Units for Primary Grades Ancient Egypt, China, Colonial Life,
Cultural Diversity: Immigration
and Citizenship, Dinosaurs, Ducks, Endangered North American Birds,
Folk Art, Fruits and Vegetables, Holidays -- Chinese New Year, Kwanzaa,
and Mexican Christmas, Insects, Mammals and Their Habitats, The Middle
Ages, The Music Appreciation Page, Native Americans, Nutrition, Oceans,
Penguins, Plants, The Rainforest and Planet Ecology, Reptiles and
Amphibians, Rocks and Minerals, Seasons, The Solar System,
Transportation, Weather, Westward Expansion in the United States, and
Whales
Activities & Games
101
Activities To Do With Your Toddler A list of
things to do, the treasure chest (activities
to do), fingerplays, songs & rhymes, treats, other resources, and
links
Caring for
a Toddler & Activities
LDS.org:
Family Activities They have Learning Fun for
Infants and Toddlers,
Learning Fun for Preschoolers, and more.
TotCity.com -
Preschool activities, toddler activities, and more