People Theme: Me, Community, Friends, ...

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All About Me Theme
Body, bones/skeleton, dental, feelings, health and hygiene, feelings, five senses, and my family (grandparents)).

Community (Occupations) Theme

Friends
Cooking & Snacks
Make pretzels using the first and last letter of your name.
Make friendship bracelet or necklaces using sweetened colored cereal.  Give it to your new friend or eat it yourself.

Music
"More We Get Together"
Sing "If Your Friendly" sung to If You're Happy and You Know It".

Games
Pom-Pom Pick Up Game
Scatter pom-poms on the floor.  Divide children into groups.  Collect the same color pom-pom.  Count them.  Say each color.
Expand the lesson and have the child say the colors in Spanish or any other language.

Pom-Pom Balance Game
Give a pom-pom to a child.  Have them attempt to balance it on their head.

Work as friends and make a tower using blocks.

Musical Shares
Play music.  When the music stops have the children share chairs if there is no chair for them to sit on.

Arts & Crafts
Buddy  Painting
Make a separate piece of paper.  Tape them together.  Paint as friends.  Untape the painting and take it home.

Arts & Crafts
Letter "Ff" Collages
You can use pictures from magazines and/or newspapers (friends, fruit, flowers, etc.), different shapes of felt, etc.

Links
Friends: ChildFun

Friends at Preschool Education

Daily Themes @ Perpetual Preschool: Friends

Primary Units - PDF's - Friendship

Online Friend Activities
Friends (Story) @ Kidz Club