Using the 5 senses at Christmas and integrating other learning activities into a seasonal theme.

• Two repetitive stories Gifts for Me and 5 Christmas Senses.

• Gifts for Me is about Santa’s journey to a house and how he quietly moves about. This story introduces the letter Qq.

• Printing - letter outlines to develop printing the letters (collage).

• 5 Christmas Senses, is about a boy and girl and how they use their 5 Christmas senses.

• Science - follow-up activities to further develop the concept of the five senses is included.

• Reading - The stories are repetitive enough to allow kindergarten and preschool children to read them on their own after they have been introduced as a shared reading experience. This serves as a powerful method for young children to not only gain a better understanding of the reading process but also gaining a positive attitude towards it by having them experience reading the story on their own (pretend reading) and the pride of completing the book (interactive component).

• Writing - Santa outline for making for children to print their own letter to Santa (younger children would dictate it to an adult helper).

• Math 1 - Christmas pictures to further the extension of patterning.

• Math 2 - worksheets for children to stamp or stick on stars matching the ones on the sheets.  This further develops one-to-one number correspondence.

• Alphabet - in the supplementary resources in the members' area you will find colored picture  Christmas cards and alphabet letters.  The children match the alphabet card with the correct picture making that sound.

• More Alphabet Activities - more alphabet cards for children to match same letters or lower-case to upper-case.

• Christmas coloring pictures are also included.

• The unit gives suggestions for group time, dramatic play area, math center, craft ideas, printing center, reading center and more!

• The children will be introduced to picture patterning, number identification and matching.

• Blending sounds together to make words continues to be explored.

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Purchase the Christmas Unit by Itself $8.97