Monday

Circle Time - Go through a standard circle time routine. Add a new object to the Preschool Feel Box. Place something that tells about the teacher in the feel box. Let each preschooler have a chance to guess what is in the feel box and then reveal it. Explain to the preschoolers why the object in the feel box tells something about the preschool teacher. Ask the preschoolers which one of their five senses they used to guess the object.****

Music and Movement – Dance to "I'm Me and You're You" by Laurie Berkner

Arts and Crafts: Make a Just Like Me Paper Plate Mask.

Math and Science - Preschool Biology – Teaching the Five Senses

Language and Reading - Read My Five Senses by Aliki. Talk about how each of our five senses helps us to experience the world. Create a Five Senses Chart

Tuesday

Circle Time– Go Through a Standard Circle Time Routine. Preschool Circle Time Activity - Shape MarchingUse masking tape to create the shape of the week on the preschool classroom floor. Let preschoolers walk in a line and march, hop, or dance around the shape.

Music and Movement -Sing Head Shoulders Knees and Toes

Arts and Crafts - Make a Preschool Emotions Poster

Math and Science – Help preschoolers to learn to write the numbers in their phone number by using the variation of N is For Name. Laminate a strip of paper for each preschooler with their phone number on it and let them practice tracing the numbers with an expo marker.

Language andReading–Preschool Literacy Activity – Draw Me a Story

Wednesday

Circle Time– Go Through a Standard Circle Time Routine. Write each child's phone number in large letters on a piece of paper with their name on it and hang them around the room. Have each preschooler practice finding their phone number. When all of the preschoolers have found their name and phone number have each preschooler stand up and read their phone number to the preschool class.

Music and Movement - Continue Shape Marching activity.

Arts and Crafts - Make a Salt Dough Handprint

Math and Science - Preschool Science Activity – How Tall Am I?

Language andReading- Reread My Five Senses by Aliki. Ask preschoolers to talk about which of their five sense they use the most.

Thursday

Circle Time -Go Through a Standard ****Circle Time Routine.

Have preschoolers practice reading their home phone number off of their name tag from the previous activity. Let each preschooler practice dialing their phone number on a pretend phone.

Music and Movement -Have a preschool talent show. Let each preschooler take a turn showing the other preschoolers in the class something fun they can do with their body.

Arts and Crafts - People Puzzle – help the children cut up a picture of themselves into a puzzle and glue to cardboard. Let them practice putting it together.

Math and Science -Preschool Math Activity - Egg Carton Counting

Language andReading-Reread My Five Senses by Aliki. Have preschoolers talk about what life would be like if they did not have one of their five senses.

Friday

Circle Time -Go Through a Standard Circle Time Routine****.

What does it mean to be deaf? – Explain to preschoolers that some people are not able to hear. Tell them that when you cannot hear it is called being deaf. Ask the preschoolers how their life would be different if they could not hear. Have them think of ways that they would communicate with other people.

Music and Movement -ASL ABC - Sing the ABC's while making the signs for the letters of the alphabet. Have the preschoolers follow along with the signs that they know.

Arts and Crafts - ASL I-Love-You Craft – Use a simple cut out of your preschoolers hand to create the ASL sign for "I love you"

Math and Science -Make Hand Cookies – Have preschoolers help measure the ingredients for sugar cookies and stir them together. Roll out the cookie dough and use a hand shaped cookie cutter to cut them into hand shapes. Bake and let the cookies cool. Have the preschoolers decorate the cookies and enjoy them for a snack.

Language andReading-Reread My Five Senses by Aliki. Remind preschoolers that almost everything that they experience in the world is because of their five senses.

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Helpful Tips for Parents

• Curiosity is more valuable than knowledge. A curious child who doesn't know the answer will find it. A knowledgeable child who has lost curiosity will stop learning.

• Sleep is educational. Memory consolidation — the process of moving learning from short-term to long-term memory — happens during sleep. Well-rested children learn more effectively.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much learning time should a preschooler have per day?

All of it — because preschoolers learn continuously through every interaction with their environment. The question of "learning time" implies that learning is separate from living, which it isn't at this age. A preschooler who plays freely, has rich conversations, is read to, helps in the kitchen, plays outdoors, and is exposed to music and art is having the richest possible educational experience. Formal, scheduled "learning time" is less productive than a generally enriched daily environment.

Related reading: See also our alphabet activities and our read-aloud guide for more ideas on this topic.

🎓 Skills Your Child Will Develop

• 🌐 World Knowledge — Background knowledge about the world dramatically accelerates reading comprehension — children who know more understand more of what they read — making every content-area learning experience a literacy investment.
• 😊 Love of Learning — Positive early learning experiences build a child's identity as a learner — and children who see themselves as curious, capable learners approach school with the engagement and resilience that matter more than any specific skill.
• 🔢 Early Numeracy — Hands-on counting, sorting, measuring, and pattern work develops the number sense and mathematical reasoning that formal arithmetic will later build on — and preschool numeracy is one of the strongest predictors of later math achievement.
• 👂 Listening & Attention — Activities that require children to listen carefully and follow directions build the voluntary auditory attention that classroom learning, reading comprehension, and conversation all require.

Week two of the All About Me theme helps preschoolers to understand how important their five senses are and helps them to become familiar with their home telephone number. This weekly preschool curriculum guide focuses on open ended music, art, math and science, and language activities.****