Themes throughout the Year

These are the themes Miss Tammy will be teaching throughout the year. I try and fit in some type of field trip every once in awhile. These might change a little throughout the year, but for the most part, this will be what your child will be learning about.
October 14 - October 17th Time for School! **We’ll be learning the routines and schedules of our school day and learning about each of our new friends.
October 21st – October 23rd Creepy Crawlies **We’ll be learning about all different sorts of bugs. Starting with caterpillars and butterflies and moving on through ants, worms, flies, grasshoppers and more!**
October 23rd - October 30th: Halloween Time **We'll be learning about the colors, traditions, and things that happen during Halloween. We will possibly have an out-of-class field trip to the pumpkin walk too!**

November 4th - November 13th: Gotta Be Me **Learning all about "ME" - practicing name writing and how each child is alike and different**

November 18th - November 26th: Thanksgiving
NO SCHOOL NOV. 27TH - THANKSGIVING BREAK!!
**We'll have fun learning about turkey's, families and thankfulness, the First Thanksgiving, and we'll end with our very own Thanksgiving Celebration!**

December 2nd - December 18th: It's Christmas Time
NO SCHOOL FROM DEC. 23 TO JAN. 1ST - CHRISTMAS BREAK!! School will start back up on January 6th.
**We'll be celebrating EVERYTHING CHRISTMAS!! From traditions, to Christmas trees, Christmas songs, and anything you can think of, it will be a lot of fun!!**

January 6th - January 22nd: The Shape of Things **Learning about circles, ovals, rectangles, squares, triangles, stars and hearts.**


January 27th - February 5th: Sing a Song of Opposites **Big and little, tall and short, up and down, inside and outside...the list goes on!!**

February 10th - February 12th: Friendship and Valentines **We'll focus on friendship for Valentines day and end with our own Valentines Day Celebration!**

February 17th - February 26th: Nutrition and Manners**Rude Rodney will teach us about being polite and impolite while we study the different food groups.

March 3rd - March 12th: Workers, Tools and Uniforms
VISIT THE FIRE STATION AND POLICE STATION FOR OUR FIELD TRIP
**We'll be learning about the possibilities of careers that we can all be when we grown up**
March 17th - March 26th: Under the Weather **From sunny, to snowy and any weather in between, we'll be learning about it**
*March 31st – April 8th: Spring Time and Easter POSSIBLY BE VISITNG THE ZOO OR A FARM TO SEE ALL THE NEW BABY ANIMALS **We'll learn about the different signs of spring, baby animals and possibly have some little eggs to watch hatch into baby chicks!**
April 14th - April 23rd: The World of Numbers **Learning about the look and value of each number.**

*April 27th to May 7th: (remember no school on April 10th) "A Dinosaur Dynasty" We’ll be learning about dinosaurs, fossils, archaeology, and go on our very own dinosaur dig!

*May 12th - May 14th: "Folktales" From Cinderella and nursery rhymes to legends, we’ll be learning it all!

*May 19th - May 21st: "Under the Sea" We’ll dive with dolphins and swim through coral as we explore everything ocean.

*May 26th - 29th: "Beach Week" Time to explore the creatures and adventures of the beach! Our celebration water day will be the last day of school, Thursday, May 29th