The overlooked yet important Community Helpers Teachers Preschool Theme are highlighted here! Our preschoolers love to imitate us and "play school" even when they are in school! This theme page is filled with preschool activities and ideas for all areas of your classroom.
You'll find more themes to help you with your planning on my preschool themes page.
Let the Theme Planning Begin!
You can either scroll down through this page to see all of the preschool activities for your theme or click the link below to go to specific preschool activity types you are looking for.
Flowers for the Teacher
Materials Needed: paint, buttons, glue
Let the children create their own flowers. They can use the buttons to place in the middles.
Add little people and school buses to the block area this week.
Circle Time is such a great time for children to learn the social skills of being together as a large group AND to learn more about your theme!
A,B,C Song!
Of course! Sing this alphabet teaching song! A variation is to put together a large alphabet floor puzzle together and then sing the song as you point to teach letter in the finished puzzle.
Here are a few that I like:
This is an ABC puzzle by Melissa and Doug.
And here's a floor ABC puzzle that also has wooden letters to add to the puzzle!
Story Time Teacher
Have a children read a story this week. Choose a book, open the page and read the first page. Invite one child at a time to make up a story to go along with the picture on the next page!
Cooking with children helps develop their math skills and helps them to learn how to follow directions. It also allows for some great conversation! Ask many questions while cooking with your children to encourage conversation! Be sure to ask specific themed questions while making these fun snacks!
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Do you have a cooking idea to go along with this theme? If so, send it to me to add to this page by
contacting me here (be sure to state in the message that your idea is for the Teacher Theme!)
Schoolroom
Put four unused desks in two rows. In front of the desks, put a small table and chair and a table top chalkboard and chalk.
Stalk the schoolroom with chalk, an eraser, pencils, crayons, rulers, paper and old workbooks. Also have a table top felt board with felt pieces.
More Than Just Painting (Although that is always THE favorite in our classroom!)
Portrait of a Teacher
Print the word TEACHER on the top of easel paper.
The children paint portraits of the teacher(s) or themselves as teachers!
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Do you have a large group game idea to go along with this theme? If so, send it to me to add to this page by
contacting me here (be sure to state in the message that your idea is for the Teacher Theme!)
Book Suggestions for your preschool classroom library:
(I LOVE Amazon, and some of the links below will take you to the Amazon website. If you do choose to purchase yours through Amazon, they do send me a few cents--which supports my coffee habit! )
Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
David Goes to School by David Shannon
Don't Eat the Teacher by Nick Ward
Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten by Joseph Slate
The Big School Bus
Make an 18" long school bus from felt.
Draw 10 windows on the bus.
Make 15 children heads from felt.
Place the bus on a flannel board and the heads above the windows.
The children can place and count children on the bus.
In small groups, you can direct them:
Place 5 children on the bus.
Now add 2 more children.
How many children are on the bus?
Now help 3 children get off the bus.
How many children are still on the bus?
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Do you have a music or movement idea to go along with this theme? If so, send it to me to add to this page by
contacting me here (be sure to state in the message that your idea is for the Teacher Theme!)
Letter or Number Match Thank you to Heather for the following idea!
Place rice in the sensory table and add magnet letters or numbers for the "teachers" match!
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Do you have a science experiment to go along with this theme? If so, send it to me to add to this page by
contacting me here (be sure to state in the message that your idea is for the Teacher Theme!)
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Do you have a writing idea to go along with this theme? If so, send it to me to add to this page by
contacting me here (be sure to state in the message that your idea is for the Teacher Theme!)
Field Trips
Visit a local kindergarten classroom!
Classroom Visitors
Invite parents who have different jobs they can "teach" to your children! Much like a career day!
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