Growing
Learning how children grow up and get bigger
Instructions
- Gather at least 4 pictures of your child at various stages in their young life - newborn, baby, toddler, etc. Each picture should show an age difference.
- Ask child to put the pictures in order from youngest to oldest
- Ask child to put the pictures in order from current age to youngest age
- Chat about how child has grown and how they can tell by the pictures
- Last month we chatted about plants growing and now we see that we are growing too
Simplify
Use only three pictures to show how child has grown and have a wide variety of months between the pictures - newborn, two year old, and four year old pictures.
Extend
Use six or more pictures of varying ages of child and let child sort from youngest to oldest, oldest to youngest, etc.
Materials
- four pictures of child at various stages in their young life (newborn, baby, toddler, etc.)
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Curriculum Plan Resources
Skills Focus
- Shape - Oval
- Color - Brown
- Number - Nine, 9
- Alphabet Letters - Q, T, L
- Senses - Sight
- Character Trait - Friendliness
- Target Words - Fast, Front, Sort, Same
Monthly Proverb
Spanish - Tell me who you’re with and I’ll tell you who you are
Did You Know?
"The brain develops rapidly during the first five years and quality preschool programs can have a profound impact during this time.” CA First 5
Books to Read
"Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On"
by Lois Ehlert (Activity 7)
"Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?"
by Bill Martin (Activity 8) (audio book available) (NOTE: Please look for the 25th anniversary edition where the text is back to the original wording)
"Old Henry"
by Joan Blos (Activity 12)
Music Playlist
"The Alphabet Song"
Album: Big Don’s Big Beat (Activity 5)
"Por Una Cabeza by Carlos Gardel"
Album: The Very Best (Activity 20)
"The Turtle Song"
by Suzi Shelton Album Simply Suzi (Activity 11)
Monthly Materials List
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Fingerplay / Poems / Songs
There Was A Little Turtle
(Activity 11 Month 11)
There was a little turtle who lived in a box.
He swam in the water, he climbed on the rocks.
He snapped at a mosquito, he snapped at a flea, he snapped at a minnow and he snapped at me.
He caught that mosquito, he caught that flea, he caught that minnow, but he didn’t catch me.
Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
(Activity 19 Month 11)
Now I lay me down to sleep.
I’ll count these hands instead of sheep.
Help me to remember these friends I made.
And all the wonderful times we played.