Example Curriculum

Living and Growing

~August

Bugs; Eric Carle

Families, getting to know one another; welcome to a new school year; Manners

~September

Occupations; people in our community

~September

Farm/Ranch Animals- work they do, food they give; Pets

~ October

Harvest; fall food, vegetables; corn; planting cycle

Halloween & dia de los muertos

~ November

Autumn; Seasons; Fairy Tales

Thanksgiving: cooking (fire, storage, cutting, bread/wheat); being thankful;

Foods of the World

~December

Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanza; Children of the World; Lights

Family and community traditions

~ January

Weaving (clothing, plants used for weaving), keeping warm (blankets, fire and heating); Snow

Poems and Nursery Rhymes

~January

Clothing Around the World (relates to weather tradition): Winter Wonderland; Snow

Winter hibernation and animal movement

Types of homes arround the world, shelters: adobe, clay, roofs, cultural lodgings, igloo.., where do you Live?

~February

Chinese New Year; Valentine’s Day

Space and Transportation

Dr. Seuss; Our five Senses

~March

Construction, tools, woodworking

BIg trucks of Silverton / Community helpers

~April

Trees: uses: paper, building, food, shelter; oxygen

Taking care of our environment, nature & ecology

Night and Day; Warm and Cold; weather

~May

Flowers, process of seed to plant to fruit/vegetable, bees

Summer Sessions - June & July

-  Water play, Ocean life, where does water come from?

-  Farmer’s Market:  Where does our food come from? 

-  Field trips, walks, and summer adventures