Curriculum Resources - Elementary Thematic Units

These guides feature timeless favorites—books that are likely to become treasured friends for life. Each reproducible guide includes sample plans, author information, vocabulary building ideas, and a variety of cross-curricular lessons designed to encourage critical thinking. Softcover, 48 pages. Ages 6-11.

Literature Unit Guides A Guide for Using Stone Soup TCM-3005......$8.99 A Guide for Using Johnny Appleseed TCM-5363......$8.99 A Guide for Using The Very Hungry Caterpillar TCM-2335......$8.99 A Guide for Using James and the Giant Peach TCM-4410......$8.99

Five Senses Thematic Unit is filled with dozens of lesson ideas and activity sheets designed to teach early primary children about their senses. Activities are easily explained using characters from the classic children’s stories The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse and The Little Red Hen.

Five Senses Thematic Unit TCM-270......$9.99

Get ready to have fun! Organized into five categories: Circle Games, Concept Games, Musical Games, Cooperative Games, and Outdoor Games, these are new and classic games, absent of an elimination rule - in order to save children embarrassment, with emphasis on building good social skills rather than competitiveness. Softcover, 136 pages. Ages 3-8.

Great Games for Young Children GH-0065......$19.95

It’s a mini grammar lesson in a book! Homonyms are words that are spelled and sound the same but have different meanings. Part of a SandCastle nonfiction book series, this little one is full of words like squash with pictures to illustrate how each word is used for all of its meanings. Listed in the back of the book are nouns, proper nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs for beginning readers to start learning. Library Binding, 24 pages. Ages 4-8.

Do Not Squash the Squash AB-7918......$13.95

Meet Your Teeth

By Linda Schwartz

Meet Your Teeth is a fun, creative way for kids to learn about their teeth and dental health. This thematic unit is gears for kids in grades 1-7 and incorporates all areas of the curriculum – reading, research, writing, poetry, spelling, science, and art as well as creative thinking skills. The book contains more than 50 pages of activities and information on topics such as brushing and flossing, identifying the parts of a tooth, eating healthy, and learning about routine dental procedures. Softcover, 56 pages. Ages 6-10.

Meet Your Teeth CTP-155......$10.99 Quantities Limited!

The activities in this book will keep children moving to the beat - and loving it! Caregivers will find this book to be a rich source of ideas for exciting and enjoyable movement experiences. The activities focus exclusively on feeling and expressing steady beat. Because these experiences develop children’s basic timing, language, vocabulary, concentration, decision making, and leadership abilities, caregivers and teachers will see learning affects that stretch across the curriculum. The attached CD contains rhymes and action song recordings for many of the activities in the book. Softcover, 112 pages. Ages 3-7.

Movement in Steady Beat GH-9130......$19.95 Quantities Limited - 20% OFF! Original Price $24.95

Thematic Unit: Popcorn

From Teacher Created Resources

This book is a poppin’ perfect thematic unit to use during the fall season (October is National Popcorn Month) or any time of the year!

Thematic Unit: Popcorn TCM-263......$6.39 Quantities Limited - 20% OFF! Original Price $7.95

Choose from Keeping Healthy, From Farm to You and At the Supermarket. These theme-based lessons include an interactive CD-ROM, full color vocabulary poster, full-color picture cards, and over a dozen reproducible student activities and games that will all help make learning fun and easy. Softcover, 64 Pages. Grades 1-3.

Look, Listen and Speak: Keeping Healthy EM-2742......$23.99 Look, Listen and Speak: At the Supermarket EM-2744......$23.99 Quantities Limited - 20% OFF! Original Price $30.00

Body Systems and Organs (Grades 4-6)

From Carson-Dellosa

This Step-by-Step Science curriculum has 50 lessons, each one with a fun activity that demonstrates major human body systems like the Covering System, the Skeletal System, the Muscular System, the Circulatory System, the Respiratory System, the Digestive System, the Excretory System, the Nervous System, the Endocrine System and the Reproductive System to children. There are atleast three lessons on each system! Softcover, 48 pages. Ages 8-12.

Body Systems and Organs CD-7277......$6.39 Quantities Limited - 20% OFF! Original Price $7.99

Super Science Activities: The Human Body (Grades 2-5)

From Teacher Created Resources

This Super Science Activities curriculum has 11 lessons, each one with a fun activity covering teeth, eyes, the brain, muscles, bones, the lungs, the heart, digestion, nutrition and more! Softcover, 48 pages. Ages 7-11.

The Human Body TCM-3662......$7.19 Quantities Limited - 20% OFF! Original Price $8.99