Curriculum Resources - Preschool & Kindergarten Thematic Units

Fun, Fitness & Learning

By Sabena C. Maiden

The 55 large group activities in this book are meant to provide active learning experiences that improve overall fitness and motor skill development while fostering thinking skills and incorporating prereading, math, and other readiness concepts. Provides 5 activities for each of 11 early childhood themes and 47 reproducible half pages for individualized hands-on skill practice. Themes include moving our bodies to be fit, using the five senses, learning the alphabet and more. Supports Head Start framework and NAEYC standards. Softcover, 64 pages. Ages 3-6.

Fun, Fitness & Learning CD-804082......$10.99

Nutrition EZ
Integrating Nutrition with Language Arts, Math and Science Standards

By Julie A. Brown M.Ed

Educators will make their nutrition education lessons come alive with this 200 page activity book. It contains engaging K-5 worksheets that integrate nutrition education concepts into standard-based language arts, math, and science lessons. With many hands-on activities, students will eagerly learn and retain the basic concepts of good nutrition in accordance with the new USDA MyPyramid guidelines, while forming life long healthy eating habits. This book also contains an interesting and motivating 10 minute DVD containing hands-on nutrition integration ideas! Softcover, 200 pages. Ages 5-11.

Nutrition EZ JAB-0202......$34.99

Teaching with Favorite Lois Ehlert Books

By Pamela Chanko

Invite children into the colorful world of this popular author-illustrator and build literacy with learning activities like Eating-the-Alphabet Taste Test and Planting-a-Rainbow Seed Sort. Includes a profile of the author, before-and-after reading discussion ideas, plus over 60 hands-on activities and reproducibles that build skills across the curriculum! Softcover, 64 pages. Ages 4-6.

Teaching with Favorite Lois Ehlert Books SB-7197......$11.99

Early Sprouts: Cultivating Healthy Food Choices in Young Children

By Karrie Kalich, Dottie Bauer and Deirdre McPartlin

This proven, research-based, 24-week curriculum goes beyond teaching preschoolers about nutrition—it actually increases children’s taste preferences for vegetables! The “seed-to-table” approach combines gardening, sensory explorations, recipes and family involvement to promote healthy eating during the early years when children’s food choices are being established. Includes 24 recipes. Softcover, 208 pages. Ages 3-5.

Early Sprouts RL-3723......$24.95

Resource Guide: Sing & Read with Greg & Steve

By Rozanne Lanczak Williams

This resource guide features engaging ideas and activities designed to supplement the 12-book Sing & Read with Greg & Steve Early Reader Series and companion music CD. For each of the 12 books in the series, you’ll find 3-4 activities that extend the book’s theme and featured learning concept, 2 reproducibles, and several additional short and simple activity suggestions. Includes an early childhood academic standards chart that highlights the learning objectives in each story. Softcover, 56 pages. Ages 3-6.

Resource Guide: Sing & Read with Greg & Steve CTP-2535......$9.99

Nutrition: Primary Grades Curriculum
This book interprets the new food pyramid for personalized nutrition based on gender, age and physical activity. Games, word searches, matching activities, and simple recipes for classroom preparation of healthy snacks are included. Includes reproducible pages and 8 color overheads. Softcover, 25 pages. Grades K-5.

Nutrition: Middle Grades Curriculum
In addition to interpreting the new food pyramid, this book delves more into the “science” of food – including discussions of food safety (understanding the microbiological activity in foods and how to keep food safe to eat), foods that fight diseases (blood pressure, brittle bones, cancer, heart disease), and other issues. Games, word searches, and matching activities are included. Includes reproducible pages and 8 color overheads. Softcover, 28 pages. Grades 6-8.

Nutrition: Upper Grades Curriculum
In addition to interpreting the new food pyramid, this book digs even deeper into the “science” as well as the economics of food — how marketing effects the kinds of foods introduced to American consumers. The emphasis is on distinguishing nutritious food from junk food. Games, word searches, and matching activities are included. Includes reproducible pages and 8 color overheads. Softcover, 30 pages. Grades 9-12.

Milliken Nutrition Curriculum Series Nutrition: Primary Grades Curriculum LCM-4845......$17.95 Nutrition: Middle Grades Curriculum LCM-4846......$17.95 Nutrition: Upper Grades Curriculum LCM-4847......$17.95

This resource is filled with nutrition activities and strategies that are kid-tested and teacher endorsed. Over 75 activities support classroom learning centers, cafeteria and home environments. Includes information on MyPyramid.gov, reading food labels, background information about nutrition, tips on how to promote positive messages, the importance of making nutrition fun, and more than 200 activities to help implement these concepts. Softcover, 247 pages. Ages 5-11.

How to Teach Nutrition to Kids 24C-7038......$19.95

This "hands-on activity guide filled with delicious learning" features 42 copy-ready nutrition activity worksheets covering serving sizes based on MyPyramid.gov, goal setting for good health, reading food labels, de-coding advertisements, growing and cooking your own food, puzzles and more! Designed to be used in conjunction with Connie Evers' How to Teach Nutrition to Kids, this activity guide is a great resource on its own as well! Includes notes to educators and parents. Softcover, 64 pages. Ages 5-11.

Everything you need for teaching nutrition and healthy eating! Includes a variety of reproducible handouts, forms, worksheets, puzzles, and transparency masters to use for teaching all aspects of nutrition. Includes up-to-date information on MyPyramid.gov, the dietary guidelines, reading food labels and food safety. Use them alone or as supplemental activities to add interest and fun to lesson plans, counseling sessions and seminars. Softcover, 44 pages. Ages 5 and up.

Food & Nutrition Made Easy JB-B4160......$18.95

Through lessons, activities, recipes, book links and more, this curriculum resource helps children learn the benefits of choosing a healthy lifestyle by providing teachers/caregivers fun and active movement ideas, healthful recipes that encourage trying new foods, ideas for using MyPyramid.gov as a guide, and more. Also includes guidelines for healthy diets set by the USDA, how kids can calculate their own BMI, teacher information pages and a parent letter. Softcover, 128 pages. Pre-K.

24-Week Health Plan MH-5492......$13.99

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

Children grow by leaps and bounds! Make their growing experience interesting and successful by teaching them about their bodies and how to care for their health. Eight important themes weave together dozens of topics and hundreds of activities. Growing, Growing Strong allows you to customize your approach to meet health education goals for children ages 3-8. Softcover, 224 pages.

Growing, Growing Strong RL-4361......$25.95

Music is a universal language and singing enriches thematic content, supports literacy concepts, and optimizes memory and learning. Fabulous Food offers ideas on how to use music and singing to extend classroom activities to include modifications for special needs and English language learner populations in order to maximize learning and fun. Softcover, 128 pages, includes music CD. Ages 4-8.

Fabulous Food GH-0218......$19.95