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Crystal Campbell

Ms. Crystal Campbell

Michelle Johnson

Ms. Michelle Johnson

Schedule & Curriculum

Troup ISD Child Care Center Activity Schedule for Three-Year Olds
Time	Activities
7:00 to 8:15	Arrival Time / Free Play/ Restroom
8:15 to 8:45	Breakfast
8:45 to 9:00	Pledges
9:00 to 9:30	Circle Time
9:30 to 9:45	Games/Music/Arts & Crafts
9:45 to 10:00	Restroom
10:00 to 10:30	Outside Play
10:30 to 10:45	Wash Hands & Faces
10:45 to 11:15	Centers
11:15 to 11:45	Lunch
11:45 to 12:00	Clean-up / Restroom
12:00 to 2:00	Nap Time
2:00 to 2:15	Wake-up / Restroom
2:15 to 2:45	Snack Time
2:45 to 3:00	Story Time
3:00 to 3:30	End of Day Circle Time
3:30 to 4:00	Restroom
4:00 to 4:30	Outside Play
4:30 to 5:45	Centers

2006 - 2007 TISD Child Care Center Curriculum Preschool
Month	Week	Theme	Language skills	Math Skills	Personal / Social	Science / Social Studies
August	1	Five Senses All About Me	Listening skills	Matches like objects	Begins to develop friendships with others	Begins to demonstrate safe practices and appropriate use of materials
	2
	3
	4		Directions
	5
September	6
	7
	8	Community Helpers	Repeat rules / Routine	Shapes circle, square, triangle, rectangle		Understands the roles, responsibilities and service of community workers
	9		Ask questions about story
October	10	Fall	Retells stories		Begins to show self-control by following classroom rules	Recognizes changes in the environment over time
	11		Engages in conversation
	12	Spiders	Self-selected books	Sorts objects by one attribute		Identify animals as living
	13	Farm / Pumpkins	Recognizes book by cover			Begins to recognize that living things have a similar need for water, food and air
	14		Title and author	Positional word: beside
November	15				Begins to be responsible for individual behavior and actions
	16			Positional word: in/out		Connects past to present
	17	Thanksgiving	Characters	Positional word: above/below
	18					Identifies similarities and differences among objects and organisms
	19	Winter / Bears		Positional word: front/back
December	20		Self-selected books		Begins to show a greater ability to control intense feelings
	21		Left to right to read	Simple patterns
	22	Christmas				Connects past to present
	23	Home / Family Traditions	Self-selected books	Matches objects that are alike	Begins to share and cooperate with others in group activities	Shares ideas and takes turns listening and speaking
January	24
	25			Puzzles of increasing difficulty
	26	Dinosaurs	Identify name			Describes properties of objects and characteristics of living things
	27			Compare sizes
	28		Increase vocabulary
February	29	Friendship / Hearts	Self-selected books	Rote counting	Respects other peoples' space and personal belongings	Cooperates with others in joint activities
	30		Recognize 1st letter in name
	31	Transportation	Uses longer sentences	Simple patterns		Identifies common features in the home and school environment
	32		Increase vocabulary
March	33		Rhyming words	Predicting what is next	Responds to the suggestion of others	Performs simple investigations / Uses simple tools
	34			Numbers 1 - 5
	35	Plants	Uses descriptive words
	36		Uses longer sentences			Predicts what will happen next
April	37
	38	Insects	Letters different than numbers	Simple patterns
	39		Attempts to "read"		Begins to express thoughts, feelings and ideas through language as well as through gestures and actions	Begins to use scientific words and phrases to describe objects, events and living things
	41	Birds	Left to right / top to bottom
May	41	Texas / Rodeo	Predictions	Concept of zero
	42		Connect books with real life
	43		Retells stories
	44	Beach / Water	Recognize letters in name	Measuring
June	45
	46	Fitness / Nutrition			Expresses interests and self-directions in learning	Creates simple representation of home, school or community through drawing or blocks
	47		Directions
	48		Predictions	Making and reading graphs
July	49	Weather	Attempts to "read"
	50
	51		Connect books with real life
	52