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This is a day of celebrations!  The children will create their own paper birthday cakes and use them to collect data about the birthdays in the class using two methods: tally marks and graphing. 

Grade: Preschool

Target Learning Skills: 

Preschool is an exciting time for learning the letters of the alphabet! Children begin to learn that letters have sounds and that these sounds are in spoken words. A great way to start a child on the journey to letter recognition is with his or her name. Young children naturally like to see their names in print.

Start the school year off with a roar, a dinosaur roar that is! This month's theme celebrates going back to school with dinosaurs. Children will learn about school manners and how to be a good friend with the help of dinosaurs. It includes school bus and dinosaur name tags, parent newsletter templates, literacy activities, craft ideas, rhyming and number games, emergent readers, and more.

Grade: Preschool and Kindergarten 

Target Learning Skills:

• One-to-one correspondence and sets
• Shape: circle

Common Core Standard:

A bundle of sticks, a pile of small rocks, some sturdy tape, and a set of number cards are the building blocks for an afternoon of number fun that includes number hunts, ordering numbers, matching numbers, and counting.