PRE-K4 February Curriculum

Valentine’s Day: January 30- February 13th

Colors: February 15-17th & February 27 & 29th

Religion: (please see February’s Religion subpage for each day’s specific religion topic)

God does all that He can to help us whenever possible.

In turn, God wants us to give freely to others, without hesitation.

Even as young child, there is much you can do to help others.

God wants us to show our support by not only helping others, but by praying for others.

Thematic Concepts & Topics:

Valentine’s Day:

We celebrate Valentine’s Day by showering our friends and family with love and affection.

Red and pink are the customary colors of the day and we exchange hearts to let others know we love them.

Valentine’s Day is a wonderful time to say thank you to God for all of the love he has given us through our family, friends and from Him.

Colors:

There are three primary colors: red, blue, yellow.

Secondary colors are made by mixing two primary colors together (red + blue=purple).

Brown is made by mixing all 3 primary colors together.

Black is a mixture of all colors.

Tertiary colors are made by mixing a primary color with a secondary color (e.g. yellow-green).

Our sight sense uses light to see different colors.

Circle Time Activities & Games:

Playing “Pass the Heart Around”- similar to “Musical Squares”

Playing “Heart Numbers”.  This game involves each child finding the friend who has the half a heart that matches the number on that child’s heart (e.g., the #4 half goes with the half that has 4 dots on it).

Going on a color scavenger hunt that requires each child to collect certain color objects.

Having children bring me the color cards needed to make a secondary color (e.g., “I want green.  Who has two colors I can use to make green?”).

Following the directions (using our color wands) in Hap Palmer’s “Colors” song.

Science and Sensory Activities:

Mixing red and white to make the color pink

Melting two primary colored ice cubes together to create a new, secondary color

Deciding how to make green milk and tasting it- yum!

Engaging in “Color Unmixing”, a process we’ll use to separate secondary colors back into primary colors

Making tertiary colors using shave cream and food coloring

Adding secondary or tertiary colors to homemade play-doh

Math Activities:

Playing “Memory” with Valentine cards

Estimating how many conversation hearts are in a jar

Matching wallpaper hearts

Matching numbered hearts to numbered clothes pins

Sorting hearts by color and size (smallest to largest)

Fine-Motor Activities: (fine-motor activities develop small muscles in the fingers and hands, as well as improve eye-hand coordination)

Making hearts out of Valentine play-doh

Tracing heart pictures

Finding and cutting out matching pairs of heart pictures

Sorting through red confetti to find foam hearts

Cutting out pieces of “heart puzzles” and using them to create a completed puzzle

Learning to cut out hearts by drawing them on the fold of a sheet of paper then cutting

Writing Valentine letters and mailing them in our class mailbox

Making Valentine pictures using valentine stamps and stamp pads

Gross-Motor Activities: (gross-motor skills include whole body, large-muscle movements)

Valentine Heart Matching Game (children find friend who has a matching heart and lines up with him/her)