What Are Your Favorite Themes?
Posted by Kim Murphy on 16 Apr 2009 | Posted in: Planning and Curriculum
Something incredibly strange happened when I donned this pirate costume for the June/July Preschool Mailbox® magazine editorial letter. Maybe it was the sassy boots or the nefarious eye patch, but I felt really cool. So cool, in fact, that I really didn’t want to change back into my regular clothing. (After all, Pirate Kim is so much more exciting and adventurous than Editor Kim.) Donning the costume was just as fun as writing the unit, which was chock-full of treasure and parrots and sea creatures (oh my!). I’ve concluded that Pirates and Treasure is now my favorite theme, right above Pumpkins and possibly Pond. What are your favorite themes? Are there any themes you would like to see in The Mailbox magazine? Are there other themes that annoy you so much that you would never do them with your youngsters? Jot me a note and let me know.
Arrrgh!
Kimberly Murphy
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Our state has added persuasive writing as a required genre in K-1 so I’d love some ideas on mini-lessons, books to use, etc. I would also love units on Eric Carle, Mem Fox and Kevin Henkes and I don’t mean cutesy ideas around the books - instead looking at the author’s craft, themes/ characters across books, comparing and contrasting books by the same author, attributes of the books, etc.
I love to teach pirates but I don’t teach it the “typical” way. I use it to teach manners. We spend the week learning about manners so that we can teach those pirates proper manners then we have a pirate feast where we don’t chant down the hatch. The kids have so much fun learning about manners and Jack Hartmann has the best song to introduce our first manner “intrupting.” It is the Silly Pirate Song and the greatest! I hate teaching dinosaurs. I think it is because I can never pronoucne their names correctly so when I teach the required “dinosaurs” I usually go a different route. We dicuss dinosaurs and extinction but we also spend time on endangered animals and what we can do to help take care of our world.
Amy Johnson
Pre-K 4
St. John Nepomuk Catholic School