Spying Neighborhood Helpers Lesson & Activities
- Reading books about how different people, animals, plants help each other.
- Take a walk around your neighborhood looking for live examples of
- people helping people, animals, or plants
- animals helping people, animals, or plants
- plants helping people, animals, or plants
- Have pre-k students talk about the feelings and emotions people and animals feel when they help others or they are helped by others
- Guide pre-k students in thinking of ways they can help people, animals and plants in their neighborhood.

Traditions Lesson & Activities
- Reading books about the different holidays practiced by different people or cultures.
- Have pre-k students identify at least one tradition such as:
- Holidays
- Bedtime rituals
- Religious practices
- Have pre-k children write down their favorite tradition at the top a sheet of paper then draw a pictures of what their tradition looks like in the past, present, and future.
- Assign a homework activity for pre-k student and family to explore family history to find traditions.
Warm Weather Civics Lesson & Activities
- Read books about warm weather activities
- Preschoolers will list warm weather activities with safety wear or practices that will make the activity safe such as
- Swimming/swimming shoes
- Swimming/eye goggles
- Playing outside/sunscreen
- Take the activity a step further and practice some of these actions in your classroom, outside your school, or at home.
- Preschoolers can practice wearing their own warm weather gear, taking warm weather precautions or learning proper hydrating techniques to keep their body safe.
Making a Map Lesson & Activities
- Read books about different places around the world.
- Have preschoolers draw or paint their physical surroundings such as
- their bedroom
- inside their house
- outside around their house
- their neighborhood
- After preschooler reproduce their physical map on paper using paint or crayons, talk about map directions and how things are represented on their illustration.
- Have a discussion about their drawings and how they stand for actual things and how they relate to one another in their actual surroundings.