Early Years Themes: Special Days and Celebrations

Early Years Themes – Special Days and Celebrations is a comprehensive teacher resource book, designed to cater for early childhood teachers who use learning centres and cross-curricular activities as a basis for planning activities to develop key concepts and skills. Teachers will easily be able to locate activity-based learning within this complete compilation of ideas.

The themes covered are:

• Birthdays
• Christmas
• Easter
• Mother’s Day
• Father’s Day
• Valentine’s Day
• Eid-al Fitr/Diwali/Chinese New Year/Hanukkah

Features:

• icons to enable teachers to locate activities quickly
• cross-curricular learning activities
• art and craft activities
• teacher background information
• early literacy and numeracy activities
• age-appropriate, useful artwork
• display ideas
• suggested books, songs, rhymes, poems
• recipes
• curriculum links