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Are you struggling to find high quality, free resources that you can use with your high school social studies students? Having trouble finding materials that improve literacy skills or align with new and evolving state standards?

New Visions for Public Schools has developed full scope and sequence curricular frameworks designed for the Global History and Geography I and II courses and the U.S. History course. The curriculum integrates rich primary and secondary texts, maps, images, videos, and other reputable online sources into materials that meet the New York State K-12 Social Studies Framework’s objectives and provide students an opportunity to improve literacy skills by focusing on thinking critically while reading, writing, and speaking like historians.

We understand that teachers may use resources differently, so we have created and curated high-quality Open Educational Resource (OER) materials available in Google Docs; we encourage teachers to make their own copies of resources and thoughtfully modify to make them useful for their individual needs.

Not sure how to start using the curriculum? Check out our getting started section.

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Playtime Devotions (Heritage Builders (Standard): This makes a wonderful Bible supplement to any curriculum. It's a wonderful stand-alone, easy curriculum, too. It's a great resource for infants through two's and three's. I like to focus on one devotion per week. From an online friend: I use Preschool by Stormie as a curriculum. 'Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work.' Journal of Education 162, 1 (1980): 67-92.; Serafini, Frank W. 'Dismantling the Factory Model of Assessment.'

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'I don’t think I’ve ever seen a collection of resources for teachers as organized as the one New Visions has put together. The multitude of reading and writing strategies organized in one place has saved me hours of searching. The curriculum not only provides ideas and suggestions for how a lesson could work, but it also contains differentiated activities.”

Our preschool curriculum program was designed for children between the ages of 2.5 – 6 years old.

Our preschool curriculum teaches the children their alphabet, numbers, colors and shapes along with learning about each months weekly theme.

Our preschool lesson plans will teach the children about frogs, pets, five senses, farm animals, bugs, zoo animals, birds, dinosaurs, snow, snowmen plus many more learning themes! This is just a short list of our weekly themes that are available in our year of preschool themed curriculum lesson plans.

You can view our entire year of themes by scrolling back up and looking at the colored boxes at the top of the page which displays each month and the four weekly themed lesson plans included!

Below are some of the printable pages that you may receive depending on which month you purchase. Each month offers different types of hands on activities plus all the printable pages needed for the entire month that you purchase.

Cute Letter People Alphabet

Letter A Alphabet Poster

Letter B Alphabet Poster

Letter C Alphabet Poster

Our curriculum is aimed at teaching the children their alphabet, numbers, shapes, pre writing {tracing letters}, learning to count, letter and number recognition, learning beginning sounds {by making letter books}, science activities aimed for preschool kids and so much more.

Each month the children are taught three new letters and one number {September – May}. Above are our letter posters shown are for the month of September. These super cute posters are paper sized and can be printed from your computer, laminated and placed on the wall for the children in your daycare or preschool classrom to be able to view them each day. Each month you will receive three new letter posters to display on the wall. You will also receive the number, shape and color posters to print out and display.

During the summer months {June – August} we review the alphabet, numbers, shapes and colors the children have been learning through the school year.

Free Alphabet Letter Coloring Pages

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Free Letter A
Coloring Page

Free Letter B
Coloring Page

Free Letter C
Coloring Page

View Our Cute Alphabet Letters
Download Our Alphabet Printable Pages Below

Click Here To View & Download All 26 Letters

Wow, cute & free alphabet letters to color. You can download all 26 alphabet coloring pages for free {Limited time}. Some children love coloring pages others do not. If you have children in your daycare that love to color then you may want to click the link above to go over to the ABC coloring page to download these for free to share with the children in your daycare.

Coloring pages are a fine motor activity. It teaches children to color inside the lines. Younger children may not color inside the lines they may just scribble all over the page, don’t worry if they are only scribbling on the page, as they mature they will learn to color inside the lines, encourage each child to be creative and let them color the page however they want, inside the lines..outside the lines, it doesn’t really matter as long as they are having fun.

Make it a relaxing social time for the children, encourage the children to sit together or near each other as they are coloring. While the children are coloing you can ask them questions such as, what letter are you coloring? What color did you color the letter A? You may want to put on some relaxing music {turn it down low}, while they are coloring their alphabet letters, above all..just have fun!

For those children that do not like coloring pages, offer them some plain paper, markers or crayons and let them use their imagination. The key point is to try and be flexible, not every child is going to like the same things. Try to think how you can offer them something similar so they feel like they are a part of the group, but you may need to make it a bit different to make it more enjoyable for them.

Preschool Curriculum Activities For September

Plant Plot Flower Match Up

Letter B - Pre Reading Activity

The above pictures are from our September preschool curriculum. During the month of September the children will be learning the letters A..B..C.

Above you will see two pre reading activities. The first picture the children will match up the letters to the flower pots.The second picture the children glued buttons onto their letter B. If you have children under the age of 3 in your daycare, you may not want to use buttons, you could use pieces of blue paper or use blue stickers.

In the third picture is one of fun printable games. This game will to teach the children their shapes.

In our preschool curriculum children will be using glue and paint along with working on learning how to cut and trace plus we include sensory and fine motor activities into our lesson plans. Sometimes the children will be using rice in a sandbox or planting fake flowers outside or sticking clothespins into holes in an egg carton.

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We try to use recycled items in our lesson plans such as, milk cartons, toilet paper tubes, paper towel rolls, plastic jar covers and egg cartons, they can be easily found or you post a note on yourbulletion board for donations of these types of items.

Preschool Math, Literacy & Science

Dragonfly Writing Page
Trace The Letter D
Color The Picture

Math Activity
How Many Dots?
Learning About Numbers

Our preschool curriculum lesson plans also focus on pre math, pre reading, pre writing and science.

Each month the children will be introduced to three new letters, to help the children learn these new letters they wi