May 2026
Creative Curriculum Study

Life Cycles and Habitats
Monthly Topic

Keeping Our World Green
Color

white = blanco
Shape

triangle = triangulo
Numbers

17 & 18
Letters

I & O
Spanish Words

bug = insecto
outside = afuera
Spotlight Author

Mo Willems
Suggested Readings
Don’t Let the pigeon Drive the Bus!
The Pigeon Has Feelings Too!
I Broke My Trunk!
The Pigeon Has to Go to School!
I Will Take a Nap!
Waiting Is Not Easy!

bug
Sign Language


Outside
Sung to the tune of: “The Itsy Bitsy Spider”
A fuzzy little caterpillar,
Curled upon a leaf.
Spun her little chrysalis,
And then fell fast asleep.
While she was sleeping,
She dreamed that she could fly
And when she woke up from her nap,
She was a butterfly!
Math & Measuring

Sorting
Children learn to order and sort objects by common attributes, to identify patterns, and to predict the next sequence in a pattern. This occurs when sorting and matching toys during clean up times and noticing when two items share similar characteristics.
Yoga Pose

Spider


Spotlight On...

Social Emotional
Social and emotional development encompasses young children’s evolving capacity to form close and positive adult and peer relationships; to actively explore and act on the environment in the process of learning about the world around them; and express a full range of emotions in socially and culturally appropriate ways.