This elementary curriculum is a fairly open-and-go plan for homeschool students or traditional classrooms. You will need to gather materials listed each week, but many are common household items. Everything can be bought at your local grocery store or via Amazon. The curriculum was written as a 4-week unit study; however, you could break each lesson into two parts for shorter time frames lasting about 45 minutes each. In addition, in the "notes" section of every lesson, you'll see extension activities. Depending on how you break up the lessons (1x weekly, 2x weekly, 1.5 hour, or 45 minutes, adding in the extensions, etc.), this curriculum could span 16 weeks. It is flexible in the way you administer it, giving you freedom.

Skills covered:

*Sight word recognition

*Identify fairy tales

*Fine motor and pre-writing via crafting

*Mixed-media crafting

*Making predictions and retelling

*Story elements

*Scientific method and basic engineering principles

In addition, multiple subjects are covered but the main focus is language arts, science, and crafts. Every lesson does include an art project, poetry, and social-emotional skills. Therefore, this unit plan makes a great enrichment curricula to add to your core or to use this in conjunction with other unit studies to piecemeal a solid base.

This unit was written with ages 6-8 in mind, however, you can adapt it via the spine reading with a textbook or anthology for older learners or with numerous picture books for younger learners.

You will notice that there are movements, meditations, and science experiments. Everything you need is in the appendices. For the movement portion, you can get creative; however, rather than writing long-winded explanations, you can simply visit our YouTube channel for the pose/movement names. You can learn them first to do with your learners or you can turn on the video and project it. It is your choice.

Every activity can be done with one kid or multiple and while this was written with homeschoolers in mind, this curricula will benefit any learner in any setting! Please do not copy, share, or redistribute this curriculum without express permission from Grow Family Wellness, LLC or Heather Horrell. You may use as a lesson in your facility but may not resell or share.

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