Thematic Units

In my classroom I use integrated thematic units to teach various skills to my students throughout the school year.  The internet is a great resource for finding ideas when planning lessons.  This page will be a compilation of ideas that I have found on the internet, through various resources or my own original ideas.  Feel free to make any suggestions and I hope that you will find this page useful!

Check out these links to articles about the benefits of utilizing integrated thematic units to teach concepts:

Cross Curricular Thematic Instruction

Integrating Music into Language Arts Instruction

Using Thematic Units to Teach Content Reading Subjects

Integrated Curriculum

Updated: here is a PDF document that lists all of the themes that are taught throughout the school year and when.  Click here to see this.

Here are some of the thematic units that I have posted:

1. All About Me
2. Apples
3. Back to School
4. Bears
5. Fire Safety and Community Helpers
6. Transportation
7. Pumpkins
8. Fall
9. Mice are Nice
10. Spiders
11. We Are Thankful
12. Gingerbread Man
13. Christmas Time
14. Marvelous Mittens
15. Penguins
16. Winter Wonderland
17. Down on the Farm
18. Dental Health

Note: The individual thematic pages are also listed under the Thematic Unit heading in the far right column.  I will be adding various thematic pages throughout the year, so check back often!