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October Preschool Theme - 4 weeks of fun, educational preschool activities with free printables and recommended reading list!

Here’s our full October preschool schedule! My approach to home-preschooling my 4 and 2 year old (he’s really just a tag-a-long) is one small activity a day, and lots of books to help explore our learning areas. My boys’ attention spans just aren’t that long right now, so one small thing a day is what works for us. You can also follow us on Instagram where I document our preschooling adventures!

You can check out my preschool printables in my printables library. I also have 8 preschool binder planning printables over there as well.


Theme: Fall Fun

Things to explore: Fire Safety Prevention Week (4th-10th), Domestic Violence Awareness Month (talk about kindness, ways to handle anger, etc)

Celebrate: Wear purple day (DV awareness), Halloween

Numbers: 3, 4

Letters: P (pumpkin, purple), J (jack-o’-lantern)

Color: Orange

Shape: Square


Week 1 – Fire Safety Prevention Week

Monday: Fire Safety Hot/Cold Classification

Tuesday: Fire Safety Scavenger Hunt | At a Fire printable

Wednesday: Stop, Drop, & Roll | Watch fire safety videos

Thursday: Bilingual Number Tracing for the numbers 3 and 4

Friday: The Color Orange printable

Books to read: No Dragons for Tea (Fire Safety for Kids), The Fire Engine Book


Week 2 – Pumpkins

Monday: The Life Cycle of a Pumpkin Worksheet and this cute video that goes perfectly with it

Tuesday: Pumpkin Coloring Pages

Wednesday: Make pumpkin sugar cookies

Thursday: P is for Pumpkin Worksheet

Friday: Five Little Pumpkins Poem

Books to read: Apples and Pumpkins


Week 3 – Domestic Violence Awareness (Kindness)

Some may find it strange that I’m adding domestic violence awareness to our preschool “areas to explore”, but I really just saw it as a perfect opportunity to focus on being kind to one another and talking about handling our emotions in a safe and healthy way!

Monday: Spanish Color Matching Cards printable

Tuesday: Letters J and P mini-book coloring pages

Wednesday: Sing Spanish songs (Buenos Dias) & (Dias de la Semana) | Square Owl craft | Hang this printable of a square on the fridge

Thursday: Hands are for Helping craft (make purple flowers for #PurpleThursday DV awareness)

Friday: Build a Robot square craft

Books to read: Hands Are Not for Hitting (2-3 years), Hands Are Not for Hitting (4-7 years), Voices Are Not For Yelling, Words Are Not for Hurting (2-3 years), Words Are Not for Hurting (4-7 years), Cool Down and Work Through Anger, Respect: Dare to Care, Share, and Be Fair, Manners Time (Toddler Tools)


Week 4 – Halloween

Monday: Easy Pumpkin craft for scissor skills

Tuesday: Easy Spider Paper Plate Craft

Wednesday: Witches Hats

Thursday: Footprint Ghosts

Friday: Paper Plate Ghost

Books to read: Mouse’s First Halloween, The Night Before Halloween, Bats at the Library



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8 Comments September 21, 2015

About Jessica Dimas

Jessica is author of the books "Sacred Self-Care for the Highly Sensitive Mom" and "Anything Can Be: A Reference Guide for Applying the Law of Attraction." She is a Huffington Post contributor and has been featured on sites such as Scary Mommy, FamilyShare, and BlogHer. She has a BA degree in psychology and lives in Arizona with her husband and two sons.

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  1. Jennifer | The Deliberate Mom says

    September 21, 2015 at 11:21 am

    What a lovely month you have planned!

    How did September go? Are you liking your new schedule/program?

    You have a nice variety of activities too – directing at fun (pumpkins, Halloween) and important (Fire Safety, kindness) themes.

    Thanks for sharing!

    Wishing you a lovely day.
    xoxo

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    • Jessica Dimas says

      September 23, 2015 at 12:38 pm

      September is going well! Doing one thing a day is working soooo much better than trying to pull of a traditional preschool day. I’m even enjoying it myself, unlike last time lol. Thanks for your feedback on my little schedule here, it’s encouraging 🙂

      Thanks for commenting Jennifer! xo

      Reply
  2. Chelsea @ Life With My Littles says

    September 21, 2015 at 1:40 pm

    Once again, LOVE THIS! I am definitely saving this for my little man!

    Reply
    • Jessica Dimas says

      September 23, 2015 at 12:39 pm

      Thanks Chelsea!! I hope you find some things you like!

      Reply
  3. Tiffany @ A Touch of Grace says

    September 22, 2015 at 3:11 pm

    I love that you’re teaching them about kindness and handling there emotions Jessica. So important!
    Great month you have planned!

    Reply
    • Jessica Dimas says

      September 23, 2015 at 12:40 pm

      Yes, I agree! Never too early to start teaching them about those things 🙂 Thanks for commenting Tiffany! xo

      Reply
  4. Ileana says

    September 25, 2015 at 2:27 pm

    You have made life easy peasy for the rest of us! Thank you so much.

    Reply
  5. Cindy Hasko says

    September 25, 2015 at 11:45 pm

    Great and fun lessons and things for your boys to do. I bet they enjoy it. Keep posting pics of the things that you guys make. It’s fun to see. Also, I’m all about those Pumpkin Sugar Cookies. You can post a pic of those too!! ha! 😉

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