40 Weekly Themes for Early Years Planning

Your whole year planned – 40 weeks, 40 themes, ready to teach.

Each theme gets two pages: a story starter with Pip the hedgehog, a full-color illustration and a mind map – followed by a practical weekly plan you can use right away.

Every week includes:

• a story starter with Pip and a mind map with 6 branches
• 3 learning goals
• circle time questions
• activities for 4 learning centers (art, blocks & building, science & discovery, dramatic play)
• a movement game, an action rhyme, a riddle and a pre-writing pattern
• observation checklist – 2 points for portfolios and progress notes
  Themes run from Hello, School! through apples, St. Nicholas Day, snow and spring to Off to Big School. Year-at-a-glance page included. A4 PDF (84 pages), prints well on US Letter with “fit to page”.

Illustrations were created with the help of AI tools and checked by hand; texts and activities were written by a teacher.