Analyze your state and school curriculum. Select topics, or themes from these curriculums that you can use to guide instruction in several content areas. For example, if the state and school curriculum expects children to gain an understanding of birds, consider choosing this as a theme.
Decide what types of mandated content area skills and concepts you can teach under the selected theme. For example, under the chosen theme, integrate addition, letter-sound recognition and gross motor development.
Create activities and lessons that relate to the theme you chose and that teach the selected skills and concepts. For instance, to teach addition during the given bird theme, have children use feathers as manipulatives to serve as concrete examples of addends. For letter-sound recognition under the given theme, have children decorate the letter "B" to resemble a bird. For gross motor development, have children flap their arms to pretend that they are birds.
Write down all of your plans for your mini curriculum in a lesson plan book to keep your information and ideas in a neat and organized fashion, making them easily accessible. Depending on the policies of your school district, you may have to present your mini curriculum to the principal or another appropriate administrator.