Preschool Kindergarten category: 2281 books
by Kathy Harris
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Do you want your child to be a winner? Birth to five years old is the most critical time of development for children. Everything from sensory pathways to language and higher cognitive functioning is developing rapidly from birth to five years old. Quality early learning programs boost children’s...
Help! For Teachers of Young Children
88 Tips to Develop Children's Social Skills and Create Positive Teacher-Family Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2005
This entertaining and informative resource offers tips on teaching communication and cooperation skills, instilling a positive self-concept in children, and creating effective team relationships with families.
Multi-agency Working in the Early Years
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What does working in partnership look like in practice?
Getting multi-agency working right is an exciting but challenging goal in early years care and education; this book suggests ways to draw together the different professional ideas, methods and targets.
Enhancing the delivery of...
by Rachel Sparks Linfield
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Plan for six weeks of learning covering all six areas of learning and development of the EYFS through the topic of nursery rhymes. The Planning for Learning series is a series of topic books written around the Early Years Foundation Stage designed to make planning easy. This book takes you through six...
by Shelly Newstead
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
"You just can't let them do anything anymore you know..." · Why is risk important in children's play? · How can we protect children's right to play and protect children at the same time? · What is risk-benefit assessment and how can it help - rather than hinder - adults who work where...
Math and Science Investigations
Helping Young Learners Make Big Discoveries
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Young children are naturally interested in the patterns and processes occurring in the world around them. They are beginning to learn about the changes happening each day, month, and season. They are starting to ask questions about the environment and world beyond. They are anxious to explore the...
Early Childhood Education
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
In an accessible and meaningful way, Early Childhood Education examines foundational topics that encourage early childhood education students to think, reflect, and develop opinions, theories, and philosophies about their field. This interactive book invites the reader to develop a personal philosophy...
Get, Set, GO! Sustainability
A step-by-step guide to creating a sustainable early years setting
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Get Set GO! Sustainability covers a wide range of sustainable options that Children's Centres and early years setting can pick up and start with. Ithis book is aimed at those who are new to sustainability and those who are looking to enhance their sustainable status with some new ideas. Set out in...
Reclaiming Childhood
Freedom and Play in an Age of Fear
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Children are cooped up, passive, apathetic and corrupted by commerce… or so we are told.
Reclaiming Childhood confronts the dangerous myths spun about modern childhood. Yes, children today are losing out on many experiences past generations took for granted, but their lives have improved...
by Helen Penn
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Understanding Early Childhood is an introductory text for students on early years courses which offers broad and insightful perspectives across a range of themes on the ways in which we understand and study young children.
Get, Set, GO! Fundraising
A step-by-step guide to fundraising for your early years setting
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Get Set GO! Fundraising is aimed at early years settings and Children's Centres that are new to the world of fundraising. The book offers a wide range of ideas to support you as you venture into the financial world of fundraising. Set out in an easy-to-read style, you can dip into the book at any point, with each page set out in a range of helpful headings to get you going as soon as possible.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2008
This concise reference offers coaches user-friendly guidelines and evidence-based strategies for promoting literacy initiatives, strengthening content knowledge and coaching skills, and collaborating effectively.
From Parents to Partners
Building a Family-Centered Early Childhood Program
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Build collaborative partnerships with families to help the whole family thrive. This book explores the reasons and methods for developing cooperative partnerships, along with tools and strategies to help build the support network for family-centered care. The new edition includes information on how...
Loose Parts
Inspiring Play in Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Use loose parts to spark children's creativity and innovation
Loose parts are natural or synthetic found, bought, or upcycled materials that children can move, manipulate, control, and change within their play. Alluring and captivating, they capture children's curiosity, give free reign to...