Preschool Kindergarten category: 2281 books
by Jean Feldman, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The author of the best-selling book Transition Time brings you more attention-grabbing, creative activities to turn potentially stressful transitions into fun learning experiences. These short, simple activities offer new ways to capture children's attention with fingerplays, chants, songs and games....
Routines and Transitions
A Guide for Early Childhood Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2006
- A popular, bestselling early childhood book in Quebec (in its 6th printing, 4th in sales of 200 titles distributed by Distributions Univers in Quebec. - The most comprehensive book available on the topic - Child centered approach adaptable to most programs and settings - Base on extensive research...
Ants in Their Pants
Teaching Children Who Must Move to Learn
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
From sunup to sundown, "extra busy" children have an endless supply of energy and remain on the move throughout the day. Ants in Their Pants offers successful and tested techniques to help caregivers, educators, and parents provide the best support to active learners so they can...
by Dorena Caroli
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
This book traces the birth and evolution of the crèche in France, England, Germany, Russia and Italy from the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of the Second World War, in an attempt to understand from a transnational viewpoint the history of an institution for very young children that was very different...
The Insightful Teacher
Reflective Strategies to Shape Your Early Childhood Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Emphasizing essential interpersonal skills that should be developed in early childhood, this guide offers a holistic approach to developing classroom communities in which each child feels recognized, appreciated, and able to contribute. Taking into account a teacher’s goals, values, strengths, and...
Twenty-five Years of Child Study
The Development of the Programme and Review of the Research at the Institute of Child Study, University of Toronto 1926-1951
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1951
This is the story of the Institute of Child Study, University of Toronto, from its beginning in 1926 to the present. To honour the Director, W.E. Blatz, it has been written by members of the staff and its publication financed by parents of children who have attended the Nursery School and by students,...
Reframing the Early Childhood Curriculum
Educational Imperatives for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Pre-school children have fundamentally different attitudes towards the future and attendant notions of time and space. For this reason, early childhood professionals are optimally placed to lay important foundations for young children's long term development. Children's flexibility of thought, their...
Educational Dimensions of School Lunch
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
School lunch is often regarded as a necessary but inconvenient distraction from the real work of education. Lunch, in this view, is about providing students the nourishment they need in order to attend to academic content and the tests that assess whether content has been learned. In contrast, the...
If You Came This Way
A Journey Through the Lives of the Underclass
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
At each stage of their lives—from infant cribs to teen dropouts to welfare dependents to basement shelters for the elderly—the people of the underclass are shunned by the rest of the population, even by the working poor. The cycle is vicious: Underclass children get little help in their own homes...
by Mrs Mary Whalley, Shirley Allen
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
To achieve Early Years Professional Status candidates must demonstrate that they have effectively led the professional practice of their colleagues across the 0-5 age range. The second edition of this popular text helps Early Years students and experienced practitioners develop the knowledge, skills...
by Mary Mountstephen
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
A growing number of children appear to be experiencing delays or difficulties in their speech, language and communication skills. In this book, the author outlines how to identify these children and how to support them effectively. This pracitcal guide to the field of speech, language and communication...
Language, Learning, and Culture in Early Childhood
Home, School, and Community Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Complex factors affect young children and their families in today’s increasingly diverse world characterized by globalization, the transnational movement of people, and neo-liberal government policies in western and industrialized countries. This book focuses on three of these factors—culture,...
by C. Carter, Shelly Clay-Robison, L. Pickett
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Carter and Pickett explore how educators and families can teach peace education through youth literature and literacy development. Showing how to assess, choose, and make use of literature that can be used to teach both literacy and peace education, they walk through individual methods: recognizing...
Building Blocks
Making Children Successful in the Early Years of School
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
A student's entire journey along the educational spectrum is affected by what occurs—and, crucially, by what does not occur—before the age of eight or nine. Yet early learning has never received the attention it deserves and needs. In his latest book, education expert Gene Maeroff takes a hard...