Gryphon House Inc imprint: 185 books

Count on Math

Activities for Small Hands and Lively Minds

by Pam Schiller, PhD, Lynn Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997

The activities in this book reflect children's real world math experiences--counting candles on a birthday cake, sorting and classifying toys, making sure there is a one-to-one correspondence between children and cookies. Children learn spatial relationships, patterning, shapes, numeration, and many...

The Complete Resource Book for Infants

Over 700 Experiences for Children from Birth to 18 Months

by Pam Schiller, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005

The Complete Resource Book for Infants is a collection of experiences and activities that maximize learning and development for children from birth to eighteen months. The ideas are organized by developmental area: language, social-emotional, physical, and cognitive, which are the essential building...

Starting with Stories

Engaging Multiple Intelligences Through Children's Books

by Pam Schiller, PhD, Pat Phipps
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006

Featuring one hundred well-loved and easily available children’s books, Starting with Stories has more than 1,500 activities to actively engage every learning style. This literature-based resource book combines quality children’s books, learning centers, and multiple intelligences to give teachers a comprehensive, creative curriculum.

And the Cow Jumped Over the Moon

Over 650 Activities to Teach Toddlers Using Familiar Rhymes and Songs

by Pam Schiller, PhD, Thomas Moore
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006

Toddlerhood, the age from 12 months to 3 years, is the most fertile time of life for acquiring and understanding the elements of language. With more than 250 songs, rhymes, and chants, this book is a fun way to enrich toddlers’ language experiences. By incorporating songs, chants, and rhymes into...
by Pam Schiller, PhD, Patricia Carter Dyke
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001

The Practical Guide to Quality Child Care is a uniquely comprehensive manual for administrators who manage child care facilities. This clear and easy-to-read handbook provides specific guidelines for virtually every aspect of early childhood administration. Its sample criteria, procedures for program...
by Pam Schiller, PhD, Clarissa Willis
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008

Best-selling, award-winning authors Pam Schiller and Clarissa Willis have teamed up to create this collection of 100 literacy lessons, designed to introduce children ages 3-6 to a variety of literacy concepts and build important literacy skills. Each of these simple, fun lessons offers adaptations...

Do You Know the Muffin Man?

Literacy Activities Using Favorite Rhymes and Songs

by Pam Schiller, PhD, Thomas Moore
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004

Rhyme, rhythm, and music are essential parts of a quality early childhood program. The authors of the perennial favorite, Where is Thumbkin? have created activities children will love to accompany the 250 rhymes and songs in this invaluable new literacy book. Children learn letter recognition, vocabulary,...

STEM Play

Integrating Inquiry into Learning Centers

by Deirdre Englehart, EdD, Debby Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016

Most early childhood teachers are using learning centers in the classroom, but do not approach them in ways that fully support a variety of learning opportunities. This book approaches learning centers through the STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) lens, and shares how themes can be...

Jump into Literacy

Active Learning for Preschool Children

by Rae Pica
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007

Jump into Literacy combines children's love of active games with over 100 lively literacy activities. Written by a well-known children's movement specialist, these joyful games will engage the whole child in moving and playing as a way to develop the literacy skills needed for reading and writing....

The Preschool Scientist

Using Learning Centers to Discover and Explore Science

by Robert Williams, EdD
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010

Children learn best through hands-on exploration, observation, and discovery. The more than 100 activities in The Preschool Scientist give children the opportunity to actively engage, experiment, create, and discover, all while exploring the exciting world of science. With a unique inquiry-based approach,...
by Steve Sanders, EdD
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015

Preschoolers are constantly using their bodies to play and learn, whether you encourage activity or not. You can help them stay active as they grow by providing instruction in physical skills, motivating them to develop strength and fluid movements, and challenging them to improve their skill levels....
by Judy Fujawa
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998

Veteran teacher Judy Fujawa offers over two decades of experience in her warm, witty book of lists. Filled with the imminently practical (Creative Gift Ideas, Things to Do With Boxes, Supplies or Materials That Encourage Children to Be Creative) to the philosophical (How Children Learn, Answers to:...
by Jean Feldman, PhD
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....

The Insightful Teacher

Reflective Strategies to Shape Your Early Childhood Classroom

by Nancy Bruski
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...
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