Preschool category: 2281 books
Let's Take It Outside!
Teacher-Created Activities for Outdoor Learning
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Children love outdoor play. Now teachers can combine the magic and excitement of the outdoors with activities that encourage and support learning! With more than one hundred new teacher-created, classroom-tested outdoor activities, Let's Take It Outside! engages children's minds and bodies as they...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Curious kids will delight in the wonder of the creative process with the fifty art-inspiring activities in The Budding Artist! With great ways for you and your budding artist to create beautiful memories together, this book shows parents and kids how to paint with bubbles, create glue webs, make a...
Let's Play
(Un)Curriculum Early Learning Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Let children experience the learning power of play! Let’s Play is a handbook full of child-led, open-ended learning adventures. The 39 fresh, fun, and budget-friendly activities (plus more than 225 play variations) are packed with learning that helps children develop important motor, cognitive,...
Seven Skills for School Success
Activities to Develop Social and Emotional Intelligence in Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
What do children need to learn first? Their ABCs? Their numbers? As it turns out, the “what” children need to develop is their social intelligence and emotional intelligence, the essential building blocks for all future learning. Best-selling author Pam Schiller provides information, activities,...
Start Smart! Rev. Ed.
Building Brain Power in the Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Did you know that emotions boost our memory? Or that small muscle exercises help the brain develop? Early experiences contribute to the structure of the brain and its capacities. The quality, quantity, and consistency of stimulation will determine, to a large extent, the number of brain synapses that...
Count on Math
Activities for Small Hands and Lively Minds
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
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
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
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
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...
Do You Know the Muffin Man?
Literacy Activities Using Favorite Rhymes and Songs
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,...
Early Childhood Play Matters
International Teaching Through Play: Birth to 6 Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Play-based learning has long been a means of facilitating teaching and learning in the early childhood years. The Walker Learning Approach, an Australian-designed, evidence-based play pedagogy, provides a solid base and foundation for intentional and responsive teaching in the early years. The program’s...
Applied Behavior Analysis in Early Childhood Education
An Introduction to Evidence-based Interventions and Teaching Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Applied Behavior Analysis in Early Childhood Education provides a basic introduction to applied behavior analysis and the highly beneficial role that it can play in early childhood education for both typically developing children and those with special needs. The objective is to provide future and...
by Robbin Miller
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
EJ meets a new friend at Playgroup today who cries on his first day. Through a few mishaps and itty bitty adventures, EJ demonstrates how much fun it is to make new friends and to have fun.