Preschool category: 2281 books
Science is Simple
Over 250 Activities for Children 3-6
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
What do seeds need to grow? What can the wind do? What is dirt?
Like learning to count or read, understanding the fascinating world of science is an essential skill. This innovative book encourages three-to-six-year olds to predict outcomes, ask questions, and investigate answers. Watch preschoolers...
It's a Jungle Out There!
52 Nature Adventures for City Kids
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Just because you live in the city doesn’t mean you can't enjoy nature. This compact guide offers 52 nature-focused explorations, adventures, observations, and games that can help you and your child connect to nature while living in the city. While it may be hard to see nature through the traffic,...
Time to Create
Hands-On Explorations in Process Art for Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Forget stuffy, structured craft activities; your child needs time to create!
Rather than merely teaching your child to name colors and to hold a pencil, the hands-on process art experiences in Time to Create encourage discovery through a variety of art media, including drawing, painting,...
Everyday Early Learning
Easy and Fun Activities and Toys Made from Stuff You Can Find Around the House
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
Children can pluck an elastic band to learn about the vibrations that create music, or they can bake a cake to learn measurement and reading skills.
Everyday Early Learning provides a myriad of ways to use everyday items for great early learning opportunities. For each activity, the book lists...
Discovering Nature with Young Children
Part of the Young Scientist Series
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2003
Project funded by the National Science Foundation. No Child Left Behind national education legislation has science standards as a requirement, so teachers of young children will be interested. Field tested activities
Supporting Boys' Writing in the Early Years
Becoming a writer in leaps and bounds
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Julie Cigman uses a vast range of personal vignettes to explain best practice when encouraging boys to write. The theory is brought to life with these recollections, making this a very informative and enjoyable book to read. The ideas for working together with boys are beautifully simple and are tried...
Men in Early Years Settings
Building a Mixed Gender Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
This book explores the role of male professionals in early years settings and provides guidance for early years practitioners, managers and policy makers on building a more mixed-gender workforce by successfully attracting, recruiting, retaining and developing men in their teams.
Men make up...
by Pamela J. Wolfberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This now classic text remains a cornerstone of continuing efforts to develop inclusive peer play programs for children on the autism spectrum. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect major new developments in the field of autism. Notable additions include an updated description of...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
If you are a student or practitioner in the early years sector, you need to develop a rounded understanding of key issues in this fast-moving field. This new and updated edition provides a critical examination of the essential issues in early years policy and practice. With contributions from highly...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Peer Relationships in Early Childhood Education and Care brings together fresh perspectives and research about young children’s relationships. It examines children’s rights and well-being against a backdrop of increased social movement and migration, changing family structures and work practices,...
Narrative Development of School Children
Studies from Multilingual Families in Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
This book reports the current aspects of children from multilingual families in Taiwan and describes these children's perceptions towards their linguistic, academic, and social development from a survey study and a discourse analysis study. The discourse analysis study focuses on the narrative developments...
Educating Children with AD/HD
A Teacher's Manual
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) is the most common behavioural disorder affecting up to five per cent of children in the UK. This book provides a concise and comprehensive guide to educating children with AD/HD, offering a theoretical introduction to the disorder, and practical guidance...
Simple Steps
Developmental Activities for Infants, Toddlers, and Two-Year-Olds
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
Teach children ages birth through two with these 300 activities focused on the incremental development of young children. Observe what children are already doing, then give them varied opportunities to develop at their own pace. Simple Steps outlines a typical developmental sequence, offering children the opportunity to practice new skills in a developmentally appropriate way.
Building Brains
600 Activity Ideas for Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Building Brains expands young children's learning with six hundred brain-based, developmentally appropriate activity ideas. It combines the latest information on brain development with activities that support children's learning and enrich any early childhood curriculum. Rather than step-by-step activities,...