Here are practical guidelines and step-by-step techniques for organizing and implementing a successful preschool program. Included are strategies and reproducibles for classroom management, curricula planning, learning centers, storytelling, nutrition and cooking and more. View More...
These age-specific books provide you with important information about how young children are growing and changing, and what you can do to lay a strong foundation for later learning. Calendar-like pages, designed to be displayed, offer developmentally appropriate activity suggestions for each season. Each book includes ideas for games, recipes, songs, poems, and more, plus practical parenting advice This year your three-year-old will expand his or her ability to understand and use language. Mental, physical, and social skills will improve just as quickly. As the year progresses, so do all your... View More...
This easy-to-read book discusses how the typical learning centers in preschool classrooms - blocks, pretend play, music, reading, art, and others - can be adapted for children with special needs. As with the first edition, the author explains the importance of play as a medium for learning and describes ways to teach general and specific learning objectives through the informal use of toys and classroom materials. Included in the book are sample activities, two chapters on how to help children learn to play in groups and make friends, and play checklists. This completely revised and updated ed... View More...
Essays on life that will resonate deeply as readers discover how universal insights can be found in ordinary events. More than thirty years ago, Robert Fulghum published a simple credo--a credo that became the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. Today, after being embraced around the world and selling more than seven million copies, Fulghum's book retains the potency of a common though no less relevant piece of wisdom: that the most basic aspects of life bear its most important opportunities. Here Fulghum engages us with musings on life... View More...
In an inclusive early childhood classroom, the everyday challenges you face can seem overwhelming--especially if you have little experience working with children who have disabilities. This easy-to-use guidebook throws you a lifeline, offering strategies for teaching preschoolers with special needs, tailoring activities to individual needs, and working on a child's IEP goals. At the heart of the book is the authors' Building Blocks model, three practical methods you'll use to include young children with disabilities in your classroom: curriculum modifications that allow all children to partici... View More...
These books show how to encourage young children to discover the seasons with their senses. Includes learning ideas, songs, rhymes, snack ideas, movement activities, and beginning art and science projects. View More...
Everything you need to set up and manage the best routines and practices for young learners. From shared reading to snack time, literacy centers to outdoor play, this book provides all the step-by-steps to make teaching in a Pre-K or Kindergarten classroom a success. For use with Grades PreK-K. View More...
Designed to help students comprehend the complexity of child development, this edition of Developmental Profiles: Pre-birth through Twelve, 4E outlines major characteristics for each of the developmental domains in a concise, non-technical, point-by-point format. Developmental profiles have been expanded to include middle childhood, and sections highlighting children's daily routines and patterns have been incorporated to help students, parents, and teachers understand the interrelated nature of development and translate emerging skills into everyday behavior. Content has been updated to refle... View More...
This text suggests that outstanding kindergarten programs provide both a print-rich play environment and carefully organized learning experiences. Effective kindergarten programs respect the learning process of each student and acknowledge that children require different instructional strategies. View More...
Bring the classroom home with Step Ahead workbooks from Golden Books This teacher-approved guide to classroom basics is perfect for kids heading into preschool--with 39 colorful stickers Carefully planned by teachers to complement the school curriculum, every Step-Ahead workbook provides positive learning experiences through a variety of interactive, kid-friendly activities. In I'm Ready for School, children will learn about: -Left and right -Counting 1 to 10 -The alphabet View More...
Jesus Loves Me Give powerful meaning to these words with 13 lessons specially designed for preschoolers With both Old and New Testament Bible stories, preschoolers will understand God's love and that Jesus is the ultimate expression of that love.In this easy-to-use lesson book, you'll get: Fun, interactive lessons featuring Bible story activities, singing, snacks and crafts that will keep your wiggly little ones active and engaged Creative ways to help little ones get to know God's love, and joyfully learn vital Bible facts, like: God made us, God listens to us, Jesus protects us, Jesus love... View More...
These age-specific books provide information about how young children are growing and changing and what parents and teachers can do to lay a strong foundation for later learning. Calendar-like pages offer developmentally appropriate activity suggestions for each season. Ideas for games, recipes, songs, poems, and more View More...
The authors reveal children as growing, effective, sensitive users of language. Before any formal schooling, they have already had much experience with language - opportunities to compare, contrast, and use it in a wide variety of settings. Children are adaptive, and are aware of the contextual subtleties of language; the written and spoken evidence of children's encounters with language is the basis of the research. This evidence tells stories - language stories, from which lessons about the nature of literacy may be drawn. While this is not a methods text in a traditional sense, it is essen... View More...
David Elkind's new book is designed to help parents avoid the miseducation of young children that is on the increase today. Across the country--in schools and in homes--educational programs intended for school-age children are being misappropriated for the instruction of preschoolers. Books, lectures, and the media propagate the idea that only a "superkid" can grow up to compete successfully in the adult world--thereby encouraging parents to teach infants and young children academic and athletic skills. Yet, there is considerable evidence that early instruction can do lasting harm--that young ... View More...
David Elkind's new book is designed to help parents avoid the miseducation of young children that is on the increase today. Across the country--in schools and in homes--educational programs intended for school-age children are being misappropriated for the instruction of preschoolers. Books, lectures, and the media propagate the idea that only a "superkid" can grow up to compete successfully in the adult world--thereby encouraging parents to teach infants and young children academic and athletic skills. Yet, there is considerable evidence that early instruction can do lasting harm--that young ... View More...
Teachers of toddlers loved "Toddlers Together." This new book is arranged seasonally, and packed with over 200 activities arranged by theme within each season. Additions include 19 new themes; how to set up learning centers for toddlers; suggestions of toys, books, and materials to use with toddlers; a suggested daily schedule and a sample newsletter. This is a complete curriculum resource for teachers of toddlers. View More...
In this memoir about kids, creativity, and the power of songwriting, Dulabaum inspires and entertains. The book includes a detailed songwriting process, a CD of 16 songs to sing along with and classroom activities to enhance the value of the songs. A great way for teachers to expose their students to the writing process and encourage their personal creativity. View More...
Parents Now a Book Full of Games and Activities To Help Your Preschool Children Get Ready for Kindergarten. On Track To KINDERGARTEN features 52 tear-out activity calendars plus game, song, writing, and coloring pages. Each calendar is in the shape of a large train car filled with five activities children can do by themselves or with a partner. The activities and games help children learn to read, count, color, sing, be confident, and so much more After children play each activity/game they can color that section of the train car. By the end of the week the car will be full of color and read... View More...
Oral language is the foundation of learning to read and write. In the preschool years, development of oral language skills - including both speaking and listening skills - is crucial to children's future reading achievement and school success. This book provides preschool educators and administrators with the knowledge they need to create a language-rich program that promotes children's talking, reading, and writing. Authors Kathleen A. Roskos, Patton O. Tabors, and Lisa A. Lenhart present a simple model for joining oral language and early literacy that will prepare children for life both in a... View More...
Positive Discipline for Positive Results Caring for young children is one of the most challenging tasks an adult will ever face. No matter how much you love the child, there will be moments filled with anger, frustration, and even desperation. There will also be questions: Why does my child deliberately lie to me? Why won't she listen to me? Should I ever spank her when she is disobedient?Over the years, millions of parents just like you have come to trust Jane Nelsen's "Positive Discipline" series. These books offer a commonsense approach to child-rearing that so often is lacking in today's w... View More...
The Practice and Learn series reinforces grade-level skills for children in elementary school. Both parents and teachers can benefit from the variety of exercises in each book. Teachers and parents can select pages to provide additional practice for concepts covered in class and reinforce homework assignments. Ready-to-use worksheets are ideal for summer review. View More...
