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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Give little learners the foundation they need for school and life with this essential collection of activities from veteran preschool teacher Katie T. Christiansen. Using her years of experience developing curriculum, she has curated 75 easy hands-on projects centered on the most important skills children should practice between the ages of 3 and 5―from literacy, math and science to gross- and fine-motor skills and social-emotional mindfulness....
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Dance, Turn, Hop, Learn! is a sourcebook for early childhood educators who are interested in adding a movement component to their curriculum. The book includes thirty-eight fun and creative movement lessons built around basic early childhood themes and learning standards.
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Shares eight humorous stories with complex words for beginning readers. New blends, more sight words, and longer complex words advance readers' skills, while sounds repetition keeps reading easy. Meaningful stories and playful pictures help kids stay absorbed and continue building interest in reading
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
The perfect book to introduce rhythm instruments to young children. The activities bring music into the classroom and offer ways for children to participate in the music experience, using rhythm sticks, sand blocks, bells, shakers, and more! Children make the sound of the ocean waves using shakers, pretend to be a train using sand blocks, create a rainstorm with rhythm sticks and perform circus tricks with jingle bells. Plus, they learn to play the...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
To a four-year-old watching bulldozers or chasing butterflies in a field, the world is awash with promise. Children come hardwired to learn in virtually any setting and about anything. Yet in today's preschools and kindergartens, learning has been reduced to scripted lessons and suspect metrics that undervalue children's intelligence while overtaxing their growing brains.