Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Schools - Levels - Early Childhood (Incl. Preschool & Kindergarten

Learn creative new ways to help children think and discover on their own. With over 70 sand and water table ideas, children develop problem-solving skills by applying knowledge, facts, and techniques in their world. Designed for children ages three to six, "Sand and Water" uses fun mediums like aquarium rocks, bird seed, mud and worms, rock salt and more to encourage children to release tension, concentrate, and become absorbed in an activity.

Sherrie West has been active in the field of early childhood education for twenty years as a teacher and trainer. Amy Cox is a supervising teacher...

With over 50 great activities, "Block Play" is a must-have for every teacher. Clear descriptions of what children learn by playing with blocks accompany the activities. Each activity encourages developmental skills such as problem-solving, math, science, language, and social skills. Watch children experience the joy of learning through blocks

Sharon MacDonaldis the best-selling author of "Squish, Sort, Paint, & Build" and "Everyday Discoveries." She has been involved in early childhood classrooms for 28 years, and now spends her time training teachers and writing books and articles. She...

This book was written late in the author's life and was intended only as a first draft. Nevertheless, it displays the author's keen observation of children and nature and a lifetime of...

When two-year olds begin in nursery schools and day care centers, they need activities specially designed to expand their capabilities and interests. The activities, which both teachers and children will enjoy, develop self-image, listening, language, social growth, movement, science, math, and music. These activities will keep a young toddler s mind as active as their body. It includes introductory sections covering basic and individual goals, classroom assessment, scheduling, discipline, materials, parent involvement, and assessment. Shape Walks, Mitten Week, Bunny May I, and many other...

This book informs students and scholars of early childhood education about the vital influences that imagination in preschool education has exerted upon the lives of various populations. It explores the deeper imaginations of scholars of philosophy and theory, and describes how their work has found its way into present-day classroom practices. The imagination of early philosophers, writers, and teachers, like Aesop, Plato, Socrates, Rousseau, and Locke, are considered in terms of how they affected the theories of Comenius, Oberlin, Pestalozzi, Froebel, Montessori, Freud, Piaget, and...

The author shows how to link activities to the Early Learning Goals and the National Literacy Strategy and the book includes:

• Lesson activities using puppets, nursery rhymes, story boxes, and picture books
• Suggestions for using role-play
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Peer buddy systems have been demonstrated as very successful with older students. Positive effects are recognized for the individuals...