The Giant Encyclopedia of Preschool Activities for Four-year-olds


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This wide-ranging collection of more than 600 teacher-created, classroom-tested activities has everything from songs and books to activities in art, circle time, transitions, science, math, language, music and movement, and more This complete resource of the best selections from a national contest is sure to become a classroom favorite. Formerly titled "It s Great to Be Four." Kathy Charner has been with Gryphon House for over 10 years. She is the editor of several books, including: "The GIANT Encyclopedia of Circle Time Activities"; "The GIANT Encyclopedia of Art and Craft Activities"; "The GIANT Encyclopedia of Science Activities"; and "The GIANT Encyclopedia of Theme Activities.""




The Giant Encyclopedia of Preschool Activities for Three-year-olds


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Looking for tried and true ways to capture the attention of your three-year-olds? This comprehensive collection of over 600 teacher-created activities provides hours of fun and interesting activities perfectly tailored for this age group. Discover new ways to use everyday items to create fresh, exciting art projects; learn new classroom management techniques from experienced teachers; and find helpful tips for working with three-year-olds.




200 Essential Preschool Activities


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200 Essential Preschool Activities promotes children's learning, helps improve their functional skills, and encourages interaction in the classroom. This resource provides preschool, pre-kindergarten, and student teachers with an abundance of developmentally appropriate lessons, all developed by the author and used in her own classroom for more than fifteen years. These adaptable, open-ended activities and strategies complement any early childhood program's core curriculum. 200 Essential Preschool Activities provides activities for and information on: Creative centers, including dramatic play areas and discovery and sensory areas Learning games, including turn-taking and board games, academic games, and cooperative and active games Group lessons, including circle time, social lessons, hands-on skill builders, and musical games and finger plays Arts and crafts, including child-centered expressive art and creative tools and methods Classroom structure, including classroom areas and centers and creating learning opportunities Parent involvement Julienne M. Olson has been teaching early childhood special education since 1995. She holds a bachelor's degree in early childhood special education and a master's degree in early childhood special education.




Treasury of Year-Round Preschool Activities


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Designed for busy teachers, daycare workers, and parents, this book contains weekly activities, lesson ideas, arts and crafts and cooking activities for preschool age children.




Preschool Activities


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Make Your Own Preschool Games


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Nearly 90% of all brain growth occurs in the first five years of life. Parents can capitalize on this impressionable time by improving and varying the sights, sounds, and smells in a child's immediate surroundings. With this eminently practical guide in hand, parents can actively promote the motor, cognitive, and social skills that will make a difference in a child's readiness for formal, academic learning later on. Ideal for busy parents, Make Your Own Preschool Games describes quick and inexpensive-to-make activities that can be assembled from materials found at home -- paper cups, bottle caps, clothespins, magazines, shoeboxes, and grocery bags. Designed to be used as part of dynamic play, these games will help expand a child's math, science, art, music, language, reading, and writing knowledge while providing the necessary and fun one-on-one bonding time that every child craves with her parents.




Jumbo Book of Preschool Activities


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Filled with materials and activities to be photocopied, this volume is an essential tool for any preschool teacher.







Giant Book of Preschool Activities, Grades PK - K


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Help students in grades PK–K make connections and reinforce learning while keeping the classroom manageable using Giant Book of Preschool Activities. This 304-page book provides practice for the skills and functions needed for early childhood development. With more than 26 themes and 500 activities, this book makes it practically impossible to run out of ideas for teaching social, motor, memory, and auditory skills. The book includes ideas for movement, rhyming, circles, counting, games, and centers and comes with reproducibles, literature selections, Web site suggestions, and an index of activities by skill. This book supports NAEYC standards and aligns with state, national, and Canadian provincial standards.




Preschool Kid Game Ideas


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These preschool kid game ideas are great for children aged 2 - 5. These help foster critical thinking skills and creativity in toddlers and pre-schoolers. Both parents and teachers will find these activities great for learning games for kids, as fun toddler games and activities as well as fun preschool craft ideas for kids. Youngsters can play these little kids games indoors or outdoors. These include games to help children learn the basic colors, learn new words, learn shapes, learn to correctly put puzzles together, match similar items and much more. All games and activities combine doing with learning. Kids learn as they do something. They'll learn that colors have various shades, and how to pick out a specific color in their indoor and outdoor environments. Fun activities include art drawing and making a collage. The new words games focus on kids' interaction and problem solving skills as well as putting a focus on responsibility. Find fun money games for kids, nutrition games for kids, problem solving activities and fun spelling games. There are also many activities for kids to learn shapes and sizes which hone in on children's cooperation, concentration and discovery skills. You'll find animal games for kids, art games for kids, card games for kids, counting games, kids memory games, matching games and much more. Preschool educational games include Christmas activities for kids, cooking games for kids, Easter games for kids, Halloween kids games, kids science games and lots more fun activities including making colorful paper chains and play dough. Little kids love, and want, to learn! Once learning is made fun for them and incorporated into everyday living, they'll be eager for more learning each day.