Pre-school and kindergarten

Teachers from around the globe contributed their favorite activities that they use in the classroom, all focused on topics that teachers use every day!

The Neglected Childprovides everything educators and caregivers need to know to identify and intervene in neglectful situations, while also creating a safe, nurturing, and protective environment for young children.

Develop children's problem-solving and critical-thinking skills?

Preschoolers have a sense of wonder about so many aspects of their world.

Its a common dilemma in early childhood classrooms: How to provide new, interesting experiences on a shoestring budget.

When we imagine happy young children, we picture exuberant and unbridled movement.

Curious kids will delight in the joy of scientific discovery through the fifty fun activities in The Budding Scientist!

The classroom environment is vital for children to get the most out of learning experiences.

Discover the natural curiosity and enthusiasm of toddlers and twos as they explore creative art experiences designed just for them.

Curious kids will be inspired by the endless possibilities of the fifty fun-filled building activities in The Budding Builder!

Up and at ';Em: Easy Ways to Get Fit and Eat Rightis designed to provide a fun, easy way to get students moving, increase their energy, and improve their coordination and gross motor skills as they learn to work cooperatively.

Theres more than one way to be smart!

A positive, strengths-based leadership system is the key to transforming thequality of early childhood programs.

Preschool is a time of wonder when curiosity, development, and learning intersect.

Blocks are a key teaching tool in any early childhood program.

Children love outdoor play.

Nature is not simply what we teach.

Did you know that emotions boost our memory?

Actively engage childrens imaginations with more than three hundred activities for young children organized into a variety of popular themesfrom the alphabet to the weather.

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Each book in the Learn Every Day series features one hundred activities contributed by teachers around the world.

While most activity books encourage indoor explorations, countless adventures and learning opportunities await outside!

Children are naturally interested in their world.

Organized by topic, each of the 20 units has a 5-day plan, providing a week of activities.

Whether you are a teacher looking for ways to strengthen the math learning in your early childhood classroom, an educator in a community of practice who wants to learn more about teaching math in developmentally appropriate ways, or a teacher-educator who wants to offer students an easy-to-use reference and guide for helping young children develop their math competencies and skills, this text will help you make math learning a fun and worthwhile activity in your setting.

Connecting with dual language learners (DLLs) is a growing reality among early childhood educators, who need to learn practical, proven strategies to reach these students.

Children need a broad view of the world to better work with others and achieveacademic success.

A young child's brain grows at a phenomenal rate in the first years of life.

Do you have a child in your early childhood classroom who:Climbs on top of furniture and jumps off?

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Now that you've identified the market need for high-quality child care and you've taken the first steps to building your practice, what's next?

Build the home-school connection to prepare for kindergarten!

Learning about shapes has never been so much fun!

Sometimes misbehavior isn't what it seems.

Excerpted from the national best-seller Preschool Art, MaryAnn Kohl brings you 50 great ways to paint using vegetable dyes, corncobs, cornstarch, shoe polish, and more.

Play is learning!

With new activities and explorations, tips and information to help you understand how to support the littlest learners, and research nuggets to enhance your own professional knowledge, theEncyclopedia of Infant and Toddler Activities, revised, will be your go-to resource!

Most preschool teachers have musical instruments in their classrooms, but may not realize they can use them for science explorations.

Teach children ages birth through two with these 300 activities focused on the incremental development of young children.

The child-care industryessential to American families and to the American economyis at risk of complete collapse.

Explore connections between math and everyday life with your child!

Filled with movement activities, games, fingerplays, chants, and songs, Teachable Transitions transforms necessary transitions into pleasurable moments that children look forward to!

While the visual and performing arts are powerful curricular companions to early STEM experiences, educators may not have the tools and resources to introduce art beyond painting and drawing.

Using the latest brain research to explore and explain differences in how boys and girls learn, this informative resource provides early childhood educators tools to make the way they teach and their classrooms more boy friendly.

In a complex and changing landscape of scarce funding, high turnover rates, and differing views about priorities, the early childhood profession needs an anchor.

Math crops up in everyday activities in so many ways.

You may have noticed out-of-school-time care is burgeoning.

Young children are naturally interested in their world.

Teachers know how important it is to develop children's fine motor skills as a stepping stone to future learning.

The Basics of Starting a Child-Care Business,the first book in The Business of Child Care series, walks readers through each step of planning, developing, and launching their own child-care business.