Pre-school and kindergarten

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

Teachers can integrate literacy across the curriculum and throughout the day with easy, fun activities from Between the Lions(R)!

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.

Children's technology guru Warren Buckleitner offers educators and families his expert advice in this valuable guide to making smart choices about technology and young children.

The tools you need to teach literacy are all around you!

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!

For experts in the field of early care and education, defining and providing technical assistance can be as difficult as nailing jelly to the wall.

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.

Easy Daily Planshas everything a teacher needs for a complete years worth of daily plans!

Theres more than one way to be smart!

Display children's artwork with thoughtfulness and care to help benefit children, teachers and families.

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.

Feel confident and competent when it comes to choosing and implementing the most appropriate technology tools for your early childhood classroom!

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 who experience a traumatic crisis cannot process their feelings without adult support, and it can be hard for teachers to know how to help.

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!

Banish Boredom helps parents find activities that they enjoy, while their children learn and have fun.

Learning about shapes has never been so much fun!

The author of the best-selling book Transition Time brings you more attention-grabbing, creative activities to turn potentially stressful transitions into fun learning experiences.

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.

Best-selling, award-winning authors Pam Schiller and Clarissa Willis have teamed up to create this collection of 100 literacy lessons, designed to introduce children ages 3-6 to a variety of literacy concepts and build important literacy skills.

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.

Award-winning author, Jackie Silberg, encourages bonding between you and your baby in the third edition of Games to Play with Babies.