Pre-school and kindergarten

Because their vocabularies haven't yet caught up with their thoughts and emotions, young children often struggle to communicate.

The children in todays early childhood classroom are more culturally, linguistically, and ability diverse than ever.

Literacy Play is chock-full of creative dramatic play activities that teach important pre-reading skills while bringing childrens imaginations to life!

The activities in this book reflect childrens real world math experiences--counting candles on a birthday cake, sorting and classifying toys, making sure there is a one-to-one correspondence between children and cookies.

Children are spending less timebeing outside in nature, playing,imagining, and learning abouttheir surroundings.

With quick and simple ideas, 101 Easy, Wacky, Crazy Activities is guaranteed to enliven any day.

Caregiver-child interactions are critically important in promoting cognitive, language, and social-emotional learning in young children.

What can you add to your early childhood classroom that will immerse children in rich learning, reduce challenging behaviors, and develop confidence as well as critical thinking and problem-solving skills?

Jump into Math is the perfect way to turn childrens love of active games into learning opportunities!

Babies are naturally active, and their movements help them explore their environment.

Featuring one hundred well-loved and easily available children's books, Starting with Stories has more than 1,500 activities to actively engage every learning style.

Children learn best through hands-on exploration, observation, and discovery.

What do you get when you combine a large appliance box, a garbage bag, tape, a craft knife, and markers?

The classroom environment is an essential component for maximizing learning experiences for young children.

Preschoolers tend to be social beings.

Effective Practice in the Early Years supports students of degrees and foundation degrees in Early years, Early Childhood and related disciplines studying professional practice in the early years.

Effective Practice in the Early Years supports students of degrees and foundation degrees in Early years, Early Childhood and related disciplines studying professional practice in the early years.

Movement-inspiring activities reinforce key literacy and math concepts!

Choose the children's language course trusted by other moms and dads.

Children Learn by Observing and Contributing to Family and Community Endeavors, the latest in the Advances in Child Development and Behavior Series provides a major step forward in highlighting patterns and variability in the normative development of the everyday lives of children, expanding beyond the usual research populations that have extensive Western schooling in common.

Kindergarten kissing games.

The book breaks new ground by placing 'outdoor learning' in a theoretical, historical and social context of changing understandings of children, childhood and the use of the outdoors.

This book offers guidance on how to provide high quality provision for two year olds.

Leading Change in the Early Years focuses on the type of leadership skill needed for leading the reform and change agendas that challenge the early years sector.

This book aims to address some of the aspects of primary physical education about which there is currently a dearth of high quality texts.

Understanding Early Childhood is a comprehensive textbook which offers broad and insightful perspectives across a range of themes on the ways in which we understand and study young children.

Children develop and learn best when their environment is tailored to their individual needs, supported through careful observation, informed assessment and dynamic planning - a cycle which is the bedrock of good early years practice.

Outdoor play is a significant and essential aspect of a young child's development and enjoys a renewed emphasis in early years practice, in keeping with the core principles embedded within the early years tradition.

Parents and Professionals in Early Childhood Settings addresses the complex and sometimes controversial issues that emerge from the care and education of young children.

The Relationship Worlds of Infants and Toddlers explores the concept of relationships as a core element of early childhood education and care.

This accessible book demystifies the links between theory and practice for those studying in the field of early childhood.

This book challenges traditional beliefs and practices of teaching 'written' mathematics in early childhood.

There is continuing emphasis on delivering services for children through 'joined up' thinking and integrated working.

Thinking about early childhood education will offer an academic and critical approach to the wealth of theories that underpin elements of current practice in early childhood care and education.

This indispensible guide uses a unique glossary format to explore some of the key themes in play in early childhood, many of which regularly arise for students, tutors, parents and practitioners.

Children's experiences and well-being in their earliest years underpin and highly influence their future development and learning.

This book explores changes in the nature of the relationship between play, media and commercial culture through a comparison of play in the 1950s/60s and the present day, examining the continuities and discontinuities in play over time.

The term quality is frequently used in early years practice - both in professional discussions and in key policy and literature - but often without question or an agreed understanding of what quality is and as though it is an entirely unproblematic concept.

Nori kam im Meer zur Welt und ist fest davon überzeugt, ein Narwal zu sein.

Making Music in the Primary School is an essential guide for all student and practising primary school teachers, instrumental teachers and community musicians involved in music with children.

This book uniquely describes the work of two Early Years Professionals, drawing on their narrative accounts as they robustly describe and analyse their work with young children.

How can you make gymnastics activity fun, lively and inclusive?

A Guide to Teaching Practice is the major standard text for all students on initial teacher training courses in the UK.

In this accessible and thought-provoking text, the author examines the behaviour of babies and young children in a developmental context, and takes into account the shifts and changes over time as young children grow and mature.

Sandra Smidt sets out to explain what play is and why it is so important as one of the key ways of learning, particularly - but not solely - for young children.

The growing child comes to understand the world, makes sense of experience and becomes a competent social individual.

Have you ever wondered what High/Scope is, where it came from, and how it can be used with young children in your setting?

Poor literacy skills have been shown to have profound effect on the life chances of children and young people.

Children's everyday drawing and writing are paradoxical: charmingly engaging, yet seemingly unremarkable in their ordinariness.

This book explores the contribution of and art and creativity to early education, and examines the role of the atelier (an arts workshop in a school) and atelierista (an educator with an arts background) in the pioneering pre-schools of Reggio Emilia.