Fun With Number Rhymes For The Early Years

Presents a useful resource for the early learning setting. This book offers the teachers' notes that provide a variety of activities ideas, and show how the rhymes link to the Early Learning Goals for the foundation stage. It offers photocopiable and illustrated pages that provide the props for the children to participate in the rhyme.

Creative Activities for the Early Years contains over 160 art and music activities for use with children aged 0-5. These tried and tested activities, which include songs, rhymes, and story suggestions, are ideal for use in all early years settings. Whether your topic is the autumn, the Chinese New Year or the coastline, you can be sure that children will find the art and music ideas in this book interesting and entertaining. The activities encourage children to use their imagination to communicate ideas, and develop their gross and fine motor skills. The activities are grouped by popular early years themes and can be used as a complete programme or as a dip-in resource.

Contains 83 delightful new rhymes and poems. Teachers' notes provide suggestions for using rhymes to support learning across the curriculum. The rhymes and poems are linked and cross-referenced to popular themes. The rhymes will foster a love of rhythm and rhyme, create a sense of beat and rhythm and lay the foundations for understanding patterns in language, music and mathematics. Use and enjoy the rhymes and poems on their own or as a way of introducing new ideas and starting discussions.

Number and calculating provides play activities for mathematical concepts and skills using popular early years' themes. The themes cover four areas of learning: number, counting, calculating (exploring the beginnings of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) and problem solving. Each theme offers inspirational ideas for three to fives using the indoor and outdoor environment in a fun, practical way and covering all areas of early years learning.

Little Owl must be more careful when he is sleeping - uh-oh! He has fallen from his nest, & with a bump he lands on the ground. Where is his mummy? With the earnest assistance of his new friend Squirrel, Little Owl sets off in search of her, & meets a sequence of other animals.

Full of practical guidance and easy-to-implement strategies on how to provoke learning and creativity in early years settings, allowing children to freely explore their environment and develop their ability to critically think.