Teaching Terrific Five S And Other Children

Filled with more practical classroom and home-based learning activities, stories, rhymes, songs, and games. With an easy-to-follow format and plenty of reproducibles, this book is designed to help teachers foster a five-year-old’s growth in five essential developmental areas: Social/Emotional, Language, Cognitive, Motor Skills, and Hygiene/Self-Help. Children will love Teaching Terrific 5's because it's chock full of fun, let's-do-it-again activities, memorable characters, and catchy verses. Teachers will find the activities fresh and imaginative, and they'll feel confident knowing the book is part of a tried-and-true series of activity books uniquely tailored to the individual needs of each preschool age group. And, because it's based on the trusted National Child Assessment checklist of age-appropriate skills, behaviors, it's guaranteed to take a teacher's understanding of preschool enrichment to the next level. A must-have for teachers of five-year-olds at all levels of learning!

When two-year olds begin in nursery schools and day care centers, they need activities specially designed to expand their capabilities and interests. The activities, which both teachers and children will enjoy, develop self-image, listening, language, social growth, movement, science, math, and music. These activities will keep a young toddler's mind as active as a toddler's body. It includes introductory sections covering basic and individual goals, classroom arrangement, scheduling, discipline, materials, parent involvement, and assessment. Shape Walks, Mitten Week, Bunny May I, and many other activities make this book an incredible resource.

Teaching Terrific 5's opens up a world of "tried and tested" learning activities for your "Terrific Five" to discover and explore. This activity book is designed to assist early childhood educators in implementing literacy and other developmentally appropriate cognitive, social and emotional, as well as fine and gross motor activities, and self-help skills. In a typical preschool class, there will be 5-year-olds at several different levels of development. It is important for the preschool teacher to provide activities that meet the needs of all children, that all children can accomplish with success, and that can help to move them to higher levels of development. Each activity in the book has been "tried and tested" by colleagues who teach in a Pre-K five program. You will enjoy seeing the delight in these young learners as they embark on a fascinating, wondrous stage of development.

In Mommy, Teach Me author Barbara Curtis, a mother of twelve, shares secrets on how to turn everyday experiences into learning opportunities for preschool children. Designed as a user-friendly educational program, this book is filled with interactive exercises for parents to implement with their littlest ones at home. They will discover that while playing, drawing, and just being a kid, children can also be practicing muscle control, concentration, orderliness, and other basic skills that will help them with later education and all throughout life.

Math learning happens naturally as children play. Family members have a role in fostering math learning--to build on children's natural curiosity about shapes, sizes, amounts, and other fundamentals of math. This book offers plenty of help in integrating experiences with math into children's everyday play. Showing excitement and interest in children's inquiries, encouraging them to talk about their discoveries, and accepting their math reasoning. Such reasoning should not be derided as 'wrong' or 'illogical', but gently steered to encourage thinking, questioning, and sharing as they gain confidence with math.