I had browsed through this book at a bookstore while on vacation, but did not want to add the weight to a suitcase already bordering on the weight limit. I was excited to find it here on EBay. If you are a teacher of preschool children, this is the perfect all-in-one book. The author briefly summarizes learning styles of children, multiple intelligences, subject areas, and directions for using the book in the classroom. Each topic begins with a circle time activity. The authors include a list of books relevant to the topic as well as songs and fingerplays to incorporate with it. The authors then proceed to give you an activity to use with the topic in six of the following areas: art, discovery, fine motor, language, music, sand and water play, writing, math, snack. Once the activities are completed for the day, a closing circle time (reflection)is suggested at the end of the topic. The book also has sections on fingerplays, songs/chants, tongue twisters, games/dances, stories, recipes for both cooking and for arts and crafts, and patterns to use. At the end of every unit there are ideas for informal assessment to help you assess the learning that has taken place. I teach at the high school level and direct a student-lead preschool where we have children from the community attend. Sometimes my students have difficulty understanding what it is exactly that they should be teaching preschoolers. This book makes it very easy to comprehend how an early childhood classroom should be operating and the learning objectives that should be taking place. For anyone in their beginning teaching years, the lesson planning is done for you! For teachers who want a new resource guide, this book is it!Read full review
I am a home childcare provider, I am always looking for new and exciting was to keep the children engaged in learning. This book offers me that. It is detailed and takes you step by step on each and every activity.
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I work as a teacher of 3 and 4 year olds in a 'Head Start' classroom. We have to create our own weekly lesson plans that are very involved and need to cover a topic or theme, the concept that is being taught each day, and how we will pull added activities or items in each center. It is a time consuming process and I have a small collection of workbooks that I can pull information from. This book is loaded with lots of good information and activities and will be a welcome addition to my personal 'library'.
The book was in better shape than expected and it arrived quickly. I am very pleased with the book, it looks almost new.
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I had seen this book in the public library and because it was laid out so well and had all kinds of ideas, I bought this book because I want to homeschool my young children. I think it is an excellent resource to use and it is nice that somebody else came up with the ideas and I do not have to rack my brain for activities. I think this is an excellent book and recommend it to anyone who is interested in early childhood education.
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