ABCJesusLovesMe Preschool Curriculum for 3 Year Olds

ABCJesusLovesMe Preschool Curriculum for 3 Year Olds Review

Simplicity is the key to this Bible-based preschool curriculum. The 3 Year Old Curriculum is basic enough for the most energetic child, but allows for supplemental material to be added for the child who desires more sit-down activities. The learning is incorporated into the child's day instead of controlling their day.

The 36 week curriculum is intended to be taught from August to May so that the Bible themes and reviews coincide with holidays. However the program is flexible enough to be started whenever it is convenient.

The 3 Year Curriculum consists of a chronological study of Bible stories starting in Genesis. Each Bible story is supported with a memory verse, song, and finger play or nursery rhyme. Academically, 3-year-olds learn colors, a “Letter of the Week” consisting of the uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and basic math skills including shapes, sorting, spatial concepts, and patterns. Gross and fine motor skill activities are also included in this curriculum. A "Book of the Week" introduces your child to some of the best preschool books in print according to ABCJLM users and our family.

Ideas are given to help teach the Biblical and academic concepts. These ideas include links to free printables, games, crafts, cooking activities and much more. Visit ABCJesusLovesMe.com to view the entire curriculum and purchase coordinating workbooks. (No worksheets are included in this download.)

10,000's of families and 100's of businesses are using this simple yet detailed curriculum with the children in their lives and are loving the experience and results.

The ABCJLM Curriculum and the ABCJesusLovesMe.com website are free for the teaching of children in an individual family, home setting only under the JLM Media, Terms of Use. Use of any idea or printable on the website and/or the curriculum with any child not in your individual family whether in a daycare, childcare, preschool, church or other setting requires the purchase of a License first. Visit the website for more information.

Pre Med 101: Getting Into Medical School

Pre Med 101: Getting Into Medical School Review

This guide lays out steps all the way from freshmen year to senior year for pre-med students or prospective pre-med students to gain access to medical school. Written by a medical student himself, the author relays his own experiences and tips that he has learned on extracurricular activities, personal statement, grades, MCAT, interviews, and more. No matter where you are along the road to going to getting into medical school, this guide has a lot to offer. The author shares his insight into what medical schools look for, and how applicants can prepare themselves appropriately in order to increase their chances of gaining access into medical school.

The Big Book of Pre-K Learning Centers: Activities, Ideas & Strategies That Meet the Standards, Build Early Skills & Prepare Children for Kindergarten

The Big Book of Pre-K Learning Centers: Activities, Ideas & Strategies That Meet the Standards, Build Early Skills & Prepare Children for Kindergarten Review

In this treasury of learning center activities, teachers will find delightful ideas and projects that integrate almost every aspect of the curriculum into each center. Fresh and engaging activities develop skills in a variety of areas—blocks, literacy, science, dramatic play, art, and more. Create learning center magic in the classroom each and every day!

The Big Book of Sight Words: Vocabulary Words for Preschool

The Big Book of Sight Words: Vocabulary Words for Preschool Review

The Big Book of Sight Words is a powerful tool that will help your preschool age child develop their vocabulary and communication skills. Children love gadgets and technology, and this ebook is viewable on Kindle, ipad/iphone, Android devices, and even desktop computers, using the free Kindle application from Amazon.

It was specifically designed to teach children the crucial “40 Sight Words” from the Dolch List of most common words found in children’s reading books.

Named after Dr. Edward Dolch, who had originally compiled the list of the 220 most common words, sight, or “service” words are words that cannot be phonetically “sounded out,” and therefore should be memorized.

Developing fluency in in these crucial words and nouns is essential to literacy, and will help your child become a stronger reader. Children should learn to recognize all of the 220 sight words and nouns by the end of first grade.

The Big Book of Sight Words will help them do just that.

Get this extremely effective book today for your “parental toolbox,” and help your child develop their “educational edge” for tomorrow.

Following Directions (Get Ready Books)

Following Directions (Get Ready Books) Review

This fun workbook is filled with activities that include simple directions and pictures. Build your child's confidence and prepare your child for school with Following Directions.

The Creative Curriculum for Preschool

The Creative Curriculum for Preschool Review

The Creative Curriculum balances both teacher-directed and child-initiated learning, with an emphasis on responding to children's learning styles and building on their strengths and interests. This completely updated new edition of one of the country's leading research-based preschool curricula applies the latest theory and research on best practices in teaching and learning and the content standards developed by states and professional organizations. While keeping the original environmentally-based approach of earlier editions, The Creative Curriculum for Preschool clearly defines the teacher's vital role in connecting content, teaching, and learning for preschool children. It features goals and objectives linked directly to our valid and reliable assessment instrument (The Creative Curriculum Developmental Continuum for Ages 3-5).

First Art : Art Experiences for Toddlers and Twos

First Art : Art Experiences for Toddlers and Twos Review

First Art : Art Experiences for Toddlers and Twos Feature

• Paperback
• 160 pages

Jump right in—doing art with toddlers and twos is fun, rewarding, and a wonderful learning experience. Children discover their world as they explore the 75 fun-filled art adventures in First Art. They will joyfully squeeze a rainbow, make their own (safe) beads to string, and create their very own art baggie book. First Art starts children on a lifelong journey full of exploration and creativity.

Award-winning author MaryAnn F. Kohl is a regular featured columnist for Parenting Magazine. She has also written the best-selling favorites Preschool Art, The Big Messy Art Book, Global Art, Cooking Art, Making Make-Believe, MathArts, and the new Preschool Art series which includes Drawing, Painting, Clay and Dough, Craft and Construction, and Collage and Paper. She lives in Bellingham, Washington.

I Know Letters (Preschool) (Step Ahead)

I Know Letters (Preschool) (Step Ahead) Review

Contains activities for parents to use in preparing their children for kindergarten. Includes press-out panels and stickers. Author: Susan J. Schneck Reading Level: Ages 4-8 Format: 32 pages, Paperback Publisher: Golden Books 1 edition (November 12, 1985) ISBN: 978-0307035844

Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills, Preschool

Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills, Preschool Review

This best-selling Comprehensive Curriculum workbook features educational activities and instruction. Containing 544 pages organized by subject area with lessons in reading, writing, spelling, and math.

Perfect as a home schooling resource or as a supplement to school-based learning, this comprehensive workbook helps ensure students success across key curriculum areas.

Featuring:

• Sequential organization for ease of use

• Tips on study skills

• Special section of teaching suggestions

• Thorough index

• Review and assessment tools

Preschool Art: It's the Process, Not the Product

Preschool Art: It's the Process, Not the Product Review

Preschool Art: It's the Process, Not the Product Feature

• 200 open-ended projects
• Activities use a variety of materials

Over 200 activities encourage children to explore and understand their world through art experiences that emphasize the process of art, not the product. The first chapter introduces basic art activities appropriate for all children, while the subsequent chapters, which build on the basic activities in the first chapter, are divided by seasons. Activities are included for painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, and construction. Indexes organized by art medium and project name help teachers plan. 260 pages.

 

• Benjamin Franklin Award

• Early Childhood News Director’s Award

Preschool Art is a lifesaver . . . All the activities are easy, all are fun—the emphasis here is on the process, rather than specific results—and none require any elaborate materials . . . a real find.—Sesame Street Parents, "Picks for Parents"

"Preschool Art offers help to parents of preschoolers struggling to meet the challenge of their children’s creative impulses. Prodigies aside, most kids this age aren’t interested in the final product; they are into the doing of art . . . . There is no right or wrong way, only their way. Kohl understands. She explains how to make and use many kinds of art materials based on the concept that the process not the product, is important. From old standbys like play dough to new craft discoveries like liquid crayons and frozen balloons, she provides hundreds of ways to enjoy and explore the creative process."—MetroParent, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

"Kohl offers 250 projects complete with materials, processes and illustrated variations. She also adds practical hints that troubleshoot anticipated problems. The recipes are valuable well beyond the preschool years."—SchoolArts

Other art books by MaryAnn Kohl:
The Big Messy Art Book (Gryphon House), 0-87659-206-X
Cooking Art (Gryphon House), 0-87659-184-5
Global Art (Gryphon House), 0-87659-190-X

The Educated Child: A Parents Guide From Preschool Through Eighth Grade

The Educated Child: A Parents Guide From Preschool Through Eighth Grade Review

The Educated Child defines a good education and offers parents a plan of action for ensuring that their children achieve it. Combining the goals that William Bennett enumerated as Secretary of Education, key excerpts from E. D. Hirsch's Core Knowledge Sequence, and the latest research, it sets forth clear curricula and specific objectives for children from kindergarten through the eighth grade, including:

• What children should be studying and the kind of work they should be doing
• Important facts to learn and essential reading lists
• When children should master specific math skills, spelling and grammar basics, and scientific facts
• Test preparation, homework, and other areas that require parental involvement

The Educated Child also examines timely issues such as school choice, sex education, character education, and the phonics/whole language debate. Perhaps most important, it encourages parents to become advocates for their children by learning what to look for in a good school, how to talk to educators, and how, when necessary, to push for needed changes. For parents concerned about their children's current education and future lives, it is the ultimate handbook.

D.W.'s Guide to Preschool (Arthur Adventures)

D.W.'s Guide to Preschool (Arthur Adventures) Review

D.W., Arthur's fun and sassy little sister, stars in this humorous guide to a child's very first day of school. From naps to snacks to playtime, D.W. covers it all in this helpful and hilarious guidebook to a very important rite of passage. Full color.

Constructive Guidance and Discipline: Preschool and Primary Education (5th Edition)

Constructive Guidance and Discipline: Preschool and Primary Education (5th Edition) Review

Understanding how children grow, learn, and think helps adults and children live more harmoniously together. 

 

This thorough revision of Constructive Guidance and Discipline: Preschool and Primary Education continues to provide the information to help children to become happy, responsible, and productive people.   With a strong emphasis on developmental theory and constructivism, the book explains underlying causes for child behavior, weaves numerous preschool and primary classroom examples throughout, and includes three chapters on guiding children with special physical or emotional needs, learning disabilities, or children who are at risk due to poverty, violence, or loss.  The book is practical in its approach and focuses on how many effective early childhood education practices can prevent or alleviate many common discipline problems.  The authors reason that rewards and punishments do not work and that children must learn to make their own decisions based on their own values and convictions.  Children are profoundly influenced by the adults in their lives.  This book guides teachers and parents to an understanding of how to have a positive impact on their children’s lives. 

 

New To This Edition:

 

NEW!  Includes a new chapter on Children with Diverse Abilities (Chapter 13)–Focuses on the small percentage of children who require individualized discipline approaches.

• Helps sort out discipline issues from developmental delays and mental health issues.  

NEW!  Completely revised chapter on Vulnerable Children (Chapter 14)–This chapter deals with how poverty, violence, loss, and other risk factors affect children’s social emotional development.

 

NEW!  Provides a new section on the use of early learning guidelines to promote social emotional development (Chapter 15.)

 

NEW!  Offers an expanded section on design of the physical environment (Chapter 4.)

 

NEW!  Expands the discussion of observation for discovering the cause of behavior problems–Helps students apply the principle of focusing on the causes of behavior problems.

 

NEW!  Incorporates new content on the importance of adult-child relationships and classroom communities. 

 

NEW!  Updates the research on emotion regulation, emotional development, empathy, attachment, and the impact of temperament as they relate to child behavior and guidance.

• This information is essential to understanding child behavior and offering appropriate guidance.  

NEW!  Adds new chapter introductions outlining the main points of each chapter–Links them to the NAEYC teacher education standards.

 

NEW!  Includes new video vignettes stimulate class discussion and help students think through guidance principles in context–Lets them see guidance principles in action.

Home Learning Year by Year: How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool Through High School

Home Learning Year by Year: How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool Through High School Review

Finally, homeschoolers have a comprehensive guide to designing a homeschool curriculum, from one of the country's foremost homeschooling experts. , Rebecca Rupp presents a structured plan to ensure that your children will learn what they need to know when they need to know it, from preschool through high school. Based on the traditional pre-K through 12th-grade structure, Home Learning Year by Year features:

The integral subjects to be covered within each grade
Standards for knowledge that should be acquired by your child at each level
Recommended books to use as texts for every subject
Guidelines for the importance of each topic: which knowledge is essential and which is best for more expansive study based on your child's personal interests
Suggestions for how to sensitively approach less academic subjects, such as sex education and physical fitness