Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes

Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes Review

Pete the Cat is back—and this time he’s rocking in his school shoes. Pete discovers the library, the lunchroom, the playground, and lots of other cool places at school. And no matter where he goes, Pete never stops moving and grooving and singing his song . . . because it’s all good.

On Becoming Preschool Wise: Optimizing Educational Outcomes What Preschoolers Need to Learn

On Becoming Preschool Wise: Optimizing Educational Outcomes What Preschoolers Need to Learn Review

Who can understand the mind of a preschooler? You can! Know that above all else, a preschooler is a learner. His amazing powers of reasoning and discrimination are awakened through a world of play and imagination. Through home relationships, he learns about love, trust, comfort, and security; through friends he learns to measure himself against a world of peers; and through unconditional love, a child establishes his own unique selfhood. The growth period between ages three and five years is all about learning, and On Becoming Preschoolwise is all about helping parents create the right opportunities and best environment to optimize their child's learning potential. Now influencing over two million homes worldwide, trusted parenting authors Gary Ezzo and Dr. Robert Bucknam once again bring their collective wisdom, experience, and insight to bear on this critical phase of preschool training. From teaching about the importance of play to learning how to prepare a preschooler for the first day of school, from organizing your child's week to understanding childhood fears and calming parental anxiety, sound advice and practical application await the reader. You will find this resource as practical as it is informative, curative as much as it is encouraging.

D.W. Goes to Preschool (D. W. Series)

D.W. Goes to Preschool (D. W. Series) Review

D.W., Arthur's fun and playful little sister, loves going to preschool! From class pets to circle time, field trips to story time, D.W. can't get enough! Follow D.W.'s lead, and find out why preschool is the greatest!

Sensory Integration: A Guide for Preschool Teachers

Sensory Integration: A Guide for Preschool Teachers Review

Do you have a child in your early childhood classroom who:

• Climbs on top of furniture and jumps off?
• Covers his ears when children are singing?
• Refuses to touch clay, paint, or sand?
• Often falls down and skins his or her knees?
• Refuses to play on outdoor playground equipment?

If so, it is possible this child is having trouble with sensory integration. How can teachers help children with these problems so they can enjoy learning and grow in positive ways? The Sensory Integration Book helps identify children who have difficulties with sensory processing and offers preschool teachers simple, easy-to-use solutions to support the sensory needs of young children in the preschool classroom. Easy-to-implement solutions include adaptations and activities for children with different types of Sensory Processing Disorder. This book has a bonus chapter with instructions on creating low-cost items to help children with sensory issues.

Christy Isbell is a pediatric occupational therapist with specialized training in both sensory integration and neuro-developmental treatment. She lives in Johnson City, Tennessee.

Dr. Rebecca Isbell is director of the Center of Excellence in Early Childhood Learning and Development. She is a professor of early childhood education at East Tennessee State University, where she was recognized as a distinguished professor for teaching. She lives in Jonesborough, Tennessee.

Preschool Skills (Preschool) (Step Ahead)

Preschool Skills (Preschool) (Step Ahead) Review

This deluxe 64-page workbook with stickers is an ideal place for the very young to start working at-home on their preschool skills.

Emotional and Behavioral Problems of Young Children: Effective Interventions in the Preschool and Kindergarten Years

Emotional and Behavioral Problems of Young Children: Effective Interventions in the Preschool and Kindergarten Years Review

This indispensable book provides hands-on tools and resources for addressing common emotional and behavioral problems in preschool and kindergarten-age children. The focus is on evidence-based interventions that are practical and effective, and that help prevent the development of more serious difficulties later on. The clinician is taken step by step through managing everything from toileting, eating, and sleep problems to externalizing disorders, internalizing disorders, and the effects of physical or sexual abuse. A variety of assessment methods are demonstrated and guidelines provided for planning and implementing a range of home- and school-based interventions. Conveniently designed in a large-size format for ease of photocopying, the volume contains over 30 reproducible parent handouts and other clinical tools.

Preschool Lesson Plans: Preschool Theme: All About Me

Preschool Lesson Plans: Preschool Theme: All About Me Review

Preschool Lesson Plans provide complete Preschool Themes to simplify your daily planning. Each package contains all the activities you need to create busy days full of fun and learning. Included are instructions and suggestions for crafts, games, songs, music, gross motor activities, math,science,and stories, all related to the specific theme.
These Preschool lesson Plans are a great resource for Playgroups, Daycare Centers, Home Daycare, Sunday School, Parents and Grandparents.

The GIANT Encyclopedia of Lesson Plans for Children 3 to 6: More Than 250 Lesson Plans Created by Teachers for Teachers

The GIANT Encyclopedia of Lesson Plans for Children 3 to 6: More Than 250 Lesson Plans Created by Teachers for Teachers Review

More than 250 lesson plans written by teachers for teachers!

This newest addition to the best-selling GIANT Encyclopedia series expands the scope of the series by offering complete lesson plans. Written and created by teachers, The GIANT Encyclopedia of Lesson Plans has more than 250 complete lesson plans that cover topics from colors and numbers to seasons and nursery rhymes.

Each lesson plan is complete with:

• A learning objective
• A circle or group time activity
• Book suggestions
• Snack ideas
• Five learning center activities
• Assessment strategies
• Related songs, poems, and fingerplays

Teaching Young Children, Preschool-K: A Guide to Planning Your Curriculum, Teaching Through Learning Centers, and Just About Everything Else

Teaching Young Children, Preschool-K: A Guide to Planning Your Curriculum, Teaching Through Learning Centers, and Just About Everything Else Review

This guide offers preschool and kindergarten teachers practical strategies for delivering developmentally appropriate curriculum, facilitating and scaffolding learning, modeling social skills, questioning for understanding, involving parents, and more!

The Best Pre-school for My Child

The Best Pre-school for My Child Review

From the Director of Sweetwater Montessori Pre-school and Kindergarten in New Bern, NC ([http://www.sweetwatermontessori.com]) comes The Best Pre-school for My Child – How to Define and Choose a Quality Pre-school Option. This eBook guides parents through the process of selecting a quality pre-school for their child from the perspectives of parent, teacher and pre-school administrator. From making the economic decision to send the child to pre-school and figuring out how to pay for tuition at your favorite one, to establishing the pre-school search timetable, through the many factors that make for a quality pre-school experience, all the way to the child’s first day of pre-school and beyond, this little book covers many considerations for parents. It includes a wealth of pre-school criteria for the parents to weigh (and thoughts on how to judge each pre-school against the criteria), born of over 20 years of commitment to pre-school excellence.
If you are looking for the best pre-school for your first child or have been dissatisfied with an earlier choice, The Best Pre-school for My Child – How to Define and Choose a Quality Pre-school Option will equip you with the right questions to ask and the right observations to make during your pre-school site visits. Moreover, it will help you decipher the answers you receive from the prospective pre-school’s staff. This book will provide help in sorting through and making sense of all of the (sometimes conflicting) review and recommendation sources that you will inevitably come across during any thorough pre-school search, and will ultimately guide you to a decision that you can be confident in and comfortable with, knowing that you have selected the best pre-school for your child.