Colours: Activities for 3-5 Year Olds contains enjoyable activities to help develop children's essential skills. Recognizing, identifying and being able to name colours are essential steps in the early education of all children. Colour knowledge is an important means of helping children to make comparisons and observe and explore their environment. The practical activities in Colours include: Fun ways of teaching colour recognition and identification,...

Sherry has difficulties getting her friend Sheep to count past ten before he drifts off to sleep. Night after night, they count and count, and like all the other nights before, Sheep is asleep at the number ten. That is until one night, he adds one more number, then another and then another.

What Does It Mean To Be Four, from child psychologist Jennie Lindon, will give you the tools you need to ensure that your work with children, whether in a school, nursery or home setting, is relevant to their individual stages of development. This books looks at the six areas of learning in the EYFS and focuses on what each area means for four-year olds. Each area of development is backed up with examples of how real children learn, what good practice...

What Does It Mean To Be One, from child psychologist Jennie Lindon, will give you the tools you need to ensure that your work with children, whether in a school, nursery or home setting, is relevant to their individual stages of development. This books looks at the six areas of learning in the EYFS and focuses on what each area means for one-year olds. Each area of development is backed up with examples of how real children learn, what good practice...

This is a hands-on report on how to find calm in the most stressed out and turbulent of worlds today — preschools and schools. Not a calm out there, but the calm inside all of us, closer than our thoughts and as natural as the air we breathe. 25 years of experience with the Dream of the Good in preschools and schools in all parts of Sweden show very good results. The grown-ups did not believe the kids would take to it. But the message is, it can...

Build the body-brain connection with step-by-step activities that help children develop physical, cognitive, social, and emotional foundations for early learning and school readiness. Early childhood educators will find clear information on creating the move-to learn environment, managing safety, and optimizing the connections between language development, movement, and readiness for formal learning. An observational tool lets teachers pinpoint children's...

We all need time to play in puddles. It is a true delight to be on a walk and discover a puddle and explore how deep and wide it is, as well as how big a splash it makes. Puddles are one of the most wonderful play materials that nature can provide. It is wonderful to see children meet a puddle for the first time and observe it with such awe and wonder. The question for us as practitioners and educators is: how do we use something as simple as a puddle...

Plan for six weeks of learning covering all six areas of learning and development of the EYFS through the topic of numbers. The Planning for Learning series is a series of topic books written around the Early Years Foundation Stage designed to make planning easy. This book takes you through six weeks of activities on the theme of numbers. Each activity is linked to a specific Early Learning Goal, and the book contains a skills overview so that practitioners...

What Does It Mean To Be Five, from child psychologist Jennie Lindon, will give you the tools you need to ensure that your work with children, whether in a school, nursery or home setting, is relevant to their individual stages of development. This books looks at the six areas of learning in the EYFS and focuses on what each area means for five-year olds. Each area of development is backed up with examples of how real children learn, what good practice...

Nuevas Palabras, Nuevos Amigos es un recurso para maestros, bibliotecarios, y padres para enseñar a niños cómo aprender y jugar juntos. Los maestros podrán utilizarlo para ayudar a los estudiantes bilingues y multilingues a desarrollar habilidades sociales positivos. Con preguntas para discusión.