Indoor and Outdoor Play Activites
101 Easy Wacky Crazy Activities for Young Children
Author(s): Carole H Dibble, Kathy Lee (click on the author's name for more titles)
With quick and simple ideas, 101 Easy, Wacky, Crazy Activities is guaranteed to enliven any day. Try Tongue Painting or Squishy Squeezy (a clean and messy activity!) and open the door to creative discovery. Encourage children to think creatively, problem solve, and have fun while learning. Written by two experienced teachers, this collection of open-ended ideas is a book teachers and parents will want to keep handy.
RRP $29.95
300 Three Minute Games
Quick and Easy Activities for 2-5 Year OldsAuthor(s): Jackie Silberg (click on the author's name for more titles)
Use these short, creative activities to delight and teach children whenever you need to fill an extra few minutes, or anytime just for fun. There are story games to build language skills, exercise games, quiet games, waiting games, stuck inside games and more! Quick, simple games guaranteed to prevent bored children.
RRP $29.95
50 Large Group Activities for Active Learners
Author(s): C Boisvert, S Gainsley (click on the author's name for more titles)
Large-group time brings children and adults together for companionship, information-sharing, and the enjoyment of participating in a group. This book presents 50 engaging large-group activities that stimulate children's creativity, help them learn skills and concepts, introduce them to a wide range of new and thought-provoking experiences.
RRP $58.95
500 Five Minute Games
Quick and Easy Activities For 3-6 Year-OldsAuthor(s): Jackie Silberg (click on the author's name for more titles)
Jam packed with games, songs and learning fun ideas perfectly suited for 3-6 year olds, this book is ideal to fill those extra five minutes with a developmentally appropriate activity.
RRP $44.95
Brain-Based Early Learning Activities
Connecting Theory and PracticeAuthor(s): Nikki Darling-Kuria (click on the author's name for more titles)
These 80 brain-based activities engage both hemispheres of the brain and promote learning in the areas of language, mathematics, science, art, music, and the environment as well as encouraging physical, social, and emotional development. In addition a comprehensive overview of early brain development and key components necessary to create a brain-based early learning environment are provided.
RRP $67.95
Complete Book of Activities, Games, Stories, Props, Recipes and Dances for Young Children, The
Author(s): Jackie Silberg, Pam Schiller (click on the author's name for more titles)
Are you searching for just the right story to reinforce your ideas? Trying to play a game but can "t remember the rules" Looking for your favourite no-bake biscuit recipe? It's all right here! This book is full of over 600 ways to enhance any curriculum.
RRP $78.95
Complete Daily Curriculum for Early Childhood, The Revised
Over 1200 Easy Activities to Support Multiple Intelligences and Learning StylesAuthor(s): Pam Schiller (click on the author's name for more titles)
This award winning curriculum for three- to six-year-olds offers a complete plan for every learning style. Revised and updated, the new edition of this classic bestseller is full of new activities based on the latest research about how children learn. The comprehensive appendix has been updated and the patterns are now available exclusively online so teachers can easily print them onto any paper at any time!
RRP $89.95
Complete Learning Center Book, The Revised
An Illustrated Guide for 40 Different Early Childhood Learning CentresAuthor(s): Rebecca Isbell (click on the author's name for more titles)
This new edition features a CD-ROM that includes letters to family members, graphics and icons for each centre, and observation and assessment tools. Everything you need to introduce 40 unique and traditional learning centres to the children in your classroom is right here!
RRP $89.95
Complete Resource Book, The
Over 2000 Activities and IdeasAuthor(s): Kay Hastings, Pam Schiller (click on the author's name for more titles)
The Complete Resource Book is perfect to use as a planning guide or as a resource for responding to children's specific interests. The daily plans have circle time, music and movement activities, suggested books, and learning centre ideas. The appendix is jam-packed with songs, recipes, and games. This book is like having a master teacher at your side for inspiration all year long.
RRP $67.95
Daily Preschool Experiences
For Learners at Every LevelAuthor(s): Cathy Clemons, Kay Hastings (click on the author's name for more titles)
With 100 days of plans, Daily Preschool Experiences has learning centre activities for preschool learners at every developmental level. The daily plans are organized by theme into 20 units, each with a 5-day plan.
RRP $67.95
Discovery Play
Play in the Early YearsAuthor(s): Bridie Raban, Sheilla Riddell-Leech (click on the author's name for more titles)
This practical guide offers advice on setting up treasure basket and discovery play sessions at all stages up to 5 years old. It comes with links to the EYLF and schemas.
RRP $32.95
Do-It-Yourself Early Learning
Easy and Fun Activities and Toysfrom Everyday Home CenterMaterialsAuthor(s): Jeff A Johnson, Tasha A Johnson (click on the author's name for more titles)
With Do-It-Yourself Early Learning, you can create toys that help children become more confident, stretch their intellect, and encourage play and exploration-all with materials easily found at your local hardware store or home centre.
RRP $44.95
Easy Daily Plans
Over 250 Plans for Preschool TeachersAuthor(s): Sue Fleischmann (click on the author's name for more titles)
Easy Daily Plans has everything a teacher needs for a complete year's worth of daily plans! Organized by month, this great grab-and-use curriculum has over 250 daily plans that teachers can use to plan fun and enriching activities for young children
RRP $67.95
Everyday Early Learning
Easy and Fun Activities and Toys Made from Stuff You Can Find Around the HouseAuthor(s): Jeff A Johnson, Tasha A Johnson (click on the author's name for more titles)
Child care providers in all settings can count on the creative inspiration in Everyday Early Learning for projects with minimal cost and effort. A scale of one to three, ranging from "no construction" to "easy but not effortless" to "worth the work," rates the required effort and exertion.
RRP $44.95
Giant Encyclopedia of Circle Time and Group Activities For Children 3 to 6, The
Over 600 Favourite Circle Time Activities Created By Teachers For TeachersAuthor(s): Kathy Charner (click on the author's name for more titles)
Open to any page in this book and you will find an activity for circle or group time written by an experienced teacher. These are ideas that work, and there are enough to keep children learning and happy for days, weeks and months.
RRP $78.95
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