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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...

Play Is Important Work As an early childhood educator, you know how important play is for young children. You also know that selecting the right play materials to include in your program matters, there are so many options, and often your budget does not stretch to cover everything. With this book, discover ideas for both familiar and new play materials and how those materials support the cognitive, social and emotional, and physical learning and...

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.

La Rebelión de la Mente: la fuerza transformadora del cerebro los primeros diez años de la vida es un libro de divulgación neurocientífica que muestra la riqueza intelectual, emocional, social y espiritual de la mente infantil, mente que se abre como una fértil ventana de oportunidades a la acción formativa del ambiente territorial y social y revela el enorme impacto que ejerce el desconocimiento, los prejuicios y el utilitarismo sobre el pleno...

Weather: Activities for 3–5 Year Olds contains enjoyable activities to help develop children's essential skills. Weather is with us all the time, every minute of every day, all around the world. Weather provides ideas for helping to raise children's awareness of the weather throughout the year, whatever the conditions outside. The practical activities include: Enjoying and responding to weather poems, Creating foggy night pictures, Choosing the...

From Cradle to Classroom: A Guide to Special Education for Young Children is a book written for regular and special education teachers, school administrators, school psychologists, related educational personnel, day care providers, parents, graduate students, and policy makers who work on behalf of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers to ensure they are ready for formal education when they reach age 5. It reflects a keen understanding that early interventions...

Learning Shapes Has Never Been So Much Fun™ Children will fall in love with these wonderful characters as they Meet the Shapes. Children who watch Meet the Shapes can easily learn to identify and name eight common shapes in a few days. Preschool Prep Series™ have won hundreds of awards and are used in millions of homes and schools around the world. You will be amazed at how easily your little one can learn shapes!™ Featuring: Circle, Diamond,...

With this Parent Guide, get parents and teachers working together to increase student achievement. This helpful guide allows parents to easily reinforce what the teacher is doing in the kindergarten classroom and turn everyday actions into learning opportunities for their children, bridging the gap between school and home.

Get parents and teachers working together to increase student achievement with this Parent Guide. This helpful guide provides reinforcement for what the teacher is doing in prekindergarten and includes ideas for turning everyday actions into learning opportunities, encouraging children to practice important life skills.

The comprehensive guide to the most influential theorists and their ideas on how children with special educational needs learn and develop.