education, preschool

Practical strategies designed for developing a high-quality early childhood program including information on phonemic awareness, preschool reading, family involvement, team planning, language and literacy, and social relations.

Presents more than three hundred suggestions and activities for helping a child find his or her natural learning and creative talents, covering such approaches as whole-language reading and writing, toys that stimulate creativity, hands-on math and science exploration, and work with art and music.

An activity book for preschool children which contains directions of recipes for 100 activities to be used as learning experiences.

The author encourages parents to become more involved in the education of their children through ten basic principles for success.

Contains over eighty crafts, games, and fingerplays designed to teach the alphabet to children ages two through six.

Focuses on the history of America's most successful educational experiment, Head Start.

Presents thirty standards-based literature lessons for preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary children, each with a summary of a featured picture book, a skills table, and two or more related activities.

Presents more than thirty short poems about the many different material things that fill a day at school, including crayons, glue, swings, chairs, and the teacher's desk.