Easy step-by-step projects teach scissor skills, visual-motor skills, grouping, ordering and spatial relationships. Finished projects can be used for take-homes, bulletin boards, mobiles, gifts and more!
Easy step-by-step projects teach scissor skills, visual-motor skills, grouping, ordering and spatial relationships. Finished projects can be used for take-homes, bulletin boards, mobiles, gifts and more!
Use favorite read-alouds to kick off hands-on activities that teach basic colors and shapes. Each developmentally appropriate lesson includes clear, easy-to-follow instructions for reading about, talking about and creating artwork that is all about these fundamentals of early childhood learning. Bonus section features simple scissor skills activities. Award certificates included too!
Preschool Basics is packed from beginning to end with creative, engaging activities designed to teach and reinforce the building blocks of knowledge for young children. All of the pages, poems, patterns and other pearls contained in this rich collection are developmentally appropriate and well suited to supplement any preschool-kindergarten curriculum.
Our September activity book has been prepared to help teachers of lower elementary grades start their school year in a positive manner. The ideas included can be used throughout the school year. With these ideas and activities, we hope to make the child more aware of his or her environment and culture, and in doing so, enhance learning. Included are coloring pages, bulletin board ideas, Recipes A to Z that use each letter of the alphabet, vocabulary words, basic math and cut-outs.
Comprehension is key to a child's success in school, for reading is more than just recognizing and pronouncing printed words - it involves comprehending the meaning of those words as well. Children can truly read only when they understand the meaning of the words they can pronounce. This workbook provides activities designed to strengthen important comprehension skills including following directions, categorizing, sequencing, finding the main idea, using context, and locating information. Exercises are designed so a child can work with a minimum of supervision in a classroom or at home. Answer keys included.
Easy step-by-step projects teach scissor skills, visual-motor skills, grouping, ordering and spatial relationships. Finished projects can be used for take-homes, bulletin boards, mobiles, gifts and more!
This is an idea book. It was designed for you, the literature teacher, as a time-saver that brings together key ideas, background information, and suggestions for teaching the novel successfully. Choose from the suggestions in the book to suit your style; adapt and expand on activities as they suit your students. Above all, this book is meant to be a tool to assist you in intensifying your students' involvement with the text and with the way literature helps to make sense of our world.
This creative book in the popular Daily Discoveries series contains another month full of special days for students to celebrate in the classroom. They include: Reindeer Mania Day, Winter Weather Day, Human Rights Day, It's a Small World Day, and of course Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year's Eve Day. Use the activities in your regular curriculum for a shot of adrenalin in language arts, social studies, writing, math, science and health, music and drama, etc. Your students will eagerly look forward to each new day when you give them something to celebrate! Also included are reproducible patterns for writing assignments and art projects as well as lists of correlated books and bulletin board ideas.