Ready to Read tubs are designed for use with youth aged 0-3 to promote early reading and language skills. Each tub contains 30 to 50 books (picture books and board books), a resource guide, and a DVD. Tubs may be checked out by organizations that serve babies and toddlers (such as day care centers, licensed family child care providers, libraries, parenting classes, health clinics, and faith organizations). Tubs must be checked out with an Anchorage Public Library corporate card.
For ages 4 to 8 years. Over 65 irresistible, age-appropriate activities to enhance a child's budding curiosity about nature. Children will learn how to -- be nature detectives, listen to birds' songs (and sing back) make a homegrown sunflower birdfeeder, and explore a caterpillar's tiny world. they will learn about shadows and sun clocks, how rocks become grains of sand, where frogs go in winter, and how plants 'drink' through their stems. Encourages early learning skills, including colour identification, compare and contrast, feelings, shapes, and creative self-expression through diverse hands-on activities. For children aged 2 to 6.
I like arts and crafts. With my son (Kushagra), we do arts and crafts, we read and learn a lot. The Little Hands Craft Book: A Guide for Parents, Pre-K to Second Grade. "To be a good housewife and Mother, you have to more self - generated. You have to create your own play ground of the imagination and the mind. To be a really good, creative mother you have to be an extraordinary woman. You have to keep yourself involved with your child during great period of the day when it's just the two of you and you feel that at any moment you may literally go out of your mind." -Meryl Streep-
An index to children's craft books published since 1991. Provides a guide to craft instructions alphabetically by project, or by type of material used.
How do children learn about the world around them? They touch, taste, see, smell and hear it, of course With over 200 activities, "Learning Games" will delight children as they expand their learning by engaging all of their senses. The chapters are organized by each of the five senses, with a bonus chapter of multi-sensory activities. The games and activities are designed to help children identify and use their senses-essential tools for understanding the world. Games Include: Partner Listening Paper Plate Shakers I've Got a Rhythm Dolphin Talk Listening to Paper The Binocular Game Color My World Glowing Mobile Walking Through Africa Magnify Your Life No Hands Fingerpaint with Textures Nose, Nose Smelly Walk Tongue Bumps Sweet or Sour Tasting in Space Let's Taste Red Taste Picture Book Body Part Senses Senses for the Hand