Zoo animals may be caged but they can roam free in your mind if you let them be. You can use this zoo animal-inspired activity book to boost your child's knowledge on colors and patterns. It is also useful in shaping your child's ability to work on a horizontal surface. Most importantly, the activity will shape your child's problem-solving and motor skills. Grab a copy now!
Help students in grades PK–K make connections and reinforce learning while keeping the classroom manageable using Giant Book of Preschool Activities. This 304-page book provides practice for the skills and functions needed for early childhood development. With more than 26 themes and 500 activities, this book makes it practically impossible to run out of ideas for teaching social, motor, memory, and auditory skills. The book includes ideas for movement, rhyming, circles, counting, games, and centers and comes with reproducibles, literature selections, Web site suggestions, and an index of activities by skill. This book supports NAEYC standards and aligns with state, national, and Canadian provincial standards.
From aardvarks to zebras, here are the creatures that kids love in an array of engaging activities. They can travel winding mazes, connect the dots, and solve an assortment of animal word and number games.
200 Essential Preschool Activities promotes children's learning, helps improve their functional skills, and encourages interaction in the classroom. This resource provides preschool, pre-kindergarten, and student teachers with an abundance of developmentally appropriate lessons, all developed by the author and used in her own classroom for more than fifteen years. These adaptable, open-ended activities and strategies complement any early childhood program's core curriculum. 200 Essential Preschool Activities provides activities for and information on: Creative centers, including dramatic play areas and discovery and sensory areas Learning games, including turn-taking and board games, academic games, and cooperative and active games Group lessons, including circle time, social lessons, hands-on skill builders, and musical games and finger plays Arts and crafts, including child-centered expressive art and creative tools and methods Classroom structure, including classroom areas and centers and creating learning opportunities Parent involvement Julienne M. Olson has been teaching early childhood special education since 1995. She holds a bachelor's degree in early childhood special education and a master's degree in early childhood special education.
Activities Plus-Kindergarten presents a whole year's worth of activities in one book! This teaching resource guide contains a multitude of classroom-tested activities and worksheets which will enable you to provide review, reinforcement, and enrichment of the basic skills taught at the kindergarten grade level. Whether you are an experienced teacher or homeschooler, or just getting started, the wealth of materials found in this guide are certain to enhance your instruction. Language arts, social studies, science, and mathematics activities are presented in individual sections for your convenience. Each activity includes a stated purpose and a list of necessary materials, many of which are readily available or can be easily obtained. Complete step-by-step procedures are provided for each activity, and when applicable, suggestions are included for adapting an activity to another discipline or for use with less advanced or more accelerated students.
The bustle of the crowd is waning and the zoo is quieting for the night. The polar bear picks up the ball and dribbles onto the court; the nightly game begins. A frog jumps up to play one-on-one and then a penguin waddles in to join the team. Count along as the game grows with the addition of each new animal and the field of players builds to ten. Three zebras serve as referees and keep the clock, because this game must be over before the zookeeper makes her rounds.
Help your child learn and practice talking with this fun activity book packed with family-friendly exercises, conversation topics, and vocabulary recommendations—perfect for parents who want to make sure their child develops a firm grasp of language and speech. Teaching your child to talk doesn’t have to be all work and no play! This ready-to-use activity book is perfect for practicing talking and encouraging verbalizing, whether you’re at home or on the go. Packed with interactive exercises that promote verbalization and vocabulary-building in young children, this book includes: Coloring pages Cut-and-paste activities Seasonal and holiday-themed projects And much more! Written by experienced speech professionals, the activities in this book make for a wonderful bonding experience between parents and children, and can also be used by speech language teachers as a supplement to their lessons. The end of each activity, you’ll find conversation topics, book suggestions, and relevant songs to sing to get you and your child talking and communicating effectively!