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Activities for Early ChildhoodChild Development Media » Children in Groups » Activities for Early ChildhoodVariety of activities for early childhood This book opens the door to teaching infants, toddlers, and two-year-olds successfully with 300 activities linked to the latest research in child development.
This book offers innovative, easy games, parents and teachers will enjoy encouraging their toddlers’ natural curiosity and desire to explore their environment. 272 pages.
This book contains 300 imaginative and easy games to play with two-year-olds that provide parents and teachers a fun way to encourage young children to develop new skills.
This book, a companion to The Moon is Round, contains twenty-eight delightful rhymes to read to toddlers.
This activity book is organized by chapters that focus on areas of development important to a child's growth. The activities use easy-to-find around-the-house materials.
This book of easy-to-do activities is designed to complement the more that 300 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood programs broadcast on public television.
The story in this children's picture book is about Chester Raccoon and his mother, and the ways love works to reassure us and give us strength in a sometimes scary world. Includes: Book and Stickers
This collection of over 450 rhymes, songs, stories, and fingerplays, in both English and Spanish, provides the opportunity to explore the sounds of language and build vocabulary.
Based on tai chi and yoga, this book offers a combination of gentle exercises and progressive relaxation and visualization techniques that can help young children “de-stress.”
This video integrates research and classroom practice and emphasizes the crucial importance of play in early childhood education. Available in DVD and VHS formats.
Set of 2 VHS videos: "I Can Do... YOGA! Beginner's Level" with alphabet poses and "I Can Do... YOGA! Level One for children who know a little yoga.
This video looks at the developmental sequence of early-literacy and literacy-promoting activities at home and in center-based environments. Available in DVD and VHS formats.
This set, video and comprehensive manual, were developed as training tools to provide strategies and resources that support young children's love of language, books, and stories that are critical in learning to read, write, and communicate. Available in DVD and VHS formats. Includes: Training Manual
This book, with over 225 games to play with babies, helps your baby build important developmental skills while you and your baby enjoy time together.
This set for trainers and administrators introduces teaching staff to the complete Discovering Nature with Young Children curriculum (#91776) from the planning stage to its successful implementation. Includes: VHS with 232-page Trainer’s Guide
Teach children to take care of their bodies and health by integrating the latest techniques and information about early childhood nutrition. This curriculum contains pragmatic ideas and practical methods of educating children about how to live healthy, happy lives. 220 pages
Actual footage from an inclusive classroom connects the viewer to the excitement and wonder of a group of children as they investigate the community fire truck over time. Includes: VHS
This trainer's set is designed as a teacher’s aid to be used in conjunction with the Building Structures with Young Children curriculum (#91775). Includes: VHS with 232-page Trainer’s Guide
This book presents innovative ways for teachers from preschool to early primary to use puppets as valuable and developmentally-appropriate teaching tools.
This guidebook can be used to help all young children ages 2-5 who have special needs as well as those who are typically-developing reach their learning goals in fun, creative ways.
Activity-Based Intervention illustrates a set of teaching strategies to turn natural daily occurrences and interactions into opportunities to maximize children's growth and development. Available in VHS format only.
This book covers such topics as the nature and purpose of play, the various types of play, appropriate materials, cultural variance, differing abilities of young children, and the role of the adult.
This inquiry-based curriculum builds on children's natural curiosity about the living world around them.
By emphasizing redirection, storytelling, dramatic play materials, anti-bias curriculum, and clear limit setting, this unique resource will help teachers address adults' concerns and allow children to do what they do best -- play!
Designed for teachers who have wanted to teach with persona dolls but didn’t quite know how, Trisha Whitney’s book provides practical and inspirational tips for teachers working with children with children ages 2-8.
This video will teach children (age 3-8) their ABC's by doing fun animal yoga poses from Alligator to Zebra.
This video is perfect for kids who already know a little yoga, ages 6 and up. Includes: VHS
Learningames is the early childhood curriculum developed for the Carolina Abecedarian Project. Includes: Book
These English/Spanish Parent Handouts are part of the Learningames: The Abecedarian Curriculum.
This comprehensive curriculum provides current research, stages of early-literacy development,and tools and strategies for providing literacy rich environments for children both at home and in centers.
The Learning Power of Laughter has over 300 activities that use the power of laughter to encourage 3- to 6- year-olds to be creative, learn sequencing skills, develop phonemic awareness, use their imaginations, develop listening skills, and work with rhymes and language.
This book addresses the use of computer technology, with special emphasis on the problem of choosing appropriate software, in the pre-school, kindergarten, and elementary school environment.
In these modules you will observe children, teachers, and parents in a variety of settings where the growth of literacy in young children is supported. Includes: VHS
This video introduces six key "experiences" in language and literacy and features adults supporting and extending children’s language and literacy experiences in classrooms and centers. Includes: VHS or DVD with 28-page Booklet
This video is about the day-to-day care of young children's brains. The latest scientific findings on how brains develop are a wake-up call to parents and caregivers. Includes: VHS
This program reflects the fundamental value of Inuit and First Nation (Native American) people to live in harmony with the natural world. Includes: VHS and Guide
Traditional Inuit (Native American) drumming, pow-wow dancing, jigging, and throat singing–music and dance traditions - are integral to First Nations and Inuit cultures. Includes: VHS and Guide
In this video many people speak of the importance of teaching their native language to the next generation and of ways to include it in their children’s program. Includes: VHS and Guide
This video shows children involved in a wide variety of open-ended art activities as well as learning some traditional art forms. Includes: VHS and Guide
This video is about the importance of stories - told or read - for children’s development and to their emerging literacy. Includes: VHS and Guide
A 32-page booklet of songs and rhymes.
Includes: Booklet Written By: Parent-Child Mother Goose Program An underlying principle of the Supportive Play Model (SPM) is the centrality of play as a means (and an end) through which development is enhanced, and a belief that all children can weave some understanding of their unique development into their personal inner world.
This set outlines and demonstrates a valid and reliable approach to authentic assessment that is applicable to many different curriculum methods and that meets the demand for accountability. Set includes: 2 books / 1 VHS
With animation and classroom vignettes this video illustrates the documentation web and the process of documentation with young children and their teachers. Includes: VHS
This book presents a framework for a work sampling collection system and display methods that together result in powerful a communication tool.
This book is comprised of resources to facilitate the Windows on Learning method of authentic assessment.
Teacher interviews, classroom vignettes, and children’s words and drawings tell the story of how child-initiated project investigations begin, develop, and end.
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