This math activities book is designed as a resource for helping preschoolers learn about numbers. Each book features 101 teaching ideas related to the number theme. The skill-building activities in this book invite children to explore numbers, number recognition and counting. Both cooperative and individual learning are encouraged through the hands-on developmentally appropriate activities. These activities have been correlated to state standards and span multiple curriculum areas including math, language development, science, art, and music.

Circle Time Ideas features 101 teaching ideas to be used for early learners during circle time. Activities span multiple curriculum areas including math, language development, science, art, music and more.

Each unit in the "New Abacus" programme begins with whole-class teaching. All the direct teaching to introduce a concept is on the front of the Teacher Card; the back has: further teaching; references to differentiated practical activities, workbook or textbook pages and photocopy masters.

Get hours of fun dot to dot activities for your kid!This amazing dot to dot book includes: - Variety of themes from cute animals, things that go, food and many more!- 3 challenge levels- Bonus levels for an even more exciting challenge- Designed to enhance motor skills and creativity while being fun Dot to Dot activities involve the use of freeform hand drawing guided by having to connect each dot in order to create an image.These activities are great at improving hand eye coordination, motor skills and most importantly creativity as the child has to complete the illustration by choosing straight or curved lines to complete the illustration. 3 challenge levels progressively help your child learn how to do dot to dot activitiesLevel 1 Easy: with fewer dot to dots to help your child get the hang of the activitiesLevel 2 Medium: More dot to dots than easy with middling complexityLevel 3 Hard: Increased amount of dots with more complex shapes and illustrationsBonus: For the child who has mastered it all, with the most amount of dots to connect and the most complex shapes and illustrations An example of the themes are: Animals - Bear, Giraffe Lion Penguin, Rabbit turtleFood and Fruits- Peaches, Pie, ChipsInsects - Snail, BeesThings that go: Car Pickup, Horse, ScooterEveryday things: Toothpaste, Hat, Shorts, Box, Teapot, ViolinOthers: Pirate hat, Treasure map, Snowman, Santa Claus

Designed for children ages three and up, offers sixty-eight exercises and games based on traditional yoga exercises to help improve flexibility and motor skills and develop confidence and awareness.

This fourth edition of the bestselling Mathematics in Early Years Education provides an accessible introduction to the teaching of mathematics in the early years. Covering all areas of mathematics – number and counting, calculation, pattern, shape, measures and data handling – it provides a wide range of practical activities and guidance on how to support young children’s mathematical development. There is also guidance on managing the transition to KS1 and a strong emphasis throughout on creating home links and working in partnership with parents. This new edition has been fully updated to incorporate the latest research and thinking in this area and includes: why mathematics is important as a way of making sense of the world how attitudes to mathematics can influence teaching and learning how children learn mathematics and what they are capable of learning how technology can support maths teaching maths phobia and the impact society has on maths teaching material on sorting, matching and handling data the importance of educating about finance in today’s world ideas for observation and questioning to assess children’s understanding examples of planned activities suggestions for language development assessment criteria. This textbook is ideal for those training to be teachers through an undergraduate or PGCE route, those training for Early Years Professional Status and those studying early childhood on foundation or honours degrees, as well as parents looking to explore how their young children learn mathematics. This will be an essential text for any early years practitioner looking to make mathematics interesting, exciting and engaging in their classroom.

The number of traumatized children in foster care and adoptive families is on the rise every year. In times like these, social work practitioners rarely have sufficient time to plan out each of their sessions. This book makes it possible. Life Story Work with Children who are Fostered or Adopted: Creative Activites and Ideas is a brief and accessible resource guide to life story work. Focused on methods and activities that have been tried and tested by social workers and therapists, these are simple activities that require minimal resources that range from how to build the foundation to Life Story Work to boosting a child's self-esteem and identity. The chapters are categorized in a way that makes it easy for the practitioner to identify which method will be appropriate for the stage of the work they are undertaking. This book will be a vital resource for social workers, foster caregivers, students and any frontline practitioner involved in working with traumatized children.