Whether you're embarking on an exciting new career in early childhood or have been teaching your children for several years, this is the one resource you'll treasure. It is the most complete guide to planning a developmentally appropriate curriculum for young children. This text focuses on the growth of the whole child and includes hundreds of activities that make education interesting and challenging for young children. You'll get 67 themes with goals, concepts, vocabulary words, music, finger plays, experiences in mathematics, art, and cooking, resources and much more. An introduction helps teachers use the book more effectively, including discussion of how to use the thematic approach, suggestions for writing parent letters, and criteria for selecting children's books.

And evaluating creative, interactive bulletin boards. The book focuses on the growth of the whole child and includes theme goals, concepts, vocabulary words, finger plays, music, resources, and experiences in art, math, and cooking. This book is a must-have resource for anyone who works with young children. Book jacket.

A theme based curriculum, this book is presented in Alpha order and contains over 2500 new activities, books, and songs; five new multicultural themes, new green themes, and various sections have been updated. Themes range from Ants to Zoo animals. Each theme contains a variation of the following content depending upon that theme: Curriculum, web, theme goals, concepts for the children to learn, vocabulary, bulletin board, parent letter, music, fingerplay, science, math, dramatic play, arts and crafts, sensory, large muscle (gross), small muscle (fine), field trips, social studies, group time, cooking, transitions, books, multimedia, recordings and song titles.

This unique approach presents information in a simple, straightforward manner. Hundreds of activities are demonstrated to represent an integrated curriculum approach. Developmental benchmarks provide best practice for infants/toddlers and planning for early childhood and elementary classrooms. Curriculum webs illustrate how to support anti-bias skill building. Creative Resources for the Anti-bias Classroom has a comprehensive focus on children from birth to twelve years. It promotes self-esteem and individual uniqueness while providing developmentally appropriate interactions.

Tap into children's natural curiosity and scaffold their creative abilities across all domains of learning--and nurture your own creativity!

Interactive bulletin boards are presented along with their developmental goals.

The Creative Curriculum comes alive! This videotape-winner of the 1989 Silver Apple Award at the National Educational Film and Video Festival-demonstrates how teachers set the stage for learning by creating a dynamic well-organized environment. It shows children involved in seven of the interest areas in the The Creative Curriculum and explains how they learn in each area. Everyone conducts in-service training workshops for staff and parents or who teaches early childhood education courses will find the video an indispensable tool for explainin appropriate practice.