Everything for Early Learning is the perfect practice tool that every second grader needs to achieve success in school! Children work through fun and engaging activities that provide skill-and-drill in important reading, language arts, and mathematical skills. This 320 page workbook is full of bold, appealing illustrations that motivate young learners and features practice pages to ensure children master the essential skills with easy-to-understand directions. Features: Problem-solving, Deductive and analytical thinking, Fractions, Counting money, Main idea, Facts & opinions, Nouns & verbs, and Punctuation

More Everything for Early Learning is the perfect sequel to our Everything for Early Learning workbook. Featuring MORE practice in essential skills for preschoolers to achieve success in school! Featuring an additional 320 pages of new fun and engaging activities that provide more skill-and-drill in important reading, language arts, and mathematical skills. Developed with bold, appealing illustrations that motivate young learners and special practice pages ensure that children master essential skills with easy-to-understand directions. Features: Problem-solving, Deductive and analytical thinking, Numbers and counting, Same and different, Matching, and Sounds

Noting that the early care and education environment is a vital contribution to children's learning, this book examines the early childhood learning environment with the vision of making it a place where young children will be physically, emotionally, esthetically, and intellectually nurtured. The chapters are: (1) "The Power of the Environment and Its Impact on Children"; (2) "Contemporary Childcare Spaces"; (3) "The Teacher's New Role: Designer"; (4) "Principles of Meaningful Environments"; (5) "Aspects of Quality Environments for Children"; (6) "Assessing What You Have"; (7) "Making a Plan That Works for You"; (8) "The Designer's Toolbox"; (9) "Enriching the Environment," including ideas for using displays, planning work and sitting spaces, and growing plants; and (10)"Extending Your Understanding," including classic resources about early childhood environments. Each chapter includes detailed illustrations and photographs to assist teachers in setting up a classroom. The book's 10 appendices include an inventory form, equipment checklist, team inventory, storage ideas, and an anthropometric chart for a child-scaled environment. (Contains 79 references.) (KB)

More Everything for Early Learning is the perfect sequel to our Everything for Early Learning workbook. Featuring MORE practice in essential skills for preschoolers to achieve success in school! Featuring an additional 320 pages of new fun and engaging activities that provide more skill-and-drill in important reading, language arts, and mathematical skills. Developed with bold, appealing illustrations that motivate young learners and special practice pages ensure that children master essential skills with easy-to-understand directions. Features: ~ Problem-solving ~ Deductive and analytical thinking ~ Numbers and counting ~ Same and different ~ Matching ~ Sounds

Discover how to develop and implement equitable strategies and practices that support every child in your classroom

The long-awaited new edition of NAEYC's book Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs is here, fully revised and updated! Since the first edition in 1987, it has been an essential resource for the early childhood education field. Early childhood educators have a professional responsibility to plan and implement intentional, developmentally appropriate learning experiences that promote the social and emotional development, physical development and health, cognitive development, and general learning competencies of each child served. But what is developmentally appropriate practice (DAP)? DAP is a framework designed to promote young children's optimal learning and development through a strengths-based approach to joyful, engaged learning. As educators make decisions to support each child's learning and development, they consider what they know about (1) commonality in children's development and learning, (2) each child as an individual (within the context of their family and community), and (3) everything discernible about the social and cultural contexts for each child, each educator, and the program as a whole. This latest edition of the book is fully revised to underscore the critical role social and cultural contexts play in child development and learning, including new research about implicit bias and teachers' own context and consideration of advances in neuroscience. Educators implement developmentally appropriate practice by recognizing the many assets all young children bring to the early learning program as individuals and as members of families and communities. They also develop an awareness of their own context. Building on each child's strengths, educators design and implement learning settings to help each child achieve their full potential across all domains of development and across all content areas.

Activities to develop understanding of sizes, shapes, colors, numbers, letters, sounds, reading, writing, mathematics, language skills.