Combining nursery rhymes and learning centers helps students develop and improve a variety of literacy skills such as oral language development, phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary.

Children playing dress ups act out the nursery rhyme Hey diddle diddle.

Provides the amusing and imaginative story of an impatient, hungry child and his enthusiasm to see the pizza person deliver his food. Reprint.

With Nursery Rhyme Math, teachers can capitalize on kids' natural love for nursery rhymes while building an understanding of basic math concepts. Whether you carry this book in your early childhood or math section, you're offering teachers a fantastic resource to begin teaching number and operations, geometry, measurement, data analysis, and more. Nursery Rhyme Math includes -60 creative activities - 15 unique units each centered around a familiar nursery rhyme -Engaging reproducibles and pattern pages for minimal preparation time

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Each of 36 weekly themes is accompanied by a list of materials, patterns, activities, and more.

Planning Activities for Child Care is a valuable resource for anyone involved in planning activities for preschoolers. This newly revised book provides over 378 activities grouped into six units: Community Helpers; Friends; Me, I'm Special: Nursery Rhymes; Pets; and Transportation. Each activity is described in an easy-to-use format that includes: What do I do? What might I see children doing? Why do I have children do this? What might I talk about with children? What do I need? - Used by child care providers and students in high school, vocational school, and community college child care programs. - Provides directions for planning, setting up, and implementing a complete program for two-, three-, four-, and five-year-old children. - Objectives, Observation Hints, and Discussion Questions for each activity.