Trying to play a game but can t remember the rules? Looking for your favorite no-bake cookie recipe? It s all right here This book is chock-full of more than 500 ways to enhance any curriculum."

Contains more than one thousand games, activities, songs, and stories designed to get children excited about reading.

A collection of 220 folk songs representing different parts of the United States, some with foreign roots. The songs are based on pentatonic scales making it easy for children to learn the melodies. All of the songs are playable on Orff instruments. These songs can be used as a springboard for discussing other states and cultures.

"Resource book for teachers in early childhood education, providing over 750 activities to use in the classroom"--Provided by publisher.

More than 170 songs, 85 poems, movement activities, and games for children in regular and special classes.

This classic collection from Maureen Kennedy was first published in 1974. This brand new edition has been revised and edited to present classic children's songs, games, jump rope chants, and clapping games.These pieces come directly from children on the playground. Maureen has researched and collected all of these wonderful activities both as a historian and as a music educator. She has preserved them in the written notation exactly as she heard the children play them.This is a wonderful resource of all elementary teachers.A world of rhythm and melody may be going on right in your neighborhood. To tune in on what's happening, join the children on the playground or sidewalk, and listen. Chances are your local variety of play chants is being sung and clapped to or used as accompaniments to bouncing balls and jump ropes. I learned many of the songs and games in this collection from the children in my school. They sang, danced and played intricate clapping games with great gusto.Wherever children make do with improvised play space, may these songs and rhymes continue to be chanted and the games played.-Maureen Kennedy

Madeleine L'Engle meets Stranger Things in this debut YA-friendly fantasy adventure about how the unexpected can move in next door