What's the Play Smart secret? Learning should be fun! BOOK FEATURES 70 pages includes over 80 stickers, and a wipe-clean activity board For ages 2-4 8.25" x 11.875" Play Smart Skill Builders Age 2+ is full of age-appropriate maze activities that are perfect for strengthening children’s hand-eye coordination and focus. Maze activities help develop and improve perception, visualization, and reasoning skills. Children will also trace the lines of mazes and drawings to improve pencil skills and build the foundation of letter and picture drawing. Through trial and error, children will build fine motor skills and increase attention span. What’s Play Smart Workbooks Over 48 million Play Smart Workbooks sold worldwide. Educational method with over 60 years of experience. Age appropriate activities: Activities are carefully developed to match the level of specific age group. Step-by-step method: The instruction and the activity gradually get challenging throughout the workbook. Wide variety of activities: Variety of activities from different approaches help children strengthen critical thinking skills and creativity, which help them to be able to solve practical problems on their own. It also helps keep their interest and focus. Stickers: Uses stickers within the context of certain activities and also as rewards for completed work to keep children motivated. 4 colors throughout the book with variety of fun illustrations: The cute and colorful illustrations engage children in activities. Fun illustrations help children understand the activities without reading the instructions. Support children’s learning: “To Parents” sections explain the effective ways for parents to support children’s learning. School readiness: Children can acquire basic academic skills before entering preschool. Play Smart Series has won National Parenting Product Awards, Family Choice Award and Mom’s Choice Awards®. About Gakken Gakken is the number 1 educational publisher in Japan. Founded in 1946 by Hideto Furuoka, the mission of Gakken has always been to produce fun-first, educational materials for children. Gakken is well-known to Asian families for its bestselling workbooks. Gakken is also well-respected in academic circles - publishing popular teaching materials for preschools, kindergartens, and primary schools. In addition to its substantial publishing business, Gakken also runs 14,000 learning centers called “Gakken Classrooms” and operates nursery schools - all inspired by the successful formula used in their workbooks. Play Smart’s philosophy rewards success and builds confidence. Created by educational experts, this award-winning Play Smart series uses Gakken’s unique fun-first method of completing age-appropriate activities that are progressively more challenging, building on small achievements, and fostering an eagerness to learn. The variety of activities leads to creative problem-solving skills and prepares children for the journey of lifelong learning

What's the Play Smart secret? Learning should be fun! BOOK FEATURES 70 pages includes over 80 stickers, and a wipe-clean activity board For ages 3-5 8.25" x 11.875" Play Smart Skill Builders Age 3+ is the perfect workbook to strengthen children’s hand-eye coordination and focus. Through tracing curves, angles, and shapes, children develop and improve the pencil skills that become the foundation for writing letters and picture drawing. Chock-full of fun-first, age-appropriate activities such as tracing and counting games, these pages keep kids thoroughly entertained while they learn important skills from focus, perception and vocabulary to reasoning and pre-math skills—all important for helping kids prepare for lifelong learning! What’s Play Smart Workbooks Over 48 million Play Smart Workbooks sold worldwide. Educational method with over 60 years of experience. Age appropriate activities: Activities are carefully developed to match the level of specific age group. Step-by-step method: The instruction and the activity gradually get challenging throughout the workbook. Wide variety of activities: Variety of activities from different approaches help children strengthen critical thinking skills and creativity, which help them to be able to solve practical problems on their own. It also helps keep their interest and focus. Stickers: Uses stickers within the context of certain activities and also as rewards for completed work to keep children motivated. 4 colors throughout the book with variety of fun illustrations: The cute and colorful illustrations engage children in activities. Fun illustrations help children understand the activities without reading the instructions. Support children’s learning: “To Parents” sections explain the effective ways for parents to support children’s learning. School readiness: Children can acquire basic academic skills before entering preschool. Play Smart Series has won National Parenting Product Awards, Family Choice Award and Mom’s Choice Awards®. About Gakken Gakken is the number 1 educational publisher in Japan. Founded in 1946 by Hideto Furuoka, the mission of Gakken has always been to produce fun-first, educational materials for children. Gakken is well-known to Asian families for its bestselling workbooks. Gakken is also well-respected in academic circles - publishing popular teaching materials for preschools, kindergartens, and primary schools. In addition to its substantial publishing business, Gakken also runs 14,000 learning centers called “Gakken Classrooms” and operates nursery schools - all inspired by the successful formula used in their workbooks. Play Smart’s philosophy rewards success and builds confidence. Created by educational experts, this award-winning Play Smart series uses Gakken’s unique fun-first method of completing age-appropriate activities that are progressively more challenging, building on small achievements, and fostering an eagerness to learn. The variety of activities leads to creative problem-solving skills and prepares children for the journey of lifelong learning.

Play Smart workbooks include age-appropriate activities that use a proven step-by-step method to build confidence. Making learning enjoyable in early childhood has positive effects on a child’s lifelong educational journey. **Play Smart Challenging series---2022 National Parenting Product Awards Winner** (NAPPAawards.com) This Play Smart Skill Builders Challenging focuses on drawing basic lines and solving mazes while guessing the path ahead to support your child’s development of preschool readiness skills. 1. Tackle tasks in a variety of ways. Depending on a child’s age, some problems may be a little too difficult. It’s important to encourage your child to approach tasks in different ways, and this can be done by referring to the tips in the “To Parents” section. When a task is complete, your child’s sense of accomplishment will help develop their critical thinking skills and creativity. 2. Develop independence while working on tasks. Activities include tasks related to getting dressed, cleaning up, and helping around the house. When an activity is finished, encourage your child to practice it. This prompts children to be more aware of their surroundings. 3. Learn the names of animals, food, vehicles, and other things. While outside of your home, ask your child to review the things they have learned in the workbook. This will not only expand their vocabulary, but also stimulate their interest in the things around them. 4. Think about the environment. Pages featuring characters living in the Arctic, jungle, and desert as well as in trees, in the sea, and on land are designed to help children learn that various living things reside together on Earth. This helps raise awareness of environmental issues.

More than 500 stickers and 48 activities provide hours of learning fun! Children ages 2-4 will enjoy placing stickers in lively scenes to solve puzzles, mazes, matching games and more. Children can build school-readiness through activities that illustrate what goes on at school—from making art, to lunch time to yard play. Colorful stickers featuring children’s favorite things—animals, toys, vehicles, food, and more will make for instant appeal. The puzzles and activities in this adventure-filled sticker book will thoroughly engage toddlers and preschoolers in developing important school skills including: · Recognizing letters and numbers · Identifying colors and shapes · Sorting and classifying · Discerning patterns · Problem-solving * Sharing, taking turns, and other social skills Mazes, matching games, picture puzzles and a wide variety of other entertaining challenges will enhance children’s focus, creativity, and fine motor skills too. Carefully developed for this age group, the activities are thoughtfully illustrated so children can understand what to do without needing instructions. The puzzles are designed to get harder as you progress through the book, and built-in rewards build stamina and confidence as little ones learn through play.

This text is specifically designed to meet the needs of those teaching and learning interviewing and diagnostic skills in clinical, counselling, and school psychology, counselor education, licensed clinical social workers, and other programs preparing mental health professionals. It offers a rich array of practical, hands-on, class- and workshop-tested role-playing and didactic exercises. The profiles included throughout provide students/trainees with a wealth of information about each client's feelings, thoughts, actions, and relationship patterns on which to draw as they proceed through the different phases of the initial interview, one playing the client and one the interviewer. Each client profile is followed by exercises thathighlight attending, asking open and closed questions, engaging in reflective listening, responding to nonverbal behavior, making empathetic comments, summarizing, redirecting, supportively confronting, and commenting on process. This second edition is based on the new diagnostic system (DSM-5-TR) and all profiles and case examples are updated. Throughout, the author emphasizes the importance of understanding diversity and respecting the client's perceptions, and of reflecting on the ways in which the interviewer's own identity influences both the process of interviewing and that of diagnosis. This text is essential for both students and practitioners of clinical psychology, counselling, psychiatry, nursing, social work, and other allied professions.

This catalogue of early childhood resources represents the current materials available from the Ohio Department of Education, Division of Early Childhood Education, Information Dissemination Project housed at the Central Ohio Special Education Regional Resource Center (COSERRC). These instructional and professional materials reflect a balance of items that will serve all children typically developing and those with disabilities, ages birth-age eight. The collection also contains resources relating to school-age child care programs.