Promote children's learning, improve their functional skills, and encourage interaction in your classroom with 200 Essential Preschool Activities. Use these adaptable, open-ended, developmentally appropriate preschool activities and strategies to complement and enhance your early childhood program's core curriculum. You will find ideas for creative centers, learning games, group lessons, arts and crafts, and classroom structure, as well as suggestions to involve families in children's early learning. 232 pages
Once again, I have the wonderful opportunity to introduce you to a great resource from Red Leaf Press. If you work with preschool children, or parent them, this is a book for you! 200 Essential Preschool Activities is chalk full of fun, easy to plan/implement activities that will keep children ages three to five busy and learning for hours on end. Seriously, I have had a blast doing many of the activities listed in the book. The book is very well organized, with easy to implement, low-cost, fun activities. The book is divided into six chapters, which each chapter then giving several activites to build on the topic. Chapter 1: Classroom Structure (#1-10 activities) Chapter 2: Creative Centers (#11-27 activities) AND Discovery and Sensory Areas (#28-42) Chapter 3: Group Lessons (#43-60 Academic Growth; #61-74 Social Skills; #75-92 Hands On Learning Experiences; #93-97 Musical Creativity) Chapter 4 Arts and Crafts (#98-122 Child Centered Expressive Art; #123-140 Creative Tools and Methods) Chapter 5: Learning Games (#141-149 Board Games; #150-158 Thinking Games; #159-163 Verbal Games; #164-176 Movement Games) Chapter 6: Family Involvement (#177-187 Involving Families in the Home Setting; #188-200 Involving Families in the School Setting) My favorite activies were the Discovery and Sensory Areas, especially Snow Cookies and Frozen Treasures. My girls especially enjoyed these, as well as Pizza, Pizza, Pizza from the Dramatic Play Areas. I also really appreciated many of the fantastic tips found in Chapter 1, and it really allowed me to re-evaluate my learning space and make a few much needed changes! Overall, I give this book a huge thumbs up, and recommend to anyone who works with preschool children in any capacity!
Promote children's learning, improve their functional skills, and encourage interaction in your classroom with 200 Essential Preschool Activities. Use these adaptable, open-ended, developmentally appropriate activities and strategies to complement and enhance your early childhood program's core curriculum. You will find ideas for creative centers, learning games, group lessons, arts and crafts, and classroom structure, as well as suggestions to involve families in children's early learning. 232 pages