Transform ho-hum time between activities into learning-filled transitions with this fabulous collection of just-right ideas! More than fifty innovative, 2-5 minute ideas that make managing transitions a snap. Ideas compliment your early childhood curriculum, build essential skills, and get kids focused. PLUS: Each idea is quick and fun!
The Secret of Natural Readers: How Preschool Children Learn to Read
Utilizing the actual experiences of six preschool children, The Secret of Natural Readers documents the process of reading development through stories of their early years. The author discusses the implications of natural reading development and its feasibility among preschoolers from different segments of the population. She also spells out, for parents and early childhood teachers, critical information on how preschool children should learn to read.
Narana's Strange Journey; Rhubarb Ted; Gobbolino, the Kitchen Cat; Noisy Neighbours; Jester Minute; The Princess & the Pea; The Ant & the Grasshopper; Santa's Early Christmas
Astronomy is not just a subject unto itself. We all look at the sky, and it has always been a fertile source of guidance and inspiration in art, music, and literature. This book explores the sky’s appearances in music and art, but focuses most on the sky’s enormous presence in early modern English literature.
Immortalized in the plays of Shakespeare, Henry V is the most famous and celebrated of all England's medieval monarchs. His succession of victories over the French, combined with his death at an early age, has created an aura of myth around the man and commander that has endured to this day.