The Encyclopedia of Infant and Toddler Activities

The Encyclopedia of Infant and Toddler Activities
Author: Kathy Charner
Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc.
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2006-09-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0876591357

With over three hundred activities written specifically for infants and toddlers, this book will captivate children’s imaginations and create wonderful opportunities for learning. The result of a nationwide contest, these activities were selected as the best of the best and are written by teachers, directors, and caregivers. Organized by time of day, teachers will love the easy-to-use format. Covering areas such as arrival and departure time, clean up, and transitions, the activities span a variety of developmental areas, including language, sensory, cognitive, social-emotional, and motor skills. Approved by teachers and loved by children, this resource is sure to be a classroom favorite.

The Giant Encyclopedia of Learning Center Activities

The Giant Encyclopedia of Learning Center Activities
Author: Kathy Charner
Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc.
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780876590010

This book contains hundreds of accessible, teacher-written learning center activities. The GIANT Encyclopedia of Learning Center Activities is the eighth book in Gryphon House's GIANT Encyclopedia series. The learning centers in this book can either be permanent year-long centers or set up and removed according to the season or children's interests and needs. Through play, young children learn to communicate, interact, and expand their cognitive thinking horizons. The GIANT Encyclopedia of Learning Center Activities provides the resources to make play meaningful and educational for young children. This book offers: Over 600 activities and 47 learning centers, including familiar, permanent centers, such as Art or Blocks, and new and exciting centers, such as Farm, Space, Safari, Shoe Store, and Ice Cream Shop. Opportunities in each center for children to work at their own developmental level. Materials lists for each activity, step-by-step instructions, and related books, songs, and poems. Fresh new ideas from teachers who have used these activities in their own classrooms!

The Encyclopedia of Infant and Toddler Activities, Revised

The Encyclopedia of Infant and Toddler Activities, Revised
Author: Donna Wittmer
Publisher: Gryphon House Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780876597330

With new activities and explorations, tips and information to help you understand how to support the littlest learners, and research nuggets to enhance your own professional knowledge, the Encyclopedia of Infant and Toddler Activities, revised, will be your go-to resource! Learn about the rapid brain growth in the earliest years. Discover how infants and toddlers learn through active exploration. Learn how to create a developmentally appropriate environment where infants and toddlers feel safe to explore. Find out how to support development of language, social-emotional, cognitive, and motor skills. Activities will help you support curiosity, play, exploration, persistence, emerging foundations in literacy and math, problem solving, and so much more!

The Giant Encyclopedia of Circle Time and Group Activities for Children 3 to 6

The Giant Encyclopedia of Circle Time and Group Activities for Children 3 to 6
Author: Kathy Charner
Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc.
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1996
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780876591819

Contains more than six hundred circle time and group activities designed by teachers to use with children three to six years old, each including a suggested age, a list of materials, and step-by-step directions, and features lists of related books, songs, and poems.

Another Encyclopedia of Theme Activities for Young Children

Another Encyclopedia of Theme Activities for Young Children
Author: Stephanie Roselli
Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc.
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0876593945

Actively engage children's imaginations with more than three hundred activities for young children organized into a variety of popular themes--from the alphabet to the weather. The result of a nationwide contest among teachers, the classroom-tested activities in Another Encyclopedia of Theme Activities for Young Children provide many months of learning fun! Each activity is complete with learning objectives, materials list, related children's book suggestions, step-by-step instructions of what to do, teacher-to-teacher tips to expand on children's learning, assessment strategies, and related songs, poems, and fingerplays. Themes include All About Me, Alphabet, Animals, Art, Building and Construction, Celebrations, Colors, Five Senses, Health and Nutrition, Insects and Bugs, Kindness, Math, Music and Movement, My Community and Neighborhood, My Family and Friends, My School, Numbers, Our Earth, Plants, Science and Technology, Seasons, Shapes, Time, Transportation, Water, and Weather.

The Giant Encyclopedia of Art & Craft Activities

The Giant Encyclopedia of Art & Craft Activities
Author: Kathy Charner
Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc.
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2000
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9780876592090

A comprehensive collection of the best art and craft activities for young children. The result of a nationwide competition, these art and craft activities are the best of the best. Just the thing to add pizzazz to your day! Activities include: Bath Sponge Painting Blast-off Helmets Bumby Snake Candy Jewelry Caterpillar Cookies Cereal Box Tote Bag Darling Daffodils Dinosaur Sock Puppets Dream Catcher Ecology Art Creations

Activities for Responsive Caregiving

Activities for Responsive Caregiving
Author: Jean Barbre
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2012-11-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1605542628

The first three years set the stage for a lifetime of learning. This book provides more than eighty activities and experiences to optimize very young children's intellectual, social, emotional, and physical development, as well as strategies that support responsive caregiving. Jean Barbre, EdD, has thirty years of experience working with children and families as a preschool director, teacher, therapist, college instructor, national and international presenter, and guest presenter on public television.

The Giant Encyclopedia of Preschool Activities for Four-year-olds

The Giant Encyclopedia of Preschool Activities for Four-year-olds
Author: Kathy Charner
Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc.
Total Pages: 644
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780876592380

This wide-ranging collection of more than 600 teacher-created, classroom-tested activities has everything from songs and books to activities in art, circle time, transitions, science, math, language, music and movement, and more This complete resource of the best selections from a national contest is sure to become a classroom favorite. Formerly titled "It s Great to Be Four." Kathy Charner has been with Gryphon House for over 10 years. She is the editor of several books, including: "The GIANT Encyclopedia of Circle Time Activities"; "The GIANT Encyclopedia of Art and Craft Activities"; "The GIANT Encyclopedia of Science Activities"; and "The GIANT Encyclopedia of Theme Activities.""