Download or read book Play Smart Skill Builders Age 2 written by Gakken early childhood experts and published by Gakken. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Download or read book Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progress, and the adults who provide for the care and the education of young children bear a great responsibility for their health, development, and learning. Despite the fact that they share the same objective - to nurture young children and secure their future success - the various practitioners who contribute to the care and the education of children from birth through age 8 are not acknowledged as a workforce unified by the common knowledge and competencies needed to do their jobs well. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 explores the science of child development, particularly looking at implications for the professionals who work with children. This report examines the current capacities and practices of the workforce, the settings in which they work, the policies and infrastructure that set qualifications and provide professional learning, and the government agencies and other funders who support and oversee these systems. This book then makes recommendations to improve the quality of professional practice and the practice environment for care and education professionals. These detailed recommendations create a blueprint for action that builds on a unifying foundation of child development and early learning, shared knowledge and competencies for care and education professionals, and principles for effective professional learning. Young children thrive and learn best when they have secure, positive relationships with adults who are knowledgeable about how to support their development and learning and are responsive to their individual progress. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 offers guidance on system changes to improve the quality of professional practice, specific actions to improve professional learning systems and workforce development, and research to continue to build the knowledge base in ways that will directly advance and inform future actions. The recommendations of this book provide an opportunity to improve the quality of the care and the education that children receive, and ultimately improve outcomes for children.

Download or read book Play Smart Skill Builders Challenging Age 2 3 written by Gakken early childhood experts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Scholastic Toddler Jumbo Workbook written by Violet Findley and published by Scholastic Teaching Resources. This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toddlers can learn with this big collection of playful, age-perfect pages! Topic areas include fine-motor skills--tracing, coloring, cutting--plus alphabet, numbers, shapes, colors, and more. Comes with motivating stickers.

Download or read book Where s the Math written by Mary Hynes-Berry and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use the powerful strategies of play and storytelling to help young children develop their "math brains." This easy-to-use resource includes fun activities, routines, and games inspired by children's books that challenge children to recognize and think more logically about the math all around them.

Download or read book Teach Smarter written by Vanessa J. Levin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover new, practical methods for teaching literacy skills in your early childhood classroom. Has teaching early literacy skills become a stumbling block to getting your preschool students kindergarten ready? Break out of the tired “letter of the week” routine and learn how to transform your lessons with fun and effective techniques. Teach Smarter: Literacy Strategies for Early Childhood Teachers will equip teachers to infuse every aspect of their teaching with exciting hands-on literacy teaching methods that engage students and help them build authentic connections with books, so that 100% of their students will have a strong literacy foundation and will be fully prepared for success in kindergarten and beyond. Respected author Vanessa Levin, veteran early childhood educator and author of the “Pre-K Pages” blog, breaks down the research and translates it into realistic, actionable steps you can take to improve your teaching. Features specific examples of teaching techniques and activities that engage students in hands-on, experiential learning during circle time, centers, and small groups. Offers a simple, four-step system for teaching literacy skills, based on the foundational principles of early literacy teaching Demonstrates how to build your confidence in your ability to get 100% of your students ready for kindergarten, long before the end of the school year Understand the problems with traditional literacy teaching and identify gaps in your current teaching practice with this valuable resource.

Download or read book Creative Curriculum written by Teaching Strategies and published by Delmar Pub. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Creative Curriculum comes alive! This videotape-winner of the 1989 Silver Apple Award at the National Educational Film and Video Festival-demonstrates how teachers set the stage for learning by creating a dynamic well-organized environment. It shows children involved in seven of the interest areas in the The Creative Curriculum and explains how they learn in each area. Everyone conducts in-service training workshops for staff and parents or who teaches early childhood education courses will find the video an indispensable tool for explainin appropriate practice.

Download or read book Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth Through Age 8 Fourth Edition Fully Revised and Updated written by Naeyc and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited new edition of NAEYC's book Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs is here, fully revised and updated! Since the first edition in 1987, it has been an essential resource for the early childhood education field. Early childhood educators have a professional responsibility to plan and implement intentional, developmentally appropriate learning experiences that promote the social and emotional development, physical development and health, cognitive development, and general learning competencies of each child served. But what is developmentally appropriate practice (DAP)? DAP is a framework designed to promote young children's optimal learning and development through a strengths-based approach to joyful, engaged learning. As educators make decisions to support each child's learning and development, they consider what they know about (1) commonality in children's development and learning, (2) each child as an individual (within the context of their family and community), and (3) everything discernible about the social and cultural contexts for each child, each educator, and the program as a whole. This latest edition of the book is fully revised to underscore the critical role social and cultural contexts play in child development and learning, including new research about implicit bias and teachers' own context and consideration of advances in neuroscience. Educators implement developmentally appropriate practice by recognizing the many assets all young children bring to the early learning program as individuals and as members of families and communities. They also develop an awareness of their own context. Building on each child's strengths, educators design and implement learning settings to help each child achieve their full potential across all domains of development and across all content areas.

Download or read book I Can Do That Stickers written by Gakken early childhood experts and published by Gakken. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 350 stickers and 64 clever game boards, this sticker workbook provides hours of learning fun! **2019 National Parenting Product Awards Winner** (NAPPAawards.com) Playing with stickers books is a marvelous way for preschool children to hone fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and spatial relations while they play. With this sticker activity book for children ages 3 to 5, your child will: -solve mazes -play matching games -complete counting activities -decorate pictures While entertaining for hours on end, these preschool activity books can also teach your child to: -practice skills like decision making -sort objects by shape and color -develop observation skills -increase vocabulary -exercise creativity and much more!

Download or read book School Zone Big Preschool Workbook written by School Zone and published by Big Workbook. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help preschoolers get ready for reading, writing, and numbers! This gigantic, 320-page book of creative, colorful activities will make learning feel like play. An A+ adventure unfolds, as kids encounter sensational squares and rocking rectangles, a giant newt reading the newspaper and a dinosaur playing the drums. Bold, bright colors and illustrations ease little ones into learning without feeling overwhelmed. Lessons focus on must-know readiness basics, including colors, shapes, the alphabet, basic phonics, early math, and more, and activities appear in order of increasing difficulty, so preschoolers stay challenged until the end, constantly expanding their skills. When all done they can fill in their name on their very own reward certificate! Along the way, tear-out pages make for easy sharing. School Zone products give kids their own Anywhere Teacher learning, anywhere and anytime!

Download or read book The World Book Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.

Download or read book Play Smart My First STICKER Numbers Colors Shapes 2 written by Gakken early childhood experts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn Numbers, Colors, and Shapes while having fun with 250+ stickers. This book contains more than 250 colorful stickers of animals, vehicles, vegetables, fruits, and toys that are recognizable to children. Kid-friendly stickers and age-appropriate activities encourage children to learn. This sticker activity book helps children acquire early math skills as they learn colors and shapes. To learn these skills, children must be able to distinguish between different colors, shapes, and sizes while classifying objects. The book progresses in stages as follows: Activities to distinguish colors, shapes, and sizes Activities to observe and find similarities and differences Activities to sort and count things Continuing this process can also nurture a child's judgment and problem-solving skills. What is a My First Activity Book Series? ·This series is a suitable size for children with small hands who are just starting to learn. They can apply stickers, color, and cut with scissors with ease. ·This small size allows children to look at each page without moving their eyes. They can easily understand the activity and remain engaged. ·For children on the go-they can enjoy this easy-to-carry format everywhere. What’s Play Smart Workbooks? Over 50 million Play Smart Workbooks sold worldwide. Educational method with over 70 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.

Download or read book Play Smart 500 Stickers Busy Days written by Gakken early childhood experts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Play Smart Big Workbook Preschool Ages 2 4 written by Gakken early childhood experts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play Smart BIG Workbook Preschool helps your child learn how to write letters and numbers and draw shapes in an easy-to-follow, developmentally appropriate, step-by-step process. Over 250 activities. All pages are perforated for easy removal. This book consists of 9 sections that support the development of your child’s preschool readiness skills. Basic Lines Shapes Colors Letters Numbers Color & Shapes Dot to Dot Mazes Puzzles Your child will first practice writing BASIC LINES (1) such as straight lines, curves, and zigzags. This is the basis for writing letters and numbers. The SHAPES (2), LETTERS (4), and NUMBERS (5) activities prompt your child to use the handwriting skills learned in BASIC LINES (1). They will be able to practice basic lines again in the LETTERS (4) section. In the NUMBERS (5) section, your child will practice writing numbers and matching numbers with the quantity of objects. Children will learn more about putting numbers in order in the DOT TO DOT (7) section. The COLORS (3) and COLORS & SHAPES (6) sections include activities for color and shape recognition. Children will also develop basic skills and draw creatively. MAZES (8) are an extension of basic line practice as children will draw long lines. Mazes also help develop problem-solving and forward thinking skills. The PUZZLES (9) section encourages your child to solve problems, match items, and fill in empty spaces. This improves spatial cognitive skills. Children can start with any page they like, depending on their developmental stage and interest.

Download or read book Smart Play written by Barbara Sher and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-08-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 101 SIMPLE WAYS TO MAKE EVERY DAY A SPECIAL DAY! Children who move their bodies as part of the learning process are more stimulated and alert-and they retain more of what they are taught. By sharing the upbeat, joyful activities in Smart Play, you can enhance your child's intelligence, boost his or her confidence, teach academic and motor skills, and provide a lasting foundation for learning. Developed by Barbara Sher over the course of thirty years as a parent, teacher, and play-therapy specialist, this collection of 101 delightful, easy-to-follow games helps children use their bodies to master essential mental skills and concepts. You and your family can play virtually anywhere, with any number of participants, and without special preparation or equipment. So gather the children in your life and get ready to have fun as you open their minds and hearts to new experiences and knowledge. SPECIAL SECTIONS HIGHLIGHT: * Encouraging movement and thinking * Improving motor and social skills * Enhancing language and math skills * Fostering parent-child interaction * Building on children's love of fantasy, action, and rhythm

Download or read book Playthings written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ambient Intelligence written by Boris De Ruyter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-31 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, AmI 2015, held in Athens, Greece, in November 2015. The 21 revised full papers presented together with 5 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. Over the past 20 years, the vision of Ambient Intelligence has gradually materialized into a plethora of technologies and devices, which are being introduced into almost every aspect of everyday life, thus affecting our abilities, activities, behavior and in the end,shaping a new way of thinking.