Product Description: Winner of the National Parenting Publications Award. Did you know that emotions boost our memory? Or that small muscle exercises help the brain develop? Early experiences contribute to the structure of the brain and its capacities...read more

"Rhymes, songs, poems, stories, plus 150 fun-to-do activities help children grasp the relationships in nature-from air and plants to recycling and endangered species."

Product Description: "This includes 20 great party ideas for birthdays, holidays, or any day of the week! Creative ideas for invitations, decorations, menus, word plays, fabors, plus lists of children's books related to each party theme, will make any party a hit."

Organized by theme for easy use, this collection offers more than 450 Spanish and English tunes, with Spanish on one page and English on the opposite, designed to build vocabulary and explore the sounds of both languages.

Product Description: This essential teaching tool helps caregivers and teachers develop language and pre-literacy skills with infants and toddlers. The sturdy four-color photo cards are organized into 8 different themes. Each of the 52 cards has a photograph of people and objects that infants and toddlers encounter every day...read more

Presents more than 250 songs, rhymes, and chants designed to help teachers provide opportunities for children to develop reading readiness and literacy.

Product Description: From "Sipping Cider Through a Straw" to "Apples and Bananas," children will sing and learn about a variety of foods while exploring nutrition and traditions. The enclosed CD features 25 fun songs-old favorites and originals-and the book offers more than 300 activities that help children appreciate the fabulous food we enjoy every day...read more

Product Description: Put your child in the spotlight with the Noodlebug™ All About Me DVD . Overflowing with an engaging cast of preschoolers singing and dancing along with colorful animation, this DVD is designed to help curious young children communicate feelings, understand their bodies, and celebrate everyday activities...read more

Product Description: Dive into Noodlebug™ Water Pals, a delightful DVD adventure that introduces young children to the magical creatures found around the pond and under the sea. Noodlebug’s charming cast of preschoolers splish and splash along with animated stories, songs, and activities drawn from the pages of the award-winning LADYBUB® Magazine...read more

Product Description: The engaging illustrations of LADYBUG® Magazine come alive in this action-packed Volume 2 DVD that encourages little ones to move their bodies and exercise their imaginations. Move & Groove with Noodlebug™ Volume 2 features a delightful cast of young children singing and dancing along with 19 favorite Noodlebug™ melodies including If You’re Happy, The Eensy Weensy Spider, and Sea Otter Lullaby...read more

Product Description: Go buggy with the Noodlebug™ Backyard Bugs DVD. Introducing curious preschoolers to the fascinating creatures that fly, buzz, and wriggle just outside their own backdoor. This DVD brings the pages of the award-winning LADYBUG® Magazine to life by combining whimsical animation with silly puppets and real preschoolers singing and dancing along to traditional favorites and classical melodies...read more

'Resource book for teachers of children ages birth to 18 months, including information on creating an appropriate environment, and activities to use in the classroom'--Provided by publisher.

'Resource book for teachers in early childhood education, providing over 750 activities to use in the classroom'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: Winner of the Parent's Guide to Children's Media Award, and Reader's Preference Editor's Choice Award Finalist. Are you:Trying to remember a game that you used to play?Looking for an easy-to-make, no-mess snack?Struggling to construct a kazoo, wind chime, twirly fish, or other prop?Searching for an appropriate story to supplement the day's lesson plan?Attempting to teach children how to do "The Chicken Dance?"You'll find the answers here, as best-selling authors Pam Schiller and Jackie Silberg team up to bring you the ultimate resource! Bursting with new selections and old favorites, each of the 600 activities, stories, games, recipes, props, and dances will enhance any preschool curriculum...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Includes an alphabetical compilation of nursery rhymes, folk songs, and poems, each with themes for classroom activities and instruction. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Creative and engaging activities that will teach human values to children are set forth in this guide for teachers and parents. Compassion and empathy, determination and compromise, equality and justice, honesty and integrity, and independence and self-confidence are several of the traits presented...read more

Product Description: This uniquely comprehensive manual is a clear, easy-to-read handbook that provides specific guidelines for virtually every aspect of early childhood administration. Contents include: sample criteria, procedures for program development, schedules, applications, and evaluation forms...read more

Product Description: Learn the basic building blocks of reading with Creating Readers, the comprehensive resource that develops a strong foundation for pre-readers. Creating Readers gives teachers and parents the tools to teach pre-reading skills with over 1000 activities, games, fingerplays, songs, tongue twisters, poems, and stories for the letters of the alphabet...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Complete Resource Book is perfect to use as a planning guide or as a resource for responding to children's specific interests. The daily plans have circle time, music and movement activities, suggested books, and learning center ideas...read more