Messy play is one of the great joys of early childhood. Not only is it tons of fun, it offers so many opportunities to learn. Through engaging in messy play, young children: learn about their senses build literacy, numeracy, and social-emotional skills experiment with and explore the properties of the solutions learn color mixing, patterns, design, texture, and rhythm develop hand-eye coordination  Recipes for Messy Play, Revised Edition uses 40 fun, open-ended and creative recipes for children that can be used both in the early childhood education setting and at home. All of the recipes can be easily replicated with readily available ingredients. Full of innovative recipes and beautiful color photography of messy play in action, this book takes a modern and environmentally friendly approach to messy play.  Easel backed, self-standing package, for easy reading. This revised edition has been beautifully redesigned.

Recipes for Messy Play, Revised Edition: 40 Fun Sensory Experiences for Young Learners

Parenting & Relationships

Sheppard, Cathy

Family Activities

Redleaf Press

Just Breathe takes children (and adults) through an adventure in mindfulness, introducing a powerful life skill to help navigate the ups and downs of this wonderful world. Vibrant, colorful illustrations lead readers through a journey of a lifetime--one breath at a time. After reading this book a few times, gently encourage young children to follow the exercise. You may even want to try it yourself! Lexile Grade 3.

Just Breathe: A Mindfulness Adventure

Children's Books

Sievers, Jen

Education & Reference

Mentoring is a key strategy for supporting educators at any stage in their careers—and for improving teacher practice. This guide is an effective, activity-based way to reflect on, practice, and sharpen your skills as a mentor, coach, or technical assistance provider, and it can be adapted to a wide variety of early care and education settings. Supporting Teachers as Learners: A Guide for Mentors and Coaches in Early Care and Education includes activities and worksheets for hands-on learning and addresses The variety of mentoring programs operating today; Understanding adult learning and development; Building strong mentor-protégé relationships and appreciating and understanding differences; Skills and strategies for effective mentoring; and Mentors as leaders and learners. This book is published by the American Federation of Teachers Education Foundation.

Supporting Teachers as Learners: A Guide for Mentors and Coaches in Early Care and Education

Education & Teaching

Bellm, Dan

Whitebook, Marcy

Schools & Teaching

Messy play is one of the great joys of early childhood. This book uses 40 fun, open-ended, and creative recipes for children to build literacy, numeracy, and social-emotional skills.

Recipes for Messy Play: 40 Fun Sensory Experiences for Young Learners

1990 Practical Solutions to Practically Every Problem: The Early Childhood Teacher's Manual (P) by Steffen Saifer / Foreword by Ellen Galinsky ***ISBN-13: 9780934140614 ***190 Pages

Practical Solutions to Practically Every Problem: The Early Childhood Teacher's Manual

Saifer, Steffen

Parenting

Give children the support of being rooted in their culture and the strength to soar beyond prejudice and discrimination; give them roots and wings. With this new approach to multicultural education, and the activities and strategies in Roots &amp; Wings, you can create a culturally responsive program (center, nursery school, parent education). This long-needed perspective on how culture influences life in your classroom and the importance of maintaining culture in the lives of young children can change how you provide multicultural education.

Roots and Wings: Affirming Culture in Early Childhood Programs

Health, Fitness & Dieting

York, Stacey

Psychology & Counseling

Play skills are life skills. Help children grow in social skills by supporting the development of coorperative play skills. With the easy-to-use, accurate play checklist in Pathways to Play, teachers and caregivers can pinpoint the step in cooperative play where a child is having problems. Then, with the activities that correspond with each checklist item, you can plan activities that encourage the child to develop the needed skills. 
Much more than a behavior management plan for children, Pathways to Play helps you plan for the development of new skills, rather than only controlling the problem behavior. Learn how to implement small changes in your environment, in you planned activities and in your expectations that can add up to major changes for children. Included are: 
 A simple, ten-step checklist that identifies where in play a child is having problems Teaching strategies, specifically targeted at the checklist steps Over 100 activity ideas that encourage development of specific play skills An easy-to-understand discussion of the basis of play Case studies that demonstrate the usefulness of the checklist Ideas for trainers

Pathways to Play: Developing Play Skills in Young Children

Heidemann, Sandra

Hewitt, Deborah

Family Child Care Contracts &amp; Policies gives you the tools you need to establish and enforce contracts and policies, build trust between provider and parent, and demonstrate provider professionalism. 
Family Child Care Contracts &amp; Policies explains: How to establish good business relationships with parents What to look for before signing contracts with parents What to include in your contracts and policies How to prevent conflicts with parents When and how to end a contract 
New to the second edition: How to get paid in advance How to raise your rates How to use small-claims court to enforce your contract How to avoid anti-trust violations when collecting and sharing information

Family Child Care Contracts and Policies: How to Be Businesslike in a Caring Profession

Copeland, Tom

Business & Money

Magnificent color photographs and simple, engaging language capture the essence of one way we are special and different from one another—our skin color! Answers the "what and why" questions that children love to ask. Includes unique activity ideas.

All the Colors We Are: Todos los colores de nuestra piel/The Story of How We Get Our Skin Color (Spanish Edition)

Kissinger, Katie

Literature & Fiction

More than 200 original ideas weave smoothness into activity changes.

Transition Magician: Strategies for Guiding Young Children in Early Childhood Programs

Henthorne, Mary

Larson, Nola

Plum, Barbara

Reference

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