Kathy Charner – författare

Each book in the Learn Every Day series features one hundred activities contributed by teachers around the world. Classroom-tested and teacher-approved, these activities teach children ages three to six about some of their favorite topics. Organized by curriculum area, each chapter is structured by age, starting with the youngest preschooler. Learn Every Day About Our Green Earth makes it easy for teachers to incorporate discussions about caring for Earth into any curriculum with activities that promote responsible behaviors while remaining fun and enjoyable. Taking care of our planet has never been more important, and schools and families are teaching even the youngest children about environmental responsibility. In this book, activities like “Recycling Adds Up” and “Block Compost” teach children the importance of reusing and recycling, while “Thank a Tree” and “Worms Are Good Guys” teach them how to respect and love nature. Global awareness is everyone’s responsibility, and the activities in Learn Every Day About Our Green Earth help teachers pass along this important knowledge to the next generation.

Bugs and spiders are fascinating to adults and children alike! Now teachers can take children on an expedition into the mysterious world of some of nature’s smallest inhabitants with Learn Every Day About Bugs and Spiders. These easy-to-do activities give children a peek into the lives of our creepy-crawler friends, with activities like “Create Caterpillars” and games like “Ants in Your Pants!” Children will love exploring the world of these mysterious and interesting creatures, and teachers will find the activities in Learn Every Day About Bugs and Spiders to be adaptable, expansive, and, most of all, fun!

Teachers from around the globe contributed their favorite activities that they use in the classroom, all focused on topics that teachers use every day! Organized by curriculum area, the activities in each chapter begin with those that are appropriate for the youngest preschoolers and follow with activities that children five years and up will enjoy. Learn Every Day About Colors has one hundred activities for children ages three to six, providing teachers with innovative and fun ways to introduce and reinforce learning about colors. With activities such as My Favorite Color Collage; Rain Painting; The Blue, Blue Sky; and I Can Sing a Rainbow, children will delight in learning all about colors!

Classroom-tested and teacher approved, these activities help children ages three to six learn all about numbers. With one hundred engaging and fun activities, Learn Every Day About Numbers offers everything a teacher needs to build a foundation for future math learning. Children will love becoming a Number Detective, a Flashlight Writer, or a Number Hero as they investigate the wonderful world of numbers. Each activity offers learning objectives to meet standards, a materials list, related children’s books, and an assessment component to measure children’s learning. Learning about numbers has never been so much fun!

Now teachers can bring the magic of each season to their classrooms! With these activities, educators introduce children to the wonder of the seasons with a year full of fun! Children will explore seasonal changes with all their senses as they celebrate the joy and excitement of the world outside all year long!

Learning about shapes has never been so much fun!

This new book features 100 activities all about shapes! Teachers and children alike will enjoy exploring the concept of shapes with activities such as Have You Seen My Square, The Circle in the Square, and Erase a Shape. The result of a nationwide contest, these activities are organized by curriculum area and offer fresh ideas that provide hours of engaging activities. Complete with learning objectives, related children’s books, and an assessment component, teachers will find everything they need to teach children ages 3-6 all about shapes. Learn Every Day About Shapes is sure to become a classroom favorite!

Each activity features:

Learning objectivesRelated vocabularyRelated children’s booksMaterials neededDirections for preparationInstructions for each activityAn assessment component

Many activities also feature teacher-to-teacher tips that provide additional ideas for expanding the activity in new ways, or suggestions about finding materials. You will also find related fingerplays, poems, or songs to extend children’s learning.

This book, like each of the other books in the Learn Every Day series, give teachers 100 classroom-tested activities that make learning fun and engaging for young children!

Children are naturally interested in their world. This book invites children to explore the world around them, learn about different cultures, consider a variety of careers, and discover the uniqueness of their very own neighborhood. Starting with the many ways we are alike and different, and expanding on to the variety of homes around the world, children will enlarge their horizons with these social studies activities that are perfect for children ages three to six. Each of the books in the Learn Every Day series offers teachers one hundred classroom-tested activities that make learning fun and engaging for young children!

Even the youngest children love animals; they want to pet puppies, visit lions at the zoo, and imitate animal sounds. Learn Every Day About Animals is an activity book inspired by children’s fascination with our furry friends. With this resource, teachers can easily incorporate learning about animals into any curriculum: games like “Whose Feet Are These?” teach recognition, while “Playdough Porcupine” makes use of art centers, and “Scratch Like a Monkey” gets kids active and moving. Curiosity about our animal friends is natural for children ages three to six, and with Learn Every Day About Animals, the learning has never been more fun!

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.

Children love outdoor play. Now teachers can combine the magic and excitement of the outdoors with activities that encourage and support learning! With more than one hundred new teacher-created, classroom-tested outdoor activities, Let's Take It Outside! engages children's minds and bodies as they explore the limitless bounds of the outdoors while also building key skills in areas like math, literacy and language, science, art, and music. Perfect for ages three to six, the activities in Let's Take It Outside! take kids on an outdoor adventure as they make mud-dough letters, go on a rainbow scavenger hunt, and play animal charades. Let's Take It Outside! is the result of a nationwide contest among teachers. The best of the best activities are selected and organized by theme for easy use. Themes include counting, alphabet, colors, shapes, art, touch, sound and sight, plants and gardening, bubbles and air, light and shadow, animals and insects, dramatic play, and large motor skills.