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| Title: | Learning Basic Skills Through Music - Volume 1 |
| Author: | Hap Palmer |
Everybody's Favorite! Numbers, colors, the alphabet, and body awareness are all presented in a happy, rhythmic teaching program that pre-school, slow learners, and early primary children from all backgrounds can participate in immediately.
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| Title: | Fingerplays and Footplays |
| Author: | Rosemary Hallum and Henry Buzz Glass |
These charming fingerplays and footplays are fun to do and involve children happily in learning. A combination of traditional and new, all are done in a bright, up-to-date style with original music. Valuable for fine motor coordination, memory training and oral language development. Directions are on the recording, so the plays are easy to learn. Excellent for class control. Helpful for ELL.
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| Title: | Nutricise |
| Author: | Catherine Slonecki, M.S. |
A happy blend of active learning songs and nutritional information, at a level 4-7 year olds understand, cheerfully imparts the elements of a healthy diet including the importance of fruits, vegetables and whole grains.
Children chant about balanced meals, fast food and taking care of themselves. The catchy music and playful lyrics will have everybody moving, singing and learning.
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| Title: | Hand Jivin' |
| Author: | Jill Gallina |
Stimulating activities help develop finger, hand, and arm dexterity and coordination. The original upbeat music encourages children to enthusiastically respond to a variety of body coordination activities while at the same time enhancing body awareness, eye-hand coordination activities, body identification, auditory perception, auditory memory and patterning.
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Why Did My Bone Break?
Read-along Book and CD wins 2007 Teachers' Choice Award! Teachers who are also parents evaluated more than 200 products--including books, games, electronics, software, and more--to choose the best tools for at-home learning. "Why Did My Bone Break?" is one of 36 winners! See our staff picks to learn about the other books in the Why…? Series.
Good Toys for Young Children
In light of recent safety recalls by toy manufacturers, parents and early childhood program staff have voiced concerns about the safety of the toys enjoyed by young children. NAEYC offers the following information on selecting the safest and most appropriate toys for young children.
How Young Children Become Readers and Writers
The research in the area of emergent literacy suggests that the roots of both reading and writing are established in the oral language experiences of very young children...
What Is Phonics, Anyway?
Many parents of beginning readers have heard about phonics, and many have questions--What does my child's teacher really mean when she talks about phonics? Does my child need to learn phonics to learn to read? Is phonics most effective if taught at a certain age? How can I tell if my child's teacher teaches phonics?
All About Families: Benefits of Reading to Children
Parent-child literacy activities in the home, such as helping children recognize letters, reading to children, or assisting children with reading and writing assignments, have been found to improve children’s language skills and heighten their interest in books...
Music and Movement - Instrumental in Language Development
"A B C D E F G." Even before the brain research findings, teachers and parents have taught the alphabet to children with the help of a song. Now, based on the research, we understand why. With the help of cat scans, we have been able to see what happens to the brain when listening to music...
Songs for a Great Day!
Music with Mar
Move and sing through the day with Mar. [more info]
Linking Literacy and Movement
As a movement specialist for nearly a quarter of a century, I’ve seen response to my topic wax and wane over the years. At first, no one wanted to hear the words children and movement together, imagining as they did the chaos that could result. Gradually, however, early childhood professionals realized children were going to move anyway; and they could either fight it or use it. (It was the educational version of "If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.")...
Unlocking Children's Creativity through Movement and Music
When we think of movement and music in early childhood, it is perhaps the image of dancing and singing children that first comes to mind. And, because dancing and singing are associated with art forms, we naturally assume that any activities involving movement and music will, of course, promote creativity. But the truth is, movement and music activities that ask the children to merely imitate the teacher or parent will do little to foster creativity...
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Activity Fosters Physical Wellness
Maintaining a high level of physical activity is harder than one thinks. I used to believe that simply sending children outside to play would insure that all would run around and return to the classroom "huffing and puffing"...
Silly Willy Workout
Brenda Colgate
Join an energetic group of young children, Brenda Colgate, and Silly Willy in an exhilarating workout! Upbeat contemporary music and activities created especially for the younger set give children a high energy "state of the art" workout including warm up, cool down, and stretches.
This unique program contains a walk through section that allows the teacher to help the students while they learn the movements.
Instrumental tracks allow the teacher to use the activities without the narrative.
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Fitness Begins in Early Childhood
North American children today are taller and heavier than their counterparts of a hundred years ago (Gallahue & Ozman, 1998). Over a third of the children today are overweight and obese...
Language and Literacy Environments in Preschools
With one-on-one conversation, dramatic play, and engaging read alouds, preschool teachers can promote children's language and literacy development. Learn about research studies on the characteristics of preschool environments that prepare children to become readers...
The Integrated Early Childhood Curriculum for
English Language Learners: Johanna Pomeroy, Ph.D. and Kimberly Price-Olsen, M.Ed.
Use this comprehensive, child-centered ELL curriculum will reach ALL students in your class. Developed using accepted, research-based theories and strategies, experienced teachers will find it easy to integrate these new ideas into their existing curriculum. New teachers will appreciate the clear instructions, illustrations, and word-for-word suggestions.
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Early Childhood Language and Literacy: Survey Explores Kindergarten Teachers' Perceptions
Research has repeatedly documented the strong connection between the development of literacy and oral language skills. Although Alan Kamhi has described the important role of the speech-language pathologist in facilitating reading development, it is still not clear whether teachers are aware of the critical role of the SLP...
Why Read Aloud with Children?
Studies prove that the most important thing adults can do in preparing young children for success in school and reading is to read aloud with them....
Helping Your Child's Physical Development
Babies and young children learn primarily through movement and their senses how to deal with gravity, to keep their balance, to move their body through space, about time and sequence of events...
Parental Involvement - Connecting Parents to Schools: Available in Spanish and English
This program clearly shows parents HOW activities at home can support academic goals at school. The importance of giving children a home environment that supports learning, daily structure, responsibilities, physical and mental activities are demonstrated. Includes advice to parents on how to become role models, handle homework and TV. [more info]
Children's Literacy Development: Suggestions for Parent Involvement
Parents are a child's first and most influential teachers! But how do you as a parent go about finding the information you need to do a good job at such an important task? Which organizations will be the most helpful? What resources are available to help you fulfill this important responsibility? Here is a quick digest of ideas and resources to get you started....
Creating a New Community School
Sherman Oaks Community Charter School in San Jose, California, is what a school looks like when a passionate, creative principal is given free rein by her superintendent to "go forth and be different..."
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