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Slow and steady, get me ready: A parents' handbook for children from birth to age 5 Review

Slow and steady, get me ready: A parents' handbook for children from birth to age 5
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This is such a wonderful book, full of so many ideas and things to do! Daily/weekly plans from birth thru 5 years! You cannot beat it! A wonderful and, REALLY, and inexpensive investment in your child's education! GREAT CHOICE! :o)

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..ANNOUNCING...THE NEW 3RD EDITION OFSLOW AND STEADY,GET ME READYthat can help your program and theparents of the children you serve!LEARNING BEGINS AT BIRTHSTART WITHSLOW AND STEADY, GET ME READYTHE UNIQUE BOOK THAT GROWS WITH YOUR CHILD CONTAINS AN INEXPENSIVE PHONETIC APPROACH THAT IS NECESSARY FOR A SUCCESSFUL READER AND SPELLERWRITTEN BY A RETIRED KINDERGARTEN TEACHERSLOW AND STEADY, GET ME READY SHOULD BE ON EVERY LIBRARYSHELF TO ASSIST PARENTS OF CHILDREN FROM BIRTH TO AGE FIVELEARNING BEGINS AT BIRTH!Research on brain development has shown that any attempt to maximize intellectual growth must begin the first three years of life; the younger the child, the stronger the effect.Beginning education at age five is too late!The new 3rd edition of SLOW AND STEADY, GET ME READY now includes MEASURABLE PARAMETERS TO PROFILE CHILD DEVELOPMENT, TIPS FOR SOLVING BEHAVIORAL DILEMMAS, THE EARLY BRAIN AND IMPORTANT POINTS with additional illustrations. It is a highly recommended early childhood developmental parenting resource that has achieved recognition in both the educational and medical communities.This resource was awarded the seal of approval from The National Parenting Center and is listed in the Head Start Education Resource Directory.The Harvard Family Research Project recommended SLOW AND STEADY, GET ME READY to the United States Department of Education, where it now appears in the Educational Research Information Center (ERIC) data base (http://ericir.syr.edu).This preschool parenting resource has been endorsed by Mary Pride, a leading home school educator and author.In addition, this helpful guide has been listed in the Journal of the American Medical Association as a pediatric reference.It has also been recommended by pediatricians and has been used by hospitals and churches in birth and family education programs.This resource has been found to be useful for children with special needs (e.g., autism, learning disabilities, Down's Syndrome, etc.).The author, June R. Oberlander, mother of two and grandmother of six, is a retired Fairfax County, Virginia kindergarten teacher.She initially wrote the book for her daughter, a dentist, when she sought advice on how to interact in a positive and developmental manner with her first child, Bonnie, who is illustrated on the front cover.Mrs. Oberlander taught 22 years in private and public kindergartens developing ideas that culminated in the publication of this guide.She has spoken before more than 100 groups in schools, hospitals, libraries, churches and parenting organizations throughout the United States.She devotes her energy assisting parents and caregivers in developing preschool skills in their children and refreshing the preschool teaching skills of grandparents.Numerous repeat orders have substantiated and demonstrated the usefulness of SLOW AND STEADY, GET ME READY.People do not reorder a product unless they like it!Many mothers and grandmothers have said, " I wish I would have had a resource guide like this when my child was young." This book has been published both in Japan and in Romania.Other foreign publishers have expressed an interest in publishing this book.The first five years of a child's life are the most formative and critical. SLOW AND STEADY, GET ME READY is for those genuinely interested in helping children get a good start in life.These children will some day be the leaders of the future.THE BEST THING THAT PARENTS CAN SPEND ON THEIR CHILD IS THEIR TIME!SLOW AND STEADY, GET ME READYThe following changes have been incorporated into the new 3rd edition:MEASURABLE PARAMETERS TO PROFILE CHILD DEVELOPMENT, formerly a $3.95 bookletTHE EARLY BRAIN - scientific rationale for using the bookIMPORTANT POINTS - interesting and useful background informationTIPS FOR SOLVING BEHAVIORAL DILEMMAS42 additional and revised illustrationsThe 3rd edition contains 352 pages compared to 324 in our 4th printing.The exterior dimensions of this early childhood developmental parenting resource are now 6" x 9" compared to our previous 8.5" x 11" book since it will now be more convenient to use and is similar in size to our Japanese book.Notwithstanding, all of the above changes, additions, etc., the price of the 3rd edition remains the same!How many excellent products do you know that have improved and yet have remained the same price for 12 years?A carton of the 3rd edition contains 28 books for those ordering in quantity.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Totline 1001 Rhymes & Fingerplays Review

Totline 1001 Rhymes and Fingerplays
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This book is just what I needed as a brand-new children's librarian! It contains songs and rhymes for all kinds of subjects under the sun. Best of all, it's very well indexed. Use it to plan storytimes, teach parents to play with kids, and develop theme teaching units. A fantastic resource!

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Rhymes and poems for all reasons and seasons. Includes subject andfirst-line indexes.


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Great Map Mysteries: 18 Stories and Maps to Build Geography and Map Skills (Grades 3-6) Review

Great Map Mysteries: 18 Stories and Maps to Build Geography and Map Skills (Grades 3-6)
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This book is awesome! The students love reading about and trying to solve the mysteries. They get so focused on the mystery that they are suddently teaching themselves the map skills.
The stories in the book are entertaining and my class and I have had a lot of laughs during Social Studies. I highly recommend this book to teachers of Social Studies in grades four and five. It may be a little difficult for third graders and too easy for sixth grade.

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This one-of-a-kind classroom resource includes plays based on great mystery stories by writers like Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dashiell Hammett, Ellery Queen, Nathaniel Hawthorne and others. The creative, cross-curricular extension activities help students fully explore the genre of mystery. For use with Grades 3-6.

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Preschool Skills Review

Preschool Skills
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My 3-year-old is learning so much from this book. It has a little bit of everything in it: tracing, writing, math, colors, scissor skills. I just wish it was bigger or the person who gave it to me would have given me 10 more just like it! My child especially loved the scissor exercises. We are getting the Carson Dellosa "Scissor Skills" book soon! This book has really improved her control and patience in basic motor skills.

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Perfect to use for extra practice at home or school, this book includes more than 100 pages of exciting activities that will help children master basic skills needed to excel in Preschool! Also included are 96 durable flash cards and a motivating award certificate. Skills cover tracing, cutting, pasting, drawing, visual discrimination, shape recognition, reasoning, rhyming, sequencing, color recognition, counting 1-10, and number formation.

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Everything for Early Learning, Grade K (Everything for Early Learning Series) Review

Everything for Early Learning, Grade K (Everything for Early Learning Series)
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I like this book, it has some great exercises in it. Half of the book is in English and the exact same opposite page is the Spanish version.

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Perfect for children learning Spanish or English as a second language! Our best-selling Everything for Early Learning workbook is now available in an English-Spanish version. In this 320 page workbook for kindergarteners, activities are represented in English and then in Spanish on facing pages. This format allows children to complete an activity in their first language and then in their second language, reinforcing basic skills and language acquisition.Featuring fun exercises that reinforce basic math, sorting, sequencing, writing and letter recognition skills, this workbook is perfect for children learning a second language

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Medieval Life (Eyewitness Workbooks) Review

Medieval Life (Eyewitness Workbooks)
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I purchased this item for a medieval unit I was doing with my homeschooled 12yr. old son. My goal was to find appropriate material that would offer him some variety from the necessary, but sometimes boring worksheets, to go with his reading. This was a GREAT choice. He really enjoyed the reading and the muliply kinds of activities in the book. I was afraid he would find some of the activities (such as the sticker pages) to be too childish for him, but he liked those to! After reading the workbook and doing the activities he enjoyed it enough that we went on to build a castle and a working catapult!
When he was in public school, my son was coded with an LD in written expression, but he often struggled with the assigned reading materials. Although he has made great strides in his reading ability, he still tends to shy away from it. It was wonderful to find a whole workbook that he was willing and eager to read by himself. Honestly this workbook had a lot more to offer than I thought it would. For the price I really wasn't expecting a whole lot, but was pleasantly surprised to find I got more than I bargained for!

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Perfect for getting ahead at school or just stimulating children's interest, this groundbreaking series of workbooks leaves the competition in the dust, with exciting subjects, 48 full-color pages, a turn-and-learn info wheel, and special carrying folders. Never before have there been workbooks with so many opportunities for fun and interactive learning!This book helps kids take their knowledge of the Middle Ages to the next level, from the daily life of a peasant to the building of a cathedral.

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Slow and Steady Get Me Ready Review

Slow and Steady Get Me Ready
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This book contains one educational activity for each week of your childs life, from birth to age 5. Although you are humorlessly instructed to do the activities in order, repeating the activity-of-the-week daily, the book is still useful in real life. Every few weeks, I flip through the sections for my children's ages and get ideas. The activities are exactly age appropriate- even the ones for young babies. They generally (but not always) use stuff you have around the house. And they are often ideas you might not think of on your own. I have also found that the activities have a good time-enjoyed to clean-up-the-mess time ratio!

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LEARNING BEGINS AT BIRTH!Research on brain developmenthas shown that any attempt to maximize intellectual growth must beginthe first three years of life; the younger the child, the stronger theeffect.Beginning education at age five is too late!The new, large (8 ½ x 11 inch), 352-page 4th edition of SLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY includes 260 weekly, age-appropriate developmental activities that are easy to understand and do.This unique book is your answer to early childhood education and now contains updated illustrations, Measurable Parameters To Profile Child Development, Tips For Solving Behavioral Dilemmas, The Early Brain and Important Points.SLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY is a highly recommended early childhood developmental parenting resource that tells you when, how and what skills to develop, provides an inexpensive phonetic approach for reading and spelling, contains a complete readiness curriculum full of ideas, enriches the parent child bond with close interaction and develops preschool skills, painlessly and in proper order.It only takes only about ten minutes for each activity.This wonderful, helpful book now provides an easy, cost-saving method to measure the progress of a child to determine when the child should be ready for kindergarten.A simple checklist guide of developmental characteristics has proven to be a useful tool for parents and childcare providers to monitor progress by observation for children from birth to age five.This guide is useful for parents, teachers, Head Start, etc., because there is little paper work – just a checklist.SLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY was divinely inspired and is based upon Mark 9:36-37. Jesus taught his disciples to welcome children.This was a new approach in a society where children were usually treated as second-class citizens.Unfortunately, children are often still regarded as second-class citizens around the world. We hope that by interacting with them closely in an appropriate manner, as recommended in this book, parents will realize children are their most precious asset and will treat them accordingly.This valuable, but inexpensive, resource has been found to be useful for children with special needs (e.g., autism, learning disabilities, Down's Syndrome, etc.).SLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY is an inexpensive book that provides 5 years of activities at approximately a penny a day!The best thing to spend on your child is your time!SLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY Activities Help Newborns Develop: Interest in interacting with another person Beginning listening skills Enhancement of sense of touch Awareness of body parts Skill in grasping an object Interest in rhythm and repetitionSLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY Activities Help One-Year Olds Develop: Confidence and independence Eye/hand coordination Awareness of left and right Ability to follow directions Vocabulary Gross motor skillsSLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY Activities Help Two -Year Olds Develop: Knowledge of different shapes Skill in color matching Memory recall A desire to help Awareness of similarities and differences An understanding of obedience and responsibilitySLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY Activities Help Three-Year Olds Develop: Observational skills Skill in making a decision Problem solving ability Ability to reason Freedom of Expression Role playing abilitySLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY Activities Help Four-Year Olds Develop: Knowledge of numbers Awareness of telling time Recognition of letters and their sounds Skill in forming shapes, letter, numbers Ability to think and associate Awareness of patterns More confidence and independence

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Alphabet Art: With A to Z Animal Art & Fingerplays (Williamson Little Hands Book) Review

Alphabet Art: With A to Z Animal Art and Fingerplays  (Williamson Little Hands Book)
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I obsessed over this book wile I was pregnant and finally bought it for my daughter's second birthday (it was really for me). She's 2 and half and, although she isn't coordinated enough to really do a whole lot on her own, we have great fun with this book. She pulls it down from the bookshelf herself and looks through it. The illustrations are great and the instructions are easy enough for an adult to follow. I delegate the gluing and some coloring to her and we discuss shapes and colors--as well as letters and numbers-- while assembling the pieces. While not all (but most) of the materials are easily found around the house, I have found the ones that aren't in dollar and discount stores for next to nothing. She loves watching ordinary household items like an empty toilet paper roll transform into an alligator with some tape, a marker, scissors, green paper and glue. Her eyes light up like I'm performing magic. I have read, in teachers' journals and the like, that children retain information better when it is presented in a way that emotionally impacts them. For myself and my child, this book was well worth it, and I intend to look into some other titles by this author and from Williamson. Publishing.

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Entertaining and Educating Babies and Toddlers (Usborne Parents' Guides) Review

Entertaining and Educating Babies and Toddlers (Usborne Parents' Guides)
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This is the best book I've found with activities for babies. It's simple, to the point, and a quick read. I'm a nanny for one little girl--this book helped pass the long days when she was very small. I really liked the ideas that didn't require money--babies love household items. They learn so much from everyday objects. If you're looking for some different activities--this is the book to get.

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Teaching the 3 Cs: Creativity, Curiosity, and Courtesy: Activities That Build a Foundation for Success Review

Teaching the 3 Cs: Creativity, Curiosity, and Courtesy: Activities That Build a Foundation for Success
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Patricia A. Dischler's TEACHING THE 3 CS: CREATIVITY, CURIOSITY AND COURTESY provides a powerful reference showing how to promote a child's inner desire to learn. From tools for nurturing empathy and emotional intelligence to activities fun to use and developmentally appropriate for different ages, this tells how to integrate 'the 3 Cs' into any curriculum.

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Nurture enthusiastic learners, promote school readiness, and meet state standards by integrating creativity, curiosity, and courtesy into the curriculum through developmentally appropriate, fun activities.


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Take It to Your Seat Science Centers, Grades PreK-K Review

Take It to Your Seat Science Centers, Grades PreK-K
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The centers in this book were fairly simple to put together. My students love to pull these and work in partners. I highly recommend this series to teachers!

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