"Join Maisy and her friends for a busy day at preschool! Experience many school activities: painting, music, story time, and more!"--p. [4] of cover.

An encyclopedic how-to guide for the universal early childhood program problems. Practical Solutions to Practically Every Problem attempts to provide solutions to every possible problem faced by early childhood teachers-before teachers encounter them. This classic resource has been updated to focus on current issues faced by educators, including teaching twenty-first century life skills, technology, and cultural responsiveness. This easy-to-use guide...

It's never too early—or too late—to start sharing books with your baby!

Reading is one of the first activities you can enjoy with your child, and Reading with Babies, Toddlers, and Twos gets you started. Instill a love for reading early by answering questions such as:

Which books will a newborn baby enjoy?

?What do you buy after you've read Goodnight Moon?

?Are eBooks and apps appropriate for young

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Based on the Emmy® Award-winning preschool series this movie follows Wubbzy and his friends as they play, laugh, and learn wholesome messages about friendship, helping others, and believing in oneself. First the gang has to keep Wubbzy clean for annual picture taking day. Then they help him to remember his past adventures after Wubbzy trips, hits his head, and gets a case of "knockety noggin."

Summer vacation was fun, but now Franklin can't wait to get back to class. Finally, the first day of school arrives and Mr. Owl's students get a big surprise! A mysterious substitute teacher named Miss Koala has replaced Mr. Owl, and nobody knows when he'll be back. Miss Koala sure has a different way of doing things! Franklin resists the changes at first, but soon he and the whole class discover interesting things about Miss Koala, and the kids try...

It's winter time at Caillou's house and the inquisitive 4-year-old greets the season with his usual curiosity and enthusiasm. Making home-made holiday gifts for his family, learning how other little boys and girls around the world celebrate the season and shovelling snow with Daddy, are only a few of the magical moments Caillou will share with your little ones. The family fun, adventure and learning are non-stop and all come together when Caillou...

Chinese academic traditions take zuo ren--self-fulfillment in terms of moral cultivation--as the ultimate goal of education. To many in contemporary China, however, the nation seems gripped by moral decay, the result of rapid and profound social change over the course of the twentieth century. Placing Chinese children, alternately seen as China's greatest hope and derided as self-centered "little emperors," at the center of her analysis, Jing Xu investigates...

Every state has developed some form of early learning standards. Find out how you can apply and use them in ways that are most beneficial to children. Updated to reflect the continuing evolution of early learning standards, this book offers help and hints, support and clarification, and clear explanations of how you can make early learning standards come alive in your early childhood classroom or program. You'll find tools to communicate exactly how...

Consonant blends, endings, and a few sight words advance reading skills, gently building toward more complex stories. Use of word families makes longer stories more manageable for early readers.