Squish, Sort, Paint, and Build: Over 200 Easy Learning Center Activities - Softcover

MacDonald, Sharon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0876591802 ISBN 13: 9780876591802

Publisher: Gryphon House, 1996

Synopsis

Enrich classroom learning centers with lively, fun activities designed to stimulate exciting learning for young children. This critical resource includes over 200 activities for the following centers: Manipulatives, Construction, Woodworking, Blocks, Gross Motor, Library, Science, Dramatic Play, Art, and Sand and Water.

About this title

About the Author

Sharon MacDonald, M.Ed., has been training teachers throughout the United States for more than fifteen years. Her training workshops and presentations focus on a variety of early childhood topics based on years of classroom experience. With a master's degree in education, Sharon has taught ages ranging from three-year-olds to adults and an inclusion program for children with disabilities. She is a frequent keynote speaker and workshop presenter at early childhood education conferences and has written many magazine articles.

From the Back Cover

Squish, Sort, Paint and Build is jam-packed with over 200 activities to keep young children actively involved in developmentally appropriate ways. The activities are child-initiated, so children can work and learn at their own level of interest and ability. This essential resource includes information on how to set up 11 learning centers, what skills the children learn by doing the activities and how to simplify the activity for a younger child or make it more difficult for an older child. Most of all, this book is about how to make learning fun and exciting.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gryphon House
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0876591802
• ISBN 13: 9780876591802
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 255