Big Book Of Seasons Holidays And Weather

This one-stop source for children's programs offers thematic rhymes, fingerplays, and songs about seasons, weather, and holidays. There are many books designed to help librarians and teachers come up with programming ideas, but here is one that compiles, organizes, and indexes texts and tunes thoroughly. This unparalleled collection, a follow up to the author's popular Big Book of Animal Rhymes, Fingerplays, and Songs, is organized around the four seasons, focusing on children's rhymes, fingerplays, songs, and poems relating to weather, time, and holidays. Designed as a one-stop resource to help librarians and educators find material for their programs quickly and easily, the book features approximately 300 songs, rhymes, and fingerplays, including some Spanish-language versions. Material is topically arranged and presented in a format that can easily be reproduced. There is a thematic index and generous cross-referencing, as well as age/grade levels that will help readers determine which material is best suited to a particular audience. Music for accompaniments is included, as are directions for performing the fingerplays.

Children will enjoy learning about the weather, holidays, and other notable seasonal events. Packed with early science lessons, fun facts, and other exercises, this hands-on workbook will help students build knowledge and curiosity about the world.

This book serves as both a textbook and reference for faculty and students in LIS courses on storytelling and a professional guide for practicing librarians, particularly youth services librarians in public and school libraries. Storytelling: Art and Technique serves professors, students, and practitioners alike as a textbook, reference, and professional guide. It provides practical instruction and concrete examples of how to use the power of story to build literacy and presentation skills, as well as to create community in those same educational spaces. This text illustrates the value of storytelling, covers the history of storytelling in libraries, and offers valuable guidance for bringing stories to contemporary listeners, with detailed instructions on the selection, preparation, and presentation of stories. It also provides guidance around the planning and administration of a storytelling program. Topics include digital storytelling, open mics and slams, and the neuroscience of storytelling. An extensive and helpful section of resources for the storyteller is included in an expanded Part V of this edition.

"This big book is the perfect tool for introducing young learners to the four seasons. Here readers learn about seasonal patterns, weather, clothes, activities and changes to plants and animals in the natural world. The large number of photos within this book and its striking design keeps readers engaged and enables them to compare and contrast all four seasons"--Provided by publisher.

Illustrations and rhymes celebrate what makes each season special, from baby chicks in the spring through a snowman in the winter.

Introduces the seasons, weather, animals, plants, the earth, machines, matter, energy, and related topics.

Read about the things that change outdoors with the season, including the hours of sunlight and the temperature.

This is Seasons and Weather Coloring Book. Big Cartoon Big Words. when they turn isn't so easy especially when you are a child. This book! Teach Seasons and Weather. entertaining and appropriate interactive ideas to help them deal with significant experience Seasons and Weather Coloring. A great book where children can choose a feeling that relates to them and then turn to the page that provides child-friendly strategies for dealing with that feeling. Helpful parent notes at the back of the book provide more ideas for parents to use with their child and other strategies to try out together and practice the all Important skill of dealing with Seasons and Weather Coloring.