K Is For Kindergarten

Here comes kindergarten! Whether your little reader is gearing up for the first day or making her way through the school year, K is for Kindergarten will help guide them with silly rhymes and fun activities from A to Z.

Grounded in theory and research, The All-Day Kindergarten and Pre-K Curriculum provides an activity-based and classroom-proven curriculum for educators to consider as they plan and interact with pre-k and kindergarten children. Allowing young children the opportunities to become independent, caring, critical thinkers who feel comfortable asking questions and exploring possible solutions, the Dynamic Themes Curriculum offers children the skills they need for responsible citizenship and academic progress. This book describes a culturally-sensitive pre-k and kindergarten curriculum in the context of literacy, technology, mathematics, social studies, science, the arts, and play, and also discusses: How to use the seven integrated conditions for learning to meet and exceed content learning standards How to organize for differentiated instruction and to integrate multiple forms of assessment How to teach literacy tools and skills in fresh ways How to work with families, colleagues, and community Building off of author Doris Fromberg’s groundbreaking earlier work, The All-Day Kindergarten and Pre-K Curriculum presents a practical curriculum centering on how young children develop meanings. This is a fantastic resource for pre-and in-service early childhood teachers, administrators, and scholars.

Help your child unlock their math potential with this intuitive guide to teaching new math Teaching Your Kids New Math, K-5 For Dummies makes it easy to understand the new math being taught to students in kindergarten to Grade 5, showing parents and guardians how to help their kids with the new methods and concepts that have been introduced since they finished school. You’ll discover the math-teaching basics you need to help your kids with their math homework while becoming familiar with the grids, arrays, diagrams, and arrows that math students use today. You’ll also get: A step-by-step walkthrough for teaching young students essential math concepts, even if you think you’re not a “math person” Best practices, example problems, and tips and tricks about specific math topics that will help your youngster move forward Ways to avoid common and typical math pitfalls and frustrations that trap math students and teachers Full of real-world examples and applications, Teaching Kids New Math, K-5, For Dummies is your essential companion to helping your child master their math assignments and have fun while you’re doing it!

This complete Kindergarten Kit contains everything you need for introducing science concepts to the young learner. It offers a variety of instructional tools to accommodate different classroom environments, and is packed with all course components, including: Literature Big Book Package (6 Big Books, 15" x 18"); Teacher Edition; Science Readers Classroom Library (1 each of 36 titles); Flipbook (27" x 18"); Science Resource Book Blackline Masters; Vocabulary Cards; Photo-Sorting Cards; Science A to Z Activity Book; Science on the Go with Key Ring; Puzzle Package (3 puzzles); TeacherWorks Plus CD-ROM, and Science Songs on Audio CD.

Our resource contains patterns and pictures to make hands-on activities for your learning centre and bookmaking patterns for emerging authors. Use the patterns as directed, or use them for your own ideas in the classroom. Enlarge to make bulletin board and reduce to use as clip art. Always save your originals for your own ideas and to file as a resource. Our theme resource for Bears includes hands-on, bookmaking patterns, Bear activity cards and locker name tags, and songs. Other activities include: word recognition, colour recognition, counting and visual discrimination, shape recognition, sequence, ordering of size, and a mega puzzle. This Animal Science lesson provides a teacher and student section with hands-on activities, patterns, big books, and songs to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

Preschool and kindergarten classrooms are unique settings that differ from the elementary and high school classrooms students experience at a later age. They are designed to help children learn about learning. In pre-K and kindergarten classrooms, playing, moving, and creating are all integral parts of daily lessons. Teachers are charged with designing learning experiences that keep young students engaged, allow choice and freedom, and connect learners to one another. Meeting the needs of diverse students in today's early childhood classrooms requires careful and targeted differentiation of curriculum, instruction, learning objectives, and environment. This six-page laminated guide by Paula Kluth and Jaclyn Beljung provides recommendations for creating careful designed and thoughtfully orchestrated inclusive classroom environments for children in pre-K and kindergarten. It includes a variety of ideas and strategies for >Setting up the classroom >Designing instruction for students with different needs >Creating positive behavioral supports >Making learning active >Establishing productive collaborative relationships with families and colleagues

Today’s kindergarten teachers face enormous challenges to reach district-mandated academic standards. This book presents a model for 21st-century kindergartens that is rooted in child-centered learning and also shaped by the needs and goals of the present day. Classroom teachers working with diverse populations of students and focusing on issues of social justice provide vivid descriptions of classroom life across urban and rural communities. Teacher reflections and commentary from the editors link teacher decisions to principles of good practice. Teaching Kindergarten illustrates how a progressive, learning-centered approach can not only meet the equity and accountability goals of the Common Core State Standards but go well beyond that to educate the whole child. Book Features: Rich examples of learner-centered teaching in diverse public school settings.Depictions of integrated curricula in science, social studies, math, arts, and language arts that address Common Core and other standards.Connections to recent developmental research and pedagogy.Programs promoting social and cultural awareness.Photographs of children’s projects and a list of children’s books. “The teachers you are about to read tell stories no one has heard before, at a time when it is difficult to hear the individual voices in the classroom. No grade level needs this soul-searching examination more than kindergarten. This book maps a remarkable number of journeys toward this goal. I hope teachers will be inspired to add their own voices to the process of renewal.” —Vivian Gussin Paley, internationally renowned educator, author, and classroom teacher “We need this book. It speaks eloquently to what good practice looks like in real schools, as well as what it means to be a good teacher. These are stories of amazing educators whose work addresses what equity is all about—starting with 5 year olds. It’s too bad the next 12 years of school are not more like these kindergarten classrooms.” —Deborah Meier, education activist, senior scholar at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education