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Early childhood educators around the world use this best seller to plan daily curriculum and classroom activities. The book contains 76 different themes ranging from Ants to Zoo Animals, presented in alphabetical order. Content for each theme includes the following sections: Curriculum Flowchart, Theme Goals, Concepts for Children to Learn, Vocabulary, Bulletin Board Ideas, Sample Parent Letter, Arts and Crafts, Cooking, Dramatic Play, Field Trips, Fingerplays/Chants, Group Time, Science, Math, Sensory, Large Motor, Fine Motor, Social Studies, Books, Recordings and Song Titles, and Technology/Multimedia Resources. The updated book sections for each theme include hundreds of new children's literature references with a special emphasis on multicultural selections. In addition, the new Sixth Edition includes a brand new four-color insert on Using the Digital Camera in the Early Childhood Classroom. The text is accompanied by a companion website that contains important assessment tools, lesson plan forms, rainy day activities, developmental checklists, classroom artifacts, and much more.
List of contents
1. Ants.2. Apples.3. Art.4. Birds.5. Blue.6. Bread.7. Brushes.8. Bubbles.9. Buildings.10. Camping.11. Caring for Our Earth.12. Cars, Trucks and Buses.13. Cats.14. Chinese New Year.15. Christmas.16. Cinco de Mayo.17. Circus.18. Clothing.19. Communications.20. Construction Tools.21. Containers.22. Creative Movement.23. Dairy Products.24. Dentist.25. Diwali.26. Doctors and Nurses.27. Dogs.28. Easter.29. Eggs.30. Fall.31. Families.32. Farm Animals.33. Feelings.34. Feet.35. Firefighters.36. Fish.37. Flowers.38. Friends.SPECIAL INSERT: USING THE DIGITAL CAMERA IN THE EARLY CHILDHOOD CLASSROOM.39. Frogs.40. Fruits and Vegetables.41. Gardens.42. Halloween.43. Hanukkah.44. Hats.45. Health.46. Homes.47. Insects and Spiders.48. Kwanzaa.49. Mail Carrier.50. Mice.51. Music.52. Numbers.53. Nursery Rhymes.54. Occupations.55. Pets.56. Plants.57. Puppets.58. Purple.59. Rain.60. Ramadan.61. Red.62. Safety.63. Scissors.64. Shapes.65. Sports.66. Spring.67. Summer.68. Thanksgiving.69. Trees.70. Valentine's Day.71. Water.72. Wheels.73. Winter.74. Worms.75. Yellow.76. Zoo Animals.Appendix A: Multicultural Resources for the Early Childhood Classroom.Appendix B: Overview of the NAEYC Early Childhood Program Standards.
