Product Description

This resource supplies 25 two-week themes, with a total of over 2,000 activities and ideas. Paperback, 463 pages.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #51834 in Books
• Brand: GRYPHON HOUSE
• Published on: 1998-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 6.00 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 463 pages

Features

• Contains over 2,000 activities and ideas for Preschoolers

Review
"Offers a complete plan for every day of the year…The appendix is jammed-packed with songs, recipes and games." -- Northwest Family

About the Author
Pam Schiller, Ph.D., is an early childhood author, consultant, and highly sought after speaker. She has written numerous articles for early childhood journals, including Child Care Information Exchange and Texas Child Care Quarterly. Pam is the author of five early childhood curriculums, eleven children's books and more than 30 teacher and parent resource books.

Kay Hastings, Ph.D. has over 22 years of teaching experience in the field of early childhood education. She co-authored The Complete Resource Book with Pam Schiller. The Complete Resource Book is like having a master teacher working at your side, offering you guidance and inspiration all year long.

Customer Reviews

If you choose only one, this is it!
I recently bought this book as well as two other "giant collections" of preschool activities, and this one is the best! I love it! It gives you a theme, and then suggests topics to cover in circle time, a story to read, and a musical/dance selection. The second half of the page contains six activity stations dealing with some of the following: art, language, discovery, math, gross motor, science, cooking, dramatic play, construction, fine motor. For example, the topic "Stars Above" includes the following activity stations: art (starry night paintings), fine motor (make playdough stars), fine motor (use tweezers to move small stars), math (star sponge pattern painting), construction (make star mobile), discovery (rolling of circles and stars - which rolls?). I think it's great and I don't even want to use my other books anymore! It's all done for you. I highly recommend it.

Title says it all.
I own several early childhood theme resources but this is the best I've seen, by far. If I had to choose only one resource, this would be it. The layout includes "Unit at a glance" followed by detailed daily activities. If you have to write daily lesson plans for pre-schoolers, this book has already done it all for you. Provides 50 weeks of instructional material in theme-based units.

Wonderful resource!
This book provides an early childhood teacher with wonderful curriculum ideas that can be implemented into every classroom instantly. I particulary loved the wonderful ways to expand the block and dramatic play center to include the theme.