Creative resources for the early childhood classroom

Book

Creative resources for the early childhood classroom / Judy Herr.

Summary:

A theme based curriculum, this book is presented in Alpha order and contains over 2500 new activities, books, and songs; five new multicultural themes, new green themes, and various sections have been updated. Themes range from Ants to Zoo animals. Each theme contains a variation of the following content depending upon that theme: Curriculum, web, theme goals, concepts for the children to learn, vocabulary, bulletin board, parent letter, music, fingerplay, science, math, dramatic play, arts and crafts, sensory, large muscle (gross), small muscle (fine), field trips, social studies, group time, cooking, transitions, books, multimedia, recordings and song titles.

Record details

ISBN: 9781111831028
ISBN: 1111831025
Physical Description: xxxv, 729 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: Belmont, CA : Wadsworth Cengage Learning, ©2013.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:: 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.