Learn to Move, Move to Learn!

Author: Jenny Clark Brack
Publisher: AAPC Publishing
ISBN: 1931282633
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
Intended to be used in an inclusive environment, this book contains sessions addressing motor, language, sensory, cognitive, and social/emotional skills. Each session is theme and literature based and includes group activities based on a sensory integration model.

Math on the Move

Author: Malke Rosenfeld
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN: 9780325074702
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Kids love to move. But how do we harness all that kinetic energy effectively for math learning? In Math on the Move, Malke Rosenfeld shows how pairing math concepts and whole body movement creates opportunities for students to make sense of math in entirely new ways. Malke shares her experience creating dynamic learning environments by: exploring the use of the body as a thinking tool, highlighting mathematical ideas that are usefully explored with a moving body, providing a range of entry points for learning to facilitate a moving math classroom. ..."--Publisher description.

Move, Play, and Learn with Smart Steps

Author: Gill Connell
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
ISBN: 1631980742
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 217

Book Description
Build the body-brain connection with step-by-step activities that help children develop physical, cognitive, social, and emotional foundations for early learning and school readiness. Early childhood educators will find clear information on creating the move-to learn environment, managing safety, and optimizing the connections between language development, movement, and readiness for formal learning. An observational tool lets teachers pinpoint children’s specific developmental stages and assess progress. The easy-to-follow, full-color format includes diagrams and photos along with teaching tips to advance and automate children’s foundational physical capabilities while providing incremental challenge. Grounded in best practices and current research, Move, Play, and Learn with Smart Steps is both a hands-on resource for any classroom teacher, care provider, or parent and an ideal tool for coaches, mentors, and professional development trainers. Digital content includes customizable forms from the book.

Growing an In-Sync Child

Author: Carol Stock Kranowitz
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101187298
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
A fresh and timely approach to understanding the profound impact of motor development on children of all ages and stages. Based on the authors' more than seventy combined years of professional success working with children of all abilities, Growing an In-Sync Child provides parents, teachers, and other professionals with the tools to give every child a head start and a leg up. Because early motor development is one of the most important factors in a child's physical, emotional, academic, and overall success, the In- Sync Program of sixty adaptable, easy, and fun activities will enhance your child's development, in just minutes a day. Discover how simple movements such as skipping, rolling, balancing, and jumping can make a world of difference for your child—a difference that will last a lifetime.

Move to Learn

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780958160834
Category : Academic achievement
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Slow-learning children may have neurological immaturities, which affects their learning readiness, and the sequenced movements demonstrated in this video address these difficulties. The video also explains other less traditional avenues that may need to be explored to diagnose and address learning difficulties.

Move, Play, Learn

Author: Alyssa Jewell
Publisher: ALA Editions
ISBN: 9780838919125
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Children's librarians and educators will be delighted to learn that anyone can lead a movement and music storytime, regardless of their level of experience with music or movement, with this book in hand.

Read! Move! Learn!

Author: Carol Totsky Hammett
Publisher: Gryphon House Incorporated
ISBN: 9780876590584
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Energize your classroom with more than 150 fun-filled and lively literacy lessons based over 65 children's books. As well as the activities, the book includes theme connections, lesson objectives, a vocabulary list, a concept list, plus suggested music and further reading for hours of fun in the classroom.

Learn About the Way Things Move

Author: Heidi Gold-Dworkin
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 9780071348249
Category : Technology
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
What youngster isn't fascinated by motion? They'll love learning about the basic forces that speed us up, slow us down, and cause things to rise and fall.

Shake Up Learning

Author: Kasey Bell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781946444691
Category : Creative teaching
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
Is the learning in your classroom static or dynamic? Shake Up Learning guides you through the process of creating dynamic learning opportunities-from purposeful planning and maximizing technology to fearless implementation.

Wired to Move

Author: Ruth Hanford Morhard
Publisher: Gryphon House Incorporated
ISBN: 9780876593226
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Using the latest brain research to explore and explain differences in how boys and girls learn, this informative resource provides early childhood educators tools to make the way they teach and their classrooms more boy friendly. Grounded in findings from the nonprofit child care and early education and youth agency Starting Point's Boys' Project, this handbook is designed to help teachers better understand, support, and work with young boys. From an overview of what makes boys tick and the unique needs of African American and Hispanic boys to simple, effective options to involve boys in the early childhood classroom and encourage family engagement and parental participation, it offers practical strategies teachers can implement in even the stickiest situations. The book's expansive resources section--full of book lists, websites, parent handouts, and support and mentoring organizations--will help teachers take principles and ideas in the book to the next level.