Families, Schools, and Communities: Together for Young Children, 3e emphasizes the role of families and communities in children?s education, and is geared to meeting national standards in teacher preparation programs. Content reflects current research and best practice in education. Divided into two sections, this book provides an understanding of contemporary families, and the skills required to build relationships with families and the community. A complete new chapter fosters family involvement by addressing math, literacy, science, and social studies academic content areas. This chapter also contains specific ideas and strategies for increasing family involvement in the community and schools, and encourages learning at home. New information is included about working with military families, addressing issues of childhood obesity and teaching children about financial literacy and managing money.I am very excited about the changes made in this 3rd edition. With the expanded information presented, I most definitely plan to adopt this text for my Family and Community Relations class. – Judith Lindman, M.Ed., Instructor, Rochester Community & Technical College (RCTC) Rochester, MN.The summaries at the end of each chapter and key terms are always helpful but I really liked the applications, questions for reflection and discussion and field assignments. These help students to really get into the meat of the text in a practical way. – Irene Cook, Lecturer, California State University, Bakersfield.Foreword Preface Part I Understanding Families Chapter 1: A Theory-Based Approach to Family Involvement in Early Childhood Education Chapter 2: Understanding Family Diversity Chapter 3: Developmental Issues in Families with Young Children Chapter 4: Family Strengths, Family Functions, and Family Structure Chapter 5: Parenting Chapter 6: Family Stress Chapter 7: A Family-Based Philosophy in Early Childhood Education Chapter 8: Family-Staff Relationships Chapter 9: Suppo@I

An illustrated introduction to counting and simple addition.This original book uses familiar objects to introduce begining math concepts and reinforce visual literacy. Dynamic illustrations combine with simple yet challenging questions sure to stimulate young learners to move beyond simple counting to more complex, mathematical tasks. Excellent for intrducing multiplication to a group and for playing counting and calculating games.This bright, well-designed book challenges young children to think analiticaly. A welcome choice for math shelves.–BooklistA stimulating counting book that holds appeal to awide spectrum of ages.–Publisher

Help is here! Numbers Hidden Pictures Homework Helper provides children in preschool to grade 1 with extra help learning numbers. Packed full of fun-to-do activities and appealing art, children will have fun completing the hidden pictures and learning numbers at the same time. Answer keys are included where needed. Reproducible. Our cost-effective Homework Helpers are a must-have! They provide help for students who need extra practice with basic skills, for the accelerated student who enjoys an extra challenge, and for the young learner who is developing basic concepts and readiness skills. They also help boost self-confidence and reinforce basic skills with activities that are geared to the specific grade level. Collect all 48 titles for preschool to grade 3 including alphabet, numbers, shapes, phonics, math, reading comprehension, and much more!

In this third volume in a series of three, Fosnot and Dolk focus on how children in grades 58 construct their knowledge of fractions, decimals, and percents.In our efforts to reform mathematics education, we’ve learned a tremendous amount about young students’ strategies and the ways they construct knowledge, without fully understanding how to support such development over time. The Dutch do. So, funded by the National Science Foundation and ExxonMobil, Mathematics in the City was begun, a collaborative inservice project that pooled the best thinking from both countries. In Young Mathematicians at Work, Catherine Fosnot and Maarten Dolk reveal what they learned after several years of intensive study in numerous urban classrooms.pIn this third volume in a series of three, Fosnot and Dolk focus on how children in grades 5-8 construct their knowledge of fractions, decimals, and percents. Their book: describes and illustrates what it means to do and learn mathematics. contrasts word problems with true problematic situations which support and enhance investigation and inquiry. provides strategies to help teachers turn their classrooms into math workshops. explores the cultural and historical development of fractions, decimals, and their equivalents and the ways in which children develop similar ideas and strategies. defines and gives examples of modeling, noting the importance of context. discusses calculation using number sense and the role of algorithms in computation instruction. describes how to strengthen performance and portfolio assessment. focuses on teachers as learners by encouraging them to see themselves as mathematicians.

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Families, Schools and Communities: Together for Young Children, 3e emphasizes the role of families and communities in childrenas education, and is geared to meeting national standards in teacher preparation programs. Content reflects current research and best practice in education. Divided into two sections, this book provides an understanding of contemporary families, and the skills required to build relationships with families and the community. A complete new chapter fosters family involvement by addressing math, literacy, science, and social studies academic content areas. This chapter also contains specific ideas and strategies for increasing family involvement in the community and schools, and encourages learning at home. New information is included about working with military families, addressing issues of childhood obesity and teaching children about financial literacy and managing money.

Math Activities A to Z is presented as detailed lesson plans for a wealth of hands-on math activities for young children ages one to five. Its focus is on math concepts that preschoolers can understand and with which they can grow. Number concepts, one-to-one correspondence, spatial concepts and patterning activities will provide enjoyment for children, parents and teachers alike. Each section of the book will help educators in finding math activities for a theme-based curriculum, for incorporating a letter of the week or as a last-minute filler activity.

P style=MARGIN: 0pxComprehensive yet accessible,IChildren Are Born Mathematicians/Iis a constructivist and developmental approach to teaching mathematics to young children from birth through third grade. Foundational chapters on the state of mathematics today, theories of learning, and diverse learners provide the perspective that understanding of mathematics is developed individually as well as socially, and age-specific chapters explain how teachers can support and assess that learning. /PP style=MARGIN: 0px /PP style=MARGIN: 0pxBA Constructivist Approach/B. Geist wants prospective teachers to understand how children learn math, and devotes much of this book helping readers understand how to provide learning experiences that help children construct their own learning./PP style=MARGIN: 0px /PP style=MARGIN: 0pxBA Developmental Approach./BBecause knowingIwhat/Ito teach andIwhen/Ito introduce it is as important as knowingIhow/Ito teach, the core chapters of this text break teaching math down into accessible parts, by age groups: infants and toddlers, preschool, kindergarten and first grade, and second and third grade./PP style=MARGIN: 0pxEach age-group chapter has a consistent organization: brief developmental introduction, what concepts children naturally discover during that developmental range, NCTM concepts that children should be learning, assessment methods, and open-ended ideas and lesson plans to support those concepts. /PP style=MARGIN: 0pxB /B/PP style=MARGIN: 0pxBIncorporates NCTM Standards and Curriculum Focal Points./BStandards discussions and Curriculum Focal Points are woven throughout the book. Students will learn what content to incorporate into lessons, see examples of lesson plans, and learn to implement standards-based, developmentally appropriate lessons in their classrooms./PP style=MARGIN: 0px /PP style=MARGIN: 0px@@ÌÌÌÌÌÍ ¾Û€

This unique resource helps educators spark young children’s interest in learning the alphabet and develop beginning reading skills right from the beginning to the close of school. Included are over 500 ready-to-use individual and classroom activities designed to be used sequentially, from one month to the next, to build skills, relate reading to other curriculum areas, and foster children’s enthusiasm for books and learning to read. All activities are organized into nine monthly sections, September through May/June, and include over 100 activity sheets. Each month includes a list of 10 picture books for daily reading, phonics and other basic skills instructions, ABC Marching Band Letters for learning letter-sound connections, reading links to holidays and special events, reading links to writing, math, social studies, science & health, author-of-the-month studies and activities, plus 10-13 illustrated reproducible activities.About the Book.PLearning to Read with Ann.PPrint is Everywhere.PSetting Up an Inviting Cozy Reading Area.PBasic Skills Program, Whole Language Approach, and the Phonics Debate.PA Visual-Verbal Relationship.PA Reading Portfolio.PThat’s poster with a p (letter).PSEPTEMBER.PChildren’s picture books for the month of September.PSeptember’s focus on reading.PAwareness of alphabet letters.PAlphabet on parade (visual awareness).PAlphabet song activities (auditory awareness).PLetters are touchy (kinesthetic awareness).PSewing shop (kinesthetic awareness).PLetter— sound relationships.PCalling all first names! (phonics).PListen for beginning letter— sound patterns (phonics).PMore beginning sounds (phonics).PCan you name the letter? (phonics).PConstructing big letters.PWe’ve got some name envelopes.PLet’s get acquainted— name envelope activities.PThose puzzling ABC’s.PClay is cool— making dog tags.PSnacking with carrot-stick letters.PThe ABC marching band letters of the @0ÔzáG® ¾Û€

Blue Ribbon Blueberry Pie is the best–but do the bear cubs have enough ingredients to bake one? Regrouping their berries, nuts, and seeds by tens and ones reveals the answer in this enjoyable book. Full color.Everyday activities such as sharing a meal, sorting socks and getting ready for school can be part of learning math. In the MathStart Series, everyday life is the basis for each entertaining story. Simple math concepts are embedded in each story so that young children can intuitively understand them. Adults can use the creative suggestions for activities in the back of each book to extend learning opportunities with children.pDevelopmentally appropriate and correlated to school grade levels and the curriculum standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, MathStart can give children a head start!