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Hot Math Topics is the exciting new series from Dale Seymour Publications that offers hands-on activities to promote real-world math thinking. Included in the series are two attractively illustrated resource books for each grade level (grades 1-5) that cover key math topics with 100 innovative, real-world problems and tasks per book. The books can be used by children in class or at home with their families.

This practical resource is packed with over 370 simple hands-on games and activities that will help you add fun, excitement, and meaningful learning experiences to any early childhood program or curriculum, preschool through grade 2. For quick access and easy use, all of these enjoyable games and activities are organized into ten convenient sections and accompanied by illustrated, step-by-step directions that virtually guarantee their success! Youll find… 50 LANGUAGE GAMES & IDEAS like Puzzle Pairs, a card game to build skills in rhyming words, that help make learning to read and write a joy 50 MATH MAGIC ACTIVITIES that will turn children into math lovers, such as Secret Pennies, a game using a margarine tub and pennies to give children practice in missing addends 40 SCIENCE SURPRISES like Nature Scavenger Hunt, an outdoor activity that develops skills in observing and classifying natural objects 41 ARTS & CRAFTS discovery experiences such as Bubble Painting, an activity in which children create beautiful designs with bubbles and food coloring 31 WATER, SAND & BLOCK PLAY activities featuring water play, block props, and construction ideas, for example Sink and Float, a simple experiment that develops skill in predicting 12 DRAMATIC PLAY activities that spark social and imagination skills, including items for 38 Dramatic Play Kits from Doctors Office to Travel Agency 47 MOTOR SKILLS & HOMEMADE EQUIPMENT games and materials to get small and large muscles moving, for example String Along, an activity with pasta, straws and yarn 80 GROUP GAMES like Silly Willy, a circle game in which one child tries to make his/her classmateslaugh, that help build childrens social and motor skills as well as learning objectives 17 SUPER SNACKS & SILLY SONGS like Reindeer Sandwich (with Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer ) that involve children in fixing and enjoying recipes 11 SPECIAL DAY activities such as Piata Party plus 55 other suggestions that can turn every day into a celebrationThese creative hands-on games and activities will help you integrate childrens work and play throughout the day, both inside the classroom and outside on the playground. Above all, they will help each child experience success and the joy of learning!

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This book has been designed to provide professional educators, parents, and college students with educational terms, concepts, issues, strategies, and information critical to understanding today’s classroom. Containing over 10,000 definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations provides valuable information in areas such as the World Wide Web and computers, legal issues and responsibilities, literacy development, developmental and educational psychology terminology, key mathematical concepts and tables and key bilingual terms in the field.APPENDICES: Cognitive Approach – Detective Q Squirt. Abbreviations in Education. Assessment Terms. Federal Legislation and Milestones. Supreme Court Decisions Related to Education. Technology for Individuals with Hearing/Vision Impairments. Math Facts for Teachers. Montessori Terms for Educators. Piaget Cognitive Development Terms. Legal Terms/Issues Related to Education. Mainstreaming/Inclusion. Philosophical Terminology. Mathematics Action-Research Classroom-Planning Steps (MARCS) and MAPP. Tests and Measurements for Professionals. Computers Appendix. Sample Individualized Education Program (IEP). Literacy Activities.