The Complete Resource Book: An Early Childhood Curriculum With over 2000 Activities and Ideas!

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Summary: What a wonderfull resource
Review: I found this book in the library and knew I had to have a copy of it. Finally a resource I can use with my special needs students! This book provides hundreds of creative thematic units that are not only fun but educational!

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Summary: I found this book somewhat Hard to understand
Review: I found this book somewhat hard to understand, and I think it would be more useful if I was workig in a large group rather then just my own children. It does have some good ideas however, and good patterns for games and flanel board stories.

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Summary: I found this book somewhat Hard to understand
Review: I found this book somewhat hard to understand, and I think it would be more useful if I was workig in a large group rather then just my own children. It does have some good ideas however, and good patterns for games and flanel board stories.

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Summary: Great Resource Tool for Teachers of Preschoolers!!
Review: I just Love this book. If you work with young children this book is a "must have" resource book. It has a great format. It breaks down each day and lets you know what you need for each day. Exp: If your theme is "Summer Time Fun," day one is "Kites and Frisbees" day two is "Bubbles" day 3 is "Games", etc,. It goes over ideas for what to do in each center. I am also going back to school for my Early Childhood Degree and this book has also help me with ideas for several of my projects. I recommend this book to any teacher of preschool children (hey it's even great for stay at home moms!)

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Summary: Great Resource Tool for Teachers of Preschoolers!!
Review: I just Love this book. If you work with young children this book is a "must have" resource book. It has a great format. It breaks down each day and lets you know what you need for each day. Exp: If your theme is "Summer Time Fun," day one is "Kites and Frisbees" day two is "Bubbles" day 3 is "Games", etc,. It goes over ideas for what to do in each center. I am also going back to school for my Early Childhood Degree and this book has also help me with ideas for several of my projects. I recommend this book to any teacher of preschool children (hey it's even great for stay at home moms!)

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Summary: Simple instructions & great ideas!
Review: I just recently ordered this book and for the first time, I completed 2 weeks of my lesson plan for my preschool class in a matter of 30 minutes due to simple, direct and the categorization of the entire book. There are tons of neat ideas that preschoolers would love. Each theme has different ideas as to the areas in which a preschool room would be set up as. This is a great buy!!!

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Summary: Title says it all.
Review: 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.

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Summary: Great ideas for activities
Review: I really love this book. It is formatted with activites for each center of your classroom. The book is theme driven but could also be used with emergant curriculum.

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Summary: If you choose only one, this is it!
Review: 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.

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Summary: If you choose only one, this is it!
Review: 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.