"While most activity books encourage indoor explorations, countless adventures and learning opportunities await outside! Going for a walk or exploring the local community can bring about much more than just exercise. Little Walks, Big Adventures helps you teach your toddler about his/her surroundings through fun and adventurous local explorations, outdoor games and activities that promote and enhance learning. Parents and caregivers will help their...

"You don't need to buy high-tech digital devices, apps, or expensive toys to boost your toddler's brain development! Research shows that the best way for toddlers to learn is through daily, active play and Retro Toddler includes more than 100 fun, age-appropriate, 'old-school' activities that promote the development of language, motor and social skills. The book includes detailed instructions for developmentally stimulating toys that parents and toddlers...

"Makerspaces focuses on how to cultivate the maker mind-set in the youngest learners, focusing on how to engage young children in maker-centered learning, design, and introduce makerspaces, or select and use tools and materials that are open-ended during making for our youngest children"--

"In the newest installment of the popular, award-winning Loose Parts series, Lisa Daly and Miriam Beloglovsky focus on family engagement and competency building. Lisa and Miriam explain the value of loose parts, detail how to integrate loose parts into the environment and children's play, and specifically focus on loose parts for children in family environments-helping educators engage families and extend learning beyond the classroom"--

"Numerous times throughout the day in a preschool classroom, children move from one activity to another. For some students, this is an easy task. For others, transition times add confusion, challenges, and frustration to their day. Learning how to transition efficiently between activities leads to more time for children to be engaged in learning activities and fewer behavior problems in the classroom. Adding music to your preschool day is powerful...

"This book is designed to help early educators with easy-to-implement ideas for their lesson plans that incorporate the concept of celebration & play in the classroom learning environment. Kickstart your creativity and inject a little bit of fun into your lesson planning with a cheat sheet of ideas you can use to fill out your lesson plans for the year. In this book, you'll find 365 days of ideas for incorporating educational play & celebration in...