Gryphon House Inc imprint: 185 books
Where Does My Shadow Sleep?
A Parent's Guide to Exploring Science with Children's Books
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Take the time to watch, wonder, ask questions, talk about, and explore the world of science with your child! The activities in Where Does My Shadow Sleep? link great children's books—which you are probably already reading with your child—with easy, fun-filled activities you can use to investigate things like clouds, bugs, bridges, and even mud.
Boosting Brain Power
52 Ways to Use What Science Tells Us
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
If the timing is right, the learning that occurs in the first five years can be a gold mine, promoting valuable cognitive and physical development that lasts a lifetime. Boosting Brain Power provides 52 strategies - one for every week of the year - to help teachers stimulate healthy brain growth in...
Focus on Babies
How-tos and What-to-dos when Caring for Infants
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
A beginner's primer to providing child care for infants! Complete with tips for creating a developmentally appropriate environment and experiences that stimulate infants' muscles and minds, Focus on Babies gives caregivers the tools to craft a quality learning environment that's as unique as the needs...
Art with Anything
52 Weeks of Fun Using Everyday Stuff
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
With 52 weeks of fantastic art projects using easy-to-find, everyday materials, Art with Anything provides a year of creativity, imagination, and fun for children ages 4-10!
Organized alphabetically by material, each week features one everyday material (address labels, fabric scraps, leaves,...
Let's Build
Strong Foundations in Language, Math, Social Skills
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Blocks are a key teaching tool in any early childhood program. Through well-planned, teacher-supported block play experiences, young children can build math, language, and social skills. Let's Build provides educators of young children with guidance in how to create early childhood environments that...
The Complete Daily Curriculum for Early Childhood, Revised
Over 1200 Easy Activities to Support Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
There's more than one way to be smart! This award-winning curriculum for three- to six-year-olds offers a complete plan for every learning style. Revised and updated, the new edition of this classic bestseller is full of new activities based on the latest research about how children learn. Each activity...
Another Encyclopedia of Theme Activities for Young Children
Over 300 Favorite Activities Created by Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Actively engage children's imaginations with more than three hundred activities for young children organized into a variety of popular themes—from the alphabet to the weather. The result of a nationwide contest among teachers, the classroom-tested activities in Another Encyclopedia of Theme Activities...
Prop Box Play
50 Themes to Inspire Dramatic Play
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Think inside the (prop) box! Encourage dramatic play with props that inspire children and give them the freedom to play different roles while helping them cultivate important social skills for later in life. With 50 themes that inspire hours of fun and creativity, Prop Box Play includes lists of props, easy extensions, related vocabulary, and associated children's literature.
by Laura Laxton
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Curious kids will be inspired by the endless possibilities of the fifty fun-filled building activities in The Budding Builder! With great ways for you and your child to take ideas from their limitless imaginations and to fashion them into reality, this book shows parents and kids how to create a fairytale...
Let's Take It Outside!
Teacher-Created Activities for Outdoor Learning
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Children love outdoor play. Now teachers can combine the magic and excitement of the outdoors with activities that encourage and support learning! With more than one hundred new teacher-created, classroom-tested outdoor activities, Let's Take It Outside! engages children's minds and bodies as they...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Curious kids will delight in the wonder of the creative process with the fifty art-inspiring activities in The Budding Artist! With great ways for you and your budding artist to create beautiful memories together, this book shows parents and kids how to paint with bubbles, create glue webs, make a...
The Instant Curriculum, Revised
Over 750 Developmentally Appropriate Learning Activities for Busy Teachers of Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
The Instant Curriculum is now completely revised and features over 350 all-new activities! This classic resource is a must-have for preschool teachers, and has activities for every area of the curriculum, including language and literacy, math, science, dramatic play, and music and movement.
Seven Skills for School Success
Activities to Develop Social and Emotional Intelligence in Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
What do children need to learn first? Their ABCs? Their numbers? As it turns out, the “what” children need to develop is their social intelligence and emotional intelligence, the essential building blocks for all future learning. Best-selling author Pam Schiller provides information, activities,...
Start Smart! Rev. Ed.
Building Brain Power in the Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Did you know that emotions boost our memory? Or that small muscle exercises help the brain develop? Early experiences contribute to the structure of the brain and its capacities. The quality, quantity, and consistency of stimulation will determine, to a large extent, the number of brain synapses that...