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The Complete Resource Book for Preschoolers: An Early Childhood Curriculum With Over 2000 Activities and Ideas (Complete Resource Series)

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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.

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.

This book provides an early childhood teacher with wonderful curriculum ideas that can be implemented into every classroom instantly. I particulary loved the wonderful ways to expand the block and dramatic play center to include the theme.

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!)

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!

The book indeed is a good resource of ideas : simple, clear-cut, straight-forward activities in specific centers. One of our teachers at the Pre-school simply loves it. She is totally dependent on it - as she cannot come up with her own creative ideas and cannot even make her own lesson plans. Good source of "cute" activities but does not indicate goals/objectives,concepts,target skills to develop,etc. Indeed, it is JUST a resource book; it is nice to have one if you're really stumped for ideas. However,if you need a book (with more substance) to help your kids appropriately develop skills they need - this is NOT it.

I am a lead teacher in a daycare and had to come up with activities for many different themes. I love this book because it is divided into gross motor. art, blocks, dramatic play and so much more. This was my daycare bible. Other teachers were so impressed with "my" ideas. I took the credit but in my mind I was saying Thank you Resource Book! This is worth every penny.

I was thrilled with all the neat ideas this book has to offer. It's an easy to follow format with all kinds of activities that require materials that are either already in your home or are inexpensive to buy. My daughter is four and tells me, "Mommy, I love your ideas!" In a nutshell, what better review could you ask for?

I was disappointed with this book, if I had flipped through it before buying I don't think I would have bought it. I was expecting step by step instructions for activities but rather it seems very general. I think a lot of the ideas seem obvious. The GOOD thing is that it is grouped and organized for you. I admit that I need to spend some more time with the book and give it another chance, maybe I'll change my mind. But the two books that I can't live without, in my preschool class (3 year olds), are R IS FOR RAINBOW (Anselmo Rollins and Schuckman) and YEAR ROUND ACTIVITIES FOR THREE YEAR OLD CHILDREN (Anthony Coletta and Kathleen Coletta).

I don't think this is an awful book, but I was disappointed, that's all.

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!!!