50 Fun & Easy Brain-Based Activities for Young Learners: An Experience Early Childhood Teacher Shares Engaging, Multi-Sensory Activities That Spark Le [Paperback]

Ellen Booth Church (Author)

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About the Author

Well-known early childhood educator Ellen Booth Church spent many fulfilling years as a pre-K and kindergarten teacher before embarking on a multifaceted career as a lecturer, curriculum developer, and consultant dedicated to enriching early-childhood practice and programs across the country. in addition, Ellen is a columnist for EARLY CHILDHOOD TODAY and PARENT & CHILD as well as the author of numerous books for teachers and parents. She sings and dances around her home in Ithaca, New York.

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic (August 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439201098
• ISBN-13: 978-0439201094
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,317,551 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ellen was born in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY to a family of musicians and educators. She spent a good amount of her childhood making music and dancing in the woods. Her family's creative playful approach to living inspired her to study early childhood education and to later become a Preschool and Kindergarten teacher at the Campus School of the State University of New York at New Paltz.

Her unusual approach of combining cognitive learning experiences with creative play caught the attention of several publishers and she became an educational consultant and author for Scholastic Publishing.At the same time, Ellen began teaching Early Childhood courses at the college and later became an Assoc. Professor of Early Childhood at SUNY Farmingdale, NY.

Ellen had the pleasure of working with Helen Benham and Jackie Carter in developing Early Childhood Today (formerly Pre-K Today) magazine for Scholastic. She wrote the Circle Time and Ages and Stages (5 year olds) columns for the magazine.

Ellen is currently writing and consulting for Scholastic's Parent and Child Magazine and working on a new book idea. Stay Tuned!

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 50 Brain Based Activities, November 12, 2002

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Stacey, an educator (Kent Cliffs, New York United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 50 Fun & Easy Brain-Based Activities for Young Learners: An Experience Early Childhood Teacher Shares Engaging, Multi-Sensory Activities That Spark Le (Paperback)

Ellen Booth Church's work is an excellent resource for parents and teachers. Education is constantly changing and coming up with new buzz words. The activities in this book are based on the one thing in education that has remained constant: How children retain, store, and retrieve learned information. The fact that this book is geared toward the primary grades reinforces the fact that these skills need to be taught early, so they can be built upon and reinforced throughout a child's education and life. We want our children to become life long learners. This book is a great help in starting them on that path.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 50 Fun & Easy Brain-Based Activities, October 23, 2002

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This review is from: 50 Fun & Easy Brain-Based Activities for Young Learners: An Experience Early Childhood Teacher Shares Engaging, Multi-Sensory Activities That Spark Le (Paperback)

Clear, fun and easy just like the title indicates! The activities are each described on one visually interesting page that invites the early childhood practitioner in. It begins with with a brief description of why and how the activities are beneficial and follows up with simple steps, skills, and materials for making the activity work. All pages end with a way to vary the the activity by changing one component.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Food for the Brain, October 22, 2002

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Deron (Bronx, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 50 Fun & Easy Brain-Based Activities for Young Learners: An Experience Early Childhood Teacher Shares Engaging, Multi-Sensory Activities That Spark Le (Paperback)

Ms. Booth Church has written a real winner here. This book is filled with many wonderful and practical classroom ideas. She is a great interpreter of often verbose and sometimes indecipherable research. She has been able to translate that into applications that are not only effective activities, but ones that include a series of useful follow ups.