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

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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.

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.

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.

As a Kindergarten teacher it is sometimes difficult to take all the recent brain research and apply it to my classroom activities. This book does it all for me. The activities make the brain research come alive and provide me with great things I can do in my classroom that will support the cognitive growth of young children.
One of my favorite parts of the book is the "change the variable" activities at the end of each page. This section is filled with ideas for taking the main activity idea and extending it into many curriculum areas.
Plus everything is fun, easy and open-ended. I will use this book over and over again.