Back to School (Best-Ever Circle Time Activities, Grades PreK-1) [Paperback]

Ellen Booth Church (Author)

Book Description

Series: Best-ever Circle Time Activities | Publication Date: March 2003

50 Instant & Irresistible Meet-and-Greet Activities, Learning Games, and Language-Building Songs and Rhymes
Meet, Share, Listen, Care!
Start the year off right! These easy circle-time activities help kids get to know each other, learn classroom rules and routines, and build early reading and writing skills--together!

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Teaching Resources (March 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 043943114X
• ISBN-13: 978-0439431149
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.2 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,080,035 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!

Customer Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT NEW IDEAS FOR AN EXPERIENCED TEACHER or A NEW ONE TOO!, July 21, 2003

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This review is from: Back to School (Best-Ever Circle Time Activities, Grades PreK-1) (Paperback)

Sometimes you just need something different to start the year. I was thrilled to find this book. It has very creative new activities and fun new SONGS to freshen up the start of the year in my Kindergarten. I particularly liked the chapter on the THREE R's of CIRCLE TIME: Ritual, Routines and Rules. This is very helpful for getting circle time meetings going in an organized and postive way. Now I can't wait for school to start!