Book Ideas For the Library
Below is a list of books about children and about families! You might find them at your local library or you can click on the title links to look at what exactly is offered by Amazon.
(I LOVE Amazon, and yours there, they do send me a few write my paper cents–which supports my coffee habit!) if you choose to get
Exactly About Me Books
Listed below are My Hands by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
Now i will be Threeby Jane Belk Moncure–these are older books, most libraries have the collections. This series that is particular Moncure has one for each age now i am One! Now I’m Two! etc.
Now I am Big by Margaret Miller
Books about Families
All About Me Preschool Activities Theme Math & Manipulatives > to help your Preschoolers develop their math skills and people muscles that are small their hands!
Materials: Precut small people shapes (make many!) and many larger houses. This is used in many ways:
The youngsters count out and name the true amount of people that live in their house and put them on a precut house.
It is possible to program each homely house with numbers and also the children then place that number of people regarding the house.
If you precut them in numerous colors, the youngsters can sort most of the people by sizes, colors or match them to your matching colored house.
The beginning of the year is a time that is good introduce these concepts.
Provide a product in small and large sizes (balls, stuffed animals, cut fully out people shapes) and then provide 2 boxes one which says Big and something that says LITTLE or SMALL. The children learn to sort by size.
Make puzzles available which have families in them: both table puzzles and floor puzzles. If you don’t have any, make one! Find pictures or print pictures from your computer of families. Make a collage of it and then laminate and cut it out into large puzzle shapes! Continue reading →
