Kitchen-Table Play and Learn: Activities and Lessons for Building Your Preschooler's Vital Developmental Skills - Softcover

Copley, Ara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071460160 ISBN 13: 9780071460163

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2005

Synopsis

Thirty easy ways you can give your children a head start on essential education skills

Kitchen-Table Play & Learn gives you structured yet fun lessons to teach your preschoolers the basics of education at home. These 30 lessons include games and activities that help you hone your children's motor skills, number and letter recognition, logic, and visual discrimination, as well as expose them to math, writing, and reading.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

From caring to sharing and from ABCs to 123s, jump-start your preschooler's education right at home

As a parent, you are your child's first and most important teacher. Become an active educator during your preschooler's formative years with the games and activities found in Kitchen-Table Play & Learn.

The thirty lessons offer step-by-step activities that help you foster important skills in your preschooler and let you set the pace for learning. All you need are inexpensive, everyday items from around the house! Kitchen-Table Play & Learn is packed with activities, games, crafts, and so much more:

• Lessons and activities encourage skills that will give your child a solid head start in kindergarten, including fine and large motor skills, prereading, prewriting, number and letter recognition, matching, and sequencing
• Thirty themes--including sports, the ocean, dinosaurs, and farm animals--will capture and keep your preschooler's attention
• A materials list, teaching tips, examples, and explanations of each developmental skill take the guess-work out of teaching

Create countless opportunities for learning in the comfort of your own home while shaping your preschooler's academic, mental, and moral development with the help of Kitchen-Table Play & Learn.

About the Author:

Tara Copley holds a degree in elementary education with a specialization in reading. She designed many of the Kitchen-Table Play & Learn activities while raising and teaching her infant and four-year-old sons. She lives in Woodlands, Texas.

Andrea Custer developed many of the Kitchen-Table Play & Learn activities while raising and teaching her infant and four-year-old daughters. She holds a Bachelor of Science from California State University at Sacramento and lives in Cameron Park, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0071460160
• ISBN 13: 9780071460163
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288