ACTIVITIES FOR 0 – 5 YEAR OLDS:



Pre-school books -

activities for 3 to 5 year olds

published by Brilliant Publications

Prices are R.R.P. Postage not included

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All the activities in these books are based on the Early Learning Goals recommended by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority and the desirable learning outcomes recommended by ACCAC.

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All About Us £4.95 (Activities for 3 - 5 year olds) ISBN 1 897675 240

Irene Yates

All about us looks at the child in his or her environment and explores the child's world. The practical activities include ideas for helping children to describe themselves and others, to explore and express their feelings in a variety of ways and to develop sensitivity to others' needs and feelings. The activities will encourage children to develop consciousness of their own personal attitudes and feelings, and lead to an understanding of the relationship between the child, the people he or she lives with and the immediate community.

The practical activities include:

• describing what we are like

• recording voices

• caring for someone else

• keeping safe,

• working in a team

• being aware of other people.

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Caring and Sharing £4.95 (Activities for 3 - 5 year olds) ISBN 1 897675 232

Janet Morris and Linda Mort

'Caring and Sharing' is a very simple phrase to which young children readily respond. It sums up an approach to learning and living with others which, if begun early enough in a positive and enjoyable way, can carry a child through life.

The practical activities include:

• ideas for encouraging children to enjoy using the words 'please' and 'thank you'

• to take turns

• share

• listen to one another.

In this way, children are helped to appreciate kindness and respect for members of their own family, friends and the world around them.

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Colours £4.95 (Activities for 3 - 5 year olds) ISBN 1 897675 267

Irene Yates

Recognising, identifying and being able to name colours are essential steps in the early education of all children. Colour knowledge is an important means of helping children to make comparisions and observe and explore their environment.

The practical activities include:

• fun ways of teaching colour recognition and identification

• sorting and matching games

• unusual art and craft ideas

• suggestions for exploring colours in the environment.

Click here to see a sample page.

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Families £4.95 (Activities for 3 - 5 year olds) ISBN 1 897675 372

Linda Mort and Janet Morris

The family is the microcosm of a child's world, making it an ideal early years theme. It enables children to discover that, although they have a unique place in the world, they still share much in common with others. Every effort has been made to respect different family lifestyles, and to avoid stereotyping.

The practical activities include:

• helping children to learn their address and telephone number

• making individual and class books

• looking for details in photographs

• miming actions associated with family life.

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Food £4.95 (Activities for 3 - 5 year olds) ISBN 1 897675 577

Adrienne Walton

Talking about, handling, preparing and eating food have an instant appeal for young children and offer a variety of learning experiences

The practical activities include:

• taking orders in an imaginary cafe

• learning about the importance of food hygiene

• using kitchen tools safely

• being adventurous and trying different foods

• learning about healthy eating

• making breakfast for their teddy bear

• making pizza

• investigating jelly.

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Gardening £4.95 (Activities for 3 - 5 year olds) ISBN 1 897675 402

Caroline Quin and Sue Pearce

Gardening gives children a wealth of knowledge, skills and experiences. It offers opportunities to grow and care for seeds and plants, and to observe and record how they grow and discover, perhaps, why they didn't grow! An outdoor area is not a prerequisite - many of the activities can be carried out inside.

The practical activities include:

• growing gardens in jars

• creating minature gardens

• investigating how much different types of soil weigh

• making leaf prints

• pressing flowers.

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Pets £4.95 (Activities for 3 - 5 year olds) ISBN 1 897675 380

Sue Pearce and Caroline Quin

The topic of pets helps children, particularly those unable to have pets at home, to learn to respect and care for animals. The children learn how to distinguish between animals and what each species needs in order to have a contented life. The practical activities include:

• investigating what pets eat and the equipment they need

• learning action rhymes

• making collages

• looking at features of different and unusual pets

• pretending to move like an animal.

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Shopping £4.95 (Activities for 3 - 5 year olds) ISBN 1 897675 585

Caroline Quin

Shopping is something that most children experience, making it an ideal preschool topic as children can compare experiences with one another and with staff.

The practical activities include:

• setting up innovative shops in the home corner

• making shopping lists

• buying for a picnic

• investigating the weight of things

• using money to buy items

• making items to sell in a baker's shop.

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Water £4.95 (Activities for 3 - 5 year olds) ISBN 1 897675 259

Irene Yates

Water play is an accepted feature of preschool and early school education. The ideas in this book will help you plan some new imaginative fun activities which will also be good learning experiences for the children.

The practical activities, all based on the theme of water, include:

• ideas for increasing the children's vocabulary

• simple science investigations

• fun movement and dance activities

• ways of making water move

• how to make a frog puppet

• how to cross water

• making paint drip pictures

• water wheels.

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 Weather £4.95 (Activities for 3 - 5 year olds) ISBN 1 897675 399

Caroline Quin and Sue Pearce

Weather is with us all the time, every minute of every day, all around the world. This book provides ideas for helping to raise children's awareness of the weather throughout the year, whatever the conditions outside.

The practical activities include:

• enjoying and responding to weather poems

• creating foggy night pictures

• choosing the right clothes for the weather

• measuring puddles

• making simple weather vanes

• various ways of charting the weather.

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Alligators to Zebras

Developmental Activities for Teaching and Learning the Letters of the Alphabet

£18 272 pages ISBN 1 903853 516

Rachel Goodchild and Stephen Goodchild

This book contains photocopiable activities and ideas to help 3-7 year olds become more confident with all the letters of the alphabet and their sounds. The developmental activities use different learning styles, from poems, recipes and technology challenges to simple templates and word lists.

Each letter of the alphabet also has a photocopiable activity and template which children can use independently. These sheets will not only help children learn about letters, they will also help to develop essential fine motor skills through cutting, folding, pasting and colouring.

The sheets will integrate easily into your existing language programmes and are ideal for use during the National Literacy Hour.

Click here to see a sample page.

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The Big Messy Art Book £18 ISBN 1 903853 18 4

MaryAnn F Kohl

Combine the joy of creativity, the delights of imagination, and the thrill of an art adventure. The Big Messy Art Book opens the door for children to explore art on a grander, more expensive scale. Paint a one-of-a-kind masterpiece from a swing, or try painting a hanging ball while it moves! With the Big Messy Art Book , you are giving children the opportunity to go beyond the ordinary into the amazing. The activities are designed for use in pre-schools, primary classrooms, children's museums and homes.

The activities include:

• hair dryer painting

• living pendulum art

• Titanic simple weave

• doormat prints

• streamers artwork

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The Blends Book Activities for learning and Teaching Consonant Blends

£17 84 pages including photocopiable sheets ISBN 1 903853 532

Rachel Goodchild

This book is aimed at those children who already have confidence with initial sounds.

Each consonant blend featured is accompanied by a creative activity and two fun reading activities designed both to consolidate blend recognition and use, and to extend children's knowledge in a stimulating way.

Activities include:

• finding word meanings

• identifying blends

• crosswords

• word building

• cloze activities

• rhymes

• word families

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Discovering Great Artists

Hands-on Art for Children in the Styles of the Great Masters

£18

ISBN 1 903853 168

Maryann Kohl and Kim Solga

Over 100 innovative, fun and unique art activities for children aged from 4 to 12 to experience the styles and techniques of more than 80 great masters, from the renaissance to the present. A brief biography of each artist is included with a fully-illustrated, child-tested art activity, featuring painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, architecture and more! For example, when studying Leonardo Da Vinci and invention art, children will draw an object from the outside and take it apart to draw it from the inside, invent something to better the world, design and make it.

Other activities include:

• Michelangelo - Fresco Plaque

• Rembrandt - Shadowy Faces

• Monet - Dabble in Paint

• Degas - Resist in Motion

• Dali - Dream Photographs

• Matisse - Colour Collage

• Pollock - Action Splatter

• Lichtenstein - Comic Dots

• Picasso - Fractured Friend

• Van Gogh - Starry Night

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Christmas Activities for the Early Years £14.25 ISBN 1 903853 060

Val Edgar

This book contains photocopiable Christmas activities for 3 - 5's which help develop children's skills of communication, numeracy, and creativity, together with some ideas for Christmas games. The activities include:

• collecting a group of toys starting with the same letter

• following mazes

• building up a scene including Santa, Rudolph and the elves

• making wrapping paper

• counting the buttons on snowmen

• making a Christmas food shopping list

• wrapping presents

• making and colouring an advent calendar

• counting sheep

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Communication, Language and Literacy £18 (Foundation Blocks Series) ISBN 1 897675 96 8

Irene Yates

Practical suggestions to give children a sound grounding in early literacy skills. Activities encourage children to:

• develop good communications skills,

• extend their vocabulary,

• use language to help thinking,

• begin to link sounds and letters,

• use and enjoy books, and

• start to develop writing skills.

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Creative Development £18 (Foundation Blocks Series) ISBN 1 897675 94 1

Mavis Brown

Activities encourage children to :

• explore different art media and materials,

• recognize and explore sounds,

• use their imagination, and

• express and communicate their ideas, thoughts and feelings using dance, movement, art, music and imaginative play.

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Knowledge and Understanding of the World £18 (Foundation Blocks Series) ISBN 1 897675 99 2

Mavis Brown

Contains activities for teaching scientific exploration and investigation, beginning technology and information technology, a sense of time and place, and an awareness of other cultures and beliefs.

Click here to see a sample page. However please note that you will need Adobe Acrobat to see the page. If you don't have this program already, it can be downloaded free of charge from Adobe's web site.

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Mathematical Development £18 (Foundation Blocks Series) ISBN 1 897675 98 4

Rebecca Taylor

The activities in this book will help children to use numbers, count to 10, recognise numerals to 9, begin to do simple calculations, and start to develop an understanding of shape, space and measurement.

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Personal, Social and Emotional Development £18 (Foundation Blocks Series) ISBN 1 897675 97 6

Mavis Brown

Help children to develop positive attitudes, self-confidence and high self-esteem. Encourage them to form good relationships with peers and adults; understand what is right and what is wrong and why; and develop self care skills and a sense of community.

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Physical Development £18 (Foundation Blocks Series) ISBN 1 897675 95 X

Maureen Warner

Encourage children to move with confidence, control and co-ordination, using a range of small and large equipment.

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Creative Activities for the Early Years £17 Thematic Art and Music Activities ISBN 1903853 71 0

Barbara Melling

This book contains a bumper collection of creative activities organized by popular early years themes. For each theme there are at least three art activities, a painting activity, suggested topics to talk about, a selection of stories, rhymes, action songs and suggested music for dancing along to or accompanying with instruments. The art activities are graded to show the level of difficulty and when some help may be needed.

Whether the topic being taught is autumn, the Chinese New Year, the coastline or kings and queens, you can be sure children will find the variety of activities interesting and entertaining and will be encouraged to use their imagination, express themselves creatively, and communicate their ideas. The activities will also develop essential gross and fine motor skills, as well as speaking and listening skills.

Special features

• Attractive four-colour cover

• Clearly laid out activities

• Contains some photocopiable sheets

• Written by an experienced teacher

Readership

• Teachers and nursery teachers of 0 - 5 year olds

• Nursery schools/foundation stage units

• Playgroups/preschools/mother and toddler groups

• Childminders

• Trainee teachers and colleges of education

• Interested parents

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Fun with Action Rhymes and Poems £17

(A Collection of Original Action Rhymes and Poems for 3-6 year olds)) ISBN 1903853 508

Brenda Williams

This book contains 83 delightful new rhymes and poems, written by a well-known contributor to Child Education, Practical Preschool and other magazines.

• Ideal for use in a variety of settings, from nurseries and schools to playgroups and mother and toddler groups

• Teachers' notes provide suggestions for using rhymes to support learning across the early learning goals

• The rhymes are grouped by common themes used in early year settings

• Rhymes and poems are linked and cross-referenced to popular themes

• Photocopiable for use during the literacy hour

• Foster a love of rhythm and rhyme, create a sense of beat and rhythm

• Lay the foundations for understanding patterns in language, music and mathematics

Use and enjoy the rhymes and poems on their own or as a way of introducing new ideas and starting discussions

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Fun with Number Rhymes for the Early Years £17.00 3-5 year olds 96 pages including photocopiable sheets

Published July 2005 ISBN 1 903853 72 9

Julie Hodgson

Singing and acting to learn about numbers, what could be more fun? This book contains 20 rhymes with photocopiable pictures, music suggestions, book links and extension activities.

• Use the rhymes regularly at number time to develop number skills

• Help build children's confidence, memory and understanding

• Suitable for small or large groups of children

• Attractive, photocopiable picture props

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Games for the Early Years 26 Games to Make and Play £17.00 3-5 year olds

88 pages including photocopiable sheets Published July 2005 ISBN 1 903853 55 9

Judith Rhodes

What better way to learn a skill than by playing a game? Judith Rhodes, an experienced early years teacher, has put together 26 fun, simple to play, tried and tested games for 3&endash;5 year olds that she has been developing over many years. The book contains instructions and all the photocopiable resources necessary to make and play the games.

• Invaluable for teaching and reinforcing essential basic early years skills

• Helps children to work together and take turns

• Introduces concepts such as colour, shapes, numbers and healthy eating

• Links to common early years themes such as clothes, weather and dinosaurs

• Clearly laid-out learning objectives, together with curriculum and book links make it easy to integrate the games into the curriculum

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Language and Literacy for the Early Years £18 272 pages ISBN 1 903853 176

(Simple Language and Literacy Activities throughout the Curriculum)

Robert Rockwell, Debra Reichert and Bill Searcy

272 pages containing practical, everyday activities to weave language development and early literacy into your daily schedule. Use circle time, snack time, dramatic play, or any time throughout the day to develop children's language and literacy skills. Each cross-curricular activity includes ways to enhance children's vocabularies, questions to help you evaluate children's progress, an annotated list of books, and suggested age-appropriate writing experiences. Chapters include:

• circle time,

• healthy food and snacks,

• dramatic play,

• outdoor play,

• art,

• sand and water,

• music and movement,

• maths, and

• science.

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Play Activities for the Early Years £18 ISBN 1 903853 48 6

Herjinder Uppal

A 128 page book that is full of fun ideas to encourage purposeful play with a chapter for each of the six areas covered in the Early Learning Goals. Each chapter contains 15-20 practical play activities, together with a chart showing clearly which activity covers which learning opportunity.

The activity pages are clearly laid out and well illustrated, making the book easy to use. The book is fully photocopiable and the activity sheets can be:

• used in curriculum planning

• given to staff and new assistants to help them understand the purposes of play activities in the setting

• placed on display boards to inform parents, together with examples of children's work.

Click here to see a sample page.

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Preschool Art £18 for 264 pages ISBN 1 897675 496

It's the Process, not the Product!

Maryann Kohl

Although called Preschool Art, this book has many activities to interest children aged 5 to 6. Children will be able to explore, discover and create using these innovative, open-ended ideas. There are no adult-made samples to copy.

The book contains over 200 activities ranging from drawing, painting and sculpture to craft, collage and construction. The easy-to-use logos at the top of each page and comprehensive indexes make it easy to choose the ideal activity to suit your needs. Here are just a few of the great ideas:

• Fried paper plates

• Great goop

• No-cook playdough

• Branch weaving

• Sandpaper print

• Eggshell mosaic

• Salty paint shake

• Confetti explosion

• Stick wrapping

• Mystery paint

• Stained glass biscuits

• Corn-cob print

• Painted foil sculpture

• Finger puppets

• Crayon-chalk transfer

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Science and Technology for the Early Years £17 128 pages ISBN 1 903853 095

Pauline Allen

Well-planned play is the key way young children learn. This book is divided into two sections. The first contains ideas on how to design resource areas to stimulate puposeful play. The second contains 120 planned science and technology activities divided into the following chapters:

• all about people

• animals

• plants, leaves and flowers

• out of doors

• exploring materials

• joining materials

• changing materials (food)

• variety of materials

• light and colours

• sound

• movement and forces

• electricity

Each activity is clearly laid out with a purpose, a list of resources, and any safety points. Assessment is an integral part of the book and the activities are matched to the Early Learning Goals, as well as to the content areas of the National Curiculum so as to povide a smooth transition fom the Foundation Stage to Key Stage 1.

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Smiling Inside, Smiling Outside £15.25 ISBN 1 903853 73 7

Susanna Palomares

Smiling Inside, Smiling Outside is an ideal resource for teachers, counsellors, and parents of children in their early years. It will help children to develop positive perceptions of themselves and their place in the world. Smiling Inside, Smiling Outside contains 90 activities that can be grasped at a glance and used immediately, with minimal preparation. They will also help children to focus on listening, speaking and writing, all of which are important aspects of communication.

The children will:

• develop positive esteem and self-awareness

• learn to value family and community

• develop a sense of belonging

• work collaboratively

• develop an appreciation of the natural world

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Speaking and Listening Games £17 112 pages including photocopiable sheets ISBN 1 903853 566

Margaret Curran

Speaking and Listening Games contains 112 pages including 51 photocopiable sheets which will help preschool and primary children to :

• develop listening and attention skills

• understand language

• develop expressive language.

The games will stimulate children's language skills and provide them with a strong foundation on which other literacy work can be built. The games are simple to play. They can be adapted easily for use with children of varying ages and abilities. Children will love playing these innovative games and will develop key language skills at the same time.

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Springtime Activities for the Early Years £14.25 ISBN 1 903853 591

Val Edgar

40 photocopiable springtime worksheets and games linked to three of the key areas of the Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage:

• Communication, Language and Literacy

• Creative Development

• Mathematical development

Detailed teachers' notes give suggestions on extending the activities and games to all areas of the curriculum. Using these worksheets, you will enjoy the joys of Springtime with your pupils.

Activities include:

• making bumble bee puppets

• playing animal noises

• learning about tadpoles and other springtime babies

• counting

• spring cleaning

• sequencing

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Start with a Song £18

ISBN 1 897675 75 5

Mavis de Mierre

This wonderful collection of songs has been specially composed for pre-school children by Mavis de Mierre throughout many years of running music sessions for young children and their parents and carers. These tunes are easy to learn and will appeal immediately to 2-5 year olds.

The teachers' notes give:

• suggestions for actions,

• musical accompaniments,

• ideas for further development,

• things to talk about and,

• suggestions for music listening.

The songs are grouped into popular early years topics making it easy to integrate them into the curriculum.

CD

£12.95 (inc. £1.93 VAT) ISBN 1 903853 214

A CD of 40 of the most popular songs from the book is also available. The CD will provide an invaluable resource for teachers who wish to learn and use the songs, but lack the ability to read music.

Book and CD

£29 (inc. £1.93 VAT) - a saving of £1.95 ISBN 1 903853 222

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Technology Projects for 4-7 Year Olds £17.00 92 pages including photocopiable sheets ISBN 1 903853 52 4

Rebecca Green

This book provides 8 complete technology projects for 4-7 year olds that present opportunities for problem solving, ingenuity, co-operative work, and coming up with workable solutions..

There are over 60 photocopiable sheets, together with detailed teachers notes. The activity sheets will help pupils to:

• gain background understanding

• investigate different types of materials

• talk about, try out and record their ideas

• develop and practise a range of skills

• design and make products using a range of tools and materials

• evaluate and refine their products

Click here to see a sample page.

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