Kindercare curriculum book: Preschoolers (Ages 3-5) | KinderCare Content Hub
Preschoolers (Ages 3-5) | KinderCare Content Hub
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What Can Tracks Teach Kids? Preschool Science Activities Are a Big Deal
Zoom, whoosh! We use easy science activities for our preschoolers, like testing what kinds of tracks they can make with toys—to build early science skills and boost learning in other areas, too. Plus: 3 ways to build early science skills for your preschooler at home.
At-Home Activities
Will It Sink? Preschool Science Activities Make Kids Independent Thinkers
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1, 2, SMASH! Sensory Counting Games for Kids Blend Fun and Education
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Think Inside the Box! Block and Box Play Activities Aid Child Development
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Art Infused with STEM Learning Activities Makes for a Colorful Time
Major Milestones
Walking the Line: This Fun Balance Game Makes All the Difference
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It’s as Easy as ABC and 123! Teaching Preschoolers Their Letters
From KinderCare Educators
What Will They Create? Play Dough Activities Build Kids’ Imaginations!
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ABC, Weee! Preschoolers Are Learning Letters with Fun Sensory Activities
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A Hoppin’ Good Time: Safety Games for Kids Make Learning Fun
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Squares All Around! Our Fun Pattern Activities Teach Kids to Color Block
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All About the Feels: Teaching Children Empathy with Puppet Pals
From KinderCare Educators
Observe and Learn! How a Magnifying Glass Builds Kids’ Science Skills
At-Home Activities
It’s a Strike! Physical Activities like Bowling with Water Bottles Build Skills
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Think Green: Recycling Activities Teach Kids to Protect Planet Earth
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Writing Revolution! Texture Activities Help Preschoolers Learn Their Letters
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Paper-Bag Kites Build STEM Skills and Teach Cause and Effect
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A Lesson that Really Sticks! Explore Nature with Duct Tape
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“But I WAAAANT It!” How to Teach Kids the Difference Between Wants & Needs
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We Love the Children of the World! 10 Books to Raise a Global Citizen
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Years in the making by our own education team, our proprietary Early Foundations® is an innovative curriculum that models a whole-child approach and is purposefully designed to meet children exactly where they are, no matter their age or where they are on their educational journey. We balance choice and structure, small- and whole-group activities, and child-directed learning and teacher-led experiences at each stage, from infant to school-age.
Focusing on the six main domains of childhood development: Cognitive Development, Creative Arts, Executive Function, Language and Literacy, Physical/Motor Development and Wellness, and Social and Emotional Development, the curriculum is designed to nurture children academically, socially, emotionally, and physically.
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7 books about kindergarten: for children and even for parents
Will you take your child to kindergarten for the first time? There is still more than a month until September – a lot of time to prepare (for both him and you).
And these books will help – understandable, funny and extremely useful.
“Little Theo Goes to Kindergarten” by Suzanne Gölich
A cute picture book that will do a great job preparing your child for the first trip to kindergarten. Koala Theo also goes there for the first time and is very worried, so much so that even his favorite teddy bear gets sick – but everything will be fine. And funny stories from the life of kindergarteners will inspire anyone to quickly go in search of new friends.
“No way!”, Beatrice Alemagna
The bat Pascalina doesn’t want to go to kindergarten for anything – and she tells everyone so. And it turns out that this one has her “no way!” magical effect: parents get smaller and smaller and… go to the garden with their naughty daughter. What will come of this? It’s better for you to find out for yourself. But there is a small spoiler: by the end of the first day, Pascalina will realize that without parents, kindergarten would be much more interesting.
How Papa Became Little, Lars Mäle
Similar plot: Tina has to go to kindergarten with her dad, and not with an adult and serious, but with a small and mischievous one. That’s more entertainment! Well, what to do: dad thought so, the wish came true, and Tina has to put up with it. An instructive story for children and parents – situations familiar to everyone, but not through the eyes of an adult, but through the eyes of a child. Believe me, you will have something to discuss with the future kindergartener.
Kindergarten on Wheels. Middle group, Zulya Stadnik
The second book in the Kindergarten on Wheels series. In fact, the author wrote stories for her daughter Solka – she has already grown up, but she asks for continuation. The excavator Klusha and the engine Shpunchik have grown up and now go to the middle group. They still listen to instructive tales that the strict but caring nanny Kerosin Benzinovich reads to them, draw fruits, play a lot and, of course, cannot resist pranks.
Not exactly an instruction for survival in kindergarten, but an introduction to the topic – for sure.
“The Kindergarten of My Dreams”,
Kseniya Valakhanovych
A collection of poems by the famous children’s poetess Kseniya Valakhanovych, dedicated to kindergarten everyday life. The recipe for poems is simple: funny stories from the lives of kids, a play on words, a good portion of humor, mastery of form and, of course, love for children in every line.
“Anna will go to kindergarten tomorrow”, Maya Bessonova
Anya goes to kindergarten and learns to live by new rules, make friends, be independent and… do without her parents. The book was written by a mother of many children and an experienced teacher Maya Bessonova, and, in fact, this is a guide to adapting to kindergarten, not only in the form of instructive advice, but in the form of touching children’s stories about the first days in the garden. We read and prepare together for the first, most difficult week.
“Lazy Mom’s Babies in Kindergarten”, Anna Bykova
As Anna says, she wrote this book because she herself at one time really lacked such literature. How is the adaptation of the child in kindergarten? Why is he crying? What can you do to stop crying? How to relieve your anxiety and how does it affect the condition of the child? Answers to all these questions — and a million more like them — under one cover.
Educators’ Books – Easy to Learn
Teacher’s Day, September 27, a selection of books on preschool development, learning, and pedagogy for working with young children, from the publishing house “Educational Projects” .
Kindergarten. Debut in Russia . A book about who, how and on what basis Russian preschool education was created.
A book about the history of preschool education and about the first kindergartens in Russia in the 19th century.
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Full title of the book: “Kindergarten.
Debut in Russia. The book is about who, how and on what basis Russian preschool education was created. From the works of the founders of the Russian kindergarten and the impressions of contemporaries about the affairs of Yegor Gugel, Vladimir Odoevsky, Sophia Lugebil.
The first kindergarten in Russia was opened by Mrs. Sophia Lugebil nearly 150 years ago, in 1863, in St. Petersburg, on the corner of Bolshoy Prospekt and the 9th line of Vasilyevsky Island.
But thirty years earlier, in a small house in Gatchina Park, at the own expense of two young teachers for ten boys from four to six years old, a small school was opened – a school is not a school – it seems to be a school by name, however, intended not for teaching, but for giving ” the right direction in the development of children’s abilities.
Between these two events, an almost unknown era of amazing searches, experiments and efforts lay, when the foundations of Russian preschool pedagogy were laid. The cheerful wisdom of its founders allows us to see in their experiences and insights not only the origins, but also the horizons of an ideal kindergarten.
Compiled by: Rusakov A.S.
Bukatov V.M.
Handbook for educators with business explanations, unexpected clues and true stories on social and playful ways of conducting classes in senior and preparatory groups of kindergarten.
A book about socio-playing techniques and approaches that combine the achievements of theatrical and folk pedagogy.
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Practice-oriented monograph by V.M. Bukatova is devoted to the key tasks of preschool education. It reveals the diverse ways of pedagogical searches for harmonious and individual for each educator combinations of traditional and innovative approaches to work.
This book will help get rid of dry patterns and make the mutual joy of communication between adults and children permanent and familiar.
To revitalize classes in kindergartens, educators are offered socio-playing approaches that combine the achievements of theatrical and folk pedagogy.
The book pays special attention to the topic of how each educator can find a common language with children.
Krylova N.M.
How to grow an architect of your own life, or Designing, building and directing play for preschoolers.
The book of the creator of the pedagogical system “Kindergarten – House of Joy”, about the development by the child of “construction” activities and the laws of architecture from year to year, establishing cooperation between children and other aspects of the life of a preschool group.
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This book reveals the possibilities of designing and building play in the life of preschoolers – both in kindergarten and at home. The book shows the logic of the child’s practical mastering of “construction” activities and the laws of architecture from year to year. The book makes a clear connection between children’s construction and many aspects of a child’s life.
Against the background of the chosen topic, the book tells about ways to establish cooperation between children, and about fostering a caring attitude towards others, and about the children’s passion for the mysteries of nature, amazing cultural phenomena, and the patterns of interaction between people in society.
In addition to practical advice on activities with children, the book contains many tips for adults related to the art of communication and cooperation with preschoolers.
The author of the book is the creator of the original pedagogical system “Kindergarten – House of Joy”, where the traditional values of preschool education for our country are combined with innovative approaches to the organization of pedagogical work.
Ivanova O.L., Vasilyeva I.I.
How to understand a child’s drawing … which is not art, but the study of oneself and the world.
A book about the age characteristics of children’s creativity with examples of activities that involve different levels of independence of the child.
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The first part of the book is devoted to a discussion of the stages through which the creativity of children naturally passes in the first five or six years of their life; and the second part – options for classes and methodological recommendations, divided into several groups depending on the degree of the author’s independence of the child.
The authors of the book offer such exercises for classes that allow kids to find a special solution in each case and create a unique one! and expressive image. The book shows adults how to evaluate the effectiveness of the creative efforts of preschool children not from the point of view of “correct drawing” – but from the point of view of the development of children’s individuality, the ability to creatively transform the world.
Poddyakov N. N.
Mental development and self-development of a preschool child. near and far horizons.
A book by an academician of the Russian Academy of Education about experimental and play activities, “exploratory” behavior, “clear” and “obscure” knowledge, “near” and “far” horizons of child development.
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The book in a popular science form represents an integral system of modern scientific ideas about preschool childhood, formed on the basis of domestic psychological research over the past fifty years. The author of the book, N.N. Poddyakov – Academician of the Russian Academy of Education, an outstanding Russian psychologist of preschool childhood, director of the Research Institute of Preschool Education of the Academy of Pedagogical Education of the USSR (1980-1992). The combination of fundamentality, thorough scientific validity of the author’s theses and the unexpectedness, paradoxical nature of many conclusions makes this book interesting not only for preschool teachers and psychologists, but also for everyone who needs to understand the key patterns in human education.