Make Your Own Preschool Games A Personalized Play And Learn Program

by Goldberg, Sally

• ISBN13: 9781555613440
• ISBN10: 1555613446
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-20
• Publisher: Balance

Summary

Nearly 90% of all brain growth occurs in the first five years of life. Parents can capitalize on this impressionable time by improving and varying the sights, sounds, and smells in a child's immediate surroundings. With this eminently practical guide in hand, parents can actively promote the motor, cognitive, and social skills that will make a difference in a child's readiness for formal, academic learning later on. Ideal for busy parents, Make Your Own Preschool Games describes quick and inexpensive-to-make activities that can be assembled from materials found at home--paper cups, bottle caps, clothespins, magazines, shoeboxes, and grocery bags. Designed to be used as part of dynamic play, these games will help expand a child's math, science, art, music, language, reading, and writing knowledge while providing the necessary and fun one-on-one bonding time that every child craves with her parents.

Author Biography

Sally R. Goldberg, Ph.D., is a professor of early-childhood education at Nova Southeastern University. She appears frequently at nationwide parenting conferences and workshops. She lives in Miami, Florida.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Suzanne Gellens
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	xvii
Part One: Cognitive Development	1	(52)
Games for Mathematics	7	(16)
Games for Science	23	(16)
Games for Social Studies	39	(14)
Part Two: Motor Development	53	(46)
Games for Gross-Motor Development	59	(12)
Games for Fine-Motor Development	71	(14)
Games for Midline Development	85	(14)
Part Three: Social Development	99	(54)
Games for Social Skills	103	(12)
Games for Art	115	(12)
Games for Music	127	(12)
Games for Drama	139	(14)
Part Four: Language Development	153	(54)
Games for Reading	157	(14)
Games for Writing	171	(12)
Games for Listening	183	(12)
Games for Speaking	195	(12)
Part Five: The Home Environment	207	(22)
An Enriched Learning Environment	211	(12)
Working with Teachers	223	(6)
Information for Making Game Cards	229	(8)
Bibliography	237	(2)
Index	239