"With intentional planning frameworks, Planning for Play, Observation, and Learning in Preschool and Kindergarten provides tools and strategies to organize and develop curriculum around high-level, purposeful play. Practical application techniques help you create a cycle of planning and observation as they use a play-based curriculum to help young children thrive in your classroom"--

A theme based curriculum, this book is presented in Alpha order and contains over 2500 new activities, books, and songs; five new multicultural themes, new green themes, and various sections have been updated. Themes range from Ants to Zoo animals. Each theme contains a variation of the following content depending upon that theme: Curriculum, web, theme goals, concepts for the children to learn, vocabulary, bulletin board, parent letter, music, fingerplay,...

"This book is chock-full of "tricks of the trade" from the author's 10 years of teaching toddlers. With over 286 activities and ideas that are "right for them" and not watered down preschool-age ideas, this book helps toddlers in fun ways as they develop from 1 to 3 year olds."--Book cover.