Very young learners

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This popular series gives teachers practical advice and guidance, along with resource ideas and materials for the classroom. The tasks and activities are clearly presented, and offer teachers the information they need about level, time, preparation, materials, classroom management, monitoring, and follow-up activities. Each book offers up to 100 ideas, as well as variations that encourage teachers to adapt the activities to suite their individual classrooms.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• br / The author and series editor Foreword
• Introduction How to use this book
• 1 The creative classroom
• This chapter contains advice on the following topics:Syllabus and lesson planning
• Organization of the classroom
• Classroom language
• Activity types
• The classroom and what it contains
• There are 6 suggested activities
• 2 Basic language activities
• This chapter, together with Chapter 4, is concerned with developing children's conceptual awareness, their eye-hand co-ordination, and their motor skills.Lively activities (7 activities)Calming activities (4 activities)
• 3 All about meThis chapter deals with the identification and description of self, and likes and dislikes
• Songs and rhymes (15 activities)
• Games (4 activities)Stories (3 activities)
• Art and craft activities (7 activities)
• 4 Number, colour, and shape
• Songs and rhymes (6 activities)
• Games (4 activities)Story (1 activity)
• Art and craft activities (5 activities)
• 5 The world around us
• This chapter extends the children's horizons and includes such topics as the town, traffic, the doctor, the emergency services, animals, and the weather
• Songs and rhymes (10 activities)
• Games (5 activities)Story (1 activity)
• Art and craft activities (4 activities)
• 6 Festivals
• This chapter gives examples of festivals that are fun for small children
• You can of course add or substitute other festivals as many of the activities are suitable for other occasions
• Christmas (10 activities)
• Carnival (2 activities)
• Easter (6 activities)
• br / Photocopiable
• worksheets
• Flashcards
• Further reading