* Features specific lessons, strategies, and hands-on, minds-on activities to foster key skills and thinking strategies needed to excel in literacy. * Lessons are easy to implement, inexpensive, and aligned to core components of literacy skills. * Each of topics includes a ready to go student choice board and a list of engaging family-school connection activities.

* Features specific lessons, strategies, and hands-on, minds-on activities to foster key skills and thinking strategies needed to excel in literacy. * Lessons are easy to implement, inexpensive, and aligned to core components of literacy skills. * Each of topics includes a ready to go student choice board and a list of engaging family-school connection activities.

Hands-On STEAM Explorations for Young Learners: Problem-Based Investigations for Preschool to Second Grade uses popular children's nursery rhymes to explore STEAM concepts through minds-on, hands-on investigations. Children ages 4-8 and their teachers will love this twist on familiar old nursery rhymes. Children will enjoy problem solving and tinkering as they discover and explore. Baa, Baa, Black Sheep insists that she hides more colors in the drawn lines of her black wool. Test to find out if it is possible for black to be more than one color. How might you make Old King Cole's fiddle using cardboard boxes and rubber bands? Teachers will appreciate the easy-to-follow layout, connections to advanced learning, and easy-to-access materials in each investigation. Innovation, wonder, and fun are at the heart of each of these explorations. Grades Pre-K-2

Teach preschoolers their ABCs and faith using the hands-on, sensory experiences and projects in this creative activity devotional that explores living for Jesus with curiosity and excitement. Written by a mom, teacher, and expert in STEAM activities and early childhood education, this activity devotional is packed with opportunities for little ones to grow, learn, and have fun in God's great, exciting world. This book includes ... 26 devotions for each letter that focus on curiosity and inquiry and include biblically-rooted "I Am" affirmations; short, easy-to-understand Bible verses and prayers that speak to a young child's sweet and joyful heart; active projects, crafts, recipes, games, and songs for hands-on sensory learning; an introduction for families overviewing the research-based design and strategies embedded in the projects; and access to a downloadable alphabet coloring book. God Made Me from A to Z is designed for toddlers and preschoolers ages 2 to 5 high-energy children, neurodivergent children, and children with special needs Sunday school classes, preschool lessons, and homeschool families a New Year's or summer family project, starting a new school year, and gifts for birthdays, Easter baskets, and Christmas Young children are natural explorers. Help them discover God's world and how wonderfully God created them while encouraging their hearts with scriptural truths and gifting them special family memories.

Inspiring Innovation and Creativity in Young Learners helps teachers and other educational stakeholders to promote innovative thinking in children in Pre-K through grade 3. This book shares six easy-to-understand, yet powerful, steps that teachers can take to transform the learning experience into one in which critical and creative thinking are encouraged.