This newest addition to the best-selling "GIANT Encyclopedia" series expands the scope of the series by offering complete lesson plans. Written and created by teachers, "The GIANT Encyclopedia of Lesson Plans" has more than 250 complete lesson plans, covering topics from colors and numbers to seasons and nursery rhymes. Each lesson plan is complete with learning objectives, a circle or group time activity, book suggestions, snack ideas, five learning center activities, assessment strategies, and related songs, poems, and fingerplays. With easy-to-use lesson plans for more than an entire school year, this book belongs on every teacher's bookshelf

How can you support children’s play, which is an essential part of development and learning? Play helps children learn to understand themselves and get along with others; explore their environment; investigate science, math, and literacy; learn about their communities; and much more. Use the articles in this collection that emphasize the importance of play—from infancy through the primary grades—to support and scaffold children’s play and connect play to learning. 

A comprehensive collection of the best art and craft activities for young children. The result of a nationwide competition, these art and craft activities are the best of the best. Just the thing to add pizzazz to your day

Activities include:

• Bath Sponge Painting
• Blast-off Helmets
• Bumby Snake
• Candy Jewelry
• Caterpillar Cookies
• Cereal Box Tote Bag
• Darling Daffodils
• Dinosaur Sock Puppets
• Dream Catcher
• Ecology Art Creations