Observe and record a child's growth and development. Specifically designed with family child-care providers in mind, this booklet, sold in ten-packs, aids caregivers to observe and record a child's growth and development. Organized by age within developmental domains, it includes milestones that directly align with those in The Redleaf Family Child Care Curriculum, Second Edition.

Teaching sign language can enhance education for all children. Sign with Me the ABCs gives early childhood professionals and families simple directions on how to use signs and benefits of using modified American Sign Language (ASL) with preschoolers. Teaching young children modified ASL can help develop emerging literacy skills, enhance story times, support young children learning English as a second language, and ease frustrations for nonverbal communicators. The front of each card includes a colorful illustration and a short description of how to make the sign. The back of each card explains when to use the sign and how doing so will help children develop literacy skills.

Understand the important indicators of development in children in five developmental domains: Physcial/motor, social/emotional, language, cognitive, and the recently added approaches to learning. Developmental Milestones of Young Children will help you: Observe and document children’s progress with proper technique. Develop partnerships and communication with families. Understand the most up-to-date developmental indicators. This handbook is not meant to be a diagnostic tool for children with developmental delays. Instead, it serves as a guide to the benchmarks of typical development for each age and stage that almost all children go through.

These days outdoor play has to compete with a number of comfortable and entertaining indoor pastimes--video games, television shows, and computer time, among others--and many children are likely to spend their free time couched in front of a screen rather than playing outside. But outdoor playtime, time spent in a natural outdoor setting, has valuable, unique, and lasting effects on the way children learn and grow. This educational booklet, a family companion to Redleaf Press's resources "Celebrate Nature , Lens on Outdoor Learning, Nature Sparks," and "Cultivating Outdoor Classrooms," provides information to help families of young children recognize the value of children's connections to the natural world. It includes ideas that encourage outdoor family time to maximize the lasting impacts nature has on growing children. These booklets are a great way for early childhood professionals to partner with families to better support children.