Pre-school books -
activities for 3 to 5 year olds
published by Brilliant Publications
Prices are R.R.P. Postage not included
Last Word Resources educational discount 15%
All the activities in these books are based on the Early Learning Goals recommended by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority and the desirable learning outcomes recommended by ACCAC.
All About Us £4.95 (Activities for 3 - 5 year olds) ISBN 1 897675 240
Irene Yates
All about us looks at the child in his or her environment and explores the child's world. The practical activities include ideas for helping children to describe themselves and others, to explore and express their feelings in a variety of ways and to develop sensitivity to others' needs and feelings. The activities will encourage children to develop consciousness of their own personal attitudes and feelings, and lead to an understanding of the relationship between the child, the people he or she lives with and the immediate community.
The practical activities include:
· describing what we are like
· recording voices
· caring for someone else
· keeping safe,
· working in a team
· being aware of other people.
Buy all 10 titles in the 'Activities for 3 - 5 year olds' series for £44.55 saving £4.95
Caring and Sharing £4.95 (Activities for 3 - 5 year olds) ISBN 1 897675 232
Janet Morris and Linda Mort
'Caring and Sharing' is a very simple phrase to which young children readily respond. It sums up an approach to learning and living with others which, if begun early enough in a positive and enjoyable way, can carry a child through life.
The practical activities include:
· ideas for encouraging children to enjoy using the words 'please' and 'thank you'
· to take turns
· share
· listen to one another.
In this way, children are helped to appreciate kindness and respect for members of their own family, friends and the world around them.
Buy all 10 titles in the 'Activities for 3 - 5 year olds' series for £44.55 saving £4.95
Colours £4.95 (Activities for 3 - 5 year olds) ISBN 1 897675 267
Irene Yates
Recognising, identifying and being able to name colours are essential steps in the early education of all children. Colour knowledge is an important means of helping children to make comparisions and observe and explore their environment.
The practical activities include:
· fun ways of teaching colour recognition and identification
· sorting and matching games
· unusual art and craft ideas
· suggestions for exploring colours in the environment.
Click here to see a sample page.
Buy all 10 titles in the 'Activities for 3 - 5 year olds' series for £44.55 saving £4.95
Families £4.95 (Activities for 3 - 5 year olds) ISBN 1 897675 372
Linda Mort and Janet Morris
The family is the microcosm of a child's world, making it an ideal early years theme. It enables children to discover that, although they have a unique place in the world, they still share much in common with others. Every effort has been made to respect different family lifestyles, and to avoid stereotyping.
The practical activities include:
· helping children to learn their address and telephone number
· making individual and class books
· looking for details in photographs
· miming actions associated with family life.
Buy all 10 titles in the 'Activities for 3 - 5 year olds' series for £44.55 saving £4.95
Food £4.95 (Activities for 3 - 5 year olds) ISBN 1 897675 577
Adrienne Walton
Talking about, handling, preparing and eating food have an instant appeal for young children and offer a variety of learning experiences
The practical activities include:
· taking orders in an imaginary cafe
· learning about the importance of food hygiene
· using kitchen tools safely
· being adventurous and trying different foods
· learning about healthy eating
· making breakfast for their teddy bear
· making pizza
· investigating jelly.
Buy all 10 titles in the 'Activities for 3 - 5 year olds' series for £44.55 saving £4.95
Gardening £4.95 (Activities for 3 - 5 year olds) ISBN 1 897675 402
Caroline Quin and Sue Pearce
Gardening gives children a wealth of knowledge, skills and experiences. It offers opportunities to grow and care for seeds and plants, and to observe and record how they grow and discover, perhaps, why they didn't grow! An outdoor area is not a prerequisite - many of the activities can be carried out inside.
The practical activities include:
· growing gardens in jars
· creating minature gardens
· investigating how much different types of soil weigh
· making leaf prints
· pressing flowers.
Buy all 10 titles in the 'Activities for 3 - 5 year olds' series for £44.55 saving £4.95
Pets £4.95 (Activities for 3 - 5 year olds) ISBN 1 897675 380
Sue Pearce and Caroline Quin
The topic of pets helps children, particularly those unable to have pets at home, to learn to respect and care for animals. The children learn how to distinguish between animals and what each species needs in order to have a contented life. The practical activities include:
· investigating what pets eat and the equipment they need
· learning action rhymes
· making collages
· looking at features of different and unusual pets
· pretending to move like an animal.
Buy all 10 titles in the 'Activities for 3 - 5 year olds' series for £44.55 saving £4.95
Shopping £4.95 (Activities for 3 - 5 year olds) ISBN 1 897675 585
Caroline Quin
Shopping is something that most children experience, making it an ideal preschool topic as children can compare experiences with one another and with staff.
The practical activities include:
· setting up innovative shops in the home corner
· making shopping lists
· buying for a picnic
· investigating the weight of things
· using money to buy items
· making items to sell in a baker's shop.
Buy all 10 titles in the 'Activities for 3 - 5 year olds' series for £44.55 saving £4.95
Water £4.95 (Activities for 3 - 5 year olds) ISBN 1 897675 259
Irene Yates
Water play is an accepted feature of preschool and early school education. The ideas in this book will help you plan some new imaginative fun activities which will also be good learning experiences for the children.
The practical activities, all based on the theme of water, include:
· ideas for increasing the children's vocabulary
· simple science investigations
· fun movement and dance activities
· ways of making water move
· how to make a frog puppet
· how to cross water
· making paint drip pictures
· water wheels.
Buy all 10 titles in the 'Activities for 3 - 5 year olds' series for £44.55 saving £4.95
Weather £4.95 (Activities for 3 - 5 year olds) ISBN 1 897675 399
Caroline Quin and Sue Pearce
Weather is with us all the time, every minute of every day, all around the world. This book provides ideas for helping to raise children's awareness of the weather throughout the year, whatever the conditions outside.
The practical activities include:
· enjoying and responding to weather poems
· creating foggy night pictures
· choosing the right clothes for the weather
· measuring puddles
· making simple weather vanes
· various ways of charting the weather.
Buy all 10 titles in the 'Activities for 3 - 5 year olds' series for £44.55 saving £4.95
Alligators to Zebras
Developmental Activities for Teaching and Learning the Letters of the Alphabet
£18 272 pages ISBN 1 903853 516
Rachel Goodchild and Stephen Goodchild
This book contains photocopiable activities and ideas to help 3-7 year olds become more confident with all the letters of the alphabet and their sounds. The developmental activities use different learning styles, from poems, recipes and technology challenges to simple templates and word lists.
Each letter of the alphabet also has a photocopiable activity and template which children can use independently. These sheets will not only help children learn about letters, they will also help to develop essential fine motor skills through cutting, folding, pasting and colouring.
The sheets will integrate easily into your existing language programmes and are ideal for use during the National Literacy Hour.
Click here to see a sample page.
The Big Messy Art Book £18 ISBN 1 903853 18 4
MaryAnn F Kohl
Combine the joy of creativity, the delights of imagination, and the thrill of an art adventure. The Big Messy Art Book opens the door for children to explore art on a grander, more expensive scale. Paint a one-of-a-kind masterpiece from a swing, or try painting a hanging ball while it moves! With the Big Messy Art Book , you are giving children the opportunity to go beyond the ordinary into the amazing. The activities are designed for use in pre-schools, primary classrooms, children's museums and homes.
The activities include:
· hair dryer painting
· living pendulum art
· Titanic simple weave
· doormat prints
· streamers artwork
Click here to see a sample page.
The Blends Book Activities for learning and Teaching Consonant Blends
£17 84 pages including photocopiable sheets ISBN 1 903853 532
Rachel Goodchild
This book is aimed at those children who already have confidence with initial sounds.
Each consonant blend featured is accompanied by a creative activity and two fun reading activities designed both to consolidate blend recognition and use, and to extend children's knowledge in a stimulating way.
Activities include:
· finding word meanings
· identifying blends
· crosswords
· word building
· cloze activities
· rhymes
· word families
Click here to see a sample page.
Discovering Great Artists
Hands-on Art for Children in the Styles of the Great Masters
£18
ISBN 1 903853 168
Maryann Kohl and Kim Solga
Over 100 innovative, fun and unique art activities for children aged from 4 to 12 to experience the styles and techniques of more than 80 great masters, from the renaissance to the present. A brief biography of each artist is included with a fully-illustrated, child-tested art activity, featuring painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, architecture and more! For example, when studying Leonardo Da Vinci and invention art, children will draw an object from the outside and take it apart to draw it from the inside, invent something to better the world, design and make it.
Other activities include:
· Michelangelo - Fresco Plaque
· Rembrandt - Shadowy Faces
· Monet - Dabble in Paint
· Degas - Resist in Motion
· Dali - Dream Photographs
· Matisse - Colour Collage
· Pollock - Action Splatter
· Lichtenstein - Comic Dots
· Picasso - Fractured Friend
· Van Gogh - Starry Night
Click here to see a sample page..
Christmas Activities for the Early Years £14.25 ISBN 1 903853 060
Val Edgar
This book contains photocopiable Christmas activities for 3 - 5's which help develop children's skills of communication, numeracy, and creativity, together with some ideas for Christmas games. The activities include:
· collecting a group of toys starting with the same letter
· following mazes
· building up a scene including Santa, Rudolph and the elves
· making wrapping paper
· counting the buttons on snowmen
· making a Christmas food shopping list
· wrapping presents
· making and colouring an advent calendar
· counting sheep
Click here to see a sample page
Communication, Language and Literacy £18 (Foundation Blocks Series) ISBN 1 897675 96 8
Irene Yates
Practical suggestions to give children a sound grounding in early literacy skills. Activities encourage children to:
· develop good communications skills,
· extend their vocabulary,
· use language to help thinking,
· begin to link sounds and letters,
· use and enjoy books, and
· start to develop writing skills.
Click here to see a sample page.
Buy all 6 titles in the 'Foundation Blocks' series for £95, a saving of £13
Creative Development £18 (Foundation Blocks Series) ISBN 1 897675 94 1
Mavis Brown
Activities encourage children to :
· explore different art media and materials,
· recognize and explore sounds,
· use their imagination, and
· express and communicate their ideas, thoughts and feelings using dance, movement, art, music and imaginative play.
Click here to see a sample page.
Buy all 6 titles in the 'Foundation Blocks' series for £93, a saving of £12
Knowledge and Understanding of the World £18 (Foundation Blocks Series) ISBN 1 897675 99 2
Mavis Brown
Contains activities for teaching scientific exploration and investigation, beginning technology and information technology, a sense of time and place, and an awareness of other cultures and beliefs.
Click here to see a sample page. However please note that you will need Adobe Acrobat to see the page. If you don't have this program already, it can be downloaded free of charge from Adobe's web site.
Buy all 6 titles in the 'Foundation Blocks' series for £95, a saving of £13
Mathematical Development £18 (Foundation Blocks Series) ISBN 1 897675 98 4
Rebecca Taylor
The activities in this book will help children to use numbers, count to 10, recognise numerals to 9, begin to do simple calculations, and start to develop an understanding of shape, space and measurement.
Click here to see a sample page.
Buy all 6 titles in the 'Foundation Blocks' series for £95, a saving of £13
Personal, Social and Emotional Development £18 (Foundation Blocks Series) ISBN 1 897675 97 6
Mavis Brown
Help children to develop positive attitudes, self-confidence and high self-esteem. Encourage them to form good relationships with peers and adults; understand what is right and what is wrong and why; and develop self care skills and a sense of community.
Buy all 6 titles in the 'Foundation Blocks' series for £95, a saving of £13
Physical Development £18 (Foundation Blocks Series) ISBN 1 897675 95 X
Maureen Warner
Encourage children to move with confidence, control and co-ordination, using a range of small and large equipment.
Click here to see a sample page.
Buy all 6 titles in the 'Foundation Blocks' series for £95, a saving of £13
Creative Activities for the Early Years £17 Thematic Art and Music Activities ISBN 1903853 71 0
Barbara Melling
This book contains a bumper collection of creative activities organized by popular early years themes. For each theme there are at least three art activities, a painting activity, suggested topics to talk about, a selection of stories, rhymes, action songs and suggested music for dancing along to or accompanying with instruments. The art activities are graded to show the level of difficulty and when some help may be needed.
Whether the topic being taught is autumn, the Chinese New Year, the coastline or kings and queens, you can be sure children will find the variety of activities interesting and entertaining and will be encouraged to use their imagination, express themselves creatively, and communicate their ideas. The activities will also develop essential gross and fine motor skills, as well as speaking and listening skills.
Special features
· Attractive four-colour cover