Up, down, move around math and Literacy
Subtitle: active learning for preschoolers
By: Deborah Michals
Series: Up, down, move around
Publisher: Gryphon House
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780876594179
Subjects: Active learning; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS; Activity programs; Study and teaching (Preschool); General; Parenting; Early childhood education; Mathematics and physical education; Preschool & Kindergarten; Mathematics; EDUCATION; Physical Education
Other titles: Math and literacy
Description: "By connecting physical activity with learning, the books in this series provide preschoolers with educational enrichment as they explore, inquire, experiment, and discover. Filled with simple, stimulating games, they will have kids jumping, shaking, rolling, dancing, and clapping as they learn. Useful for parents, caregivers, and child care workers, the books contain fun activities that can be carried out easily and with minimal equipment. Activities like the Syllable Freeze Dance and Math Orchestra help young children develop number sense, practice counting and rhyming, and learn about letter shapes and story structure"--

"Young children learn best when they connect physical activity with learning! Up, Down, Move Around is packed with fun, simple math and literacy activities that will have children jumping, shaking, rolling, dancing, and clapping as they learn! From the Syllable Freeze Dance to the Math Orchestra, children ages 3 to 6 will actively explore letters and numbers as they develop number sense, practice counting and rhyming, and learn about letter shapes and story structure. Everything you need is already in your classroom! No special materials, extra space, or props are required. The exercises can be done as 5- to 10-minute enrichment activities with large and small groups, in circle time, or as transitions to fulfill the 60 minutes of structured physical activity recommended in national guidelines for preschoolers"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Letters : Letter shapes ; My name is ; A is for animal! ; ABC rap ; Alphabet books; title: Syllables : Syllable freeze dance ; Singing and clapping rhythms ; Act out the rhythm ; Tapping our names ; Rhythm around the room ; Animal rhythms ; Rhythms of animal sounds; title: Words : "Ing" action words ; Green goats go ; I, he, she, we ; A sentence tells a little story; title: Story structure : Open your book ; The beginning, the middle, and the end ; Follow me ; What do we do together? ; What do we do as a group? ; The five Ws: Who? What? Where? When? Why? ; Actions make the story ; What happens next? ; This happens because ; Repeat it! ; The magic world of silence ; Let's find the character ; Figure it out ; Stories told backward ; Feelings show the story ; How do you feel? ; What's the problem? ; Act it out! ; A tale of mixed-up letters ; Look at me, I can be ; A child's own 20-second story: "My Morning" ; Creating a character ; Show and tell ; A child's own tall tale ; The class creates a story; title: Poetry, songs, and rhymes : Bounce to the rhythm of the rhyme ; Move to the rhythm of the poem ; Clap to the rhythm ; Clap in the rest ; If you hear it, clap! ; Move on the word ; Bring a poem to life ; A song in any language ; The first rhyme song: "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" ; Make it real ; Hickory Dickory Dock ; Butterflies and birds ; I am me ; Opposites poem; title: Move with math: quick quantatives : Little and big ; Long and short ; High and low ; Wide and narrow ; Tall and short ; Roll over ; A few and more and many ; One and a group ; Early and late; title: Number sense, counting, and one-to-one correspondence : Counting in books ; One-to-one correspondence ; Bunny hop counting ; Ones and twos ; Jumping Jack fun ; I see one child; I see two ; 1, 2, 3, arms, tap, knee ; Ride your bicycle ; I do; you do ; Dinosaur march and count ; 1, 2, 3, 4: hip, hop, move! ; Counting steps ; Count to five ; Tap dance counting ; Counting cheer ; One little, two little, three little, count to nine ; To the count of ten ; Lizard walk fives ; Frog-jump tens ; Measuring with hands ; Counting clock ; A counting adventure ; Number search ; Count with thumbkin ; One is foot and two is hand ; Coming 'Round the Mountain ; When I was one ; Jump open, jump close ; Counting ones and twos ; Yankee Doodle feather ; Days of the week counting; title: Grouping and computation : Now, let's add one! ; One foot, two feet ; And another one came! ; Hand jive ; One goes away! ; Square dance subtraction ; Equal groups ; Greater than, less than, split!; title: Geometric shapes : Make a ball ; Marching the shapes ; Squiggle and zip ; Moons and shooting stars ; Mirror me ; We all make shapes; title: Pattern sequencing and prediction : Action patterns ; Orange, banana, orange ; One, three, one ; One means hop; two means wiggle ; Math orchestra ; First, middle, and last ; Bluebird, won't you come and fly with me? ; Brown Bear, move like this! ; Counting obstacle course.