Library Services for Preschool Teachers
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Miss Humblebee’s Academy is an award-winning, online curriculum for children preschool through kindergarten.The curriculum lays the foundation for a lifetime of learning success, providing strength in core subject areas: math, science and social studies, language and literacy, art, and music.The curriculum is theme-based and fully interactive with sound cues. It also offers weekly progress reports, mobile access and downloadable printables.
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Ranked number 3 last year and number 1 in 2015 by HiMAMa.This blog is highly regarded by the Early Literacy experts of HiMama. The three moms who write this blog are the authors of two books: 101 Coolest Simple Science Experiments and 101 Kids Activities That Are the Best, Funnest Ever.
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Gwen Doolan Preschool Liasion Lesley Jakacki Youth Services Manager
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Literacy Tip... Talking and Listening
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Talking and Listening plays a large part in getting ready to read, because it develops comprehension and communication skills. When a child learns new words, tell stories, and retells events a child will be more ready to read. Talk to your child about pictures, letters, sounds, words, symbols signs and books. Take time to discuss experiences like at the grocery store, going to the bank, or to the Vet. Encourage your child to try new words and sentence structures. Come to the McHenry Public Library Questions' Desk or Preschool Area where you can play an Every Child Ready To Read Skill.
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Let's Learn About. . . Using My Senses
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Cold, crunchy, colorful : using our senses
by Jane Brocket
"Combining simple text with gorgeous photos, the latest addition to Jane Brocket's Clever Concepts series encourages children to use all five of their senses (and the corresponding body parts associated with those senses) to investigate the world around them."
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Hearingby Sue HurwitzExplains the sense of hearing, including how the ear works. Also available: Hearing, Taste, and Touch by the same author.
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Let's play a five senses guessing game
by Amanda Miller
A young boy talks about the things that he perceived with his five senses today, giving the reader a chance to guess what each is from a picture of it
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Using your senses
by Rebecca Rissman
Introduces readers to the senses, the sense organs, and the ways that some people use their senses
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Senses on the farm
by Shelley Rotner
Describes things you can see, hear, smell, taste, and touch on a farm
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Rain
by Manya Stojic
When the rain comes to quench the thirst of the African savanna, all the animals, from the porcupines to the baboons, foretell the storm by using their senses, in a vibrant and refreshing picture book. Reprint.
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Magic school busMs. Frizzle takes her class on a variety of field trips to learn all about the world around them
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Do you hear that? Can you see this? What's that smell? Sid and his firensa are embarking on a quest to explore vision, hearing touch, smell and tast!
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Need A Nursery Rhyme? Two little eyes to look around. Two little ears to hear each sound. One little nose to smell what's sweet. One little mouth that likes to eat. Need A Song?
Five Senses (Tune: Where is Thumbkin) Five senses, five senses We have them. We have them. Seeing, hearing, touching, Tasting and smelling. There are five. There are five. (reinforce by pointing to corresponding body parts)
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Sid The Science Kid's Target Age: 3-6 Learning Goals: Senses
Materials - A way to block children’s sight-a scarf to blindfold or opaque containers with gauze on top
- About four items with distinctive scents – coffee, soap, onions, lemons, cinnamon, vanilla, rose petals, mint, and chocolate are possibilities
Directions - Blindfold the children who will smell the items or put items in an opaque jar with gauze on top. The important thing is that kids observe using only their noses, not their eyes.
- Have children smell the first item. What do they think it is? Write down their ideas.
- Repeat the procedure until you’ve reached the last item.
- Ask children how we can find out for sure what we observed using our sense of smell. How can we check the predictions?
- Reveal each item so children can check their predictions.
Talk About It - Encourage children's attempts to predict. Being right is great, but trying is the most important thing.
- Ask children to think about their favorite things to observe with their sense of smell. And, tell them about some of your favorite scents too!
- Kids love playing with scented play dough. You can buy it or make your own by adding scented extract (lemon and mint work well) to your favorite make-it-yourself recipe.
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