PCR Online Catalogue | Teacher Bookshop | Early Years Resource Books
Themes for Early Years is back! Fully revised and better than ever with a fantastic CD-ROM!
The Festivals theme gives you:
On screen drag and drop activities that will engage children in active learning.
Photocopiable and printable activities covering Early Learning Goals and play areas.
Songs and action rhymes to share.
Colour photographs and video clips to inspire.
RRP £25 - save £3!
The Growing theme gives you:
The Homes theme gives you:
The Minibeasts theme gives you:
The Myself theme gives you:
The People Who Help Us theme gives you:
Play Foundations feature popular Early Years themes and provide activities for setting up quality play scenarios with the emphasis on child-led play. The activities are specifically designed to encourage independent learning and aim to support children in fulfilling their potential.
All activities are closely linked to the new Early Years Foundation Stage, launching in September 2008.
Each book contains activities suitable for all early years environments from Nursery to Reception.
CD-ROMs contain interactive activities, photos, sounds, film clips, stories, songs, rhymes and activity sheets. Each CD-ROM features an interactive, animated character called Claude Cat who asks the children questions. The CD-ROMs are suitable for both Mac and PC and include a full network licence.
Writing Without Pencils shows that children donít need pens and pencils to write: they can write in the sky with aeroplanes, inside tents with torches and in soil with cress seeds. They can write with glitter, with icing, in the sand and with their voices.
It encourages: Play-based learning, creative ideas
Encourages fine and gross motor skills
Includes speaking and listening activities and oral storytelling
RRP £15 - save £2.50!
You donít need a PC to use ICT in your setting. ICT Without a PC throws away traditional techniques and gets the children: using cameras, programming floor robots, using the telephone in imaginative play...
You donít need a pen and paper to do maths. MATHS WITHOUT WORKSHEETS throws away traditional techniques and gets the children counting the world around them.
Provides imaginative play-based ideas that fulfil the early years curriculum in an inspirational way.
You donít need a reading scheme to enjoy reading texts. READING WITHOUT REALISING throws away traditional techniques and gets the children reading signs and texts around them.
Help the children to enjoy their aural world. SPEAKING WITHOUT HESITATION throws away traditional techniques and gets the children listening to the world around them.
Shows you how to implement the new government advice (Rose Review) on teaching phonics.
Wendy Joliffeís 50 best ready-to-use suggestions and ideas. Helps you to teach phonological awareness. Guides you through a systematic, synthetic approach.
Links speaking and listening, reading and writing.
Shows you how to organise effective phonics teaching.
RRP £17.50 - save £2.50!
Classworks Synthetic Phonics Photocopiable Readers have been designed for use alongside the teacher’s book providing:
60 photocopiable stories practising sounds week-by-week. Bbags of phonic practice at a fraction of the cost of an expensive scheme. A useful aid in letting children get to grips with short stories. Ideal take home material. A straightforward and easy to manage resource for parents.
RRP £16.99
Get your children singing with a song for every occasion!
No musical ability required - we’ve sung so you don’t have to!
Hours of fun for each song: with music, lyrics, actions, activities.
All your planning done - linked to Stepping Stones and Early Learning Goals. 15 favourite songs on popular themes on CD! Engage children in learning, develop skills and stimulate ideas.
At last! A collection of instant inexpensive role play resources! Everything you need to inspire a brilliant role play area in your classroom.
Created by Neil Griffiths - creator of Story Sacks!
Each book includes: a topic for one half term, topics that appeal to boys and girls and to different cultural groups, extensive lists of useful supporting resources, ideas for circle time, illustrated pictures of ideas for setting up and developing the role play area, suggestions for extending the activities, valuable supporting photocopiable resources and templates, useful planning grids.
Content: Setting up the garage, Wheels, A car showroom, Creating an airport, Making models, Inside the plane
RRP £7.99
Content: Building the supermarket, Visiting the supermarket, The bakery, Working in the supermarket, Visiting the toyshop, Christmas preparations
Content: The underground station, Underground drains and cables, Under the soil, Minibeasts, Caves, Going on a bear hunt
Content: The sea, The Titanic, The Rainbow Fish, The beach, Properties of water, Beach party
The books in the THEMES ON DISPLAY series contain ideas for stimulus, interactive and table-top displays that involve and celebrate children's work.
Each book will focus on five popular early years themes suitable for three to five year olds. There will be clear learning objectives and Early Learning Goals curriculum links for each display area. A main introduction to each book gives practical tips and information on areas such as mounting, lettering, using drapes and working in 3-D. Photocopiable pages at the end of each book will provide useful templates, lettering, borders and activities.
The Seasonal Displays book will provide lots of lively interactive display ideas covering the themes of: The Four Seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. The learning objectives of the displays will help young children to learn about the many different features of the seasons and will include making a birthday chart, creating a summer fete display, looking at Autumn leaves and producing a frosty weather display.
