Synopses & Reviews
In this very special book, teachers, parents and care givers will be exposed to hundreds of age-appropriate activities for young children through grade 5-all aimed at promoting creativity through art activities across the curriculum. The author presents a wealth of information about developing creativity in children and in their adult educators with such activities as art and food recipes, finger plays, and poems and through the use of such resources as book and software lists, advice for choosing children?s books, hundreds of resource Web sites and much more. Readers will appreciate the sound theoretical base presented for the hundreds of practical activities designed to encourage creativity in children and their educators. ?This One?s for You? and ?Think About It? sections make the text more interesting by expanding coverage to related, thought-provoking research in early childhood education. This book is a must have for those looking to bring creativity to young children in a very engaging way.
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"This textbook matches quite well to this course regarding creative expression as well as creative problem solving. The addition of Bloom's Taxonomy and a discussion of its functionality would be an asset to this textbook. Bloom's is pertinent to thinking skills and their relationship to creative problem solving, something I would like to emphasize with my students."
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"The fact that this book has a chapter on each content area is a strength. I go over each chapter so that the students realize that art is not the only areas that creative activities can be planned. I feel that my students are getting their money worth."
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"The three greatest strengths of the text are the appropriate reading level, the broad coverage of art and the other curricular areas, and the web links. My students use the web for researching anything from child development to lesson planning so this text would give them great resources to investigate."
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"The text is an easy read and is loaded with excellent applicable examples." - Phygenia Young, M.S., Forthsyth Technical Community College
Synopsis
Creative Activities for Young Children 9th edition is a terrific book filled with fun, creative, and easy-to implement activities for young children. Readers will enjoy exercising their own creativity, as well as helping young children do the same. This text is an excellent tool for preparing to work creatively with children across the curriculum, but it is also very useful in their future teaching careers. With its hundreds of activities, up to date research, recipes, finger plays, art recipes, poems, book and software lists, information on how to select children's books, and hundreds of web sites, this book is an invaluable resource.
Synopsis
CREATIVE ACTIVITIES FOR YOUNG CHILDREN, 10th Edition, is a terrific book filled with fun, creative, and easy-to implement activities for young children. You?ll be encouraged to exercise your own creativity, as well as learn how to help young children do the same. Hundreds of activities, up-to-date research, recipes, finger plays, information on how to select children?s books, and more make this book an invaluable resource for you and others planning to work creatively with children across the curriculum--and one you?ll want to keep for use throughout your professional career.
About the Author
Mary Mayesky, Ph.D., is a certified preschool, elementary, and secondary teacher. She is a former professor in the Program in Education at Duke University, former director of the Early Childhood Certification Program, and supervisor of student teachers. She has served as director of programs in the State of North Carolina?s Office of Day Services, Department of Human Resources. She is also the former principal of the Mary E. Phillips Extended Day Care Magnet School in Raleigh, North Carolina, the first licensed extended day child care magnet school in the Southeast. She has served several terms on the North Carolina Day Care Commission and on the Wake County School Board. Dr. Mayesky has worked in Head Start, child care, kindergarten, and YWCA early childhood programs and has taught kindergarten through grade eight in the public schools. She has written extensively for professional journals and for general circulation magazines in the area of child development and curriculum design. Her other honors include being named Outstanding Young Educator by the Duke University Research Council, receiving the American Association of School Administrators Research Award, and being nominated for the Duke University Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award.
Table of Contents
'Chapter 1: The Concept of Creativity. Chapter 2: Promoting Creativity. Chapter 3: The Concept of Aesthetics. Chapter 4: Promoting Aesthetic Experiences. Chapter 5: Children, Teachers, and Creative Activities. Chapter 6: Creative Environments. Chapter 7: Play, Development, and Creativity. Chapter 8: Using Technology to Promote Creativity. Chapter 9: Art and Social-Emotional Growth. Chapter 10: Art and Physical?Mental Growth. Chapter 11: Developmental Levels and Art. Chapter 12: Program Basics: Goals, Setting Up, Materials, and Strategies. Chapter 13: Two- Dimensional Activities. Chapter 14: Three-Dimensional Activities. Chapter 15: Dramatic Play and Puppetry. Chapter 16: Creative Movement. Chapter 17: Creative Music. Chapter 18: Creative Language Experiences. Chapter 19: Creative Science. Chapter 20: Creative Mathematics. Chapter 21: Creative Food Experiences. Chapter 22: Creative Social Studies. Chapter 23: Creative Health and Safety Experiences. SECTION 6: Creativity: A Multicultural View. Chapter 24: Creativity, Diversity and the Early Childhood Program. Chapter 25: Creative Multicultural Ideas. Chapter 26 :Developmentally Appropriate Celebrations. Appendices: Appendix A: Gross and Fine Motor Skills. Appendix B: Language Development Objectives and Activities for Infants and Toddlers. Appendix C: Basic Program Equipment and Materials for an Early Childhood Center. Appendix D: Room and Yard Organization, Exhibitions, and Displays. Appendix E: Recycled Materials. Appendix F: Criteria for Selecting Play Equipment for Young Children. Appendix G: Puppet Patterns. Appendix H: Software Companies. Appendix I: Checklist: Aesthetic Enhancements in the Early Childhood Environment. Glossary. Index.\n
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