Year 'Round Activities for Two-Year-Old Children

by Anthony J. Coletta

Book Overview

This comprehensive preschool curriculum resource includes 195 ready-to-use developmental activities, monthly themese, and weekly subthemes. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876289812
• ISBN13: 9780876289815
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Center for Applied Research in Education
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Great book for pre-school homeschoolers!

I agree with everything the first reviewer said. As a Montessori teacher who plans to homeschool I would highly recommend this book to everyone who is in need of ideas for 2 year olds. My daughter is loving the activities we are doing. It includes great art projects that allow for true freedom of creativity with simple supplies that we typically have around the house. The finger plays, songs and reading suggestions that go with each topic are wonderful too (if you can find them at your local library - many of the books are older and no longer available in libraries but again they are great suggestions and you can always look for something along the same line). What a great find!

Great Resource for Homeschooling

My husband is a full time student and we live in student housing. I received this from one of the neighbors that was taking classes in child care and education. I had completely forgotten I had it until my husband found it going through a box of books we were going to get rid of. I decided to look through it before getting hauling it off and I'm so glad that I did. It goes from September through June, with approximately 20 projects for each month, except for September which only has 15, with each month being broken down into 4 sub categories. For instance, right now we're working on October. There are four sections, labled Colors; Foods; Farms & Farm Animals; and Halloween. We're in the Colors section and today we made leaf paintings using leaves we collected yesterday in the Fall Walk. I know this is set up for 2 year olds, by my 35 mo loves it as well as my 19 mo. I have found all of the projects simple and fun to do with my little ones. They love having their projects displayed around the house and telling their father of them when he gets home from school or work. I had never meant to homeschool any of my children. I wouldn't really know where to start but since finding this book I have realized just what a bounty of information is actually out there and this way I could teach my little ones everything they needed to know at their own pace instead of pushing them through just to be able to meet an outline that teaches my children absolutely nothing. My oldest has had to repeat Kindergarten because he couldn't keep up with the rest of the class. I mean, come on, Kindergarten? What happened to that just being a year of socialization and fun while learning the basics of our numbers, colors and the alphabet? I was totally shocked at the anger I received from his teacher when he didn't pass any of his entrance tests to Kindergarten when I didn't even know he had to take these tests. I certainly didn't when I was in Kindergarten. But this book, and the other two in the series have been a major help to me in building my own curriculum until I choose an accreditied Homeschool system just so my little ones will learn the basics. Besides, this is a wonderful time to spend with them, watching their little faces light up with the joy of learning. I have also found the Skills Concepts Checklist that was provided beneficial in gaging where my children were and if they are on time developmentally wise.