In a few weeks our own preschoolers will begin a new preschool year. We are pleased to partner with Nurture Store UK to offer YOU all three of our co-authored eBooks: UP, Make Your Mark, and ABC’s and 123’s for 50% off THIS WEEK ONLY! Playful learning with engineering, ABC’s, and numbers in preschool has never been easier with full-color photos and easy set-up activities to spark curiosity, imagination, and wonder about the world.

Playful Learning with Engineering, ABC’s, and Numbers

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The special back-to-school 50% off sale begins TODAY (August 4th) and ends Saturday, August 11th (at midnight). Don’t miss the opportunity to get ALL playful learning eBooks during the sale to add to resources in your classroom, childcare, or for use in your home preschool.

ABC’s and 123’s – 40+ hands-on activities to build letter, number, and shape skills

Do you wonder how to help your preschoolers learn about ABC’s and 123’s? The ABC’s and 123’s eBook can help with plenty of suggestions for hands-on playful learning at home, in childcare, or in the preschool classroom.

What you’ll get in this book:

:: 40+ hands-on play ideas that will help your child build their letter and math skills

:: multisensory activities for children aged 2 to 8

:: resources for parents and teachers, at home or in the classroom, with ideas for indoor and outdoor learning

:: material lists, step-by-step instructions and full color photographs of every activity

:: suggestions for variations and extensions so you can adapt the activities to suit your child

:: a wide range of learning activities, across literacy and math, including:

• learning to recognize and write letters and numbers
• understanding both upper and lower case letters
• drawing shapes and making marks
• working on alphabetic order
• working on spelling names, sight words, cvc words, and other vocabulary
• developing language skills
• understanding one-to-one correspondence
• learning to count, to add, and subtract
• base-ten understanding and double digit addition

Purchase the ABC’s and 123’s for just $7.49 through August 11th.

UP! – 30+ hands-on, inspiring learning projects to transform your construction play through math, literacy, science, art and play

What you’ll get in this book:

:: 30+ hands-on projects that invite your child to explore all things Up!

:: guidance on how to support your child’s interests, and how to help them expand their exploration and learning across the curriculum. This book is all about hands-on, project-based, passion-led learning.

:: multisensory activities for children aged 4 to 10

:: resources for parents and teachers, at home or in the classroom, with ideas for indoor and outdoor learning

:: material lists, step-by-step instructions, and full colour photographs of every activity.

:: suggestions for variations and extensions so you can adapt the activities to suit your child

:: a wide range of learning activities including:

• Ideas to set up and develop block play

• Activities that use blocks for math lessons, with number games, measuring activities, and shape-building challenges

• Construction play invitations with sensory elements and imaginary play, to develop language, spelling, and storytelling, and to promote co-operation and collaboration

• Art projects on the theme of Up! including Caulder-inspired kinetic mobiles and upright weaving

• Prompts that encourage creative thinking and innovation: exploring the possibilities of rocks, ice, marshmallows, customizing blocks with new designs, and using huge cardboard boxes that can build structures bigger than you are

• Science projects that invite your child to think about all the other things that go Up! including homemade rockets, airplanes, parachutes, pulleys and constellations

PLUS:

:: 100 printable pages including shape challenge cards, build challenge cards, and a set of world architecture prints.

Purchase UP! for just $7.49 through August 11th.

Make your Mark – 30+ projects that promote a love of writing, creative storytelling, self-confidence, and compassion

What you’ll get in this book:

:: Activities to get your child started with the important basics: to develop skills to literally make their mark, first with fingers, and later with pens, pencils and paint brushes.

:: Fun ideas that will help your child develop their fine motor strength and dexterity. We have ideas for finger gyms, easel activities and first mark making activities with sticks, play dough and shaving foam.

:: Inspiration for writing trays that encourage children to use all their senses to build skills.

:: Great ideas to delight in imagination and storytelling that feels like – and is! – play time, not school work. Your child will develop their language, vocabulary and fluency through story mats, small worlds, comics, journals, role play, outdoor adventures, and art.

:: Activities that support your child in understanding more about themselves and others, through interviews, self-portraits, collaborative art, and collaborative projects.

:: And finally we’ll help your child see that everyone can make their mark on their community and the environment. We show you how to extend the idea of our self out into the world, and consider how we are part of a community. Withaccessible and achievable projects, we’ll inspire your child to make their mark through environmental citizenship and acts of kindness.

:: Also included: six sets of printables for you to download, including pattern writing cards, a ‘my favorite things’ photo book, ‘all about me’ interview sheets, pretend play post office accessories, and comic book and gracious giving printables.

Purchase Make Your Mark for just $7.49 through August 11th.

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