Centers of Interest 11 --
Knowledge of Age Appropriateness 11 --
Tools You'll Find Useful 12 --
Fostering Invented Spelling 13 --
Assessing and Evaluating 14 --
Chapter 1 Playing to Learn on a Wet and Rainy Day --
Physical Activities for Active Children 16 --
Jacks and Jills in Boxes 17 --
Jumping Jacks and Jills 17 --
Jacks and Jills on Hills 18 --
Jacks and Jills and Candlesticks 19 --
Sun Beams on Display 23 --
Thinking Children: Time to Study, Think, and Learn 28 --
Rain Changes What You Wear 31 --
Rainy Day Clothes Are Different 31 --
Which One Dries Faster? 32 --
Rain Changes the Environment 33 --
What Are the Properties of Rain? 33 --
How Does Rain Change Soil? 34 --
Listening to the Rain 39 --
Collect My Thoughts 39 --
Assessing and Evaluating Children Playing to Learn on a Wet and Rainy Day 41 --
Chapter 2 Playing to Learn on a Hot and Sunny Day --
Planning and Reflecting Children 44 --
Summarize and Reflect 49 --
Frosty Chocolate Milk 49 --
Make Yourself Some Shade 50 --
Children Are Physical Scientists 53 --
Plastic Squirt Bottles 59 --
Wet and Dry Reflections 60 --
Children Experience Language 62 --
Tales About the Sun 63 --
Assessing and Evaluating Children Playing To Learn on a Hot and Sunny Day 64 --
Chapter 3 Playing to Learn on a Windy Day --
Effects of the Wind 66 --
Clouds Are Different 70 --
Predicting the Weather 71 --
Catch the Wind with Parachutes 72 --
Observing Parachutes 73 --
Which Way Does the Wind Move? 74 --
Catch the Wind with Kites 75 --
Reflecting on Wind and Kites 76 --
Kites in Different Cultures 76 --
Just Seeds in the Wind 78 --
Catch the Wind with Bubbles 79 --
Feel the Force of the Wind 79 --
Do You Hear the Wind Singing? 81 --
Assessing and Evaluating Children Playing to Learn on a Windy Day 83 --
Chapter 4 Playing to Learn on a Perfectly Beautiful Day --
Toddlers and Dump and Fill 88 --
Toddlers and Pull Toys 88 --
Toddlers, Boxes, and Blocks 89 --
Toddlers and Dumping 89 --
Toddlers and Bracelets 90 --
Preschoolers and Tunnels 90 --
Preschoolers Finding Out How Things Work 91 --
Put It Together and Take It Apart 91 --
Preschoolers and Magnifiers 92 --
Constructive Children 94 --
Boards and Wooden Boxes 94 --
Building Structures 95 --
Outside Fingerpaint 97 --
Dramatic and Cooperative Children 98 --
Field Trip to Stimulate Dramatic Play 99 --
Children Play Games With Rules 100 --
Circle Games for Children Under Three 100 --
Skill Games for Children Under Three 101 --
Circle Games for Threes and Young Fours 102 --
Circle Games for Older Fours and Fives 103 --
Chasing Games for Older Fours and Fives 105 --
Games of Skill for Older Fours and Fives 105 --
Children Play With Language to End a Perfectly Beautiful Day 107 --
Funny, Silly Poems and Stories 107 --
Assessing and Evaluating Children Learning to Play on a Perfectly Beautiful Day 108 --
Chapter 5 Playing to Learn When You Have to Wait --
Involving Children 110 --
Poems for Cleanup Time 114 --
Poems for Lunch or Snack 114 --
Mathematical Children 116 --
Number Sense and Numeration
Number Sense and Numeration
Number Sense and Numeration
Number Sense and Numeration
Number Sense and Numeration
Number Sense and Numeration
Geometry and Spatial Sense
Geometry and Spatial Sense
Geometry and Spatial Sense
Laughing, Joyous Children 125 --
Reading Silly Books 125 --
Sing Silly Songs and Chants 127 --
Assessing and Evaluating Children Learning to Play When They Have to Wait 128 --
Chapter 6 Playing to Learn When Things Go Wrong --
Children Make Transitions 131 --
When School Begins 132 --
Transitioning to School 133 --
Make a Welcome Chart 134 --
Children Make and Keep Friends 136 --
Helping Children Make Friends 136 --
Highlight the Skills of Children 137 --
Books About Social Skills 138 --
Guiding Children's Behaviors When Groups Get Out of Hand 140 --
Analyze What Happened 142 --
Guiding Children's Behaviors When Children Need Help 143 --
Helping Children Gain Control 143 --
Helping Aggressive Children 143 --
Observing an Aggressive Child 144 --
Working With an Aggressive Child 144 --
Children Cope With Life Events 145 --
Keep Daily Routines the Same 145 --
Observing and Listening to Children 146 --
Preparing for Discussion, Play, and Action 146 --
Assessing and Evaluating Children Learning to Play When Things Go Wrong 148 --
Chapter 7 Playing to Learn When You Take a Walk --
Observing Children 150 --
Developing Observation Skills 151 --
Start with the Familiar 154 --
Observing Older Children 155 --
Observing Machines 156 --
Observing by Listening 157 --
Guess What Is Inside 158 --
Walks Around the Neighborhood 160 --
More Ideas for Listening Walks 160 --
A Map of Our World 161 --
Broadening Children's Horizons 161 --
Children's Social and Physical World 163 --
Children's Social World 163 --
Children's Physical World 164 --
Children's Economic World 164 --
Trip to Pick Apples or Pumpkins 166 --
Assessing and Evaluating Children Playing to Learn When Taking a Walk 167 --
Chapter 8 Playing to Learn on a Birthday --
Before Beginning Birthday Celebrations 170 --
Mathematical Children 171 --
Your Birthday Number 172 --
Books for Older Children 175 --
Make Your Own Post Office 177 --
Talk About Growing 179 --
Birthdays in the Past 180 --
Marching Birthday Band 182 --
Mathematical Marching 182 --
Birthday Fun and Games 183 --
What Did We Learn? 184 --
Books About Ice Cream 184 --
Assessing and Evaluating Children Playing to Learn on a Birthday 186.
