Product Description
Books are valuable teaching tools, and in some classrooms, regrettably, they are the only teaching tools. Books are a permanent and esteemed fixture in a teacher’s arsenal, that is true. But books do have their limitations.
Though books are good and capable teachers, there are some things that can be taught faster and more effectively to some children when those same books are closed. Books should be alive, exciting. Books should interact with the class. Books should make teachers and pupils stand up, break sweat, shout or sing at the top of their lungs.
An atmosphere of deathly quiet, interrupted only by the rasping of pencil across paper, should not be the sum total of a child’s classroom experience. Sometimes true learning can take place only in a classroom that’s buzzing with activity, pulsing with energy.
This edition has included games, songs, and art projects to help the teacher put more life into the child’s learning experience. Each lesson also has a teacher’s guide, which is meant not as an absolute command but as a supplement, an open suggestion, which the teacher may adapt to her own style and needs.
Let this book be a deep well of ideas from which the teacher can draw inspiration!