Create heartwarming memories as you sing and play alongside your little one! Watch their face light up as you share simple games mothers have been passing down for generations. You and your child will be singing along, playing and creating memories in minutes. Look inside Fingerplays for Rainy Days for:* Fingerplays* Action Songs* Silly Songs* Nursery Rhymes* Imaginative play* Simple Crafts for Little Hands* Resources for Parents of PreschoolersMake the little moments special!

A messy dog wanders around the neighborhood picking up spots of color everywhere he goes to teach kids about colors and numbers.

Don't say it, sing it! Children will listen up quick, if you say it with a trick! Rhythm, imagery, and humorous nonsense will delight children while teaching them numbers, colors, shapes, self-concept, feelings, and more. This bestseller contains more than 250 original rhymes and fingerplays which help children learn through play, imitation, and repetition. Enhance vocabulary development, language skills, memory, hand-eye coordination, finger dexterity, and even attention spans! Rhyme and song in your lessons will make the ordinary exciting and new.

Little Frog's puddle grows bigger on a rainy day but becomes much more crowded as other animals come to join him.

If asked to list the greatest innovators of modern American poetry, few of us would think to include Jay-Z or Eminem in their number. And yet hip hop is the source of some of the most exciting developments in verse today. The media uproar in response to its controversial lyrical content has obscured hip hop's revolution of poetic craft and experience: Only in rap music can the beat of a song render poetic meter audible, allowing an MC's wordplay to move a club-full of eager listeners. Examining rap history's most memorable lyricists and their inimitable techniques, literary scholar Adam Bradley argues that we must understand rap as poetry or miss the vanguard of poetry today. Book of Rhymes explores America's least understood poets, unpacking their surprisingly complex craft, and according rap poetry the respect it deserves.

The Complete Book of Rhymes, Songs, Poems, Fingerplays, and Chants gives children a variety of ways to fall in love with rhythm, rhyme, repetition, and structural sequence -- important building blocks for future readers. The 700 selections will help children ages 3 to 6 build a strong foundation in skills such as listening, imagination, coordination, and spatial and body awareness. In this giant book of rhythm and rhyme, you are sure to find your own childhood favorites! Book jacket.

Children love celebrations. During the Preschool years, each month is cause for another fun filled festivity. We read books about holidays, construct art projects, and even play special games. Holiday fingerplays are a great way to reinforce newly learned traditions. They may also serve as the script for a classroom bulletin board or a group illustrated story. The fingerplays included in this book will allow teachers to ask their children a variety of questions that foster creativity and divergent thinking, thereby enhancing oral language skills. Props for those fingerplays can easily be acquired at party, discount, and department stores. A prop box for each holiday can be a valuable resource in your classroom.

Rhymes, chants, songs, and more get kids thinking, laughing, and moving. Includes 101 quick and easy activities for rainy days and in-between times. Ages 3 & up, 101 slips, 3" recyclable plastic screwtop jar.

A rabbit in a picture book is very glad when a reader turns up.

Trying to play a game but can t remember the rules? Looking for your favorite no-bake cookie recipe? It s all right here This book is chock-full of more than 500 ways to enhance any curriculum."