Rediscover play with over 60 screen-free family activities and games that promote bonding, connection, and growth. Featuring over 60 games, Play Together is your go-to guide for family fun. Based on happiness, play, communication, and emotional intelligence research, the games and activities are more than just enjoyable. They also teach important life skills and catapult your family’s development in the following: Connection Creativity Mindfulness Kindness Movement and more Plus, they’re simple. You can play most games in five minutes using materials you already have on hand. Activities are categorized by type (see above) and include detailed instructions as well as tips, anecdotes and conversation prompts for families. Some of the games included are: Marble Mania Madness 3-2-1…Freeze! The What If? Imagination Game Cardboard Creations Snap-A-Letter Scavenger Hunt Make Your Own Puzzle DJ Art Floor Pong and more! Ever wish life (and parenting) was more fun? Stop wondering what to do with your kids and instead begin to play together. You’ll be amazed at the wonder these games open up in you and your family’s lives. Optimized for kids 12 and under and fun for people of all ages!

The book of kejarAURORA is a collection of interaction record of the companions with the children for five and a half years on a playing ground called kejarAURORA in Indonesia. Belajar-Bermain (Learning-Playing), Berimajinasi-Berkarya (Imagining-Creating), Bahagia-Bersama-sama (Being Happy-Together) those are the six words to summarise this book. This book is a realisation of kejarAURORA's imagination about a friendly world for children leading to their fully-developed potential. This imagination is collected into an education concept for children. This book is telling about an education that is touching the heart. kejarAURORA believes that heart is the most important thing for a person to be a human. An education that is delivered from heart to heart, will get to the heart. With this kind of education, kejarAURORA hopes that the children will grow their hearts to touch more hearts.

With appendix of resources for worship teams. From Maranatha! Music---over three decades of worship music, resources, seminars, and experience combine to help you . . . Get Off the Ground and Soar as a Group! This book lays the basics for effective team ministry. Whatever role you play in your church's worship ministry---leader, director, instrumentalist, vocalist, or sound technician---you will learn the essentials as well as professional tips for building a cohesive sound and approach. Playing Together as a Worship Band may be used by itself, or with the Maranatha! Worship Leader Workshop video of the same title for a dynamic combination of print and audio-visual instruction and demonstration. This book covers - The Big Picture---What a worship team is all about, what's unique about a worship band, the role of team members - Meet the Team---Worship leader, music director, musicians, singers, and sound technicians - Let's Rehearse---Why rehearsal is so important and how to get the most from it - Bringing the Music to Life---The '100 Percent Rule, ' opening the worship team's toolbox, dynamics, vamps, breakdowns, the big payoff, and diamonds - Putting It All Together---Continuity, mirroring, final preparations, 'real world' service models, and the variables Here's what it takes to produce a tight sound and service-oriented approach that help others experience God's presence through music. Also available: Playing Together as a Worship Band training video. The worship ministry at your church may consist of just you and your keyboard or guitar. Or it may involve a full-scale team approach. Whatever your circumstances, you want to give God and his people nothing less than your best. The Maranatha! Worship Leader Workshop is for you. Drawing on the insights of some of today's most talented worship leaders and musicians, here are principles and techniques that can help you and your team members rise to new levels of excellence.

A new generation of children love Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, inspired by the classic series Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood! Daniel Tiger meets an autistic boy named Max in this 8x8 storybook that celebrates inclusivity and people’s differences! Daniel has a new friend at school! His name is Max, and he loves buses and bugs. Max is autistic, so sometimes he needs different things than Daniel. Max and Daniel might be different in some ways, but they always have fun playing together! © 2021 The Fred Rogers Company

The life of the unparalleled purveyor of the Great American Songbook, Marian McPartland, is celebrated in this engrossing biography From Bobby Short to Esperanza Spalding, across the 33-year run of the acclaimed radio show Piano Jazz, Marian McPartland conversed and played piano duets with jazz greats and, via National Public Radio syndication, brought the best of jazz standards to listeners. In Shall We Play That One Together?, Paul de Barros considers McPartland's full life and shows her to have been a courageous compositional innovator as well as an immensely talented popularizer and educator. Her standing among jazz artists and her advocacy for women jazz musicians made McPartland a natural to host Piano Jazz show, conceived in 1978, and first broadcast on WLTR out of Columbia, South Carolina, in 1979. That show secured her reputation in the musical form and allowed her to introduce American and then global audiences to a diverse array of musicians developing the Great American Songbook.

Ready to join the Rainbow Chicks on four exciting adventures about friendship? This book contains four stories: A Quarrel, A Springy Cloud, Super Robot and A Piece of Rainbow. It aims to help children learn to share, get along with friends, establish good partnerships, and master the skills to solve conflicts with friends. Through heart-warming stories, you experience the growth process of the Rainbow Chicks, by focusing on six EQ themes: emotional intelligence, sense of responsibility, self-confidence, problem-solving ability, social skills and concentration. The stories guide children to embrace their emotions, care for, respect and tolerate others and take initiative to solve problems. Seven chicks are living on Cloud Island - it's paradise! Each of the chicks is a colour from the rainbow – say hello to Rainbow Chicks! The stories of Rainbow Chicks are centred around colourful childlike innocence and familiar topics. Through vibrant behaviour-guiding stories, the concepts of friendship, sharing and teamwork are communicated to the young reader. Rainbow Chicks can help facilitate children’s growth and open their eyes to the warmth and beauty of the world.

Play provides young children with the opportunity to express their ideas, symbolize, and test their knowledge of the world. It provides the basis for inquiry in literacy, science, social studies, mathematics, art, music, and movement. Through play, young children become active learners engaged in explorations about themselves, their community, and their personal-social world. An Integrated Play-Based Curriculum for Young Children offers the theoretical framework for understanding the origins of an early childhood play-based curriculum and how young children learn and understand concepts in a social and physical environment. Distinguished author Olivia N. Saracho then explores how play fits into various curriculum areas in order to help teachers develop their early childhood curriculum using developmentally and culturally appropriate practice. Through this integrated approach, young children are able to actively engage in meaningful and functional experiences in their natural context. Special Features Include: Vignettes of children’s conversations and actions in the classroom Suggestions for activities and classroom materials Practical examples and guidelines End-of-chapter summaries to enhance and extend the reader’s understanding of young children By presenting appropriate theoretical practices for designing and implementing a play-based curriculum, An Integrated Play-Based Curriculum for Young Children offers pre-service teachers the foundational knowledge about the field, about the work that practitioners do with young children, and how to best assume a teacher’s role effectively.

Playing with your baby is more than fun and games: it's the key to building a strong relationship with your infant and providing important early stimulation that promotes learning and development. Baby Love and Learn provides 100 games, activities, and exercises that parents can do with their baby to foster cognitive, motor, and language skills as well as creativity and relational skills. Baby Love and Learn shows parents how they can use daily caregiving routines such as feeding, diapering, dressing, bathing, and bedtime as opportunities for play, positive emotional attachment, and learning. The book also includes play ideas for each age and stage and for different developmental levels.