These coloureful this series provide you with full-colour stories and ready-to-use activities to teach skills concepts and concepts across the whole early childhood cirriculum. Each book unit is beautifully illustrated in full colour. The dozens of activities, many reproducible, address important age-appropriate skills such as understanding a story, vocabulary development, letter and sound recognition, and beginning math concepts. Theme concepts are presented using full-colour storybooks (five in each Thematic unit) Charming storyboard cutouts are provided so that children may retell the stories, and reproducible take-home storybooks extend the story experience. Learning is advanced through a wide variety of lessons focusing on reading., language, math, art, dramatic play, cooking, and music. Each book has five learning center activities, many of which contain full-colour manipulatives. • The Farm • My World • Plants • Insects • My Body • The Ocean • The Rainforest • The Pond • The Weather • Animals • Around the World About Author: Jo Ellen Moore is one of the founders of evan Moor Educational Publishers. She taught elementary school for more than 20 years before beginning a second career in writing and publishing. She is the author of almost 200 teacher resource and activity books spenning all areas of the curriculum.