These colourful this series provide you with full-colour stories and ready-to-use activities to teach skills concepts and concepts across the whole early childhood curriculum. 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 thematicbook 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: Barbara Allman writes for children and teachers. She has taught in the primary grades and in preschools, and was a K–6 reading specialist. She holds a master’s degree elementary education from Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. Formerly the editor of a national magazine for primary teachers, Barbara has also written dozens of practical teachers’ guides and resource books, supplemental texts, and activity books. She is the author of three biographies for middle-grade readers – Musical Genius a Story about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Carolrhoda Books, 2004); Dance of the Swan A Srory about Anna Pavlova (2001); and Her Piano Sang A Story about Clara Schumann (1997).