Pam Schiller - The Complete Daily Curriculum for Early Childhood: Over 1200 Easy Activities to Support Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles

Contents The Complete Daily Curriculum
for Early Childhood, Revised Over 200 Easy Activities to Support Multiple
Intelligences and Learning Styles By Pam Schiller and Pat Phipps Dedication To preschool teachers You are important beyond measure in the lives of the children in your care. You are writing on their souls. We honor you and value you. Pam Schiller and Pat Phipps Additional books written by Pam Schiller The Bilingual Book of Rhymes, Songs, Stories, and Fingerplays , with Rafael Lara-Alecio and Beverly J. Irby Bountiful Earth: 25 Songs and Over 300 Activities for Young Children Bugs, Bugs, Bugs: 21 Songs and Over 250 Activities for Young Children The Complete Resource Book for Infants: Over 700 Experiences for Children From Birth to 18 Months The Complete Resource Book for Preschoolers: Over 2000 Activities and Ideas, with Kay Hastings The Complete Resource Book for Toddlers and Twos: Over 2000 Experiences and Ideas, with Kay Hastings The Complete Book of Activities, Games, Stories, Props, Recipes, and Dances , with Jackie Silberg The Complete Book of Rhymes, Songs, Poems, Fingerplays, and Chants , with Jackie Silberg Count on Math: Activities with Small Hands and Lively Minds , with Lynne Peterson Creating Readers: Over 1,000 Games, Activities, Tongue Twisters, Fingerplays, Songs, and Stories to Get Children Excited About Reading Critters and Company: 27 Songs and Over 300 Activities for Young Children Do You Know the Muffin Man? 700 Literacy Activities Using Favorite Rhymes and Songs , with Thomas Moore Fabulous Food: 25 Songs and Over 300 Activities for Young Children Honk, Honk, Rattle, Rattle: 25 Songs and Over 300 Activities for Young Children The Infant/Toddler Photo Activity Library: an Essential Literacy Tool, with Richele Bartkowiak The Instant Curriculum, Revised; Over 750 Developmentally Appropriate Learning Activities for Busy Teachers of Young Children , with Joan Rosanno Me, My Family and Friends: 26 Songs and Over 300 Activities for Young Children The Practical Guide to Quality Child Care , with Patricia Carter Dyke The Preschool Photo Activity Library: an Essential Literacy Tool, with Richele Bartkowiak School Days: 28 Songs and Over 300 Activities for Young Children Seven Skills for School Success: Activities to Develop Social & Emotional Intelligence in Young Children Start Smart: Building Brain Power in the Early Years Starting with Stories: Engaging Multiple Intelligences Through Childrens Books, with Pat Phipps The Values Book: Teaching 16 Basic Values to Young Children , with Tamera Bryant Where Is Thumbkin? 500 Activities to Use with Songs You Already Know , with Thomas Moore Wild, Wild West: 25 Songs and Over 300 Activities for Young Children Additional books written by Pat Phipps Starting with Stories: Engaging Multiple Intelligences Through Childrens Books, with
Pam Schiller 2011 Pam Schiller and Pat Phipps Published by Gryphon House, Inc. PO Box 10, Lewisville, NC 27023 800.638.0928 (toll free); 877.638.7576 (fax) Visit us on the web at www.gryphonhouse.com All rights reserved.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Printed in China through Asia Pacific Offset. Every effort has been made to locate copyright and permission information. Illustrations: Deb Johnson Reprinted August 2013 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Schiller, Pamela Byrne. The daily curriculum for early childhood : over 1,200 easy activities to support multiple intelligences and learning styles / by Pam Schiller and Pat Phipps. cm. Rev. ed. of: The complete daily curriculum for early childhood. c2002. c2002.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 978-0-87659-358-5 1. Early childhood education--Activity programs. 2. Multiple intelligences. I.

Phipps, Patricia A. II. Schiller, Pamela Byrne. Complete daily curriculum for early childhood. III. Title.

LB1139.35.A37S35 2011 372.21--dc22 2011011473 Bulk purchase Gryphon House books are available for special premiums and sales promotions as well as for fund-raising use. Special editions or book excerpts also can be created to specification. For details, contact the Director of Sales at the address above. Disclaimer Gryphon House Inc. and the authors cannot be held responsible for damage, mishap, or injury incurred during the use of or because of activities in this book. Appropriate and reasonable caution and adult supervision of children involved in activities and corresponding to the age and capability of each child involved, is recommended at
all times.

Do not leave children unattended at any time. Observe safety and caution
at all times. Introduction As Ms. Ramirez, a new parent in the community interested in finding a school for her child, passed Ms. Carters prekindergarten classroom, she paused to look in. This classroom was very different from what she had expected.

Instead of seeing children sitting in neat rows listening attentively to their teacher, she saw children happily engaged in a variety of activities, working in pairs or small groups all over the room. How could all this playing be productive, she thought? She could not resist going inside to ask Ms. Carter to explain what was happening. Ms. Carter welcomed the opportunity not only to explain what was happening, but also to take
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Carter told Ms. Ramirez that the children were engaged in a thematic unit of study on zoo animals. She went on to explain that she used a multiple intelligences (MI) approach to her curriculum, which is a way of providing activities and experiences that address all of the ways that children are smart. These different intelligences include spatial, interpersonal, naturalist, logical-mathematical, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, linguistic, and intrapersonal. What do you mean, Ms. Ramirez. Ramirez.

Children learn in a number of different ways, and I want to make sure I offer them the opportunity to learn in the ways in which each of them learns best, Ms. Carter explained. As they walked around the classroom, Ms. Ramirez saw children In the Art Center cooperatively using yellow construction paper, oval sponges, and brown tempera paint to create giraffe skin patterns by sponging the brown paint onto the yellow paper in a design of their choice (spatial, interpersonal); In the Science/Discovery Center sorting plastic zoo and farm animals according to where the animals live (naturalist, logical-mathematical); In the Math Center playing a game called Feed the Seal. Each seal had a different number on its back and the children were counting out the number of fish crackers to match the number on each seal and placing the crackers in each seals mouth (logical-mathematical); In the Dramatic Play Center dancing, singing, clapping, and following the leaders movements in a game of Monkey See, Monkey Do (bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal); In the Language Center making signs to label the zoo cages (for example, Aviary, Reptiles, Monkeys, Aquarium, Lions, and so on) in the Block Center (linguistic); In the Language Center dictating stories to a parent volunteer, then illustrating them for the class book on favorite animals (linguistic, spatial, intrapersonal). Developing a comprehensive and inclusive early childhood curriculum is a challenging task.

The children who will engage in the curriculum activities have myriad individual differences. They represent a range of ages and ability levels. They possess different learning style preferences and intelligences. Add to this the need to make sure that curriculum covers all the developmental domains (physical, social, emotional, and cognitive), includes all subject areas (science, social studies, language, math, and so on) and that it sparks the interests of the children, and you can see the early childhood teacher has his or her hands full. A teachers preparation of curriculum is comparable to an orchestra conductors preparation of a musical score. Both teacher and conductor have many parts to coordinate.