The Peaceful Classroom: 162 Easy Activities to Teach Preschoolers Compassion and Cooperation
Through these engaging group activities children learn to find friends, cooperate with others, respect each other's feelings and differences. Each exciting activity uses easily-accessible materials and incorporates the joy of music, movement, puppet-making, playdough fun, gardening, and more. A gem of a book to foster sharing and caring.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0876591659
ISBN13:9780876591659
Release Date:June 1993
Publisher:Gryphon House
Length:208 Pages
Weight:1.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 11.0" x 8.5"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
Peace in the classroom
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
It's not just financiers and politicians who need to have a moral basis for their actions. Teachers can also contribute meaningfully to society by helping their students to develop skills that enable them to be responsible and creative citizens. In this very welcome book for pre-schoolers, therefore, the author (who is professor of Human Development at Kansas State University in Manhattan) focuses on friendship skills, compassion skills, cooperation skills, and kindness skills. These quantitatively un-measurable factors have largely been left behind in the testing frenzy that is taking over education. But as Einstein tells us, "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." Having said this, it's great to see a book that is so practical, with so many wonderful examples of how to promote a non-threatening learning and living environment, through simple, peaceful learning activities. If we want to change society, then the classroom is a very good place to start, and being friendly, compassionate, cooperative, and kind, do not exclude students from passing exams. Rather, they make for better future professionals and human beings. Surely, this is the role of the teacher.
refreshing!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
I am greatly impressed with this resourceful book. There are numerous games and ideas for any teacher to use and even extend on. The thought put into this book is tremendous and I recommend any pre-school teacher to have this as part of their classroom. The very first game we played with my 3 to 6 year old group was well recieved and the children look forward to the co-operative games we play. Every child is boosted in their self esteem through fun and laughter. Thank you.
I love this book!!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
I love this book!! It has lots of activities that are easy, fun, different and productive. It's well organized. And most importantly, the effect is to provide a "peaceful classroom" which will hopefully provide a more peaceful world in the future.
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