Winning Ways to Learn : Ages 3, 4, & 5

Winning Ways To Learn gives parents a creative, enjoyable way to boost children's skills and learning. The book is filled with hundreds of ideas that cost little or nothing, and they require no special regimen or routine. Instead, they fit easily into everyday living.

Much more than an activity book, Winning Ways To Learn is also a fascinating window on how children learn different subjects as they grow. Discover how teachers typically teach different subjects at each age to build new skills and a love of learning. Find out what to look for as children show their new learning at home. Then explore the many ways you can easily and enjoyably reinforce what your child is taught at home, in preschool or kindergarten.

Winning Ways To Learn is based on one of the most successful and widely-used classroom programs in the nation, the Work Sampling System. It has been used by tens of thousands of preschool and kindergarten teachers for over a decade, helping to improve children's performance.

Winning Ways To Learn makes this proven approach available to parents for the first time. It covers all the bases children need to learn and grow, from math, reading and science to social skills and the arts.

The authors, led by renowned educator Samuel Meisels, highlight the importance of fun and parental involvement in children's learning. Experts say the creative, engaging approach is Winning Ways To Learn has proven much more effective than have the packaged -drill and grill- learning programs sold for home use.

Rather than flash cards, for example, Winning Ways To Learn suggests such activities as:

Counting the number of bears or flowers on your child's shirt orthe number of buttons on the front; find counting opportunities wherever you can. (Age 3)

Putting various food coloring tints in several glasses of water; add stalks of celery and watch the stalks change color; ask your child why she thinks this happens. (Age 4)

Encouraging your child to arrange his collections of shells, toy cars, or stuffed animals into groupings using different rules that you make up together. (Age 5)

Looking at objects such as leaves, a stone, or your skin, through a magnifying glass and describing what you see. Wonder aloud how other things would look if magnified, and investigate.(Age 3)

Guessing how many dogs or cats you will see on the way to the grocery store and then keeping track of them to see if you were right. (Age 4)

Helping your child make drawings of the part of the city or town where you live. (Age 5)

Winning Ways To Learn is an invaluable bridge between school and home (and, for home schooling parents, between their roles as teachers and parents). This landmark book is an indispensable guide to help parents be active partners in their children?s learning and their enthusiasm for discovery and accomplishment.

For another 600 ideas, see Winning Ways to Learn?Ages 6, 7 & 8.