Play and Learn: My World Bk.1
Lynn Huggins-Cooper
Paperback
(Letts Educational, July 1, 2003)
This first book of a pre-school series of six titles developed in accordance with the government's new foundation guidelines focuses on what we see every day. It includes bugs in the garde/park, cooking, growing seeds, seasons and change - colour palette, my family and the Chinese new year. The guidelines have six core early learning goals which are incorporated into each title in the series: physical development; creative development; personal, social and emotional development; communication, language and literacy; mathematical development and knowledge and understanding of the world. These new goals are not age-related, but attained in "stepping stones" stages that children aged 3 to 5 can work through at their own pace. "Play and Learn" incorporates this "stepping stone" ideology, with Book 1 being the easiest and Book 6 being the hardest. Each book uses colourful artwork and stimulating scenarios.