Early Childhood

Explorations in Art, 2nd Edition, Kindergarten

By Cathy Weisman Topal

You’ll love teaching Kindergarten with this child-centered, carefully structured program. Experience, along with your students, the delight of discovering materials, developing skills, and inventing new ways to create. Field-tested, effective classroom management techniques are included in each lesson. Inspired by the Reggio Emilia approach, students naturally connect to concepts across the curriculum, from discovering the parts of insects and other animals to thinking about and designing buildings and communities.

Creative Minds—After School

Creative Minds—After School is an exciting program created to engage K–5 children in high-quality art exploration and art-making in afterschool and out-of-school time settings. Each lesson is developed to strengthen arts-based, inquiry-based teaching skills and be easily used by educators, regardless of their previous art experience.

Early Childhood Resource Books

Everything you need to teach basic concepts and techniques while nurturing creativity through experimentation, reflection, and exploration.

Early Learning Guides

Parents have the greatest impact on their children’s life. The “Early Learning Guidelines for Infants and Toddlers” were developed with the focus on relationships between all significant people in the child’s world.