Bøger af John Bowman

In this book, a Montessori teacher shows you a complete series of materials and activities you can easily use at home to teach your 3-6 year old to read and write. Most children experience a natural Sensitive Period for acquiring reading and writing skills between 3-6 years of age. This is the time when learning written language is the easiest and most natural for a child. Having a solid foundation in reading and writing prepares a child perfectly for early success in school. Helping a young child learn to read and write is not difficult. This book shows clear, sequential materials and activities that make learning these skills natural and fun. You start by helping your child develop pre-reading and pre-writing skills using fun materials. This leads naturally into writing letters and numerals, and a simple three step sequence of activities for helping your child learn to read. You can do this! Most of the materials use common, inexpensive items. Recommendations are also given for a selection of affordable Montessori and other materials for optional use, as well as for the very best tablet apps for reading and how to guide your child in using them. Also included is a link to download a fantastic free set of 18 printable materials, including 8 classroom quality printables from Montessori Print Shop. Numerous links throughout the eBook connect you to the best online information sites and printable resources (most free). This feature alone saves you hundred of hours scouring the web for what you need. This book shows you how to give your child reading and writing skills that will last a lifetime. Get started today!

If an expensive preschool is not an option, create one at home! Written by an experienced Montessori Teacher, this unique guide has years of fun activities and the information you need to help your child develop strong brain architecture, a positive self-image, and advanced skills in math, reading, and writing - a perfect preparation for success in school. You can do this! From 3-6, a child's brain is fully engaged in opening new nerve pathways and developing the executive functions like working memory, planning, and multi-tasking ability. We build most of our brain nerve architecture for life by age 6. The early years are when we can make the most powerfully positive difference in a human being's life. All the activities you need are here: Practical Life, Sensorial, Art & Music, Science, Language, and Mathematics. Hundreds of links to the best videos, sites, blogs, and free materials are integrated into the text to support your home early learning efforts and save you untold hours of searching. Most activities use common, inexpensive items parents may already have. Recommendations are also given for affordable Montessori and other quality early learning materials; and over 225 of the best educational tablet apps, as well as a guide to how and when to introduce preschoolers to digital media, so you won't always have to say no to screen time. No other resource offers parents of preschoolers so much at such a reasonable price.

In this eBook, an experienced Montessori teacher shows parents how to use a clear sequence of activities to teach their 3-5 year old children about mathematics, or to help their 6-7 year olds who are struggling with math to succeed. Most activities use common items, and recommendations are also given for affordable math learning materials. A link is included to a free collection of math printables for use with many of the activities.. Ideas on helping children learn are followed by activities to develop pre-math skills, and then amounts and numerals into the thousands, the Decimal System, operations with numbers, fractions, solid and plane geometric shapes, and many activities for using math skills in everyday life. Most children naturally develop an increased interest in numbers and language at around 3-5 years of age. This book shows you how to make the most of this sensitive period to give your child a firm foundation of math skills, and a positive, confident attitude toward number work that will carry on throughout the school years. There is no need for children to dislike math! Starting early with these fun, simple activities, you can send your child to kindergarten or first grade already doing math at a second to fourth grade level, setting the stage for early and continued success. If your child is having problems with math in kindergarten through second grade, these activities can save the day and turn math from a struggle to success!

Ireland in its own words: a dazzling compendiumOver the past hundred years, Ireland has undergone profound political, social and cultural changes. But one thing that has not changed is the Irish genius for observation and storytelling, invective and self-scrutiny. Ireland: The Autobiography draws upon this genius to create a portrait of a century of Irish life through the words of the people who lived it.Broadcaster and historian John Bowman has mined archives, diaries and memoirs to create a remarkably varied and delightfully readable mosaic of voices and perspectives. Ireland: The Autobiography is a brilliantly selected, wide-ranging and engrossing take on the last century of Irish life. It gives us a portrait of Ireland unlike anything we've read before.'Absorbing and illuminating ... John Bowman has selected a range of accounts of Irish life that do justice to what happened, what it felt like, and the personal and societal experiences alongside the "e;official"e; version.' Diarmaid Ferriter, Irish Times'A treasure' Irish Examiner'A whistle-stop tour of the seismic, seminal and explosive events which shaped the nation as we know it' Irish Independent'Entertaining and informative' Sunday Business Post'A remarkably varied and delightfully readable mosaic of voices and perspectives' Women's Way'A thoughtful and eclectic collection' Irish Mail on Sunday

Volumes 1 and 2 of 'The Complete Guide to Urban Self Protection' provide information, tactics and step-by-step instructions in a FULL spectrum of no-nonsense self-protection skills. The books give detailed descriptions and photographs of the techniques you can use to survive modern day violence from beginner to advanced level. Each technique or method gives the following unique format to aide learning: Section 1: 'What is it?' Section 2: 'Why do it?' Section 3: 'How to execute the technique' Section 4: 'Essentials' Section 5: 'Technique specific exercises' Skills/knowledge include: Verbal diffusion Protecting loved ones First aid Dealing with fear The law Escapes from chokes and holds Awareness and avoidance How to become a 'hard target' How to use everyday objects as defensive weapons Fighting skills standing up and on the ground Weapon defence How to survive a terrorist attack And even defence against dog attacks

Volumes 1 and 2 of 'The Complete Guide to Urban Self Protection' provide information, tactics and step-by-step instructions in a FULL spectrum of no-nonsense self-protection skills. The books give detailed descriptions and photographs of the techniques you can use to survive modern day violence from beginner to advanced level. Each technique or method gives the following unique format to aide learning: Section 1: 'What is it?' Section 2: 'Why do it?' Section 3: 'How to execute the technique' Section 4: 'Essentials' Section 5: 'Technique specific exercises' Skills/knowledge include: Verbal diffusion Protecting loved ones First aid Dealing with fear The law Escapes from chokes and holds Awareness and avoidance How to become a 'hard target' How to use everyday objects as defensive weapons Fighting skills standing up and on the ground Weapon defence How to survive a terrorist attack And even defence against dog attacks

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