Children are spending less time being outside in nature, playing, imagining, and learning about their surroundings. Instead, they're spending more time with tablets, televisions, and overly structured routines. Preschool Beyond Walls shows practical and strategic ways educators can create rich, explorative, and interdisciplinary learning through extensive outdoor experiences.

Learn how to develop and implement a nature-based curriculum to support children's optimal learning, from start to finish. Whether you're creating a new curriculum or transitioning from a traditional approach, you will learn how to:

• Create a program philosophy
• Infuse nature into all aspects of your program
• Prepare teachers for a nature-centered approach
• Implement curriculum and pedagogy that emphasize inquiry-based learning through play and hands-on discovery
• Maintain high-quality early childhood practices that support children's development

• Preschool Beyond Walls shows practical and strategic ways educators can create rich, explorative, and interdisciplinary learning through extensive outdoor experiences
• Infuse nature into all aspects of your program
• Prepare teachers for a nature-centered approach
• Implement curriculum and pedagogy that emphasize inquiry-based learning through play and hands-on discovery
• Maintain high-quality early childhood practices that support children's development

Reinforce number recognition, counting, addition and subtraction with kinesthetic movement. Mat features popular left-to-right visual representation and includes numerals from 0-30. Numerals are color coded (blue evens, red odds, and black zero). Includes: Floor Mat, Activity Guide. Mat measures 22'L x 1'W. Grades: Kindergarten +. Common Core State Standards Alignment: Counting & Cardinality, Operations & Algebraic Thinking. Learning Style: Kinesthetic, Visual. Skill Development: Math —Explore number order and identify multiples. Give students a task to hop or skip to multiples of 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. As the numbers become larger, their movements become greater and heighten kinesthetic learning. Math — Color-coded numbers on the Number Line Floor Mat help students easily identify even and odd numbers. This skill helps introduce basic principles of integers. Gross Motor —Use this mat as a warm up activity to math class to get students' bodies moving and wake up their minds for cognitive learning. Run from one, stretch to seven and tip-toe to twelve to support your students need to move!

• Format features popular left-to-right visual representation
• Includes numerals from 0 all the way to 30 to support expanded state standards
• Perfect for ages 5 and up

Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog is back, and he's ready to play! The preschool fine motor fun never ends with the 2-in-1 shape sorter and puzzle play found in the Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog Puzzle Playmate from Learning Resources. Inspired by our bestselling Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog preschool toy, this take on fine motor fun finds kids building even more skills every time they play. The Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog Puzzle Playmate comes with two distinct ways to play—sort and match the shape pieces, then explore Spike's pop-in, pop-out quills! As they play, kids will build 5 essential preschool skills—in addition to boosting their fine motor and early logic skills, kids will also strengthen their shape, color, and number recognition skills along the way! Sized just right for little hands, the pieces found in the Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog Puzzle Playmate are durable and easy to clean—just wipe them down with a damp cloth after playtime is done! Whether you're learning in the classroom or through homeschooling, Spike's here to make preschool fun!

• PLAY and learn with Spike's 2-in-1 shape sorter and puzzle!
• SORT and match shape, then explore Spike's pop-in, pop-out quills!
• BUILD 5 skills in 1: shapes, colors, numbers, plus preschool fine motor and logic!
• INSPIRED by our bestselling Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog preschool toy!
• AGES 18 months+

When you play bingo with these bears, it's never the same game twice! Kids build counting, color, and other toddler preschool learning skills every time they challenge the Bingo Bears from Learning Resources. This skill-building take on the classic game of bingo gets kids thinking from the very beginning—with this toddler brain toy, you build your own bingo cards, so it's never the same game twice! Once kids have assembled their cards, they can choose from this set's two smart bingo game modes—kid can either match their pieces by number, or sort and match by color and size on their way to victory! In addition to building school-ready counting and color skills, kids also learn essential social-emotional learning skills, including taking turns, following directions, and more. This educational toy for 3 year olds includes 36 of our popular Three Bear Family® Counters in three sizes and six colors, so kids can also use this set as a color teaching toy! Bingo Bears makes a great addition to collections of educational indoor games for homes and classrooms!

We're Learning Resources®, and we've been helping parents and teachers build generations of amazing kids since 1984. From ABCs and 123s to fine motor and STEM skills, our educational toys offer kids the building blocks they need to succeed in school and develop a lifelong love of learning. Discover countless ways to learn through play with our award-winning products, including Toy of the Year winners Tumble Trax®, Botley® the Coding Robot, and Coding Critters™.

• Build-Your-Own Bingo: Kids build toddler preschool learning skills with this smart twist on bingo whose build-your-own cards mean no two games are the same!
• Two Game Modes: After kids build their bingo cards, they can play one of this toddler brain toy's two different game modes—match pieces by number, or sort them by size and color!
• Social-Emotional Learning Fun: As they spin and match their way to bingo victory, kids also build social-emotional learning (SEL) skills like turn-taking, direction-following, and more!
• Ages and Stages: Specially designed with little ones in mind, this educational toy for 3 year olds helps kids build counting, critical thinking, and social-emotional learning skills. The game even doubles as a color teaching toy!
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Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog is here, and he brought friends! Play tactile games of hide and seek with Spike and his hedgehog friends every time you explore the Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog Sensory Tree House from Learning Resources. Inspired by our bestselling Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog preschool toy, this cool sensory tree house opens up to reveal five hedgehog friends, each with a unique hands-on texture. As they play, kids can build essential preschool sensory skills with the help of Spike and friends—use the textures on their backs to differentiate between bumpy, smooth, and more, then hide the hedgehogs inside the tree house and find them by feel! As they play, kids will build 5 preschool skills at once—in addition to boosting their fine motor and early sensory skills, kids will also strengthen their shape, color, and number recognition skills along the way! Sized just right for little hands, the pieces found in the Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog Sensory Tree House are durable and easy to clean—just wipe them down with a damp cloth after preschool playtime is done, and store them inside the tree house for easy cleanup. Whether you're learning in the classroom or through homeschooling, Spike's here to make preschool fun!

• PLAY hide and seek with Spike and his hedgehog friends!
• BUILD preschool fine motor and sensory skills with hedgehogs' 5 unique textures!
• 5 SKILLS in 1: shapes, colors, numbers, plus preschool fine motor and sensory skills!
• INSPIRED by our bestselling Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog preschool toy!
• AGES 18 months+

This versatile set is brimming with bears! Develop early math skills with a variety of colorful bear manipulatives, including 96 Three Bear Family® Counters in six rainbow colors, six rainbow-colored sorting bowls, 2 color cube, number cube, 16 pattern cards, 12 double-sided activity cards and bear game spinner. Packaged in a convenient plastic storage tub with carrying handle. Storage tub colors may vary.

• Gain school readiness skills and develop a strong foundation in early math with color matching, counting, sorting, patterning, grouping, and more
• Versatile bears and accessories can also be used for your own activities and games
• Perfect for ages 3 and up
• Packaged in a convenient plastic storage tub with carrying handle

Let Baby Bear™ help teach sorting and color recognition. Set combines 102 Baby Bear™ Counters in six vibrant colors with matching sorting bowls. bear counters. Each counter is 1 tall and weigh 4 grams. Plastic bowls are 6 in diameter, 1 deep.

• These adorable little bears will inspire a love of early learning in children
• 17 bears in each of 6 colors for a total of 102 bears
• Small bear counters to help develop hand-eye coordination and pincer grasp
• Each counter is 1 tall and weigh 4 grams

Did you know that patterning is an important pre-reading skill? Your preschooler will enjoy playing with her four color Three Bear Family® counters as she matches and completes patterns. This set of 16 double-sided, full-color activity cards match actual size of bear counters. For use with Three Bear Family® Counters in four colors. Packaged in reusable plastic envelope with snap closure. These pattern cards provide practive with fine motor skills, color recognition andpattern sequencing. The activities arepresented in four levels of difficulty,indicated by a paw print in the upper rightcorner of each card.

• Cute bear graphics engage little learners in patterning activities to build early skills
• 4 Levels of difficulty offer increasing challenges
• Provides practice with fine motor skills, color recognition, and pattern sequencing

Use this set of 250 blocks in six shapes and colors to explore patterns, symmetry, linear and area measurement, fractions and problem solving. One-centimeter blocks are thick enough to stand up for three-dimensional patterning. Teaching Guide and storage bucket included.

• Classic, versatile classroom manipulative
• Enough pieces for several children to play and learn at once
• Great for ages 3 and up

Use these sets of 100 blocks, in six shapes and six colors, to explore patterns, symmetry, linear and area measurement, fractions and problem solving. Teaching Guide included. Set of 100.

• Inspire an early love of learning about geometry with these classic manipulatives
• Set of 100
• Great for Math practice and activities