TY - BOOK AU - Charner,Kathy TI - The giant encyclopedia of circle time and group activities for children 3 to 6: over 600 favorite circle time activities created by teachers for teachers T2 - Giant encyclopedia series SN - 0876591810 PY - 1996/// CY - Beltsville, Md. PB - Gryphon House KW - Early childhood education KW - Activity programs KW - Creative activities and seat work KW - Group work in education KW - Education, Preschool KW - Kindergarten KW - Handicraft N1 - Includes indexes; "GH 16413"--Cover; Circle time tips -- Air and wind -- Alphabet -- Animals -- Art -- Beaches and oceans -- Bears -- Birds -- Bodies -- Clothes -- Colors -- Cooking -- Crafts -- Dinosaurs -- Emotions -- The environment -- Fall -- Families -- Farms -- Food -- Friendship -- Games -- Habitats -- Health and safety -- Holidays -- Insects -- Movement -- Multicultural -- Music -- Nature -- Numbers -- Nursery rhymes -- Our community -- Science -- Seasons -- Self-concept -- Senses -- Shapes -- Sign language -- Special days -- Spiders -- Spring -- Starting school -- Storytelling -- Transportation -- Weather -- Winter -- Zoo N2 - Contains more than six hundred circle time and group activities designed by teachers to use with children three to six years old, each including a suggested age, a list of materials, and step-by-step directions, and features lists of related books, songs, and poems ER -