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Parent Teacher Resources 
Parent Resources || Teacher Resources || Home Schooling Resources
This part of the
Children's Department website is designed to highlight and promote the
numerous resources of the Haverhill Public Library's Parent-Teacher
Collection. The P-T collection is located on the second floor in the center
of the Children's Department. In addition to books, the collection includes
free videos, workbooks, books with cassettes or CD's, Theme Kits and
Parenting Kits.
(P-T resources have neon yellow stickers on their spines.
)
Here you will find parenting handbooks, bibliographies of good books for children, curriculum support, and homeschooling support.
Early
Childhood Resource Centers
Did you know that the Haverhill Public Library Children's Dept. is an Early Childhood Resource Center (ECRC)?
What is an Early Childhood Resource Center (ECRC)?
An ECRC is
a place that features a variety of resource materials for the early
childhood community. Materials are available on loan (at no cost) to
teachers, students, administrators, child care providers, parents and anyone
interested in the care and education of young children. The ECRC is
sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care.
Where are there other
Early Childhood Resource Centers (ECRC)?
There are currently 5
Resource Centers in Massachusetts:
|
Northeast area: Haverhill Public Library 99 Main Street Haverhill, MA 01830-5092 www.haverhillpl.org 978-373-1586/1588 x630 Contact: Alissa
Lauzon alauzon@mvlc.org __________________________ |
Boston area:
Cambridge Public Library 449 Broadway Cambridge, MA 02139 Contact: Daryl Mark
|
Southeast area: Norfolk Public Library 139 Main St. Norfolk, MA 02056 http://library.virtualnorfolk.org/ 508-258-3380 Contact: Robin Glasser, Director or Connie Jones ____________________________
Cape & Islands Area: |
Falmouth Public Library 300 Main St. Falmouth, MA 02540 http://www.falmouthpubliclibrary.org/ 508-457-2555 Contact:
Leslie Morrissey, Director or
Western area: |
Springfield City Library 220 State St. Springfield, MA 01103 http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/ 413-263-6828 Contact: Christin LaRocque |
As an ECRC, the Haverhill Public Library Children's Department has the following materials available to anyone in Massachusetts who is involved in the field of Early Childhood Education.
Materials Available
| Theme Kits | Web Links |
Parent/Teacher Videos | Mass. Dept. of EEC |
| Trauma Intervention | |
| Ellison Die Cut Machine & Dies |
The Haverhill Public Library has a collection of theme kits available for daycare providers and preschool teachers. They contain books and materials addressing a specific theme
| 100 Days of School | Outreach kit - 20 Board Books |
| Beach | Rainforest |
| Colors | Exploring Art |
| Community Helpers | Safety |
| Cultures | Self-Esteem |
| Dinosaurs | Shapes |
| Ecology | Spring |
| Fall | Spring-Life Cycles |
| Family | Starting School |
| Harvest | Summer |
| Health | Transportation |
| Manners | Weather |
| Multicultural | Winter |
| Oceans |
If you are interested in borrowing a kit, please call the Children’s Department at 978-373-1586 ext 630.
Funded by the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care
The Early Childhood Resource Center of the Library owns the following dies for use with the Ellison Letter Machine.
All come in the large size (about 4”) unless otherwise indicated.
| Alphabet | Flower Pot (XL) | Rectangle shape |
| Apple | Ghost | Rhombus shape |
| Apples, tiny | Game Board Set | Sailboat |
| Badge, Sheriff | Heart | Shamrock |
| Bat/Clothespin | Hearts, tiny | Sheep |
| Bee | Horse | Shell |
| Beehive | Lacing Shoe (XL) | Shell, tiny |
| Book, Closed | Ladybug | Snowflake |
| Book, Open (XL) | Lightning bolt | Snowman |
| Bookmark, Plain | Leaf, maple | Space Shuttle |
| Box, Door Hanger | Leaf, oak | Square Shape |
| Brontosaurus | Mask, half | Star (XL) |
| Butterfly | Microscope | Starfish |
| Cactus | Molecule | Stars, tiny |
| Card, Window (XL) | Mouse Mask (XL) | Stegosaurus |
| Caterpillar | Numbers | Sun (small) |
| Christmas Tree | Oval shape | Sun (XL) |
| Circles 4 & 1” shapes | Paper Pal | 3-D elephant |
| Clouds | Paper Pal hair | 3-D giraffe |
| Cocoon | Paper Pal, Summer & Winter clothes | 3-D Lion |
| Covered Wagon | Pennant (XL) | 3-D Hippo |
| Cow | Pig | Tiny teddy bears |
| Cowboy Boot | Planets | Train set-engine, boxcar, tank, & caboose |
| Cowboy Hat | Pterodactyl | Train tracks |
| Coyote & Kerchief | Pumpkin | Trapezoid shape |
| Crab (SM) | Puppet, Cow | Triangle shape |
| Dragonfly (XL) | Puppet, Duck | Tulip (XL) |
| Duck | Puppet, Frog | Turkey |
| Eagle | Puppet, Pig | Tyrannosaurus |
| Fish, tiny | Puppet, Rabbit | Whale |
| Fish (XL) | Rabbit | Wind |
| Flower | Raindrops |
| Anno’s Counting Book by Mitsumasa Anno | The Red Ripe Strawberry by Don & Audrey Wood |
| Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown | The Big Hungry Bear by Don & Audrey Wood |
| Bread Around the World by Cynthia Rothman | Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey |
| Can’t You Sleep Little Bear by Martin Waddell | Mama, do You Love me? By Barbara M. Joosse |
| Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina | The Mitten by Jan Brett |
| The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss | Mooncake by Frank Asch |
| Chicken Soup with Rice by Maurice Sendak | More or Less? By Judy Nayer |
| Cookie’s Week by Cindy Ward | More Spaghetti, I Say by Rita Gelman |
| Dinosaur Roar by Paul and Henrietta Stickland | Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh |
| The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins | The Mystery of Magnets by Melvin Berger |
| Duckat by Gaelyn Gordon | The Napping House by Audrey Wood |
| Each Orange Had 8 Slices by Paul Giganti | Nine Ducks Nine by Sarah Hayes |
| Freight Train by Donald Crews | Numbers Every Day by Kari Jenson Gold |
| Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown | Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert |
| Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert | The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister |
| Have you Seen My Duckling? By Nancy Tafuri | Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert |
| Hearing Things by Allan Fowler | Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchins |
| A House is a House for Me by MaryAnn Hoberman | Short, Tall, Big or Small? By Kari Jenson Gold |
| How Do You Know It’s Summer by Allan Fowler | Smelling Things by Allan Fowler |
| How Many? By Judy Nayer | The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats |
| How Much is a Million? By David Schwartz | Strega Nona by Tomie de Paola |
| I Went Walking by Sue Williams | The Sun’s Family of Planets by Allan Fowler |
| It the Dinosaurs came Back by Bernard Most | Ten Little Mice by Joyce Dunbar |
| If you Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff | Things that Go! By Marie Linney |
| If You Give a Moose a Muffin by Laura Numeroff | Think about the Weather by Cynthia Rothman |
| In the Tall, Tall Grass by Denise Fleming | This is the House that Jack Built by Pam Adams |
| Is Your Mama a Llama? By Deborah Guerino | Time for Bed by Mem Fox |
| It looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw | The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle |
| The Jacket I Wear in the Snow by Shirley Neitzel | What comes Next by Kari Jenson Gold |
| Jamberry by Bruce Degen | What’s the Shape? By Judy Nayer |
| Jump Frog, Jump! By Robert Kalan | What’s the Weather Today? By Allan Fowler |
| The Little Mouse by Don & Audrey Wood | A World of Homes by Kari Jenson Gold |
ECRC Videos
A Rainbow
of my Own
Blueberries for Sal
Caps for Sale
Charlie Needs a
Cloak
Click, Clack, Moo
Far Ago & Long Away
Five Lionni
Classics
How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?
How much is a Million?
In the Small, Small Pond
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
Martin’s Big
Words
Make Way for Ducklings
The Napping House
Officer Buckle
and Gloria
Owen
So You Want to Be President
The Snowy Day
Stone Soup
Strega Nona
Waiting for Wings
Weslandia
When the
Wind Stops
Where the Wild Things Are
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in
People’s Ears
Zin! Zin! Zin!
All of the above videos include public performance rights for school and library use.
Sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care
1-2-3 Magic
A
Circle of Inclusion
A Classroom with Blocks
A Hospital Trip with
Dr. Bip
ABCs of Inclusive Child Care
Americans with Disabilities
Act Teleconference
Anti-bias Curriculum
Autism & the New Law:
Resources for treatment: hope for a cure
Babies & Books: a joyous
beginning
Be Cool, play it safe! : a children’s safety video
Building bridges to Kindergarten: transition planning for Children
Child Development Resources: early intervention on the move
Computer
Learning for Young Children
Contrasting Teaching Styles, work
time—the art area
Curriculum for Preschool & Kindergarten; a
discussion with Lillian Katz
Developing the Young Bilingual Learner
Developmentally Appropriate Practice; Children birth through age five
Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Curriculum-the role of the teacher
Different and the same: helping children identify and prevent prejudice
Discover I.D.E.A.: supporting achievement for children with disabilities
Early Childhood Education at its Best
Educating Peter
Family Day
Care Health & Safety
Far Ago and Long Away: innovative storytelling
How to Decide
Identifying, reporting and handling disclosure of the
sexually abused child
It Starts with a Book – and you!
Kindergarten Here I Come
Learning to Play, Playing to Learn;
Recreation as a related service
Lovaas, TEACCH & the Public System
Observing Young Children: learning to look, looking to learn
Quality
Child Care: making the right choice for you & your child
Ready to
Learn
Regular Lives
Safe from the Start
Setting up the Learning
Environment
So You Have Asthma Too
Start Seeing Diversity: the
basic guide to an anti-bias classroom
Straight from the Heart:
Stories of Mothers Recovering from
Addiction
Stuttering and Your
Child: A Videotape for Parents
Success by 6: the kidpower hour
Success by 6: unlock the potential
Supporting Children in Resolving
Conflicts
Supporting Children’s Active Learning: Teaching Strategies
for Diverse Settings
Taking Charge of Your TV
Talking from
Infancy: How to Nurture and Cultivate Early Language Development
Teaching the Whole Child in the Kindergarten
The Creative Curriculum
The Full Cost of Quality in Early Childhood Programs
The IEP: A Tool
for Realizing Possibilities
The New Massachusetts Statewide Test:
Questions & Answers
The New Room Arrangement as a Teaching Strategy
The School-Age Child Who Stutters
The Story of Family Literacy is a
Story of Families and Their Success
The World is a Dangerous Place:
Images of the Enemy on Children’s Television
What Are Drugs?
What Are Feelings?
What Do I Say Now? How to Help Protect Your Child
from Sexual Abuse
What Do I Tell My Children?
What’s Up MAC?
White House Conference on Early Childhood Development and Learning
With Love & Wisdom Kit: A Parenting Program; birth-6 months
With Love
& Wisdom Kit: A Parenting Program; 15-24 months
NEW DVD's:
The Early Childhood Resource Center has recently purchased some DVD’s to add to our Parent-Teacher collection. These free DVD’s are great for parents and teachers. They are perfect for a classroom situation as they include public performance rights which allows you to show them to a group.
The stories are based on actual books by popular authors and hit the mark for preschool ages as each story runs between 6-10 minutes. Some of the titles are:
Stories about Growing Up –Leo the Late Bloomer, A Weekend with Wendell, and Joey Runs Away.
Favorite Fairy Tales -Chicken Little, The Emperor’s New Clothes, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
The William Steig Library - Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, The Amazing Bone, Doctor De Soto, Brave Irene, and Getting to Know William Steig.
People at Work Series—Trashy Town. The Paperboy, and Miss Nelson is Back.
Mercer Mayer Frog Stories— A Boy, A Dog & A Frog, Frog on his Own, and Frog, Where are You?
These DVD’s may be borrowed for one week. Come stop by our Parent-Teacher section and see what other great resources we have from the current Baby Talk Magazine to Mailbox the idea magazine for teachers.
Check it out! 3 kits are available to anyone interested:
Toileting Kit (2) - includes:
Parent materials
Children's books
Video
Various brochures, reprints and other information
It's Potty Time singing bear!
Bedtime/Bedwetting Kit - includes:
Parent materials
Children's books
Video
Various brochures, reprints and other information
Bedtime Bear!
Anger - Parenting Advice Kit - includes:
Parent materials
Children's books
Various brochures, reprints and other information
Puppets for role playing!
Some websites The Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care recommends:
A report from the
Alliance for Childhood on what "play" is:
http://www.allianceforchildhood.org/sites/allianceforchildhood.org/files/file/kindergarten_report.pdf
WGBH resource on
children and television:
www.KidsMediaMatters.org
For info on the
SpecialQuest Symposium:
http://www.eec.state.ma.us/docs/SymposiumRegistrationForm2009.pdf
Sponsored by
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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