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I Grow Up Learning

Towards primary school

Daniela Lucangeli, Nicoletta Perini, Maria Condotta

Product: Book

Trim size in cm: 20x27cm

Pages: 80

ISBN: 9788859038511

Publication date: 01/05/2024

Suitable for: Nursery 2nd Level (ages 4-5)


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I Grow Up Learning is the new holiday homework notebook created with the scientific supervision of Daniela Lucangeli. It features many games, activities and an engaging comic stor to spend a fun summer and prepare for entry to primary school in a fun and effective way.

The proposed activities stimulate in children the prerequisites of:

  • Mathematics
  • Reading-writing
  • Creative thinking
  • Emotion recognition

Clues are hidden within the story: when the children finds one, they will have to cut it out and paste it on the indicated page to discover, at the end of each section, the mysterious object that the story’s protagonists are looking for.


● Link between numbers and quantities
● Naming speed and visual analysis
● Graphomotor skills 1
● Creativity and divergent thinking
● Counting
● Visual-perceptual skills 1
● Pregraphics
● Colors, compositions and imagination
● Be happy with yourself
● Sequence and order of numbers
● Visual-perceptual skills 2
● Drawings, serie and frames
● Recognition of one's emotions
● Measuring
● Recognition of initial and final syllables
● Figures, rhythms and labyrinths
● Take care of your body
● Moving in space
● Syllable segmentation and fusion
● Go over the hatchings and train your hand
● Recognition of other people's emotions
● Comparison of quantities
● Verbal comprehension and semantic-lexical connections
● Graphomotor skills 2
● The importance of kindness
● The body and emotions
● Sort events
● Recognition of letters, syllables and words
● Traces, words and fine motor skills
● Express your emotions with music
● Composition and decomposition of numbers
● Stories and readings
● The rules of friendship and living together



I Grow Up Learning


 

The new holiday homework workbook, created with the scientific supervision of Daniela Lucangeli, is addressed to children who are preparing to enter primary school. It features an engaging comic story, with many entertaining games and activities to do during summer to get ready for primary school.

THE ACTIVITIES

I Grow Up Learning proposes a series of activities that develop children’s competences on the prerequisites of:

  • Mathematics
  • Creative thinking
  • Reading-writing
  • Emotional recognition

COLLECT CLUES AND LEARN

In the volume, four cute characters, Fly, Slow, Plus and Delfy, are involved in a new adventure: the beginning of primary school. Following their precious suggestions, and supported by their parents, children will do holiday homework having fun, reading comics, solving riddles, and collecting clues.  

LET'S DISCOVER THE BOOK

Presentation of the characters and activities, instructions on how to use the book and suggestions for parents

The comic that introduces the story

Exercises and activities in a playful and engaging context

Games to play alone or in company

The clues to cut out and paste on the indicated pages

Clue collection pages

Leaf through some pages translated into English to facilitate your evaluation of the product:

THE AUTHORS

Daniela Lucangeli is a full-time child psychology professor, vice rector of the University of Padova, president of the National Association for Specialized Teachers (CNIS), member of the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities (IARLD) and president of Mind4children Spin-off at the University of Padova, as well as author of numerous national and international scientific journals.

Nicoletta Perini, Psychologist, specialized in Life Cycle Psychology and expert in Learning Psychopathology.

She worked for about ten years as a clinical psychologist in centers that dealt with diagnosis and intervention in school difficulties. She currently works as an enterprise fellow at Loughborough University, carries out training activities for teachers on issues related to school problems and collaborates on various editorial and training projects with Erickson Research and Development.

Maria Condotta, primary school teacher specialized in intervention models for Special Educational Needs, Specific Learning Disorders and Gifted Children and in children's literature. She collaborates with MindForChildren.