This exciting new tool kit will help you to teach parents and other caregivers how to use the project approach at home. A companion toTeaching Your Child to Love Learning: A Guide to Doing Projects at Home, this book with accompanying CD-ROM provides everything needed to conduct a series of parent workshops.

The Tool Kit book provides:

• Sample agenda for workshops.
• Task sheets for activities.
• Handouts for participants.
• Notes for Featured PowerPoint Presentations on the CD.
• Adaptations for specific populations.
• Spanish versions of handouts and the “Family Project Planning Journal,” also provided in this book and on CD.

The CD-ROM, which can be run on any PC, contains:

• PowerPoint Presentations on the phases of a project and other project topics that facilitators can use as a focus for presentation of material at each session.
• PowerPoint Presentations on each of the featured projects in the companion book to enable facilitators to share the projects in greater depth.
• PowerPoint Presentations on additional family projects from diverse settings.
• Printable versions in English and Spanish of all of the handouts and the Family Project Planning Journal.

Judy Harris Helm assists schools and early childhood programs through her consulting and training company, Best Practices, Inc., Stacy Berg is an early childhood educator and the director of Northminster Learning Center in Peoria, IL, Pam Scranton is a classroom teacher in Discovery Preschool,and Rebecca Wilson has taught pre-kindergarten and kindergarten and served as coordinator of the Spanish Dual Language program in West Liberty, Iowa.