Peek-a-Moo! Teacher's Guide is one of the components of Languages4kidz, Inc. English 4 Babies Program. The Peek-A-Moo! Unit engages children in fun activities about animals; animals that live in a house (pets), in a farm or in a zoo. Lessons in this unit may be young children's first opportunity to see or hear a cow or a horse or even a monkey. Children are introduced to the world of animals through Lessons that include motion and multi-sensory activities, as well as audio-visual stimuli. Children enjoy playing different games with pets, farm and zoo animals, making animal sounds and singing animal songs as they develop their sound system and vocabulary. The theme about animals is interesting and meaningful to little ones. Children love animals and they enjoy everything about them. They love repeating the sounds they make, pretending to move around as they move, sing animal songs, and play games that have animals as the main theme. Peek -a-Moo! Teacher's Guide includes a variety of these fun activities that allow children to experience the English language through movement and play. Lessons 1-4 introduce children to the world of pets. Lessons 5-8 include vocabulary related to farm animals and lessons 9-11 continue with vocabulary related to zoo animals. All lessons include vocabulary and songs that are fun for parents to use throughout the day with their children. Lesson 12 is the last Lesson on the Peek-a-Moo! Unit. It is a "celebration" for children's accomplishments. The Lesson plan presents a review of children's and their parents' favorite activities, songs and rhymes. It lets them have fun showing what they have learned and then motivates them to continue enjoying and practicing the English language.Each lesson plan includes at the beginning important information regarding the materials necessary to carry out the activities and the vocabulary and structures that need to be introduced and/or practiced. Throughout this Teacher's Guide you will find additional information to help you focus on important teaching components. There are Information Boxes that provide statements that elaborate or give additional information about certain activities, Language Learning Boxes that focus your attention on important issues regarding language development and Specific Icons that facilitate the identification and location of activities in the lesson plans.Each lesson in this Teacher's Guide includes activities for the following: - Welcome!- All Together- Playful Time- Relaxing Time- Story Time- Wrap-up!With this Teacher's Guide you can start teaching using whole language in context right away with minimal investment of time researching and creating your own lesson plans. Together with the Picture Books, Enrichments activities Booklets, CDs with songs, finger plays and rhymes, Languages4kidz Teacher's Guides provide you with the tools necessary to implement the program, and make it easy for children to gradually acquire and build up their vocabulary and communicative competence, catch up or improve their English language skills.Peek-A-Moo! Unit Package has the following components: Peek-A-Moo! Teacher's Guide with Enrichment Activities BookletPets, pet, pets Picture BookMs. Wishy-Washy and her animal's parade Picture bookA birthday party! Picture Book book, and Peek-A-Moo! CD with songs, finger plays, rhymes and read alouds.Each item is sold separately on Amazon.About the Author: Graciela Castellanos, a native of Venezuela, educated in both English and Spanish speaking schools is a perfect bilingual. Her career spans nearly 30 years of teaching experience from Nursery to 12th grade as well as adults and with 11 of those years where she held various administrative positions Graciela shows special expertise in the field of early childhood, bilingual education and Primary Years Program of the International Baccalaureate. She has a long list of qualifications, including a B.A. in Modern Languages and a Master degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Texas at Austin. After a successful career working in Venezuelan and American private and public schools as well as in international schools she decided to take her vision and expertise one step further. She concentrated her efforts into writing a program for teaching English and Spanish to young children based in her vast experience and into developing a series of bilingual picture books. The books incorporate an easy vocabulary and are suitable for preschool and lower primary grade students, beginner readers and can be used very effectively with beginner ESL and SSL, and young PYP students. The books have a special charm and interest in our multicultural world and in developing concepts such as self-esteem, cooperation, friendship, respect and love among others.