An essential guide for teachers, The Peaceful Classroom combines useful life skills with easy, enjoyable activities. It introduces over 160 activities for three to five-year-old children which promote skills such as friendship, compassion, cooperation and kindness. Activities are organized by age and skill, preparing children for the themes that follow. The book contains step-by-step guides for teachers of young children, together with helpful suggestions for parental involvement. Activities emphasize how children's beliefs about themselves and others influence their relationships. Teachers may choose to introduce skills in an appropriate, developmental sequence, or activites may be chosen for a specific quality such as gentleness.