MathCrafts - Upper Primary (eBook)


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Have your students practice math while creating decorations for the classroom! Mathcrafts presents a fun way for students to reinforce their basic math skills. First, students complete math problems which are printed on whimsical worksheets. Then, they can color, cut, and paste the pictures together. The finished project is a colorful work of art that is a testament to their mastery of math!




Deep-Sea Disaster


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Dive into the world of Harry Hammer, a hammerhead shark with a penchant for (mis)adventure in this fin-tastic start to a chapter book series. Harry Hammer is a hammerhead shark, although he’d rather be a great white shark, or a tiger shark—anything but himself. But when a class trip to a famous shipwreck almost ends in disaster for Harry and his pals, he realizes the importance of being exactly who he is!




Apples for Everyone


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Discusses how apples develop from blossoms to fruit, how they are harvested, how people use them, the history of apples in the United States, and different varieties of them.




40 Fun-Tabulous Puzzles for Multiplication, Division, Decimals, Fractions, and More


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The world lies devastated after the massive oil crisis that was described in LAST LIGHT. Human society has more or less entirely broken down and millions lie dead of starvation and disease. There are only one or two beacon communities that have managed to fashion a new way of living.Jenny Sutherland runs one of these groups. Based on a series of decaying offshore oil-rigs - for safety - a few hundred people have rebuilt a semblance of normality in this otherwise dead world.But as her and her people start to explore their surroundings once again, they start to realise not every survivor has the same vision of a better future than their catastrophic past. There are people out there who would take everything they have. War is coming, and the stakes are truly massive...




The Day of the Pelican


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2013 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award Meli Lleshi is positive that her drawing of her teacher with his pelican nose started it all. The Lleshis are Albanians living in Kosovo, a country trying to fight off Serbian oppressors, and suddenly they are homeless refugees. Old and young alike, they find their courage tested by hunger, illness, the long, arduous journey, and danger on every side. Then, unexpectedly, they are brought to America by a church group and begin a new life in a small Vermont town. The events of 9/11 bring more challenges for this Muslim family--but this country is their home now and there can be no turning back.A compassionate, powerful novel by a master storyteller.




Gingerbread Friends


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This Gingerbread Baby is looking for friends and finds an adventure he'll never forget. The Gingerbread Baby is lonely and decides to do something about it. At a bakery, he dances and prances in front of a sugar cookie girl, trying to make friends. But she just stares and doesn?t say a word, like all the other sweet treats he tries to meet. Discouraged, the Gingerbread Baby runs home, chased by a long line of hungry creatures, where Mattie has a fantastic surprise for him--gingerbread friends that fill a giant fold-out page. Irresistible images inside the confectionery and outside in the snowy Swiss countryside will delight Jan Brett fans.




September Twelfth


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An elementary school class offers words of reassurance that even after the horrors of September 11, 2001, life will go on.




Gingerbread Baby


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A young boy and his mother bake a gingerbread baby that escapes from their oven and leads a crowd on a chase similar to the one in the familiar tale about a not-so-clever gingerbread man.




Simple Fractions


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Zero the Hero Saves the Day


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It's the tenth day of school, but the numbers 1-9 can't figure out what number will make ten. Tiny One has an idea, but all the others numbers find her solution laughable. Her friend is just an old Nobody who stands for Nothing. Will they ever figure out what to do? Read aloud to your primary school this charming, rhyming tale of how Zero became the number line Hero and helped the numbers count on to infinity!