January Days (ENHANCED eBook)


Book Description

Our January activity book has been prepared to help teachers of lower elementary grades in teaching a unit on the five senses. At the conclusion of this unit, children will have a greater sense of self-awareness. Included are worksheets, recipes, and art ideas.




Daily Discoveries for JANUARY (ENHANCED eBook)


Book Description

Another fun book in the popular Daily Discoveries series! Jam-packed with reasons for your students to celebrate every day of January in your classroom. Special days include: Soup Day, Magnificent Mittens Day, Solo Day, Popcorn Day, Nothing Day, Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday and many more. The creative activities can by plugged into your regular curriculum: language arts, social studies, writing, math, science and health, music and drama, physical fitness, art, etc. Your students will look forward to every day of the month when they realize it's a day to celebrate! Included are patterns for writing assignments and art projects as well as lists of books and bulletin board ideas.




Seasons to Celebrate: January to Summer (ENHANCED eBook)


Book Description

Celebrate special days and themes with the creative ideas in this 320-page book--bulletin boards, reproducible student activities, resource lists, parents’ letters and much, much more! Features a CD-ROM (print books) or .zip file (eBooks) chock-full of color and black & white clip art images. A valuable resource to keep close at all times!




Seasonal Math Activities - Winter (ENHANCED eBook)


Book Description

Use these fun, creative ideas to make math more interesting for your students. The hands-on activities help students learn and review important math concepts such as: liquid measurement, addition and subtraction, perimeters and areas, skip counting, geometric shapes, showing time on a clock, ordinal numbers and much more. Activity ideas include games, holiday fun, popular children’s literature and even food! Each activity has a list of materials needed and clear, concise directions as well as the skills students will learn or practice by doing the activity. Math doesn't have to be ho-hum, not when you can plug in supplementary ideas like these!




A Plan Book for Everyday! (ENHANCED eBook)


Book Description

Organize your busy day, deliver more effective instruction, save valuable time, design some of your best lesson plans ever and enjoy your craft with this resource packed with practical, inspiring and state-of-the-art strategies and ideas . . . powerful planning tools you simply cannot get anywhere else!




January 7th: The Day Nobody Was Born


Book Description

Will Stills is the most ordinary boy in the world.Trouble is, the whole world is convinced he is far from ordinary.Every January 7th, Will is forced to celebrate his birthday in the most peculiar way.But it is not his proud parents who are planning these bizarre parties!The "brains" behind the world's biggest media company, ViewYou, are pulling the strings.But what exactly are they trying to prove?What is it they want the world to see?Why are they and everyone else so obsessed with Will Stills?




Mount Rushmore (ENHANCED eBook)


Book Description

The largest figures of any statue in the world are located in the tribute to four great American Presidents known as Mount Rushmore National Memorial. The head of Washington is about 60 feet (18 m) high--to the scale of a person 465 feet (142 m) tall! From Doane Robinson's dream of a South Dakota monument to Western heroes to Gutzon Borglum's eternal tribute to a nation dedicated to democracy, the story of Mount Rushmore is a fascinating study in history, politics, personalities and perseverance.




It's About Time (ENHANCED eBook)


Book Description

Help children measure and tell time by the sun, the clock and the calendar; and learn why there are 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week and 365 days in a year. Here's a cross-curriculum approach to time with learning activities that bring together history, science, language arts and math. A comprehensive look at time from the ancient civilizations who first tried to understand, arrange and measure it - to modern society where we organize our lives around the clock!




December Holiday Customs (ENHANCED eBook)


Book Description

The purpose of the "December" unit is to assist elementary school teachers in teaching a multicultural unit emphasizing December holidays: Kwanzaa, Hanukkah (Chanukah), and Christmas around world. Included are poems, worksheets, recipes, and art ideas. Enclosed is a child's book highlighting the December holidays that can be reproduced so the child can take it home and share it with his or her family. By studying a variety of countries, the children learn that a considerable number of holiday customs have their origin in the many cultures and ethnic groups that came to America.




Henry Ford (ENHANCED eBook)


Book Description

Children of today are so used to going everywhere quickly and comfortably in the family car, they take the whole thing for granted. They don't have a clue about the problems and challenges that had to be met by early inventors and automobile factories to make a smooth ride possible for us today. So why not bring one of the inventors of the automobile right into your classroom! Introduce Henry Ford to your students and let them discover for themselves the exciting early history of cars!