Celebrate fall’s arrival and liven up learning with "Around-the-Year" Apple Tree Hats, Personal Pumpkin Pouches, and Collaborative Harvest Quilts! Kids will love making these and other unique craft projects while learning about life cycles, harvest, five senses, classifying, patterning, and more! Other projects include Edible Apple Glyphs, Pumpkin Piñatas, Johnny Appleseed Faces, and "Feed the Birds" Harvest Houses. Activities use easy-to-find materials and include complete how-to’s and tips, reproducible patterns, and literature links. 56 pages.
Each creative idea book is filled with on-target reproducible monthly activities that are ready-to-go and make learning fun! These books integrate with any curriculum and are loaded with cute patterns, ideas, motivation awards, bookmarks, open-ended games, crafts, bulletin board suggestions and celebrations for every special day of the month! January topics include the American & Chinese New Years, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Eskimos, Arctic and Anarctic Animals; crafts include pencil toppers, kites, banners, writing starters, mobiles, games and more. Grades K-3.
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) was born in Florence. He served the Florentine republic as secretary and second chancellor, but was expelled from public life when the Medici family returned to power in 1512. His other works include T"he Discourses, The Art of War," and the comic satire "The Mandrake." Peter Constantine is the recipient of a PEN Translation Prize and a National Translation Award. His Modern Library translations include T"he Essential Writings of Machiavelli, Voltaire's Candide," and Tolstoy's "The Cossacks," He lives in New York City.
The weekly themes in Grade 6+ include many topics such as buses, birthdays, houseplants, pet store, garage sale, and weather. Math skills practiced include: multidigit addition and subtraction 1-, 2-, and 3-digit multiplication 1-, 2-, and 3-digit divisors time and money fractions decimals and percents reading and interpreting graphs and charts average, mode, range area and perimeter and volume logic linear measurement weight and capacity.
24 Nonfiction Passages for Test Practice (Grades 6-8)
The purpose of this book is to provide interesting, well-written nonfiction selections for students to read. These selections can be used for practice and instruction in reading nonfiction, and they can be used to help prepare students for taking tests that include nonfiction passages.
