Judy Delton is the author of more than 100 books for young readers.brAlan Tiegreen has illustrated many books for children, including all the Pee Wee Scout books.Old Lady Mollybrbr“This is an important year,” said Mrs. Peters to the Pee Wee Scouts. “Can any of you tell me why?”brbrThe Pee Wees all frowned as if they were thinking hard. Molly Duff had found that if she looked as if she were thinking very hard and did not put her hand up, she didn’t get called on. Especially at school in classes she was not good at, like math. She always had her hand up if it was a spelling lesson or reading, no matter how hard the words were.brbrBut now no one had their hand up to be called on. No one seemed to know why it was an important year.brbr“Easter?” said Tim Noon. “Or Memorial Day?”brbr“Every year has Easter and Memorial Day,” scoffed Rachel Meyers. “That doesn’t make it a special year. Just an ordinary one.”brbr“Was it the coldest year in Minnesota?” asked Mary Beth Kelly, who was Molly’s best friend. “My mom said it was the snowiest winter she could remember.”brbrMrs. Peters frowned. “It may have been,” she said. “But that’s not why this year is important.”brbr“Maybe it’ll be the warmest year,” said Tracy Barnes to Molly. “Last summer was so hot we went swimming every day.”brbr“It has nothing to do with the temperature,” said their leader mysteriously. “Think harder.”brbrThe Pee Wees did.brbr“I know,” said Tim Noon. “It’s the year my uncle got married!”brbr“Pooh,” said Sonny Stone. “My uncle got married too. That’s no big deal. People get married every day.”brbr“And divorced,” said Lisa Ronning. “That’s not news.”brbrThe Pee Wees tho?×=p£× ¾Û€

pThis book argues that even in today’s high-stakes testing environment, ‘teaching to the test’ need not be teachers only focus as they introduce young children to mathematics. Judith McVarish demonstrates how building a community of learners and using problem solving to engage students can help teachers encourage students disposition to creative thinking and reasoningskills that may can otherwise become lost due to the pressure of the many other expectations placed upon both teachers and students. This book offers strategies for infusing mathematics learning and reasoning into elementary school classrooms while meeting curriculum and testing mandates. The teacher researcher component of each chapter provides a vehicle for teachers to bring their own expertise and questions back into the teaching and learning equation.

In this important new book for pre- and in-service teachers, early math experts Douglas Clements and Julie Sarama show how learning trajectories help teachers become more effective professionals. By opening up new windows to seeing young children and the inherent delight and curiosity behind their mathematical reasoning, learning trajectories ultimately make teaching more joyous. They help teachers understand the varying level of knowledge and thinking of their classes and the individuals within them as key in serving the needs of all children. In straightforward, no-nonsense language, this book summarizes what is known about how children learn mathematics, and how to build on what they know to realize more effective teaching practice. It will help teachers understand the learning trajectories of early mathematics and become quintessential professionals.

pDevelop language and pre-literacy skills with preschool children using these beautiful four-color photo cards and accompanying activities. Each of the sixty-four cards has a photograph that sparks children’s natural curiosity. The back of each photo card features a vocabulary list, suggested activities to expand children’s learning, questions or comments to engage children in conversations, the American Sign Language sign, Spanish translation related to the image, and recommended children’s books./ppThis invaluable teaching tool is compatible with any curriculum and comes in its own carrying case. Photo cards are 12 inches x 8 inches. Themes include:/pulliThings Kids Do/liliColors/liliShapes/liliAnimals/liliBirds/liliBugs & Other Things that Crawl/liliFruits & Vegetables/ulpbPam Schiller, PhD/b, is an early childhood curriculum specialist, author, and consultant. She is past president of the Southern Early Childhood Association and the Texas Association for the Education of Young Children. Schiller is a highly sought-after speaker, a frequent presenter for professional organizations, and a regular contributor to early childhood journals. Her areas of expertise include curriculum development, classroom management, brain development research and applications, literacy, math, science, and social-emotional development. She is the author or co-author of twenty-seven books for Gryphon House, winning a total of fifteen awards for her books. She lives in Cypress, Texas./p

This unique resource helps educators spark young children’s interest in learning the alphabet and develop beginning reading skills right from the beginning to the close of school. Included are over 500 ready-to-use individual and classroom activities designed to be used sequentially, from one month to the next, to build skills, relate reading to other curriculum areas, and foster children’s enthusiasm for books and learning to read. All activities are organized into nine monthly sections, September through May/June, and include over 100 activity sheets. Each month includes a list of 10 picture books for daily reading, phonics and other basic skills instructions, ABC Marching Band Letters for learning letter-sound connections, reading links to holidays and special events, reading links to writing, math, social studies, science & health, author-of-the-month studies and activities, plus 10-13 illustrated reproducible activities.

When two-year olds begin in nursery schools and day care centers, they need activities specially designed to expand their capabilities and interests. A Humanics best-seller, Teaching Terrific Two’s is the absolute best in-depth, structured activity guide for this delightful but hard-to-reach age group. The activities which both teachers and children will enjoy develop self-image, listening, language, social growth, movement, science, math, and music awareness to keep a young toddler’s mind as active as a toddler’s body. Includes introductory sections covering basic and individual goals, classroom arrangement, scheduling, discipline, materials, parent involvement, and assessment. Shape Walks, Mitten Week, Bunny May I?, and many other activities make this book an incredible resource.

Counters and Seekers is a collection of stories about children who discover principles of math and science in their everyday world. Young readers discover important learning concepts along withthe children in these delightful fiction books.

From the acclaimed author ofiMonkey Hunting/i(“A miracle of poetic compression . . . An epic of anecdotes, a vista of brief and beautiful glimpses” —iLos Angeles Times Book Review/i), a lyrical, haunting, deeply moving new novel.brbrLate 1960s. We meet three children: Enrique Florit, from Cuba, living in southern California with his flamboyant magician father . . . Marta Claros, getting by in the slums of San Salvador, forced to leave school to help support her family, her beloved older brother having already left home . . .b/bLeila Rezvani, a well-to-do surgeon’s daughter in Tehran, her mother concerned only with appearances, her father an often foolishly vocal opponent of the Shah.brbrAs we follow them across the next twenty years—the narrative moving among their lives—we see Enrique, a math whiz from a young age, sacrificing his dream of attending MIT to filial duty, and the dream of passionate love to the exigencies of reality . . . Marta, fleeing war in El Salvador, making her way illegally into the United States and finding wholly unexpected possibilities . . . Leila, allowing the expectations of her mother to pull her into an arranged marriage and the constricted life of women in postrevolutionary Iran. We see chance draw Leila and Marta into Enrique’s life—Leila and Enrique loving and losing each other, Marta the means to renewed hope for Enrique—and, throughout, “good luck or bad tilting life one way or another” for all of them.brbrWith its cast of vividly drawn characters, its graceful movement through time and the psychological shifts between childhood and adulthood, and its subtle revelation of the essential hopes and doubts of ordinary people whose lives are made extraordinary by circumstance both tragic and joyful,iA Handbook to Luck/iis Cristina García’s most beautiful, elegiac, and deeply emotional novel yet.“Using a graceful parallel storyt?Ð

Shows just how easy and pleasurable it is to teach young children mathematics through the development of thinking and reasoning skills.

Help is here! Phonics Homework Helper provides children in kindergarten with extra help learning phonics skills. Packed full of fun-to-do activities and appealing art, children will have fun completing the pages while learning important phonics skills at the same time. Answer keys are included where needed. Reproducible. Our cost-effective Homework Helpers are a must-have! They provide help for students who need extra practice with basic skills, for the accelerated student who enjoys an extra challenge, and for the young learner who is developing basic concepts and readiness skills. They also help boost self-confidence and reinforce basic skills with activities that are geared to the specific grade level. Collect all 48 titles for preschool to grade 3 including alphabet, numbers, shapes, phonics, math, reading comprehension, and much more!