What does it take to be a teacher or police officer? What is a typical day for a lawyer or a computer programmer? The KidHaven Press Exploring Careers series addresses these and other questions that young readers might have as they ponder the wide array of career choices open to them. All books in the series feature interviews with career professionals as well as basic information about the jobs and what they entail.Teachers help children learn about the countries of the world and the stars in the sky, famous people from the past and predictions for the future. They teach math, and science, and history, and they help children learn why these things matter. This book discusses different types of teachers, what they do, and what they need to know to do their jobs.

Special Numbers, Kickout Zero, is especially designed to help meet the math needs of early elementary students. The author tells the story of the importance of numbers and the major part they play in our daily life styles. The young reader can actually view the ten (10) numbers as they interact with each other. Interesting, fun-type reading-a see for yourself adventure. Children can relate to the many colorful mathematical illustrations.

The best-ever kids’ introduction to card games is back in print! Joanna Cole and Stephanie Calmenson’s clear, step-by-step explanations, along with Alan Tiegreen’s spunky illustrations and diagrams, make each game easy to understand and play. With 20 card games to choose from, including basic solitaire games like Aces Up and group games from Go Fish to Poker, there s something for everyone. Games like Snap and Concentration help improve math and memory skills, while fast-moving Slapjack and I Doubt It will have kids up out of their seats.Joanna Cole is the author of over 50 books for children, including the best-selling Magic School Bus series. She lives in Connecticut.brbrStephanie Calmenson is the author of over 50 books for children. She lives in New York.brbrAlan Tiegreen has illustrated more than a dozen books for young readers. He lives in Georgia.

DIVThe Summer Smarts series provides an enjoyable, substantive bridge between grades during the summer, when a child most needs a refresher! And because young children begin to anticipate going back to school and face the pressures and expectations of a higher, more difficult grade, Summer Smarts activity books are designed to offer them a fun way to increase their confidence and self-esteem. This new series of activity workbooks is designed to meet the demand for the growing in-home educational market. It is the only series to include a unique integration of material, combining elementary school subjects such as phonics, spelling, math, and geography into one friendly workbook. Offers engaging, motivational exercises that reinforce the skills and knowledge learned during the previous school year.Arranged in a logical sequence, the worksheets move progressively from basic concepts to more difficult ones. A carefully selected Book Section supports a literature-based approach./div

Moving and Learning Across the Curriculum: More Than 300 Activities and Games to Make Learning Fun is now out in its? 2nd edition. Movement is the young child’s preferred method of learning. This is because when a child physically experiences concepts, they understand them more completely and retain the information longer. Retention has been proven to increase when children’s senses are involved in the learning process, and this book provides hundreds of activities that help to teach major concepts in the content areas of art, language arts, math, music, science, and social studies. The domains of child development are completely intertwined in the early years making it important to incorporate them all throughout the learning process. This book will show the early childhood professional how to educate the ?whole child, ? covering all of the domains of child development which include physical, social/emotional, and cognitive. To truly educate the child, they must be recognized as thinking, feeling, moving human beings with the need to experience with all of their senses. Moving and Learning Across the Curriculum, 2e, provides the activities to achieve that level of learning with features including detailed lesson plans, outdoor alternatives, updated resources, and enhanced ?curriculum connectors? with additional suggestions for children’s literature and music. An ideal resource for the early childhood professional, this book offers everything needed to use movement as a teaching tool.

In this second volume in a series of three, Fosnot and Dolk focus on how to develop an understanding of multiplication and division in grades 3-5.In our efforts to reform mathematics education, we’ve learned a tremendous amount about young students’ strategies and the ways they construct knowledge, without fully understanding how to support such development over time. The Dutch do. So, funded by the NSF and Exxon Mobil, Mathematics in the City was begun, a collaborative inservice project that pooled the best thinking from both countries. In Young Mathematicians at Work, Catherine Fosnot and Maarten Dolk reveal what they learned after several years of intensive study in numerous urban classrooms.pIn this second volume in a series of three, Fosnot and Dolk focus on how to develop an understanding of multiplication and division in grades 3-5. Their book: describes and illustrates what it means to do and learn mathematicsprovides strategies to help teachers turn their classrooms into math workshops that encourage and reflect mathematizingexamines several ways to engage and support children as they construct important strategies and big ideas related to multiplicationtakes a close look at the strategies and big ideas related to division defines modeling and provides examples of how learners construct models – with a discussion of the importance of contextdiscusses what it means to calculate using number sense and whether or not algorithms should still be the goal of computation instructiondescribes how to strengthen performance and portfolio assessment emphasizes teachers as learners by encouraging them to see themselves as mathematicians.

DIVThe Summer Smarts series provides an enjoyable, substantive bridge between grades during the summer, when a child most needs a refresher! And because young children begin to anticipate going back to school and face the pressures and expectations of a higher, more difficult grade, Summer Smarts activity books are designed to offer them a fun way to increase their confidence and self-esteem. This new series of activity workbooks is designed to meet the demand for the growing in-home educational market. It is the only series to include a unique integration of material, combining elementary school subjects such as phonics, spelling, math, and geography into one friendly workbook. Offers engaging, motivational exercises that reinforce the skills and knowledge learned during the previous school year.Arranged in a logical sequence, the worksheets move progressively from basic concepts to more difficult ones. A carefully selected Book Section supports a literature-based approach./div

Help is here! Addition Homework Helper provides children in first grade with extra help learning important addition skills. Packed full of fun-to-do activities and appealing art, children will have fun completing the pages while learning addition 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!

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.

Help is here! Challenge Word Searches Homework Helper provides children in kindergarten to grade 1 with extra help learning important vocabulary words. Packed full of fun-to-do activities and appealing art, children will have fun completing these challenging word searches while expanding their vocabulary 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!