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Children often find it difficult to make it through an entire day of structured activity - be it school, daycare, camp, or a boys/girls club. These games and activities are the remedy. Refocusing a child's mind after a long lesson or event, they re-energize youngsters and improve the mood of any group. Many incorporate call-and-response and improvisation, strengthening a child's cognitive skills while relieving fatigue and facilitating concentration....
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The residents of Toadstall Village are always busy and always happy.
Meet Willow Rabbit and her husband Billy and three children Rosie, little Bertie and baby Bella. Join the family and their friends Suzie Squirrel, Bodger the Badger, Milly Mouse and Dr Ollie Otter as they enjoy a picnic in primrose woods. Be a guest at Willows birthday party and the opening of her new dress shop and feel the excitement as the children wait for Santa.
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Keeping You in My Heart: A Grief Journal for Tweens offers children, in the in-between years of nine to twelve, a place to work through their grief after the death of a loved one. The design, prompts and illustrations are engaging and meant to inspire this age group in giving voice to their feelings, celebrating memories, and learning to cope and move forward.
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Acompaña el aprendizaje de los más pequeños con actividades para ejercitar la observación, la motricidad fina y la atención. Más de 80 páginas de diversión y aprendizaje. Páginas para colorear, encontrar objetos, laberintos y muchas otras actividades para niños de 2 a 4 años de edad. Este libro estimulará la creatividad y mejorará el desarrollo visual-espacial de los más pequeños para que puedan estar en sintonía con su entorno. Los...
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What is more memorable than a child first learning to tie his shoes? Or wrapping his first Christmas presents? Knots aren't easy to learn, but they are very helpful-whether you are five years old, ten years old, or even fifty years old. Here is a children's picture book that will help parent and child learn together by simplifying the craft and bringing the reader into the world of knots through beautiful, detailed illustrations. My First Book of...
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A cat and her kittens, a cow and her calf, there's a whole world of family animals that readers can learn about, while reinforcing their understanding of the family unit. Books of the Real Life Readers Program use real life scenario narratives to help readers further develop content-area reading, writing, and comprehension skills.
10) Umbrella Tales
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Umbrella Tales tells the up close and personal stories of umbrellas. Umbrellas have historical roots in ancient cultures and played roles in the lives of important historical figures. They are also featured in umbrella poems, stories, and songs for National Umbrella Day. Learn about the colorful lives of umbrellas.
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No child can walk through a puddle of mud without a gigantic smile, and while the stuff might be the spring-time bane of grownups, children just love mud. Muddy Boots targets kids and families who value outdoor exploration and grandparents who long for their grandchildren to have the same unfettered time in nature as they did. The book features a wide range of hands-on activities for kids, including mud play, forts, animal tracking and forest wisdom,...
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Combining an empowering story with engaging play, kids will learn to always be themselves and join Bee-Bee as he learns the same lesson! While his royal kitty siblings are training, Bee-Bee is self-conscious about his own honey powers – he thinks they're nothing compared to all the cool things his siblings can do and wishes he was more like them. But when Kitlandia falls under attack, Bee-Bee's honey-sticking powers are exactly what the Ninja Kitties...
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The Sunni & Her Hip Hop Bunny series merges Hip Hop (Arts) with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) to create a fun and colorful story that teaches and inspires. Hip-Hop transcends cultural barriers and engages all children while enabling them to develop personal connections to concepts like STEM. Early exposure to STEM cultivates creativity, develops problem solving skills, and encourages teamwork.
15) The Class Vote
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We often hear the phrase, "Every vote counts," and this book explains why that is true to the school community. Books of the Real Life Readers Program use real life scenario narratives to help readers further develop content-area reading, writing, and comprehension skills.
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Bright, full-color and black and white historic photographs, illustrations, and maps detail the historic journey of Lewis and Clark. Strongly correlated to the Common Core Standards for Informational Text, readers explore the relationships between a series of historical events.
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Featuring 12 cities from around the world, this highly-illustrated search-and-find book rewards close inspection. Incredibly detailed illustrations by Tilly bring the vibrant city scenes to life and are sure to spark a child's interest in the wider world around them. Each spread features explanatory text alongside a full-page artwork. First, comb through each cityscape and spot five of the most significant landmarks. Can you see the Eiffel Tower in...
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Here are a dozen, kid-tested, rainy day activities to do with your child or grandchild. None of these ideas require special supplies. The beauty of them is their simplicity -- the fact that they require only household items you probably already have around the house. No computers, TV's, phones or screens of any kind are used here --just good, old fashioned creativity.
19) Teamwork
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A series of stories about Yousef and Leena.
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It is a collection of educational stories that aims to:-
Assist non-Arabic speaking children in learning Arabic terms through the use of a simple and fun storytelling style.
Build spiritual, ethical values and morals.
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Youssef and Leena help their parents with chores around the house, but when Ahmad, their friend, arrives, he is initially shocked until he hears...
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Respond "lights and sirens" with Firefighter Tom and become a Rookie Rescuer! This exciting new workbook for kids is based on actual calls from Tommy Neiman, a thirty-year firefighter and paramedic in south Florida. With each call, your child or student will go on the scene of an emergency and gain valuable insight about first-responder work. Even more important, your child or student will learn how God worked powerfully in the midst!
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