Follow the story of two pen pals to learn about time measurement and the months of the year! This charming title teaches children about time, analog and digital clocks, and early STEM themes by telling the story of what happened to these two pen pals during each month of the year. Make time measurement fun and easy with vibrant images, practice problems, and this exciting story! This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.
Follow a day in the life of two children from different cities! This entertaining title encourages young readers to practice time measurement skills and early STEM themes, like reading analog and digital clocks. Familiar images and fun practice problems will have young readers thinking about how they can measure time throughout a day in their own lives! This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.
In this bestselling timeless classic, Peter Gzowski recounts the 1980-81 season he spent travelling around the NHL circuit with the Edmonton Oilers. These were the days when the young Oilers, led by a teenaged Wayne Gretzky, were poised on the edge of greatness, and about to blaze their way into the record books and the consciousness of a nation. While the story of the early Oilers embodies the book, The Game of Our Lives is much more than a retelling of one season in the life of an NHL team. Unlike any book ever written in the annals of hockey, Gzowski beautifully weaves together the anatomy of a modern NHL team with the magnificent history of the game to create one of the best books about hockey in Canada. Here are the great teams and the great players through the ages—Morenz, Richard, Howe, Orr, Hull—the men whose rare and indefinable genius on the ice exemplified the speed, grit and innovation of the game. The Game of Our Lives is the best book on the Canadian passion for hockey; a wondrously perceptive account of the hold the game has on Canadians. —Jack Granatstein, The National Post
Do you stand in that trial room of a fashion clothing store, looking at a pic of a model in a poster telling yourself, “Gosh! I wish I had that body!”? Or are you that person who wakes up every morning, gung-ho about going for your workouts and then just can’t go for it? Or are you that person who tells yourself, “I can’t do this” Or are you confused on how to begin? Or are you someone, who makes a New Year's resolution to get fit and drops out after a while? Don’t get bogged down. This book is meant just for you because the pre-requisite of getting fit and leading a healthy lifestyle has got nothing to do with what you do, but it’s got everything to do with what’s in your mind. In this book, you will go through the FOUR STAGES to a complete health transformation and help you formulate your own fitness blueprint to easily make fitness a part of the minutiae of your everyday life. The 4 stages are - Stage 1: Setting your Identity Blueprint-that will help you get the right mindset in place. Stage 2: Lock-n-load your mental arsenal–that will give you tools to keep you mentally fit. Stage 3: Unlock Yourself-here you will get to know how to take charge of your life by gaining control of your excuses, habits, and dreams. Stage 4: Get down to brass tacks – this is the real deal to get you physically fit. As there is a frantic rush to get fit by ‘sporting six-pack abs’ this book nudges that notion aside and focuses on the long-term benefits of having the right mindset and consciously working towards a healthy lifestyle.
An award-winning journalist and literacy advocate provides a clear, step-by-step guide to helping your child thrive as a reader and a learner. When her child went off to school, Maya Smart was shocked to discover that a good education in America is a long shot, in ways that few parents fully appreciate. Our current approach to literacy offers too little, too late, and attempting to play catch-up when our kids get to kindergarten can no longer be our default strategy. We have to start at the top. The brain architecture for reading develops rapidly during infancy, and early language experiences are critical to building it. That means parents’ work as children’s first teachers begins from day one too—and we need deeper knowledge to play our positions. Reading for Our Lives challenges the bath-book-bed mantra and the idea that reading aloud to our kids is enough to ensure school readiness. Instead, it gives parents easy, immediate, and accessible ways to nurture language and literacy development from the start. Through personal stories, historical accounts, scholarly research, and practical tips, this book presents the life-and-death urgency of literacy, investigates inequity in reading achievement, and illuminates a path to a true, transformative education for all.
The beatitudes are some of the most beautiful and yet challenging words in the Bible. Christians and non-christians alike have been chasing after a more blessed life for centuries. Sadly they often come up empty despite all their effort and striving. This book invites you to try a different way. As you instill the spiritual practices talked about in this book you will start to see that you are becoming someone Jesus called blessed.
This valuable book identifies common obstacles in any endeavor that can impact on success and offers highly accessible exercises to help readers overcome them. Featuring expertise from dozens of high-level performers regarding their journey to the top of their domain, it offers practical advice on how to separate yourself from your competition and stand out from the crowd. All performers, whether beginners or world class, in sports, business, the arts, and beyond, have encountered obstacles in their careers. Acknowledging that every successful person must work hard, this book offers a blueprint for those wanting to map out their own success based on over twenty years of research into performance, and the authors’ experiences of guiding career development among their mentees and teaching courses on the topic. Each chapter includes a case study that exemplifies one of the most common obstacles individuals face in their efforts to be successful, including topics like impostor syndrome, artificial ceilings, facing rejection, and not allowing for rest or recovery. Following this, the chapter goes on to provide a series of engaging exercises for readers to reflect on their own performance and techniques, and enables them to strategize ways they can modify their performance to achieve better results. Throughout, the book is underpinned by theoretical frameworks from performance psychology, clear actionable steps for achieving success, and suggested readings for further study. Written with career development in mind, the applications of this book are far-reaching, with relevance for all those looking to excel in their chosen fields.
