An irrepressible dancing duck leaves his pond to find fame in the big city, but after receiving a Golden Duck Award he only wants to return to his family.
Make every day in September a special day in your classroom with the creative ideas in this book. For every special day in the month, the author provides fun activity ideas to be plugged into your regular curriculum: language arts, social studies, writing, math, science and health, music and drama, physical fitness, art, etc. Special days include: Lunch Box Day, Native American Day, National Good Neighbor Day and Roald Dahl's Birthday. Your students will look forward to every day of the school year when you make it a constant celebration. And they'll learn while they have fun! Included are fun patterns for writing and art assignments as well as lists of correlated books, recipes and bulletin board ideas.
Get books moving off the library shelves and into the hands of children with this integrated package for thematic instruction. Sixteen chapters, based on such lively themes as Risky Reading (adventure stories), Horrendous Fun (monster stories), and Book, Line, and Sinker (ocean world) contain introductions to the themes, introductory activities, booktalks, annotated bibliographies, and reproducible activity pages that extend learning across the curriculum. Activities are coded by grade level. A valuable tool for cooperative planning between librarians and teachers, this book helps librarians choose, present, and promote book titles appropriate to specific themes. It also helps teachers plan corresponding activities. Grades K-3..
Strengthen students' language, memory, and attention skills with Literacy Activities for Circle Time: Alphabet for grades PK–1. This 96-page book provides hands-on, cross-curricular activities that develop children's emerging literacy skills. The book provides ideas that engage students through listening, watching, imitating, cooperating, playacting, singing, and chanting. It also includes reproducible letter and sign language cards and aligns with state and national standards.
Drew, Drew, Drew and his happy dancing feet. Sometimes happiness and dancing can be contagious to others. (Which is a great thing.) Drew the Dancing Duck is a children's book that will help motivate children in being happy and more focused on the positive things in their life. After reading this children's book, they may be inspired to appreciate more the things that will make them smile and fill them with joy.