Amber Brown is excited to be starting second grade--and a little nervous, too. But Amber Brown decides she's ready for whatever happens, and second grade had better be ready for Amber Brown!
Newly revised and updated, this fun and lively fill-in workbook--packed with more than 400 teacher-approved, common core-aligned activities--is a must-have to help your rising first grader get ready for school. Help the young student in your life prepare for first grade with this friendly, colorful activity book that introduces and reinforces basic skills through entertaining puzzles, quizzes, mazes, and more. Time-tested and teacher-approved, Get Ready for School: First Grade will help your child develop a love for learning while enhancing their essential motor and problem-solving skills. Get Ready for School: First Grade offers a wide variety of curriculum-based topics that will help your child: Spell more difficult words by teaching familiarity with vowels, consonants, word families, and suffixes Recognize different types of words like nouns, proper nouns, and action words Master addition and subtraction Understand scientific concepts such as weather, life cycles, and the senses Learn to tell time and to recognize and count money Colorful workbook pages combine a sense of fun with a feeling of accomplishment, and parents will love that this binder reflects current academic standards and aligns with the Common Core. Whether it's used during summer break, for extra practice during the school year, or for at home schooling, Get Ready for School: First Grade is the perfect study aid for every young learner.
Freddy is back -- and he's ready for second grade! Freddy likes his new second-grade teacher, but he doesn't like being stuck with Max and Chloe -- especially since his best friend, Robbie, is in another class! Is Freddy ready to reach out to the new student, Josh, and make a friend?
A young boy shares all of the things he learned and how he changed in second grade, what he still wonders about, and what he hopes to accomplish when he is in third grade.
An exciting new title in Black Dog's best-selling Get Ready for School series! For nearly a decade, and with over 730,000 copies in print, the Get Ready for School series has been a staple for parents seeking to prepare their children for the challenges of the upcoming school year. Each title in the series reinforces essential, age-appropriate skills, recognized by educators nationwide, through fun and engaging activities. Previous books in the series laid the foundation of early learning skills from pre-K through first grade. This new book takes kids into the next phase of learning. Get Ready for Second Grade builds on skills learned in first grade and covers reading, writing complete sentences, counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s, adding and subtracting, shapes and measurements, time and money, cursive writing, weather, basic world geography, the solar system, and more. With more than 300 pages of activities and thousands of illustrations in each, these books will keep kids coming back for more over and over again.
Students ages 6 to 8 will develop their second-grade writing skills with this educational workbook from the Ready to Learn series. Building on the writing skills developed in first grade, Ready to Learn: Second Grade Writing Workbook guides students ages 6 to 8 in becoming imaginative and informational writers. Paired with colorful illustrations, the educational activities cover cursive writing practice, word families, present and past tense, compound words, contractions, and more. After reviewing the elements of writing, students can write sentences and then practice narrative, informational, opinion, and explanation writing. This engaging workbook will encourage kids to hone their grammar and writing skills and enjoy the creative outlets of their new-found writing abilities. Introduces consonants and vowels, prefixes and suffixes, synonyms and antonyms, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and more. Demonstrates how to write for different purposes. Encourages and develops creative thinking and writing. Teaches how to write statement, question, and exclamation sentences. 64 full-color and illustrated pages. Series adheres to Common Core State Standards. Answer key at the end of the book. Includes a Certificate of Achievement to celebrate completion. Get to know the Ready to Learn series! Developed for kids entering pre-kindergarten all the way through third grade, Silver Dolphin’s Ready to Learn series of educational and engaging workbooks, workpads, write & wipe formats, and flash cards will put young learners on the path to success. Focusing on three key subjects—reading, writing, and math—each grade level is vetted by experts in early education to adhere to the Common Core State Standards Initiative. Foundational, buildable skills are introduced, developed, and reinforced with colorful illustrations and familiar learning formats that will encourage learning confidence as kids benefit from extra educational opportunities outside the classroom.
Grab your backpack and get ready for the second grade in the latest big moment to be celebrated in Natasha Wing's best-selling series! It's the night before a young boy's first day of second grade, and he's excited. He's spent all summer reading and preparing for the year ahead, and he can't wait to learn more about what fun surprises second grade has to offer. Join him and his friends on their journey through the new school year in this delightful story, told in the style of Clement C. Moore's classic tale.
Give your child a smart start with the revised and updated What Your First Grader Needs to Know What will your child be expected to learn in the first grade? How can you help him or her at home? How can teachers foster active, successful learning in the classroom? This book answers these all-important questions and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that hundreds of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon for American first graders. Featuring a new Introduction, filled with opportunities for reading aloud and fostering discussion, this first-grade volume of the acclaimed Core Knowledge Series presents the sort of knowledge and skills that should be at the core of a challenging first-grade education. Inside you’ll discover • Favorite poems—old and new, such as “The Owl and the Pussycat,” “Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,” and “Thirty Days Hath September” • Beloved stories—from many times and lands, including a selection of Aesop’s fables, “Hansel and Gretel,” “All Stories Are Anansi’s,” “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” and more • Familiar sayings and phrases—such as “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” and “Practice makes perfect” • World and American history and geography—take a trip down the Nile with King Tut and learn about the early days of our country, including the story of Jamestown, the Pilgrims, and the American Revolution • Visual arts—fun activities plus reproductions of masterworks by Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Georgia O’Keeffe, and others • Music—engaging introductions to great composers and music, including classical music, opera, and jazz, as well as a selection of favorite children’s songs • Math—a variety of activities to help your child learn to count, add and subtract, solve problems, recognize geometrical shapes and patterns, and learn about telling time • Science—interesting discussions of living things and their habitats, the human body, the states of matter, electricity, our solar system, and what’s inside the earth, plus stories of famous scientists such as Thomas Edison and Louis Pasteur