Now available in bilingual Spanish! Come along on a lively, lyrical exploration of the world's most beloved sports. Rhyming text and energetic artwork featuring a diverse group of children introduce the basics of eight sports popular around the world: baseball, track, football/soccer, gymnastics, hockey, karate, basketball, and swimming. Includes educational endnotes and art by celebrated illustrator Christiane Engel, whose previous Barefoot credits include Baby's First Words, Dump Truck Disco, Knick Knack Paddy Whack, and Build-a-Story Cards: Space Quest.
Tracy Baptiste is devoted to satisfying everyone but herself. Now it's her turn and nothing is falling into place. Her daughter is marrying and moving away. Her husband is self-absorbed and callous. Her friends are preoccupied with their lives. This is not what she's bargained for. Can daydreaming about her sexy Italian co-worker help her escape the disappointment? Walter Baptiste's job is in jeopardy and he's bored at home. He's found an acceptable outlet and she's half his age and twice as fun. Playing house is the distraction he needs until the reality turns out to be more than he's bargained for. While Walter's house of lies crumbles, can Tracy find the courage to follow her instincts and put her life back together?
Ready-Made Event Packages ...Just Add Youth Group FULLY LOADED All Options, Extras & Side Items Included These ready-made event packages are completely accessorized with everything you need to easily prepare and smoothly execute fun and instructive youth activities. You can spend less time on planning event details, and more time directly engaging your teens. These plans cover every detail, even laying out hour-by-hour schedules for you. Think of the convenience. Think of all the up-front prep time you can save. The unique benefit of the Ready-To-Go series is that these activity materials go beyond merely offering ideas. Ready to Go resources instead provide fully developed activity & event plans. These allow the youth leader to host youth events of substance & quality, with a minimal up-front time investment. It's like offering a baked cake instead of a cake recipe & ingredients. Or, offering a fully-assembled ready-to-use playground set...instead of loose components in a box with assembly instructions. This book features 101 ready-to-go lessons that Youth Leaders can use in a Sunday School setting, in youth meetings, or retreats. It also contains meeting ideas and lessons that can be utilized quickly and effectively when the need arises. Ready-to-Go Youth Group Activities includes -- Meeting starters Short Bible studies Test worksheets Fliers Parable studies with skits Games Small events with little or no prep time Meeting closers A scripture index. All materials are reproducible. Ready-To-Go resources are equipped with event themes that target contemporary issues teens face in the real world. These relevant messages are delivered with impact, through coordinated devotional plans, discussion frameworks, and captivating activities. All the event accessories you need, down to publicity fliers and parental forms are included. Just add youth.
A penetrating and entertaining exploration of New York’s music scene from Cubop through folk, punk, and hip-hop. From Tony Fletcher, the acclaimed biographer of Keith Moon, comes an incisive history of New York’s seminal music scenes and their vast contributions to our culture. Fletcher paints a vibrant picture of mid-twentieth-century New York and the ways in which its indigenous art, theater, literature, and political movements converged to create such unique music. With great attention to the colorful characters behind the sounds, from trumpet player Dizzy Gillespie to Tito Puente, Bob Dylan, and the Ramones, he takes us through bebop, the Latin music scene, the folk revival, glitter music, disco, punk, and hip-hop as they emerged from the neighborhood streets of Harlem, the East and West Village, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens. All the while, Fletcher goes well beyond the history of the music to explain just what it was about these distinctive New York sounds that took the entire nation by storm.
Ready to Go! Toilet Time includes an easy-to-follow parent guide written by child psychologist Dr Janet Hall, with helpful ideas and training methods, plus a children's reward chart with stickers. It also contains a beautifully illustrated simple toilet-training storybook that children will enjoy reading as they learn the important developmental skill of toilet training.
Provides tips and advice for youth ministers on working with youth and teenagers during school breaks and summer vacations, focusing on connecting their vacation activities with verses of the Bible.
Dear babysitting grandparents, Opening up new interests with children can open up interesting worlds for you too. While being a wise ‘elder’, a knowledgeable, influential and fun person to the children, you can be developing your own knowledge, skills and creative potential. Why not join or start up a group that shares your interests. Plus, you could try out the Activities in this book together so you are prepared and ready for your next babysitting session. Go for it!
Ready-Made Event Packages ...Just Add Youth Group FULLY LOADED All Youth Event Options, Extras, and Side items Included These ready-made event packages are completely accessorized with everything you need to easily prepare and smoothly execute fun and instructive retreats & lock-ins. You can spend less time on planning event details, and more time directly engaging your teens. These plans cover every detail, even laying out hour-by-hour schedules for you. Think of the convenience. Think of all the up-front prep time you can save. The unique benefit of the Ready-To-Go series is that these activity materials go beyond merely offering ideas. Ready to Go resources instead provide fully developed activity & event plans. These allow the youth leader to host youth events of substance & quality, with a minimal up-front time investment. It’s like offering a baked cake instead of a cake recipe & ingredients. Or, offering a fully-assembled ready-to-use playground set...instead of loose components in a box with assembly instructions. Ready-to-Go Retreats & Lock-Ins provides 16 complete guides for retreats and lock-ins. The first section focuses on planning retreats and lock-ins, including -- Creating a schedule Finding a facility Safety guidelines Transportation Food Registration and Publicity Recruiting counselors Insurance issues Get acquainted games The second section covers strategies for successfully executing retreats and lock-ins, including -- Behavior covenants, expectations and guidelines Creating rituals Assembling resources How to combine junior and senior highs on a retreat Resources for games and music Room and van assignments Each Retreat includes two individual morning meditations, detailed program notes for small groups with three to four sessions per retreat, ideas for a worship service and evening devotional, and fun, group-building activities. Provided meditations, counselor notes, handouts, and worship flyers are photocopiable. Each Lock-In is theme-based and has games, small group time, worship ideas, and sleep time. Includes reproducible handouts, preparation lists, and bonus material on CD-ROM. Ready-To-Go resources are equipped with event themes that target contemporary issues teens face in the real world. These relevant messages are delivered with impact, through coordinated devotional plans, discussion frameworks, and captivating activities. All the event accessories you need, down to publicity fliers and parental forms are included. Just add youth.
Tackle GoLang with practical and employment-focused instruction In Job Ready Go, software education guru Dr. Haythem Balti delivers an essential and hands-on guide to Go, an open-source programming language developed by Google engineers to combine the most sought-after capabilities of other programming languages, including Java, C#, and C++. In the book, the author walks you through all the most critical skills necessary for successful, on-the-job Go programming. You’ll discover: How to get started with Go, including how to run, build, and test your own go programs Understand control flow and data structures in Go including arrays, slices, maps, and pointerss How to leverage structs, interfaces, and methods to organize and reuse code How to leverage go to process data, access different types of files and develop APIs Leverage concurrency and gRPCs to create complex and interconnected systems. Job Ready Go offers readers straightforward and elegant instruction based on the renowned mthree Global Academy and Software Guild training program. It’s an essential read for aspiring Go developers looking for a fast-track to developing real-world skills demanded by employers.
A disastrous blind date with a rock star. Surely this won't lead to love. Single mom, Lauren Parker, has never been one for blind dates, and the last person she expects to show up is rock star Chase Remington. She couldn't stand the shallow playboy back in high school, and that hasn't changed. But her salon is struggling, and she has a preschooler to care for. A little publicity couldn't hurt, could it? But when her daughter starts charming Mr. Charming himself, Lauren gets pulled in deeper than she’d planned. Chase Remington, lead singer of a mega-famous band, returns to his hometown for his high school reunion. When he volunteers to join Lauren’s reunion committee and starts to get attached to her daughter, he finds himself wondering if he can thaw this woman’s heart. Can they let love win, or will they allow the past get in the way? If you like swoony kisses, a precocious four year old, and small-town gossip, then you'll love this sweet romantic comedy.\ Previously titled: Her Rock Star's Dark Secret
