The amazing transformation of Jack from grinning pumpkin to mold-mottled wreckage to hopeful green shoot tells the story of decomposition. Features a teacher guide.
When his beloved jack-o'-lantern starts to decompose, Tim puts it outside and watches it transform from pumpkin—to seed—to pumpkin again. The first pumpkin Tim ever carved was fierce and funny, and he named it Jack. When Halloween was over and the pumpkin was beginning to rot, Tim set it out in the garden and throughout the weeks he watched it change. By spring, a plant began to grow! Will Hubbell's gentle story and beautifully detailed illustrations give an intimate look at the cycle of life.
Baked, stewed, or mashed, pumpkins remind Rebecca Estelle of the Great Depression when that was all her family had to eat. When an enormous pumpkin falls off a truck and smashes in her yard, Rebecca Estelle devises a clever way to get rid of the unwanted crop that sprouts.
No teacher is the best that she or he can be from the first day in the classroom. It is with time and experience that we develop skill and knowledge and learn the art of teaching. Colleen N. Thrailkill, Ed.D., who taught more than three decades, shares a wide-ranging collection of techniques geared to help teach elementary students math, reading, and a sense of environmental responsibility in this book. She also explores how to: - take advantage of teachable moments; - meet the needs of every learner; - bring real-world problem solving into the classroom. This book is packed with curriculum ideas, teaching philosophy, and practical strategies for navigating teacher life. It will serve as a valuable resource for student teachers, beginning teachers, and veteran teachers. Join the author as she looks back on the obstacles she overcame in fulfilling her dream of teaching children-and shares lessons to help other educators succeed.
Pumpkin Patch takes emergent readers on a trip to the pumpkin patch while providing them with a supportive first nonfiction reading experience. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, making sure they aren't facing too many challenges at once. Pumpkin Patch includes Tools for Teachers and Caregivers and a Let's Review! question and image, as well as introductory nonfiction features such as labels, a table of contents, words to know, and an index. Pumpkin Patch is part of Jump!'s Around Town series.
This book contains a collection of writings by Dr. David Brown for his students, patients and family. The unifying purpose to the collection is in turning self-defeating attitudes into those more in one's best interest. Dr. Brown holds a Master's Degree in Counseling and a Ph.D. in Human Behavior. He is board certified by the National Academy of Certified Mental Health Counselors and the National Board of Certified Counselors. Having previously been a private practice family psychologist, and director of an adolescent drug rehab center, Dr. Brown is currently a Professor of Psychology at Hodges University in Fort Myers, Florida. His experience stems from more than forty years of successful encounters with troubled teens, couples with marital problems, managers 'unable to cope', and individuals with substance addiction, anxiety and depression. He has lectured nationally on topics such as stress management, Rational Emotional Behavior Therapy (REBT), and the rational use of hypnosis. He has presented workshops on rational living, stress management, conflict resolution and problem solving to industrial managers, school psychologists, college students, counselors and administrators with exciting success. This book is meant to cause human beings to think seriously about themselves and the world around them. The stories, students' comments and Doc's responses are reasons to consider the anatomy of our attitudes.
No teacher is the best that she or he can be from the first day in the classroom. It is with time and experience that we develop skill and knowledge and learn the art of teaching. Colleen N. Thrailkill, Ed.D., who taught more than three decades, shares a wide-ranging collection of techniques geared to help teach elementary students math, reading, and a sense of environmental responsibility in this book. She also explores how to: • take advantage of teachable moments; • meet the needs of every learner; • bring real-world problem solving into the classroom. This book is packed with curriculum ideas, teaching philosophy, and practical strategies for navigating teacher life. It will serve as a valuable resource for student teachers, beginning teachers, and veteran teachers. Join the author as she looks back on the obstacles she overcame in fulfilling her dream of teaching children—and shares lessons to help other educators succeed.
First in the new Growing Up Quentin Fischer series, The Pumpkin Gift is a charmingly illustrated lesson book. The series is based on the life of Quentin Fischer, a red haired, freckle faced third-grader from a loving but modest income family. The author, Ginger Hollis uses the circumstances facing Quentin to speak to other young boys and girls about contemporary and often difficult situations. The outcome each time is warm and affirming and calls upon the best in each of us to meet the obstacle.
Two cousins grow up in the 1860s on a lonely farm in the thirsty mountain veld. Em is fat, sweet and contented, a born housewife; Lyndall, clever, restless, beautiful . . . and doomed. Their childhood is disrupted by a bombastic Irishman, Bonaparte Blenkins, who gains uncanny influence over the girls' gross, stupid stepmother . . . This novel is one of the most astonishing, least-expected fiction masterpieces of its time and one that has had an enduring influence.