Carl and Madeleine are supposed to be napping while Mom and Dad get the summer cabin ready for company but escape from the hammock to do some exploring on the lake.
A little girl and her family are getting ready to go on vacation . . . or at least they are trying to. In the effort to pack everything that will be needed, there's bound to be something overlooked, and what that is provides a funny ending to this meter-perfect "twist" on Clement Moore's classic.
Readers who loved Natasha Wing's The Night Before Summer Vacation can continue the adventure with this companion activity book! At the end of The Night Before Summer Vacation, the family loaded up the car and set of on their adventure. Now they want you to join them for another summer of fun! This book is full of amazing activities you can complete by yourself or share with a friend, including a sheet of stickers and a pop-out seashell! Mazes, connect-the-dots, and word searches are just some of the games readers can play. Are you clever enough to uncover what's hiding in the tidepool at the beach? Can you spot the fun foods scattered throughout the amusment park? Get The Night Before Summer Vacation Activity Book and find out!
Let students in grades 1–3 learn about language using their favorite literature in Rounding Up the Rhymes! Students learn about rhymes, word families, and spelling patterns as they read and study the literature selections. Lessons are based on 92 popular children’s books, making this resource a favorite of both students and teachers. This 192-page book supports the Four-Blocks(R) Literacy Model and includes step-by-step directions.
These materials were developed, in part, by a grant from the federally-funded Mathematics and Science Partnership through the Center for STEM Education. Some of the activities were adapted from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Illuminations, the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives, Hands-On Math Projects with Real Applications by Judith A. Muschla and Gary R. Muschla, Learning Math with Calculators: Activities for Grades 3-8 by Len Sparrow and Paul Swan, and Mathematical Ideas by Charles D. Miller, Vern E. Heeren and John Hornsby. The following UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina graduates contributed to the development of the work products: Anna Athanasopoulou, Stephen Chambers, Fabio Franco, Jen Krieger, Morgan Leith, Chris Muellenbach, Ashley Nagowski, Jamie Pursley, Brandy Reece, Lauren Selvey and Linda Xiong.
Were Doing What for Summer Vacation? is a nonfiction story told by Ali, a typical nine-year-old American girl who spent the summer traveling on a budget across Borneo with her older brother and parents. Ali just wanted to be a normal kid with a normal family spending summer vacation at the beach in Florida. Unfortunately, she has former hippie parents that wanted a big summer adventure. This was not her idea of summer fun! On her adventure, she lived in a tree house, experienced bedbugs, learned a little about Muslim culture, ate strange food, went white-water rafting, got trapped in a stairwell alone and thought she was being kidnapped, trekked in the jungle, saw orangutans, experienced leeches, stayed with the locals in their houses, found real skulls from headhunters, discovered an island of lost children, and went scuba diving with turtles bigger than she was. This story is not your ordinary nonfiction story. It is a quirky journey about a typical girl experiencing a very untypical place.
Book 4 is the full-length, follow-up novel to Book 2-- Chriselle and Sheldon. Chrissy’s heart could have shattered at seeing Sheldon's confusion. “You said you would wait an eternity.” Sheldon's anger flew at her. “For a woman who knows what she wants.” “Go to hell.” Sheldon staggered. “I’m already there.” She didn’t give a damn if his red eyes looked like it. He was the first man she’d ever given her soul to. Had laid in his arms, as a woman still married, and trusted him with every vulnerability she had. Had defied her family’s longstanding values of fidelity and duty. Blake was Chrissy’s first sex partner. But in so many ways, Sheldon was her true first. And only. Chrissy’s hot tears slid down her cheeks as she stared at him now. “If you sleep with her, don’t come back.” Can Chrissy and Sheldon survive? Return to the hotbed of luxury, romance, and rivalry in the Black Hamptons. This medium-heat romance is Book 4 in the Sag Harbor Black Romances. It is a complete novel of 65,000+ words. Follow childhood friends and thirty-somethings Chrissy, Maddy, and Adella as they tackle love and heartache on their rise. Black luxury and sensuality continues in the Hamptons. If you love hit television series Queen Sugar, these are your stories. These books can be read in any order, but are most delicious in sequence. *Strong language, sex
This practical handbook provides more than 30 ready-to-use lesson plans that connect picture books to the national language arts standards set forth by NCTE and IRA. Designed for the primary grades, all lessons have been classroom tested and come with dozens of reproducible patterns and worksheets. Each lesson plan includes bibliographic information, a description of the standards applied in the lesson, skills and objectives, grade level, lists of props and materials, costume ideas, a step-by-step lesson description, comprehension questions, and follow-up activities. A wonderful tool for anyone who works with young students, this guide will generate hours of creative exploration, learning, and delight. Grades K-3
Busy elementary librarians need help applying the new AASL Standards Framework, especially in collaboration with social studies teachers seeking to apply the social studies standards framework. This book shows a path forward for both. This book will be a tremendous help to the busy elementary school librarian who is working with busy elementary social studies teachers. As they are designing and co-teaching library-based lessons based on the Social Studies Standards Framework, the English Literacy Common Core Standards, and the new American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Standards Learners Framework, these reproducible lessons will enhance planning and implementation. You'll get ready-to-use lessons as well as model lessons to adapt to the needs of your own curriculum and students. All standards are applied—with needed handouts—and other tools and current lists of recommended resources are provided. Lessons are coordinated to common elementary social studies curricula at indicated grade levels but can be adapted as template lessons as needed. Current resource lists aid librarians in collection development to support new and current standards.
In this contemporary fantasy by the New York Times bestselling author of All of Us Villains, two girls find themselves drawn to each other while using their supernatural powers to solve a crime—until things take a deadly turn. Six years ago, three Long Island teenagers were murdered—their drowned bodies discovered with sand dollars placed over their eyes. The mystery of the drowning summer was never solved, but as far as the town’s concerned, Evelyn Mackenzie’s father did it. His charges were dropped only because Evelyn summoned a ghost to clear his name. She swore never to call a spirit again. She lied. For generations, Mina Zanetti’s family has used the ocean’s power to guide the dead to their final resting place. But as sea levels rise, the ghosts grow more dangerous, and Mina has been shut out of the family business. When her former friend Evelyn performs another summoning that goes horribly wrong, the two girls must uncover who was really behind the drowning summer murders—and navigate their growing attraction—before the line between life and death dissolves for good. Beautifully written and enticingly witchy, The Drowning Summer is an eerie story perfect for reading under a full moon.