Yoko's World of Kindness
Yoko's World of Kindness

Author: Rosemary Wells

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Published: 2005-06-27

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780786851096

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Rosemary Wells's delightful beginning-reader series about Yoko and her kindergarten friends focuses on the joys and challenges of this all-important school year. Each story follows the familiar and beloved characters as they learn the skills to form healthy relationships and build confidence in their abilities. Now six of these stories about the everyday experiences of kindergarten are available in this large-format treasury, perfect for the emergent reader and for reading aloud.

This Life's Tempestuous Sea
This Life's Tempestuous Sea

Author: Douglas Charles Toland

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2013-06-20

Total Pages: 551

ISBN-13: 1481735152

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In a weak moment, I have written a book. Margaret Mitchell This book is a multilayered creation that touches on a wide array of topics, many of them drawn from personal experiences. Indeed, you the lucky reader will be blessed with enough material for at least three books within one cover. Why would I want to write such a multi-themed book? It wasnt my original intention. Maybe Ive learned an important lesson and wont do so next time. Like many older folks, I wanted to share what I have learned to be true and useful and couldnt seem to stay with a single topic. Ive lived long enough to confirm an important realization: the gleanings from a well-lived life are at least as important as knowledge gained vicariously through reading and classroom attendance. But I think most people dont fully appreciate the value of their life lessons and end up taking most of them to the grave. I want to counter that pattern and use this book to share as many of my gleanings as I can. I also recognize several imminent dangers facing this nation and our planet and feel compelled to share these concerns. Just as important: I want my wife, children, and grandchildren to know more about who I was and who Ive come to be. I hope they will have occasions to use some of my wisdom.

Yoko's Paper Cranes
Yoko's Paper Cranes

Author: Rosemary Wells

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Published: 2001-10-22

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780786826025

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AfterSchool Kidzlit is a program of reading and connected activities for grades K to 8, with appealing books and easy-to-use leader's guides for: games; talk topics; role-play; cool words; art, music, and drama; hands-on projects; reading aloud, partner groups, and book clubs.

What the Fun?!
What the Fun?!

Author: Donna Bozzo

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2016-05-17

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0399185526

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As seen on TODAY and in Parade magazine. Take the fast-track to FUN! With over 400 games, activities, crafts, projects, and more, you’ll be ready to shake up a rainy afternoon, enjoy unplugged family fun on the weekend, turn long car rides into game time, and create homemade crafts your kids will remember for years to come. These accessible activities require little more than items from around the house and a dash of imagination. Activities cover a wide range of ages, so every member of the family can feel engaged and excited. Donna Bozzo has shared her prescription for infusing tons of fantastic fun into your days with millions of people on television and in magazines. Now she gives you 427 easy-peasy ideas to help you to put more fun in your family’s life any and every day. Try her... · Five-minute fun fixes · Zany ways to shake up the ole (yawn) daily routine · Clever bedtime, homework, and chore time struggle-stoppers · Quick ways to create family memories · Easy, exciting ways to make each and every day a special occasion

So Far from the Bamboo Grove
So Far from the Bamboo Grove

Author: Yoko Kawashima Watkins

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2014-06-24

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 006234711X

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In the final days of World War II, Koreans were determined to take back control of their country from the Japanese and end the suffering caused by the Japanese occupation. As an eleven-year-old girl living with her Japanese family in northern Korea, Yoko is suddenly fleeing for her life with her mother and older sister, Ko, trying to escape to Japan, a country Yoko hardly knows. Their journey is terrifying—and remarkable. It's a true story of courage and survival that highlights the plight of individual people in wartime. In the midst of suffering, acts of kindness, as exemplified by a family of Koreans who risk their own lives to help Yoko's brother, are inspiring reminders of the strength and resilience of the human spirit.

Creating Caring Classrooms
Creating Caring Classrooms

Author: Kathleen Gould Lundy

Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited

Published: 2013-05

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1551388324

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This passionate book is about community, compassion, and creativity; it is about caring for others. It is also about helping students care about their work. Teachers will learn how to establish inclusive classrooms where kindness and concern become crucial backdrops for critical conversations. They will be introduced to simple but profound strategies that initiate and maintain respectful dialogue, promote collaboration over competition, and confront difficult issues such as bullying and exclusion. Creating Caring Classrooms is committed to building respectful relationships among students, teachers, and the school community. Through active, engaging, relevant, open-ended activities, students will be encouraged to explore events, ideas, themes, texts, stories, and relationships from different perspectives, and then represent those new understandings in innovative and creative ways.

The Picture Book Almanac
The Picture Book Almanac

Author: Nancy J. Polette

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2015-11-10

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1440842779

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This essential guide has exactly the right books to help you celebrate special days throughout the year—even "holidays" you've never heard of—and provides hundreds of fun titles and activities that could inspire your students to become life-long readers. Young students need to continually be presented with a vast variety of types of books, authors, illustrators, and subject matter in order to find the perfect concept or image that sparks their imagination, takes their comprehension to a new level, or helps them turn the corner to becoming a book lover. Nancy J. Polette's The Picture Book Almanac: Picture Books and Activities to Celebrate 365 Familiar and Unusual Holidays can be used year-round as a key to open that great literary treasure vault. The books Polette has painstakingly selected for their value as learning opportunities tie into both familiar and unusual holidays, ranging from official, nationally recognized holidays to obscure ones such as Milk Day and Thesaurus Day. The daily featured book titles cover the classics, such as books in the Paddington Bear series and Cinderella to outstanding current and just-published titles, collectively representing the best choices for collection building over time. This book is an excellent tool for collection development as well as an indispensable resource for reading teachers and classroom teachers.

Yoko Finds Her Way
Yoko Finds Her Way

Author: Rosemary Wells

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Published: 2014-04-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781423165125

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Yoko and her mama are going on a trip to Japan! Yoko helps Mama get to and through the airport by reading signs along the way. By the time they get to their gate, Mama is exhausted. While Mama naps, Yoko goes to the washroom. But "Oh, no!" Yoko takes the wrong exit and finds herself in a completely different part of the terminal. Before she knows it, Yoko is on the moving walkway, zipping toward Baggage Claim. Will she be able to follow the signs back to her mama? With her flair for sly humor, Rosemary Wells defuses an anxious situation by keeping Yoko cool and confident, unlike poor Mama! Readers will enjoy reading the signs along with Yoko in this happy-ending story about navigating a very big but very friendly airport.

Acorn
Acorn

Author: Yoko Ono

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 2013-11-19

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1616203773

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“It’s nearly 50 years ago that my book of conceptual instructions Grapefruit was first published. In these pages I’m picking up where I left off. After each day of sharing the instructions you should feel free to question, discuss, and/or report what your mind tells you. I’m just planting the seeds. Have fun.” —Yoko Ono Legendary avant-garde icon Yoko Ono has inspired generations of artists and performers. In Acorn, she offers enchanting and thought-provoking exercises that open our eyes—and all of our senses—to more creative and mindful ways of relating to ourselves, each other, and the planet we cohabit. Throughout this beautifully designed book are 100 black-and-white line drawings by Yoko. Like this legendary woman herself, the book is wildly original, stimulating, and hard to label: Call it purposeful play, call it brain poetry, call it guided motivation, call it Zen-like incantations, call it whatever you want. But read it. Acorn may change the way you experience the world.

Each Kindness
Each Kindness

Author: Jacqueline Woodson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-10-23

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 0593353757

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WINNER OF A CORETTA SCOTT KING HONOR AND THE JANE ADDAMS PEACE AWARD! Each kindness makes the world a little better This unforgettable book is written and illustrated by the award-winning team that created The Other Side and the Caldecott Honor winner Coming On Home Soon. With its powerful anti-bullying message and striking art, it will resonate with readers long after they've put it down. Chloe and her friends won't play with the new girl, Maya. Every time Maya tries to join Chloe and her friends, they reject her. Eventually Maya stops coming to school. When Chloe's teacher gives a lesson about how even small acts of kindness can change the world, Chloe is stung by the lost opportunity for friendship, and thinks about how much better it could have been if she'd shown a little kindness toward Maya.