Each Monday at dawn, Mrs. Nelly McNosh brings out a barrel and does a big wash. Mrs. McNosh's wash is certainly big-and definitely wacky. You'll be surprised to see what is hanging on her clothesline by the end of the day! Sarah Weeks's hilarious tale, complemented by Nadine Bernard Westcott's lighthearted illustrations, is perfect for reading aloud.
Keeping your body clean helps you stay healthy. Wash your hands, comb your hair, and wear clean clothes. What are some other ways to keep clean? Listed as a Common Core State Standards exemplar text on a topic across grades.
The ocean gives up many prizes, just setting them on our beaches for us to find. From rubber ducks that started out somewhere in Indonesia to land Venice Beach, to an intact refrigerator makes it way to the Jersey Shore. Chunks of beeswax found on the Oregon coast are the packing remnants of 18th century Spanish gold. Author Skye Moody walks the coast, dons her wet suit, and heads out to sea to understand the excellent debris that accrues along the tideline. There she finds advanced military technology applied to locating buried Rolexes, hardcore competitive beachcombing conventions, and isolated beach communities whose residents are like flotsam congregated at the slightest obstacle on the coastline. This book confirms that the world is a mysterious place and that treasure is out there to be found.
What makes us sick? What kind of habits should we practice to keep us healthy? Ruthie and James are best friends and classmates in Miss Bee's class. Last week, James had to stay home because he had the flu. When he returns to class, Ruthie is excited but cautious to welcome him back. "Miss Bee?" Ruthie asks. "How do we make sure we don't get sick like James was?" Miss Bee gathers her class for a discussion on developing habits that will prevent the spread of germs and help the class stay healthy. With an exploration of what her students do outside school—like play outside, go to birthday parties, visit parks and petting zoos—Miss Bee demonstrates how washing hands, taking baths, brushing teeth, sneezing and coughing into elbows, eating healthy foods, and getting enough sleep leads to feeling good physically, mentally, and emotionally. In I Can Wash Up!, author and illustrator Meg Walters presents parents, teachers, and caregivers with the tools needed to teach the children in their lives about basic hygiene in hopes that they will grow into healthy, smart adults. It's important that children find the right balance between being mindful about cleanliness and the importance of exploring their worlds.
This book is about the life of a New England railroad man in the twentieth century, and his engagement in the turmoil of 1960s America, in particular union struggles and his participation in anti-war activism in the small towns of Franklin and Medway, Massachusetts. The author's autobiographical note is succinct: "Born in the worst of the depression. Grew up in Hyde Park, a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Graduated from Hyde Park High in 1951. Thrown out of Boston Latin and left Technical High School voluntarily. Served in the Army like most people of that generation and railroaded for 45 years: Boston Terminal Co. New Haven Railroad, Penn Central and Conrail. "I came from three previous generations of railroaders. Enough is enough."
All over the world children wash up. This looks at how they learn to take care of themselves. Using photographs and text, it aims to give readers and pre-school children a glimpse of ways people's lives are the same and different the world over.
In Lynn Wingert's second novel featuring Claire Maxwell, the writer flies down to Miami Beach to interview a survivor of a vicious shark attack for her next article. And, to be perfectly honest, to get the hell out of Iowa in the middle of March. In her typical, inimitable fashion, no sooner is Claire off the plane than she's caught up in a string of bizarre deaths. So what else is new? The only bright side to the sudden flood of bodies washing up on the white sandy beaches of Florida is Lieutenant Chris Merrett, an old buddy of her brother Jack's from the police academy. As the body count rises, Chris and Claire rush from beautiful beaches to the county morgue to one of the finest houses in the city in an attempt to stop the deaths before Miami Beach is nothing but a ghost town.
It is cleanup time, and Daddy and his little one are putting away books, blocks, teddy bears, and train cars, washing hands, and preparing for dinner--all while having fun with math! As Daddy talks with his toddler, he uses spatial-relationship math words and phrases like up, down, inside, outside, next to, and under to reinforce his young learner's understanding. When it is dinnertime, the little one proudly demonstrates an understanding of down when helping to set the table and up while enjoying the first delicious bite!A playful story that models engaging conversations between parent and child, Clean Up, Up, Up! includes a note by early childhood education expert Susan C. Levine that shows parents and caregivers how everyday activities offer rich opportunities to teach early spatial math concepts.This book is based on work supported in part by TERC under a grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation.
