Provides students with a series of practical skills-based exercises which promote reading proficiency. Includes both teacher-directed and self-directed student activities.
The activities contained in Problem Solving are based on a sports theme in which students find solutions to unique dilemmas: which skier will win the most gold medals, how deep in debt a scuba diver gets buying new equipment and how many pizzas the cross-country team can eat after a race. Each page invites the learner to try high interest, appealing exercises that will help students with a new skill, reinforce an existing skill or assess a student's performance or understanding. This is no ordinary fill-in-the-blanks way to learn. These exercises are fun and surprising. Students will cultivate numerous skills including how to: identify and define a problem, eliminate excess information, create diagrams, charts or graphs, translate problems into equations, solve problems using statistical data, select appropriate operations for solving problems, choose and use formulas to solve problems, solve consumer problems involving interest and discounts, use logic to solve problems and check the accuracy of problem solutions.
Instructions for a variety of projects, such as games, cards, and holiday decorations, using crayons and felt markers and other easily available materials.
This handy resource contains more than enough patterns, projects and plans to take you all the way throug January. The creative materials in this book will help you decorate the classroom, communicate with parents, motivate children, teach basic skills present special units and projects, plan activities and events, and create a stimulating learning environment for young children.
Easy-to-prepare recipes for beverages, snacks, sandwiches, salads, main dishes, desserts, and special treats--all of which can be made without using electrical appliances.
Educators know that early learning success is the cornerstone for a lifelong love of learning. The "Ready to Learn book series capitalizes on these vitally important "teachable" years of pre-school and kindergarten. Each book in this 8-book series introduces basic skills and concepts to help pave the way to increased self-confidence and reinforced lifelong learning success. A fun character is introduced in each book and every book includes a FREE classroom poster of the "Ready to Learn characters.
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