Choose Your Challenge, Grades K - 1

Choose Your Challenge, Grades K - 1
Author: Brighter Child
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1623991315

The fun and educational activities in the Two-in-One book, Choose Your Challenge, for kindergarten and first grade, encourage creativity and reinforce basic skills. The first 32 pages include a variety of puzzles and learning activities, then flip the book over for the next 32 pages of brand new activities! --Choose Your Challenge provides learning fun in four areas: mazes, dot-to-dots, doodles, and hidden pictures. Jokes and riddles accompany the wacky mazes and silly dot-to-dots to make learning fun. Fun prompts encourage children to use their imagination to create a variety of fun doodles. Children will also practice their vowel sounds and rhyming words when searching for the hidden pictures.

I Choose To Try Again

I Choose To Try Again
Author: Elizabeth Estrada
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2021-06-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781637312094

In this rhyming story, Kiara learns how to keep going even when things get too hard. Through colorful illustrations and rhythmic rhymes, Kiara reflects on her mistakes and realizes that mistakes help her grow. Instead of avoiding them, she learns from them so she can improve. Do you want your child to learn about perseverance and diligence? Your child will learn how easy it is to get back up after failing. "I Choose to Try Again" is a story with social emotional learning (SEL) in mind. It has been praised by teachers and therapists worldwide. This story told from Kiara's point of view will help open your child's mind to what it feels like to fail, and then try again. Kiara will teach your child how to be mentally strong. With Kiara in real life examples, your child will learn to develop their understanding of their own emotions. Throughout the story, Kiara will show you what perseverance looks like. Teacher and Therapist Toolbox: I Choose is an empowering series curated to empower young children to become aware of big emotions. A new book series developed in tandem with teachers and therapists to help children cope with a range of emotions and teach them that they indeed hold the power to choose their actions and reactions. Try not to say 'never.'. That brainwashes you to fail. It means that you won't have the chance To raise the victory sail. "I Choose to Try Again" was developed alongside counselors and parents to be used as a resource in a social emotional curriculum.

Summer Bridge Explorations, Grades K - 1

Summer Bridge Explorations, Grades K - 1
Author:
Publisher: Rainbow Bridge Publishing
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2015-04-27
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 148382599X

Summer Bridge Explorations prepares your kindergarten graduate for first grade through progressive lessons and project-based learning. This dynamic workbook strengthens cross-curricular skills with a focus on beginning math, phonics, and handwriting. Summer Bridge Explorations makes learning last. With this dynamic series, students entering grades 1 to 4 prepare for the new year through project-based learning. Grade-level workbooks are divided into three progressive sections, one for each month of summer, and each of these sections is built around a theme-based activity that connects real-world learning with summer fun. Your child will keep learning alive by applying new skills in fun ways, all while enjoying everything summer has to offer. Lessons and activities span the curriculum, supporting growth in math, reading, writing, social studies, science, and the arts.

Journey Toward the Caring Classroom

Journey Toward the Caring Classroom
Author: Laurie S. Frank
Publisher: Wood 'N' Barnes Publishing
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781885473608

Describes how to create an effective learning environment in which students share common interests and goals.

The Why Not? Challenge

The Why Not? Challenge
Author: Dr Jacqueline L Sanderlin
Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781338599244

Dr. Sanderlin ("Dr. Jackie") believes that all schools, especially those in communities with few resources, should develop a "Why Not?" attitude when it comes to what can be accomplished by their students. Where do funding and other resources come from to realize students' dreams? The partnerships that schools can form in their own communities with businesses and organizations. Sanderlin shares 10 practical steps that will enable readers to seek out, develop, and sustain powerful partnerships that will help their students in so many ways.

Teaching by Design in Elementary Mathematics, Grades K–1

Teaching by Design in Elementary Mathematics, Grades K–1
Author: Jennifer Stepanek
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2010-11-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452238839

Strengthen your mathematics lessons through collaborative planning Teaching by Design in Elementary Mathematics is a series of comprehensive professional development guides that help teachers investigate how students learn. Grounded in the latest research, this book is one of three volumes focused on grade-appropriate number and operations topics aligned with the Common Core State Standards. The capstone activity of each book guides the group through the co-creation and implementation of a prototype lesson. The teacher teams then evaluate the impact of the lesson on student learning and work together to revise it for maximum effectiveness. Through the process, teachers develop: Deeper content knowledge of important mathematical concepts Improved understanding of how students learn these mathematical ideas A stronger foundation for developing effective lessons and improving instruction Enhanced collaboration skills Each volume includes a large assortment of reproducible handouts as well as built-in facilitation notes. Teachers will also find helpful resources that address the issue of finding time for school-based professional development and teacher collaboration.

Classroom-Ready Rich Math Tasks, Grades K-1

Classroom-Ready Rich Math Tasks, Grades K-1
Author: Beth McCord Kobett
Publisher: Corwin
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2021-04-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1544399111

Detailed plans for helping elementary students experience deep mathematical learning Do you work tirelessly to make your math lessons meaningful, challenging, accessible, and engaging? Do you spend hours you don’t have searching for, adapting, and creating tasks to provide rich experiences for your students that supplement your mathematics curriculum? Help has arrived! Classroom Ready-Rich Math Tasks for Grades K-1 details 56 research- and standards-aligned, high-cognitive-demand tasks that will have your students doing deep-problem-based learning. These ready-to-implement, engaging tasks connect skills, concepts and practices, while encouraging students to reason, problem-solve, discuss, explore multiple solution pathways, connect multiple representations, and justify their thinking. They help students monitor their own thinking and connect the mathematics they know to new situations. In other words, these tasks allow students to truly do mathematics! Written with a strengths-based lens and an attentiveness to all students, this guide includes: • Complete task-based lessons, referencing mathematics standards and practices, vocabulary, and materials • Downloadable planning tools, student resource pages, and thoughtful questions, and formative assessment prompts • Guidance on preparing, launching, facilitating, and reflecting on each task • Notes on access and equity, focusing on students’ strengths, productive struggle, and distance or alternative learning environments. With concluding guidance on adapting or creating additional rich tasks for your students, this guide will help you give all of your students the deepest, most enriching and engaging mathematics learning experience possible.

180 Days: Hands-On STEAM: Grade K ebook

180 Days: Hands-On STEAM: Grade K ebook
Author: Chandra Prough
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2022-05-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1425825648

Incorporate hands-on lab activities that integrate STEAM concepts with 180 days of daily practice! This invaluable resource provides weekly STEAM activities that improve students’ criitcal-thinking skills, and are easy to incorporate into any learning environment. Students will explore STEAM concepts through the inquiry process with hands-on lab activities. Each week introduces a STEAM problem, need, or phenomena that they will address through a guided step-by-step challenge. Aligned to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and state standards, this resource includes digital materials. Provide students with the skills they need to think develop problem-solving skills with this essential resource!

Applying Differentiation Strategies

Applying Differentiation Strategies
Author: Wendy Conklin
Publisher: Shell Education
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2007-07-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781425800789

A practical guide for applying differentiation theories to real classrooms. You will learn how to differentiate through content, process, and product.

Beginning Reader Intervention Activities, Grades K - 1

Beginning Reader Intervention Activities, Grades K - 1
Author: Pressnall
Publisher: Key Education Publishing
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2013-01-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1602682410

Beginning Reader Intervention Activities includes lessons covering 37 word families and is the ideal companion for reinforcement of reading, spelling and writing using three- and four-letter words. It includes multi-sensory activities, home-school connections, and over 400 reproducible word cards. Get beginning readers off on the right track with 160 pages of engaging intervention!