Good News

Good News
Author: Barb Hilliard
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2001
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780810840799

Designed for K-5 classrooms, these creative bulletin board ideas link Bible themes to classwork. The authors have created 110 different concepts, with complete instructions and illustrations. Following the school year, the bulletin boards can be used as springboards to promote discussion and as reminders of the central message in a particular lesson. The authors have also outlined ideas for classroom activities, suggestions for appropriate books, field trip ideas, party plans, cooperative learning activities, and Web sites. Faith lessons are generously sprinkled throughout. A section called "Bible Heroes from A to Z" provides brief retellings of heroic deeds that bring Bible heroes to life. Even students who know their Bible well will enjoy these 5-minute short stories. The Bible has been a teaching tool since it was written, and Good News: Thematic Bulletin Boards for Christian Classrooms makes it easy.

StoryCraft

StoryCraft
Author: Martha Seif Simpson
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2015-11-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0786492155

While storytelling is a great favorite of preschoolers, many elementary age children are more drawn to crafts and other activities. StoryCraft is an award-winning library program that combines storytelling with crafts in an exciting and engaging activity for children in first through third grades. Each one-hour program includes storytelling, a craft, movement, activities, music, and discussion. This collection of StoryCraft programs presents 50 fun and educational theme-based sessions. Each includes suggestions for promotion, music, crafts, activities, and stories. The sessions also include bibliographies to help direct young readers toward additional reading, as well as diagrams, detailed instructions, and supply lists for the crafts. The themes range from a Jungle Safari to Math Mayhem to a Western Roundup, all encouraging children to enjoy reading in a variety of ways. Each session has plenty of suggestions, so that the program can be customized. Helpful Hints for implementing the program can help any librarian, volunteer, or parent turn a ho-hum storytime into a dazzling StoryCraft time.

Midnight At the Dragon Cafe

Midnight At the Dragon Cafe
Author: Judy Fong Bates
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2010-12-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1551995840

Set in the 1960s, Judy Fong Bates’s much-talked-about debut novel is the story of a young girl, the daughter of a small Ontario town’s solitary Chinese family, whose life is changed over the course of one summer when she learns the burden of secrets. Through Su-Jen’s eyes, the hard life behind the scenes at the Dragon Café unfolds. As Su-Jen’s father works continually for a better future, her mother, a beautiful but embittered woman, settles uneasily into their new life. Su-Jen feels the weight of her mother’s unhappiness as Su-Jen’s life takes her outside the restaurant and far from the customs of the traditional past. When Su-Jen’s half-brother arrives, smouldering under the responsibilities he must bear as the dutiful Chinese son, he forms an alliance with Su-Jen’s mother, one that will have devastating consequences. Written in spare, intimate prose, Midnight at the Dragon Café is a vivid portrait of a childhood divided by two cultures and touched by unfulfilled longings and unspoken secrets.

The Weekly Curriculum

The Weekly Curriculum
Author: Barbara Backer
Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc.
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2003
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780876592823

What's your plan? If you're not sure, this great big book has the answer! With 52 weekly plans, it's easy to come up with appropriate learning experiences that children will love. This essential classroom resource covers special holidays, seasonal topics, everyday plans, and other things you've probably never thought of, such as National Pretzel Month or National Pancake Day!

How to Get Your Child to Love Reading

How to Get Your Child to Love Reading
Author: Esmé Raji Codell
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781565123083

Offers advice and guidelines on how to expand a child's world through books and reading, introducing three thousand teacher-recommended book titles, craft ideas, projects, recipes, and reading club tips.

Conservation Education and Outreach Techniques

Conservation Education and Outreach Techniques
Author: Susan Kay Jacobson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2015
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0198716680

The conservation of biological diversity depends on people's knowledge and actions. This book presents the theory and practice for creating effective education and outreach programmes for conservation. The authors describe an exciting array of techniques for enhancing school resources, marketing environmental messages, using social media, developing partnerships for conservation, and designing on-site programmes for parks and community centres. Vivid case studies from around the world illustrate techniques and describe planning, implementation, and evaluation procedures, enabling readers to implement their own new ideas effectively. Conservation Education and Outreach Techniques, now in its second edition and updated throughout, includes twelve chapters illustrated with numerous photographs showing education and outreach programmes in action, each incorporating an extensive bibliography. Helpful text boxes provide practical tips, guidelines, and recommendations for further exploration of the chapter topics. This book will be particularly relevant to conservation scientists, resource managers, environmental educators, students, and citizen activists. It will also serve as a handy reference and a comprehensive text for a variety of natural resource and environmental professionals.

Quick Quilts Across the Curriculum

Quick Quilts Across the Curriculum
Author: Kathy Pike
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2003
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439234689

Contains dozens of easy to follow directions on how to construct fun and appealing quilts. Includes a "Getting to Know You" class quilt, an Olympics plastic-bag quilt, a holidays storybook quilt, a shape poetry quilt, and more

Book Cooks

Book Cooks
Author: Cheryl Apgar
Publisher: Creative Teaching Press
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2002-03
Genre: Arithmetic
ISBN: 1574717928

Easy-to-follow recipes (one for each letter of the alphabet) and numerous activities that include songs, poems and chants, that enhance literacy and math skills while students learn and enjoy hands-on-cooking experiences.