This book series is excellent for First Grade. It is a wonderful
resource for teachers and homeschool parents. Each is a brand new
workbook, "Phonics and Reading" and "Addition & Subtraction," by
Disney and Bendon Publishing. They have 32 pages each which are
sequential by skill. These skill builder workbooks cover the most
critical Math and Reading skills in First Grade presented during the
school year. They encourage children to learn on their own through the
use of "picture directions and concrete examples." The workbook pages
are in color with all your favorite Disney characters and also includes
a letter for parents and teachers. Each page is perforated for easy
removal, and is filled with engaging activities. The activities
emphasize the key building blocks for academic success. It is complete
with an answer key and a parent resource page.
This second book in the Telling Time sequence helps children learn how to tell time down to the minute. By using a variety of different activities to keep children engaged, this workbook helps children learn this difficult skill without feeling frustrated or anxious.
Ages 5-7.
What is the most important English skill? What skill must you have to communicate well? Obviously, number 1 is Fluency, the ability to speak (and understand) quickly and easily without translation. Fluency means you can talk easily with native speakers - they easily understand you, and you easily understand them. Fluency is your most important goal, but you do not learn it in school or by studying grammar rules. Listening Is The Key
Generations have grown up knowing that the equation E=mc2 changed the shape of our world, but never understanding what it actually means, why it was so significant, and how it informs our daily lives today—governing, as it does, everything from the atomic bomb to a television’s cathode ray tube to the carbon dating of prehistoric paintings. In this book, David Bodanis writes the “biography” of one of the greatest scientific discoveries in history—that the realms of energy and matter are inescapably linked—and, through his skill as a writer and teacher, he turns a seemingly impenetrable theory into a dramatic human achievement and an uncommonly good story.
Christmas had never been a particularly good time for Dr Kay Scarpetta. Although a holiday for most, it always seem to heighten the alienation felt by society's violent fringe; and that usually means more work for Scarpetta, Virginia's Chief Medical ExaminerI. The body was naked, female and found propped against a fountain in a bleak area of New York's Central Park. Her apparent manner of death points to a modus operandi that is chillingly familiar: the gunshot wound to the head, the sections of skin excised from the body, the displayed corpse - all suggest that Temple Brooks Gault, Scarpetta's nemesis, is back at work.
