This is a great book for English teachers working at Kindergarten level. It includes eighty ready-to-use activities plans organized into 10 thematic units. Each daily plan covers each moment of the class: arrival, opening, craft, freeplay and closing. There are also reproducibles, letters to parents and ideas for using children’s books.

What better way to introduce the concept of percentages than with delicious Twizzlers candy?
As he's done with fractions, addition, and counting, author and educator Jerry Pallotta teaches percentages in the fun and relaxed way that has become his trademark.

Using a blend of fun poetry, clearly written helping text, and riddles, this book takes the mystery out of math and makes solving word problems fun. After all, what is a word problem but a cleverly concealed riddle?
The book focuses on fractions, starting with basic fractions and then moving on to more advanced concepts such as equivalent fractions, reduced fractions, and addition with fractions.
Readers learn to interpret pie-graph representations of fractions and also learn about negative numbers, number sentences, quantity comparisons, and the concept of infinity.
A glossary of math terms and a brief review appear at the end of the book.

How long is a foot? What is the metric system? What weighs more, a ton of feathers or a ton of Hershey's candy? Author and educator Jerry Pallotta answers these and lots of other questions as only he can--using Hershey's Kisses, Twizzlers candies, Hershey's chocolate bars, and more to teach weights and measurements. Rob Bolster's comical clowns demonstrate the concepts.This is the eighth book in the series by Pallotta and Bolster, who have taught kids counting by fives, addition, subtraction, fractions, multiplication, percents, shapes, and patterns.