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After Brother Bear meets the new girl in town, he can't help but feel like he's walking on sunshine. The only problem is, the new girl is from a rival clan. Can Brother Bear and his crush end the feud and be together? Or is a clash in the cards?
Even though they are not into rad fashions, Brother Bear and Sister Bear join the other cubs' protest when Mr. Grizzmeyer enforces a strict dress code at Bear Country School.
Includes dozens of exciting lesson plans and activities as well as essays examining pedagogical and classroom management issues unique to this age group.
Interactive thematic units are designed to enhance your students' communication skills. Included are activities to: promote honesty, build listening and empathy skills, discover personal communication styles, express feelings appropriately, develop verbal and nonverbal communication skills, practice assertiveness, resolve conflicts, increase cooperativeness and learning. When we give our students the opportunity to notice and practice good communication skills, they will become more effective communicators, better learners and have more successful relationships. This book shows you how to make these valuable lessons a part of your basic curriculum.
Girl power! Girl bears can do anything boy bears can do—including play football. Bertha Broom wants to join the football team but is turned down by coach Grizzmeyer because she’s a girl. The students at Bear Country School start to question how girls and boys are treated differently. Soon, everyone is up in arms about Bertha’s “football fate.” Then Queenie McBear and Sister Bear decide to take a serious stand and get the town involved in equality for everyone!
Contains reproducible student activity pages for book reports for use with kindergarteners and first graders who come to school already reading and with average second graders who have not advanced to chaper books.
Because of their popularity, books in series are great vehicles for fostering literacy among all types of readers, who are almost always adamant about reading every title in the series, in series order. Yet traditional information sources on children's and YA literature include very little about series fiction, so librarians often have difficulty managing this literature. This guide will be a rich resource and time-saver for librarians who work with children. It introduces users to the best and most popular fiction series of today, covering more than 1,000 series with over 10,000 titles, appropriate for elementary readers. Annotations also indicate series and titles accepted by some of the popular electronic reading programs (e.g., Accelerated Reading, Reading First). A numbered list of titles in the series follows.
