The Crazy Big Book of First Grade Activities covers essential concepts such as: -numbers and place value -addition and subtraction -grammar and vocabulary -parts of speech Filled with puzzles and games, this language arts and math activity book offers a fresh, fun way to learn at home. Capturing and keeping your child’s attention can be a challenge— the Crazy Big Book of First Grade Activities makes it easy! Using a variety of engaging activities, this workbook offers hours of fun-filled learning. Whether at home or on the road, the Crazy Big Book of First Grade Activities helps children build the math and language arts skills for success. Available for kindergarten to third grades, the Crazy Big Book of Activities series strengthens skills with puzzles and games—a learning format kids love! All activity books feature 544 pages of exciting activities to help children get ahead in math and language arts.

Over 1.7 million Highlights Big Fun Workbooks sold! Jumpstart learning with this award-winning workbook for 1st graders from the kid experts at Highlights. Developed with teachers and aligned with curriculum standards, this workbook will get kids excited for first grade! Jam-packed with 256 pages of puzzle-based activities — including ever-popular Hidden Pictures, mazes, matching games and scavenger hunts — there’s something for every learning style. Expertly crafted, age-appropriate activities mix and match skills and puzzle types to create a fresh approach to school readiness, helping kids build skills in: · Language Arts: reading, writing, handwriting, spelling, parts of speech · Math: skip counting, parts of a whole, addition, subtraction · Colors, shapes and science topics In addition to imaginative puzzles, silly poems and colorful illustrations, this 256-page workbook also features: · Simple tips to help parents maximize learning · A Certificate of Achievement to celebrate kids’ hard work · Links to more online learning activities The Highlights First Grade Big Fun Workbook is the winner of the Family Choice Award, Play Advances Language (PAL) Award, PAL Top Ten Pick and the 2020 National Parenting Seal of Approval.

Help your child exceed the Common Core standards with What Your First Grader Needs to Know What will your child be expected to learn in the first grade? How can you help him or her at home? How can teachers foster active, successful learning in the classroom? This book answers these all-important questions and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that hundreds of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon for American first graders. Filled with opportunities for reading aloud and fostering discussion, this first-grade volume of the acclaimed Core Knowledge Series presents the sort of knowledge and skills that should be at the core of a challenging first-grade education. Inside you’ll discover • Favorite poems—old and new, such as “The Owl and the Pussycat,” “Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,” and “Thirty Days Hath September” • Beloved stories—from many times and lands, including a selection of Aesop’s fables, “Hansel and Gretel,” “All Stories Are Anansi’s,” “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” and much more • Familiar sayings and phrases—such as “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” and “Practice makes perfect” • World and American history and geography—take a trip down the Nile with King Tut and learn about the early days of our country, including the story of Jamestown, the Pilgrims, and the American Revolution • Visual arts—fun activities plus reproductions of masterworks by Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Georgia O’Keeffe, and others • Music—engaging introductions to great composers and music, including classical music, opera, and jazz, as well as a selection of favorite children’s songs • Math—a variety of activities to help your child learn to count, add and subtract, solve problems, recognize geometrical shapes and patterns, and learn about telling time • Science—interesting discussions of living things and their habitats, the human body, the states of matter, electricity, our solar system, and what’s inside the earth, plus stories of famous scientists such as Thomas Edison and Rachel Carson BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from What Your Second Grader Needs to Know.

A mentor teacher shares insights, strategies and lessons for teaching reading, writing and math--and laying the foundation for learning success.

A workbook that focuses on the first grade curriculum, including time, money, fractions, phonics and spelling, basic math, reading comprehension, vocabulary, and more.

Engage students in mathematics using growth mindset techniques The most challenging parts of teaching mathematics are engaging students and helping them understand the connections between mathematics concepts. In this volume, you'll find a collection of low-floor, high-ceiling tasks that will help you do just that, by looking at the big ideas in second grade through visualization, play, and investigation. During their work with tens of thousands of teachers, authors Jo Boaler, Jen Munson, and Cathy Williams heard the same message―that they want to incorporate more brain science into their math instruction, but they need guidance in the techniques that work best to get across the concepts they needed to teach. So, the authors designed Mindset Mathematics around the principle of active student inquiry, with tasks that reflect the latest brain science on learning. Open, creative, and visual math tasks have been shown to support student learning, and more importantly change their relationship with mathematics and start believing in their own potential. The tasks in Mindset Mathematics reflect the lessons from brain science that: There is no such thing as a math person and anyone can learn mathematics to high levels. Mistakes, struggle, and challenge are opportunities for brain growth. Speed is unimportant, and even counterproductive, in mathematics. Mathematics is a visual and beautiful subject, and our brains want to think visually about mathematics. With engaging questions, open-ended tasks, and four-color visuals that will help kids get excited about mathematics, Mindset Mathematics is organized around nine big ideas which emphasize the connections within the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and can be used with any current curriculum.

Travel back in time with former students and teachers of Illinois only octagonal one-room schoolhouse. Read eye-witness accounts of the years 1916 to 1953 when the school closed. What was it like to have all eight grades together in one classroom with only one teacher? Find out as you read these personal narratives that will touch your heart. Filled with hundreds of historic photographs, this book will delight readers of all ages.