The Big Skills for Little Hands(R) series features fun activity pages that teach your child important skills necessary for kindergarten. Your child will have fun cutting, pasting, folding, drawing, tracing, and coloring his or her way to school success! After completing this book, your child will be proud to say . . . I Can Cut!

Helping children prepare for Kindergarten by building important motor skills! Big Skills for Little Hands: I Can Cut! will help children build hand strength and dexterity by teaching them to use scissors to cut lines, curves, and shapes. Children will create puppets, play games, and make puzzles while learning an essential skill for school success! A write and wipe board in the back of the book offers more opportunities for learning. After completing this book, young learners will be proud to say I Can Cut! Features: *Cutting activities to create puppets, play games, and puzzles *Activities support national standards for early childhood *Essential practice in manual coordination *A write and wipe board with bonus fine motor activities The Big Skills for Little Hands series features fun activity pages that teach important motor skills necessary for Kindergarten. Children will have fun cutting, pasting, folding, drawing, tracing, and coloring their way to school success! Plus each activity completed becomes a new creation to play with again and again! All the activities meet national standards for preschool and kindergarten. Collect all 8 titles in this must have series!

Follows a child through all the big first grade moments.

Art Teacherin' 101 is a book for all elementary art teachers, new and seasoned, to learn all things art teacherin' from classroom management, to taming the kindergarten beast, landing that dream job, taking on a student-teacher, setting up an art room and beyond. It's author, Cassie Stephens, has been an elementary art teacher for over 22 years and shares all that she's learned as an art educator. Art teachers, home school parents and classroom teachers alike will find tried and true ways to make art and creating a magical experience for the young artists in their life.

Scissor skills preschool activity book for toddlers ages 3+ Support your child’s educational journey with Spectrum’s Let’s Learn to Cut Scissor Skills Preschool Workbook that teaches fine motor skills to preschoolers. Scissor Skills Activity Books are a great way for toddlers to learn basic scissor skills such as cutting different lines and shapes, gluing objects together, and more through a variety of toddler learning activities that are both fun AND educational! Why You’ll Love This Toddler Activity Book Engaging and educational preschool learning activities. “Cutting puzzles”, “Cutting and folding to animate illustrations”, and “Cutting and pasting onto a paper lunch bag” are a few of the fun toddler learning activities that incorporate fun crafts and scissor skills practice to help inspire learning into your child’s preschool curriculum. Extension activities are also included for more learning fun! Tracking progress along the way. A review is included to track student progress before moving on to new and exciting preschool learning activities. Use the Certificate of Achievement in the back of the pre k workbook to motivate toddlers on a job well done after successfully completing all the activities! Practically sized for every activity. The 64-page preschool workbook is sized at about 8 inches x 10 1⁄2 inches—giving your child plenty of space to complete each exercise. About Spectrum For more than 20 years, Spectrum has provided solutions for parents who want to help their children get ahead, and for teachers who want their students to meet and exceed set learning goals—providing workbooks that are a great resource for both homeschooling and classroom curriculum. The Preschool Activity Book Contains: Pre K cut and paste activities and extension activities A review and certificate of achievement Perfectly sized at about 8” x 10 1⁄2”

The authors in this book use the metaphors of invisibility and visibility to explore the social and school lives of many children and young people in North America whose complexity, strengths, and vulnerabilities are largely unseen in the society and its schools. These “invisible children” are socially devalued in the sense that alleviating the difficult conditions of their lives is not a priority—children who are subjected to derogatory stereotypes, who are educationally neglected in schools that respond inadequately if at all to their needs, and who receive relatively little attention from scholars in the field of education or writers in the popular press. The chapter authors, some of the most passionate and insightful scholars in the field of education today, detail oversights and assaults, visible and invisible, but also affirm the capacity of many of these young people to survive, flourish, and often educate others, despite the painful and even desperate circumstances of their lives. By sharing their voices, providing basic information about them, and offering thoughtful analysis of their social situation, this volume combines education and advocacy in an accessible volume responsive to some of the most pressing issues of our time. Although their research methodologies differ, all of the contributors aim to get the facts straight and to set them in a meaningful context. New in the Third Edition: Chapters retained from the previous edition have been thoroughly revised and updated, and five totally new chapters have been added on the topics of: *young people pushed into the “school-to-prison” pipeline; *the “environmental landscape” of two out-of-school Mexican migrant teens in the rural Midwest; *the perceptions and practices, in and outside schools, that construct African American boys as school failures; *negative portrayals of blackness in the context of understanding the “collateral damage of continued white privilege”; and *working-class pregnant and parenting teens’ efforts to create positive identities for themselves. Of interest to a broad range of researchers, students, and practitioners across the field of education, this compelling book is accessible to all readers. It is particularly appropriate as a text for courses that address the social context of education, cultural and political change, and public policy, including social foundations of education, sociology of education, multicultural education, curriculum studies, and educational policy.