Readers follow storyteller Randel McGee as he explores Presidents' Day. Readers will create their own presidential portrait and presidential seal. They'll build a log cabin coin bank and make presidents' busts using eggshells and paper.

From Washington to Lincoln, Presidents’ Day is a day to honor leaders! Young learners can find out more about this patriotic holiday with this fact-filled title. Simple sentences combine with crisp photos to explain when the holiday happens and how people celebrate, while special features reiterate main points. A photo glossary and sight word list add support for students just starting to read independently.

Presidents' Day celebrates the birthdays of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and all U.S. presidents. Some people go to parades, visit historical sites, or read books about presidents. Others dress up in costumes. Readers will discover how a shared holiday can have multiple traditions and be celebrated in all sorts of ways.

"Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.

Do you want to encourage your students to follow directions, enhance their creativity and increase their motivation in a fun-filled, productive way? If you do, then this is the packet for you! These step-by-step activities also expand reading and vocabulary skills if you have students read them, and they develop listening skills when you read them aloud to your class. Students will learn how to follow directions for coloring, changing words into other words, drawing pictures, folding paper and more. Each activity includes easy-to-understand directions, and requires a minimum of preparation time by the teacher. Your class will enjoy the mystery of following step-by-step directions without knowing the results until they're actually done!

Drawing on interview data, the authors describe K-3 students' knowledge and thinking about basic aspects of the social world that are addressed in the elementary social studies curriculum. The interviews focused on human activities relating to nine cultural universals that are commonly addressed in the elementary social studies curriculum: food, clothing, shelter, communication, transportation, family living, childhood, money, and government. This volume synthesizes findings from the research and discusses their implications for curriculum and instruction in early social studies. Children's Thinking About Cultural Universals significantly expands the knowledge base on developments in children's social knowledge and thinking and, in addition, provides a wealth of information to inform social studies educators' and curriculum developers' efforts to match instruction to students' prior knowledge, both by building on already developed valid knowledge and by addressing common misconceptions. It represents a quantum leap in the availability of information on the trajectories of children's knowledge about common topics in primary elementary social studies education.

Expand students reading and vocabulary skills as well as their listening skills as they follow directions, step-by-step, to solve word problems and make creative art projects. The results may be surprising, even to the students!

Every class includes students who lag behind the rest of the class or race ahead of everyone when working on activities. This packet provides creative solutions to that problem. The teacher provides each student with drawing paper, a pencil, crayons and a copy of the activity sheet. Then the student reads and follows the directions, step-by-step, or listens to the teacher read them aloud. The activities encourage students to follow directions, enhance their creativity and increase their motivation in fun-filled, productive ways.