Grab your hard hat and get ready for a day of construction fun with a busy builder and his friend, now available as a Mini Bee Board Book! Grab your hard hat, tie your boots. Pack your lunch. Ready? Scoot! Sketch a dream. Post a chart. Hatch the plan before you start. Get ready for a day full of construction fun! Children can follow a busy dog builder as he sketches and plans his dream, clears rubble to make space, and gets to work digging, lifting, and sawing. Now even the youngest of readers can enjoy building with a busy dog! This playful and imaginative story is now available as a Mini Bee Board Book!

Includes all start-up costs and actual floor plans that you can modify to suit your own location broken down to the penny. Five-Point Salon Design System Construction Costs Furniture & Equipment Costs Salon Floor Plans Do you have dreams of owning a successful salon? Ready, Set, Go! The Salon Building Bible will set you on a path that will enable you to design a salon that meets your needs and fits your budget. Authors, Eric Ryant and Jeff Grissler, felt that one of the biggest expenses and challenges faced by new owners was floor plans and estimating start-up costs. Therefore, they did what no other book in the industry has done-they provided ready-to-use floor plans and designs from an award-winning salon designer. Each plan details the construction and materials costs-along with the furniture and equipment needs required for each plan. Let Eric and Jeff guide you through your salon startup or remodel. Plan your project based on advice of leading salon design experts and salon owners. Avoid unnecessary costs with architects and designers and get a jump start by using the Ready, Set, Go! Five-Point designs and advice in this book. Benefit from step-by-step guidance for designing, building, or remodeling your salon. Know exactly what your start-up costs will be down to the penny. Save money with the years of industry knowledge and tips that are packed into this book. The Salon Building Bible will make your salon dream a reality, while helping you create a design and budget to control costs, keep your project on time, increase your ability to succeed, and generate profits sooner!"

Now available in bilingual Spanish! Come along on a lively, lyrical exploration of the world's most beloved sports. Rhyming text and energetic artwork featuring a diverse group of children introduce the basics of eight sports popular around the world: baseball, track, football/soccer, gymnastics, hockey, karate, basketball, and swimming. Includes educational endnotes and art by celebrated illustrator Christiane Engel, whose previous Barefoot credits include Baby's First Words, Dump Truck Disco, Knick Knack Paddy Whack, and Build-a-Story Cards: Space Quest.

Frog friends, Matty and Moe, are off with a "Ready, Set, Hop!" They both made it to the rock, but who's in the lead? If Matty hopped 5 hops and Moe hopped 2 more hops than Matty, then the score is 5 to 7. But then they're off again. Any child who can add or subtract can build a simple equation, and Matty and Moe make it fun. As readers count along with Stuart J. Murphy and Jon Buller they will sharpen their problem solving skills and find out which frog is the better hopper.

Join these sailors as they explore the sea during a fun day of sailing in this follow-up to Ready, Set, Build! Shout your orders loud and fast. "Hoist the mainsail up the mast!" Grab your life vest, hold on to your compass, and get ready for a day full of sailing fun with a playful tiger and turtle! Follow these salty sailors as they raise their anchor, cast off, and explore the sea in their little sloop. And after a long day of sailing, they gather and tell tales of all the things they've seen!

This writer's block-busting workbook guides authors through planning and plotting a novel before writing it from the initial idea generation and brainstorming through character, setting, and story development. Features include helpful lists, plot maps, character Q & As, field trips, writing exercises, inspiring quotes, and plenty of space to write and outline.

A fool-proof plan to launch your solo private practice with minimal financial investment or risk. We'll be in your back pocket the whole way through, cheering you on and advising you at each step. Our guide is intended for solo licensed clinicians, including (but not limited to) Mental Health Counselors, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists, Speech and Language Pathologists, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and Dietitians.We are a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed and Registered Occupational Therapist with almost 30 years of combined clinical experience, half of which has been spent running our solo practices. We have helped numerous clinicians start their own successful private practices, and are so excited to help you gain independence and achieve financial freedom.

Take the Mystery Out of Your Serger Explore the creative options with Georgie Melot's tried-and-true methods. Learn the ins, outs, overs and unders of your serger! Ready, Set, Serge is a fun, informative book that rewards you with success every time. Georgie's encouraging, learn-by-doing approach guides you through the basics so you'll be creating simple but attractive projects in no time. Gift bags, book covers, pot holders, bath mitts and other attractive pieces can be made from fabric scraps and fat quarters, or from ready-made items such as bath towels. In Ready, Set, Serge you'll find: • A thorough tour of the serger, from how to thread the needles and loopers to identifying specialty feet • A guide to serger stitches and what each is used for • 16 projects in both "basic" and "stepped-up" versions so you can learn general skills, then add more advanced techniques • Clear steps accompanied by photos, project templates and diagrams • Friendly expert advice from a professional serger and instructor Once you see how easy it is, you may find it hard to stop. Are you ready? If so, then get set to serge!

Discover how to release your fitness hormone and tap into the most powerful body fat cutting, muscle toning, energy creating, anti-aging substance known in science. Author Phil Campbell uses 300 photo-illustrations, and 160 research studies to show how to release this powerful hormone with specific exercises, a few inexpensive supplements, and adequate deep sleep.

What types of instructional experiences help K-8 students learn science with understanding? What do science educators, teachers, teacher leaders, science specialists, professional development staff, curriculum designers, and school administrators need to know to create and support such experiences? Ready, Set, Science! guides the way with an account of the groundbreaking and comprehensive synthesis of research into teaching and learning science in kindergarten through eighth grade. Based on the recently released National Research Council report Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8, this book summarizes a rich body of findings from the learning sciences and builds detailed cases of science educators at work to make the implications of research clear, accessible, and stimulating for a broad range of science educators. Ready, Set, Science! is filled with classroom case studies that bring to life the research findings and help readers to replicate success. Most of these stories are based on real classroom experiences that illustrate the complexities that teachers grapple with every day. They show how teachers work to select and design rigorous and engaging instructional tasks, manage classrooms, orchestrate productive discussions with culturally and linguistically diverse groups of students, and help students make their thinking visible using a variety of representational tools. This book will be an essential resource for science education practitioners and contains information that will be extremely useful to everyone �including parents �directly or indirectly involved in the teaching of science.