Provide your first-grade students with 10 to 15 minutes of daily math practice specifically developed to meet Common Core The frequent, focused practice improves math skills, and each title includes downloadable home-school connection activities. How it works: Students complete five short math problems on days 1-4. The day 5 activity provides more extensive practice and asks students to think critically.

While being engaged in fun activities, your children will be practicing important age-appropriate skills such as visual discrimination, sequencing, small muscle coordination, following directions, reading, and critical and creative thinking. The activities in The Never-Bored Kid Book, Ages 5 and 6 are organized around 17 age-appropriate themes, including: - pandas - pigs - banks - up a tree - shoes - happy birthday - wild animals - vegetables - moon and stars - kittens - merry-go-rounds - snails - ice cream - tracks - trains - a hole in the ground - scaly creatures

We're Doing What for Summer Vacation? is a nonfiction story told by Ali, a typical ten-year-old American girl who spent the summer traveling on a budget across Borneo with her older brother and parents. Ali just wanted to be a normal kid with a normal family spending summer vacation at the beach in Florida. Unfortunately, she has former hippie parents that wanted a big summer adventure. This was not her idea of summer fun On her adventure, she lived in a tree house, experienced bedbugs, learned a little about Muslim culture, ate strange food, went white-water rafting, got trapped in a...

We're Doing What for Summer Vacation? is a nonfiction story told by Ali, a typical ten-year-old American girl who spent the summer traveling on a budget across Borneo with her older brother and parents. Ali just wanted to be a normal kid with a normal family spending summer vacation at the beach in Florida. Unfortunately, she has former hippie parents that wanted a big summer adventure. This was not her idea of summer fun On her adventure, she lived in a tree house, experienced bedbugs, learned a little about Muslim culture, ate strange food, went white-water rafting, got trapped in a...

Thirteen-year-old Ernestine Wilson--call her Ernie or else--and her family move into a spooky oceanfront house. Rumors of ghosts abound. Ernie doesn't believe the rumors until she comes face to face with a ghost who begs for help finding her killer. Ernie is soon up to her baseball cap in Whales: a mysterious whale-watching boat, whale buttons, silver whale jewelry and a stolen whale pin. Which are important? Which not? There are just too many whales