As the advertising agent for the ACME Movie Company, your child will create a Brag Book for his/her favorite movie character, a.k.a. The Client. Your child, The Agent, will employ narrative, persuasive, and imaginative writing in fun and art full projects to prepare a biography, newspaper clipping, limerick, travel memoir, Top Secret report, and more on The Client. This project is based on a class that I created and taught at the Southern Oregon University Summer Youth Academy over several summers. My 4th to 8th grade students had a blast with it. A precursor for adult resume writing. This 60...

Making PEMDAS (BODMAS) Fun. Playing with the Order of Operation. A math logic game with three levels of play for math enthusiasts. In this math logic challenge game, there are many ways to solve each puzzle. The joy is in playing with the numbers and operations to increase your score. Skill Builder: Strengthen basic math, pre-algebra, and algebra skills as well as creative and logical thinking. Master the use of parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction. Bonus operations include absolute value, square root, and percentages. Book includes game instructions,...