Teaching Early Math Skills With Favorite Picture Books: Math Lessons Based on Popular Books That Connect to the Standards and Build Skills in Problem Solving and Critical Thinking (in Paperback)
A master kindergarten teacher shares her classroom-tested, inquiry-based lessons for using picture book and concept book favorites to help young learners build skills in number sense, basic operations, patterns and algebra, geometry and spatial sense, time, money, and measurement, and more. Lessons challenge students to problem solve and use critical thinking skills. Includes interactive reproducible [...]
Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
From The Washington Post From The Washington Post’s Book World/washingtonpost.com Reviewed by Jay Mathews Greg Mortenson’s first book, “Three Cups of Tea,” was a gravity-defying wide-screen wilderness adventure. It began with the author’s failed attempt to climb the world’s second-highest mountain. It included a daring rescue, bonding with an alien tribe in a tiny cliffside [...]
Great Books for High School Kids: A Teacher’s Guide to Books That Can Change Teens’ Lives (in Paperback)
From School Library Journal The editors have selected nearly 400 fiction, nonfiction, and poetry titles, all of which have “something that made them extraordinary to readers who love books….” The list follows seven essays contributed by English teachers on their experiences with Bless Me, Ultima, The Things They Carried, Oresteia, Reservation Blues, Song of Solomon, [...]
Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan (in Hardcover)
From the author of the #1 bestseller Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarian’s efforts to promote peace through educationIn this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his extensive [...]
Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh T-shirt
Text on teeshirt: Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.Ecclesiastes xii. 12.Our standard t-shirts are made of 100% cotton and preshrunk (ultra cotton heavyweight). We typically use Gildan Activewear but at times may substitute with or the brand name t-shirts. We carry thousands of t-shirts [...]