creative activities and seat work

Includes games, activities, and instructions for craft projects such as making fairy dust, cooking blossom berry soup, performing fairy magic tricks, and creating a miniature fairy garden.

Contains a story in which twins Hugh and Louis Abernathy try to cheer up Carmen Rosa Pe?a--who is unhappy because she cannot locate a book in the library and her younger sister is going to be in the same classroom--while taking part in Mrs. Skorupski's Great Dewey Hunt; and includes instructional strategies and reproducible pages for a lesson about the Dewey Decimal System.

Patty Lee tries to become the top reader in the fourth grade class by reading more books than the other students, but Carmen Rosa Pena decides she wants to win the contest instead.

Step-by-step instructions show how to draw a variety of crazy mixedup faces.

Presents a series of activities that demonstrate the value of mathematics in the real world, featuring problems encountered by people working in a range of fields, including a banker, truck driver, disc jockey, engineer, nurse, and others.

Describes techniques for integrating drama lessons into the media center curriculum in elementary and middle schools, featuring sample lesson plans, explaining how to showcase the benefits of arts-centered learning in the media center, and including Web links and an author and illustrator index.

Crafts, activities, games, puzzles, and recipes to suit many occasions, to be done alone or with others.

Presents reproducible activity worksheets that introduces traditional research resources to students in the three through sixth-grade classroom.

Gives directions for games and amusements of all kinds, including riddles, tongue-twisters, card games, street rhymes, brain teasers, and fun with string.

Offers teachers of grades three and up practical ideas and simple techniques for incorporating wikis, blogs, podcasts, and other digital resources in the classroom, and includes reproducible worksheets for classroom activities.