elementary education

A year's worth of ideas from the Mailbox 2001-2002 Intermediate level magazines.

Provides advice and strategies for using workshops in kindergarten through second grade classrooms to boost English acquisition.

Presents an approach to teaching basic math facts to young students, featuring instructional strategies, tips, and classroom activities. Includes a CD-ROM with customizable activities, templates, recording sheets, and teacher tools.

A guide to assist parents in preparing their pre-school age children for school. Addresses such issues as what determines a child's readiness for school and how to ensure the child's social and emotional readiness. Suggested activities are organized by age group.

Contains skits and related activities to teach students in fourth- through eighth-grade classrooms about positive character traits, providing lessons with two "unfinished" moral dilemmas and a written activity on kindness, forgiveness, honesty, loyalty, cooperation, teamwork, and twenty-five other themes.

Describes effective discipline strategies for kindergarten through twelfth grade teachers, discussing bullies, parents, guidelines, consequences, communication, and other related topics.