After a personal tragedy, the author, a kindergarten teacher, decided she should do something to help her students and students everywhere to be prepared when lost. Beginning with a story to capture the children's attention, Lost in the Woods acts as a model of what a well-informed, resourceful child should do when faced with a frightening situation. The book offers several activities illustrating the safety protocols outlined in the story allowing the child to personally assess the procedures' value. The third section contains information designed to assist parents and teachers in preparing children in the event they find themselves lost.

Lost in the Woods

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Politano, Colleen

Safety & First Aid

Gordon Soules Book Pub

After a personal tragedy, the author, a kindergarten teacher, decided she should do something to help her students and students everywhere to be prepared when lost. Beginning with a story to capture the children's attention, Lost in the Woods acts as a model of what a well-informed, resourceful child should do when faced with a frightening situation. The book offers several activities illustrating the safety protocols outlined in the story allowing the child to personally assess the procedures' value. The third section contains information designed to assist parents and teachers in preparing children in the event they find themselves lost.

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

ICS Books

The first book in the Voices of Experience series grades K?3 is for when you are just getting to know your students.

Practical Ideas to Start Up the Year: Grades K-3 (Voices of Experience)

Education & Teaching

Cameron, Caren

Gregory, Kathleen

Paquin, Joy

Schools & Teaching

Portage & Main Press

The first book in the Voices of Experience series grades 4–8 is for when you are just getting to know your students.

Practical Ideas to Start Up the Year: Grades 4-8 (Voices of Experience)

The second book in the Voices of Experience series grades K–3 is for the middle of the year when you need to get yourself and your students "fired up."

Practical Ideas to Spark Up the Year: Grades K-3 (Voices of Experience)

The third book in the Voices of Experience series grades K–3 is for the end of the year when you are wrapping things up.

Practical Ideas to Wrap Up the Year: Grades K-3 (Voices of Experience)

In this book, the authors have adapted Eric Jensen’s 10 principles that need to be implemented in the classroom for a brain-compatible approach to teaching and learning. These principles include uniqueness, emotions, nutrition, and elimination of threat. The book also provides basic information about the brain, ways to teach students about the brain, and dozens of practical brain-based activities for students of every age.

Brain-Based Learning With Class

Making Themes Work is the first book in the series Building Connections, designed to provide practical strategies, innovative ideas, and adaptable examples for holistic teaching in elementary classrooms. This book shows teachers how to organize curriculum and effectively integrate learning experiences using themes. It gives educators the information they need to make themes work for them and their students. In this book, teachers will find many valuable examples and strategies including: innovative ways to start a theme effective ways for students to show what they know practical ways to think about theme plannng powerful evaluation strategies classroom-tested ways to manage and organize themes common questions about themes, and the answers ways to inform parents, administrators, and colleagues about learning through themes.

Making Themes Work

Davies, Anne

Multi-Age and More, the second book in the Building Connections series, is designed to provide practical stragegies, innovative ideas, and adaptable examples for holistic teaching in elementary classrooms. Every classroom is a "multi-age" classroom: even same-age students have varied skills, abilities, and interests. Multi-Age and More is for all teachers of single-age and multi-age classes who are looking for ways to meet the challenges of learners and their diverse learning needs. This book provides teachers with criteria, organizers, and practical strategies for managing and teaching any multi-age, multi-ability, and multi-interest class. The book includes over 85 ideas to help you: plan, organize, and modify the curriculum get students to represent their thinking and show you what they know design instruction to meet the needs of your students make assessment and evaluation an integral part of your students' learning and your teaching use available physical space, materials, and supplies effectively work with parents, colleagues, and school educators

Multi-Age and More

This resource answers all your questions about how to make Readers Theatre work in your classroom. Includes ideas for staging, script writing, and making cross-curricular connections.

Learning with Readers Theatre (Building Connections)

Dixon, Neill

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Lost in the Woods

Lost in the Woods

Practical Ideas to Start Up the Year: Grades K-3 (Voices of Experience)

Practical Ideas to Start Up the Year: Grades 4-8 (Voices of Experience)

Practical Ideas to Spark Up the Year: Grades K-3 (Voices of Experience)

Practical Ideas to Wrap Up the Year: Grades K-3 (Voices of Experience)

Brain-Based Learning With Class

Making Themes Work

Multi-Age and More

Learning with Readers Theatre (Building Connections)