The selections in this book represent some of the most innovative and frequently requested materials. The recurring holidays, seasons and themes are always timely and a favorite way to motivate young children. Each season presents pages of clip art; age-appropriate outdoor learning discoveries and seasonal and holiday crafts, projects, book reviews, stories, take-home newsletters, snacks, calendars, ideas and activities.
Fall brings ways to celebrate children's birthdays throughout the year; back-to-school activities; Autumn Antics include crafts, proj-ects and experiments; Grandparents' Day fun; Halloween stories and book reviews and Thanksgiving crafts. Winter is full of snow-related activities, Snowman Math, Seasonal Science for winter, Christmas Critter Crafts, a Christmas skit, Kwanzaa activities, Valentine book reviews and much more. Spring and summer are celebrated with wind activities, a unit on National Peanut Month in March, Egg-Citing Activities, gift ideas for Moms and Dads, End-of-School Activities, units on birds and butterflies, plus many more holiday and seasonal activities.
You'll find the answers to your holiday and seasonal teaching needs between the covers of this book, a classic compilation of timely, appropriate and original materials to celebrate the seasons!
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Long live the fashion trendsetters and indomitable champions of bad taste. Your trucks...your bumper stickers...your hair...your charm!
Variety is truly the spice of life!
Personally I found it a bit short, however, and wouldn't buy it for *my own* collection - it's a read-once book. Buy it for a friend and read it before you wrap it, or better still get the local library to buy it instead (I did!).
