Don’t you love it when you find new books that also link to free resources for your class? How about when the resources are aligned to standards? (Are you getting tingly yet?) I know I was excited when I found the books and resources featured in today’s blog and couldn’t wait to share them with you!
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Submit a comment to the blog by 11:59 pm EDT Sunday, April 19, 2015, to tell me what your favorites are when you click on the resources below. One lucky teacher will win three books that recognize women who broke through barriers and blazed the trail for future generations. A Woman in the House (and Senate) covers more than a century of female leaders who opened the door for women in politics. Then follow the story of Elizabeth Blackwell, America’s first female doctor, in Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors? As an added bonus, this book comes with a DVD and an audio CD! Then get inspired by the women featured in Girls Research! Amazing Tales of Female Scientists. (Update: congratulations to Barbara, who is the winner of our prize.)
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Are you a Little House on the Prairie fan? If so, you’ll love the new Tales From Maple Ridge series for beginning readers. Set in 1892, the stories feature eight-year-old Logan Pryce, whose family’s hardships are made better by his small-town community. Go to TalesFromMapleRidge.com to read an excerpt and to download free resources, including a bookmark, word search, matching activity, and more. Then click here and scroll down for a chance to win a set of two chapter books from this series!
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Kindness rules in Stick and Stone, a new picture book about a friendship that rocks! The book has an antibullying message that even the youngest readers can understand. Share the free video with your students and download the free activity kit that includes circle time ideas, friendship bracelets, puppets, and more. It’s all at hmhbooks.com/stickandstone.
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Let the good feelings continue with the inspirational and feel-good quotes in Pete the Cat’s Groovy Guide to Life. Who’s Pete the Cat? He’s a blue cat that likes movin’, groovin’, and schoolin’ and always keeps his cool. Watch free animated videos and download songs, activities, and event kits. Click here.
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Want science on your students’ minds? Then check out the new Frank Einstein series from Jon Scieszka. Books 1 and 2 are now available, and you can download free teaching guides that are aligned to Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards. Plus get a free activity kit that includes a fun science experiment, an antimatter puzzle, and more. Go to FrankEinsteinbooks.com for your free resources. Then click here and scroll down for a chance to win Frank Einstein and the Electro-Finger.
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Don’t forget; submit a comment for your chance to win the three books plus the DVD and CD!
Karen |
Oh my Gosh its Pete the Cat. We love him at our school. He is the greatest. I even have large Pete and little Pete sitting on my table right now. Definitely checking it out.
Wow! I love them all!
I really am interested in the Frank Einstein series of books. I love teaching science and if these books get my students more interested it would be great. I also liked all the resources available to use with the books.
The books on women would be wonderful my career unit!
Tales from Maple Ridge look good. All the books look good as we love to read in my Family Childcare. They are also good to pass on to parents what the children are reading in school.
I honestly couldn’t pick a favorite! These all look so awesome. No matter what I’m getting the Stick & Stone book and probably the new science series books. Great line-up with these choices. Thank you for sharing!
All of the resources look fabulous and can’t wait to look in to all of them. The one that I could use tomorrow is Stick & Stone as Kindness is our virtue of the month. Thanks for sharing these with us!
Pete the Cat, of course! How fun! I also am planning to purchase some Frank Einstein books for my class. I think the students would love them!
Michelle
Pete The Cat is the all time favorite in my classroom. I use the school one to introduce the different places in the school before we go on our kindergarten 1st day tour. They sing the colored shoes as they learn the colors and color words. I would use the groovy buttons to teach subtraction. I teach in a poor deprived school where some children do not have books in their homes. I would love to introduce all the Pete the Cat books to my kindergarten children.
Pete the Cat You Rock!!!!!
Melissa
Karen, You have done it again! I love these fabulous new resources you have found. I am always looking for things to show powerful women. Not only to my own girls but also the Kindergarten students in my class. I truly want them to feel they have a voice growing up in this day and age. I was always shy. I don’t want them to be that way.We just finished our unit on America/Red, White and Blue. A Woman in the House would fit in perfectly! Hey! We might even have one soon!
Love, love Pete the Cat and I put Stick and Stone on my “to purchase” list!
Love Pete the cat for humor and enjoyment but also am very intrigued by the powerful women resource.