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Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
248 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Turn your home into a Montessori home-and become a more mindful, attentive, and easygoing parent.
It's time to change the way we see toddlers. Using the principles developed by the educator Dr. Maria Montessori, Simone Davies shows how to turn life with a "terrible two" into a mutually rich and rewarding time of curiosity, learning, respect, and discovery.
With hundreds of practical ideas for every aspect of living with a toddler, here are five...
2) School jokes
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Pub
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
23 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Why did the music teacher need a ladder? To reach the high notes! Young comedians will build vocabulary and learn fun homophone word play sharing School Jokes with family and friends. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Big Buddy Books is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008, c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rumor has it that the new gym teacher is a real monster, someone who works the students very hard and makes them participate in dangerous activities like playing dodge ball with his truck.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Following three teenagers who chose to spend one school year living in Finland, South Korea, and Poland, a literary journalist recounts how attitudes, parenting, and rigorous teaching have revolutionized these countries' education results.
Author
Series
My weird school volume 5
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First Harper Trophy edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
A.J. and the other second graders do everything except play sports when they go to "fizz ed" class with their new teacher, Miss Small.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
379 pages.
Language
English
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Description
This book is Montessori's own exposition of the theory behind her innovative educational techniques. She shows parents, teachers and administrators how to "free a child to learn through his own efforts".
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xxvii, 308 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Can you teach a child to be kind? This vital question is taking on a new urgency as our culture grows ever more abrasive and divided. We all want our kids to be kind. But that is not the same as knowing what to do when you catch your son being unkind. A world-renowned developmental psychologist, Dr. Thomas Lickona has led the character education movement in schools for forty years. Now he shares with parents the vital tools they need to bring peace...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 23
Physical Desc
349 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces how the author, having been rescued and resuscitated by Himalayan villagers after a failed attempt to climb K2, worked to build schools that would benefit the young girls who were forbidden an education by Taliban restrictions.