Learn about fingerprinting for kids & play detective! Fun ideas for a CSI or spy party or science activity for preschool & elementary ages!
Learn Chinese geography and culture through this read around the world China unit. See book suggestions, activities & more!
In need of a book to read? Check out this list of must read books for 2018 and never be without a good read again! This list of books to read ranges in genres so there is a book to read for everyone!
Hello friends! My brain is in “percolate” mode right now as I dream and plan for the coming year and I thought I’d give you a peak at what’s brewing. Here is a small taste …
Hello friends! My brain is in “percolate” mode right now as I dream and plan for the coming year and I thought I’d give you a peak at what’s brewing. Here is a small taste …
I have a cat-crazy daughter who loves everything to do with cats. So we've been curators of the best cat books for kids of all ages.
www.usborne.fans/shop Here are a few of the Usborne and Kane Miller books we use and love in our home! There are so many more excellent homeschool resources available from Usborne Books & More! This list is a great start for any homeschool family! Click on each image to see more and order online.
Looking for children's books to help you study World War I in your homeschool? I'm sharing some great options for you here in this list of World War I books for kids.
I’ve been thinking a lot about inquiry lately. What is it? Ways to create a classroom where inquiry is a common occurrence. Asking questions leads to asking more questions, and eventually …
To bring the past to life and make it matter, historical fiction must do more than conjure up an exotic backdrop for a conventional story. These six books challenge our preconceptions and help show how the past shaped the world we live in today.
A chronicle of women's innermost secrets and dreams offering Westerners a chance to sit in on intimate conversations in schools, homes, and shelters in Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt and other Muslim countries
Includes bibliographical references and index
Find some of the best picture books to teach cause and effect in your 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade classroom. Help your students understand cause and effect with this great set of books.
At work: hardworking news journalists. At home: omnivorous fiction readers. We asked our colleagues what they've enjoyed most this year and here are the titles they shared.
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is "ten books from ____ genre I recently added to my to-be-read list." I’m filling in the blank with “disturbing nonfiction.” Unfortunately, you won’t find a shelf labeled Disturbing Nonfiction in a bookstore, but in my world, it’s totally a genre. My Disturbing To-Be-Read Pile The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson When Jon Ronson is drawn into an elaborate hoax played on some of the world's top scientists, his investigation leads him, unexpectedly, to psychopaths. He meets an influential psychologist who is convinced that many important business leaders and politicians are in fact high-flying, high-functioning psychopaths, and teaches Ronson how to spot them. Armed with these new abilities, Ronson meets a patient inside an asylum for the criminally insane who insists that he's sane, a mere run-of-the-mill troubled youth, not a psychopath—a claim that might be only manipulation, and a sign of his psychopathy. He spends time with a death-squad leader institutionalized for mortgage fraud, and a legendary CEO who took joy in shutting down factories and firing people. He delves into the fascinating history of psychopathy diagnosis and treatments, from LSD-fueled days-long naked therapy sessions in prisons to attempts to understand serial killers. Buy it on Amazon Buy it on Book Depository Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt Eating one’s own kind is completely natural behavior in thousands of species, including humans. Throughout history we have engaged in cannibalism for reasons of famine, burial rites, and medicinal remedies; it’s been used as a way to terrorize and even a way to show filial piety. With unexpected wit and a wealth of knowledge, American Museum of Natural History biologist Bill Schutt takes us on a tour of the field, dissecting exciting new research and investigating questions such as why so many fish eat their offspring and some amphibians consume their mother’s skin; why sexual cannibalism is an evolutionary advantage for certain spiders; why, until the end of the eighteenth century, British royalty ate human body parts; how cannibalism may be linked to the extinction of Neanderthals; why microbes on sacramental bread may have led Catholics to execute Jews in the Middle Ages. Buy it on Amazon Buy it on Book Depository The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride by Daniel James Brown In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of emigrants led by George Donner, they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the first heavy snows of the season closed the pass ahead of them. In early December, starving and desperate, Sarah and fourteen others set out for California on snowshoes and, over the next thirty-two days, endured almost unfathomable hardships and horrors. Buy it on Amazon Buy it on Book Depository They Called Themselves the KKK: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti "Boys, let us get up a club." With those words, six restless young men raided the linens at a friend’s mansion in 1866. They pulled white sheets over their heads, hopped on horses, and cavorted through the streets of Pulaski, Tennessee. Soon, the six friends named their club the Ku Klux Klan and began patterning their initiations after fraternity rites, with passwords and mysterious handshakes. All too quickly, this club would grow into the self-proclaimed “Invisible Empire,” with secret dens spread across the South. On their brutal raids, the nightriders would claim to be ghosts of Confederate soldiers and would use psychological and physical terror against former slaves who dared to vote, own land, attend school, or worship as they pleased. Buy it on Amazon Buy it on Book Depository The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a curious blend of the gospel and Marxism. His congregation was racially integrated, and he was a much-lauded leader in the contemporary civil rights movement. Eventually, Jones moved his church, Peoples Temple, to northern California. He became involved in electoral politics, and soon was a prominent Bay Area leader. In this riveting narrative, Jeff Guinn examines Jones’s life, from his extramarital affairs, drug use, and fraudulent faith healing to the fraught decision to move almost a thousand of his followers to a settlement in the jungles of Guyana in South America. Guinn provides stunning new details of the events leading to the fatal day in November, 1978 when more than nine hundred people died—including almost three hundred infants and children—after being ordered to swallow a cyanide-laced drink. Buy it on Amazon Buy it on Book Depository Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the 20th Century by Lauren Slater Beginning with B. F. Skinner and the legend of a child raised in a box, Slater takes us from a deep empathy with Stanley Milgram's obedience subjects to a funny and disturbing re-creation of an experiment questioning the validity of psychiatric diagnosis. Previously described only in academic journals and textbooks, these often daring experiments have never before been narrated as stories, chock-full of plot, wit, personality, and theme. Buy it on Amazon Buy it on Book Depository Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Frances Larson Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers and items of barter. Today, as videos of decapitations circulate online and cryonicists promise that our heads may one day live on without our bodies, the severed head is as contentious and compelling as ever. From shrunken heads to trophies of war; from memento mori to Damien Hirst's With Dead Head; from grave-robbing phrenologists to enterprising scientists, Larson explores the bizarre, often gruesome and confounding history of the severed head. Buy it on Amazon Buy it on Book Depository Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. Many black residents were poor sharecroppers, but others owned their own farms and the land on which they’d founded the county’s thriving black churches. But then in September of 1912, three young black laborers were accused of raping and murdering a white girl. One man was dragged from a jail cell and lynched on the town square, two teenagers were hung after a one-day trial, and soon bands of white “night riders” launched a coordinated campaign of arson and terror, driving all 1,098 black citizens out of the county. In the wake of the expulsions, whites harvested the crops and took over the livestock of their former neighbors, and quietly laid claim to “abandoned” land. The charred ruins of homes and churches disappeared into the weeds, until the people and places of black Forsyth were forgotten. Buy it on Amazon Buy it on Book Depository Royalty’s Strangest Characters: Extraordinary but True Tales from 2000 Years of Mad Monarchs and Raving Rulers by Geoff Tiballs Just as the monarchy has been hereditary in many countries, so insanity has been hereditary in many monarchs. Here are 2,000 years of crazy kings and potty potentates, including such infamous characters as Caligula and Vlad the Impaler. Buy it on Amazon Buy it on Book Depository The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson It's the summer of 1854, and London is just emerging as one of the first modern cities in the world. But lacking the infrastructure—garbage removal, clean water, sewers—necessary to support its rapidly expanding population, the city has become the perfect breeding ground for a terrifying disease no one knows how to cure. As the cholera outbreak takes hold, a physician and a local curate are spurred to action—and ultimately solve the most pressing medical riddle of their time. Buy it on Amazon Buy it on Book Depository Have you read any of these? What did you think? Do you have any recommendations for me?
ORIGINAL ARTWORK! I CREATED THIS. This design has been stolen multiple times, if you are buying from me you are buying directly from the artist! Thank you! The ****ORIGINAL**** Witch Rules! Created by Mad Old Cat Lady. Fun but beautiful A4 poster of house rules for a witch, A4 digital professionally printed on heavyweight callisto board. Size is 297mm x 210mm Perfect for framing and laying down the ground rules for visitors. Comes in a protective clear cellobag and card backed for protection. **Watermarks are only for web protection** **I can ship anywhere, so ask if your country isn't available**
Inside: Bilingual books in Spanish and English, for kids. No Spanglish home is complete without a stash of bilingual books for kids in Spanish and English. Thankfully, there are more and more available now! I often walk in the door exhausted after a day of teaching, to kids who have heard English all day. Even though
Things like fine motor skills, shape and colour recognition, numbers and counting, and letter recognition are simple things we can teach our little ones.
I mentioned in my previous blog post that this was an ridiculously good year for cookbooks. I’ve fought tooth and nail to get my own cookbook, Marbled, Swirled, and Layered noticed by folks. And I’ve been thrilled with the press it’s gotten, especially with SO many cookbooks released this year that are just stunning. Here’s...
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"I will forever hold my mother responsible for my sweet girl’s death"
While shopping one night, Le Cordon Bleu grad Flinn bumps into a woman whose cart is filled with hyper-processed food. They strike up a conversation, and it turns out the woman simply can’t cook. Following this grocery store epiphany, Flinn collects 9 volunteers--all non-cooks--for weekly cooking le
Are your kids getting bored with geography? Liven things up with these 10 amazing geography books for home school!
Love, tragedy, luck and salvation in the interweaving stories of four teenagers in this extraordinary 1970s Alaskan set debut novel.
Fire and rockets - what's not to love?! Click through to see how it works!
Easy Violin Songs is a 13-page *eBook that contains 10 of the easiest songs to learn to play on the violin. 🎵 Hear what other violinists have to say about this collection: "This is a terrific book with clear to read notes for beginner violin students! So far I have used it with 3 of my students and have found their reading to be a lot faster due to the size of the music staff. Would 100% recommend!!" - Amy T. "Perfect early repertoire for my young beginning students! I love the size of the print, very easy for the students to read from. This is just what I was looking for!" - Emily J. N. "Love the big font. Fun to get to play Spring as a newbie :)" - Rachel W. "This collection is a welcome addition for sight reading practice for beginners, or Suzuki students who are already playing proficiently and are starting to read from the staff. For violin, most pieces are in the key of A. My second grade Suzuki child already knew several songs, such as Hot Cross Buns, Lightly Row, Ode to Joy, and she “read” them perfectly first time. This was fortunate because it built her confidence in reading." - Mary G. Table of Contents: 3 Note Songs: 1- Hot Cross Buns (Folk) 2- Mary Had a Little Lamb (Folk) 4 Note Song: 3- Boil Them Cabbage Down (Folk) 5 Note Songs: 4- Ode to Joy/ Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee (L. van Beethoven) 5- Jingle Bells (J. Pierpont) 6- When the Saints Go Marching In (Folk) 7- Lightly Row (Folk) 6 Note Songs: 8- Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star (Folk) 9- Shortnin' Bread (J. Riley) 10- Spring from the "Four Seasons" (A. Vivaldi, arranged by H. Figi) You can also view this collection here on the M4YV YouTube channel. * Please note this eBook is a digital download, and no physical item will be mailed to you. Once you order this collection, you will be redirected to a link that allows you to download this music collection and print it out from the convenience of home. A friendly reminder that integrity starts with you. I offer a generous bulk discount if you need more than one copy of this product. Click HERE to learn more.
How to introduce Shakespeare's plays to young readers.
Are you looking for the best read alouds for 6th graders? Find highly recommended 6th grade read aloud book for your 6th graders.
This Book of Mormon Charades list has 35+ ideas that you will love acting out! Get ready learn about Book of Mormon stories and have fun together!
#1. A pretty, neutral living room. #2. A good list. #3. FYI. . . Pottery Barn now sells horizontal striped curtains in three colors. #4. A built-in desk to make the most of office space in a bay window. (And, a great home tour.) #5. One of my favorite pins of the Read More
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Teach children about Japan with these wonderful children's books! Great for an elementary school classroom or a home library.
And hope they'll keep for a lifetime.
