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Be the Dad She Needs You to Be
$17.65 Add to cartBe the Dad She Needs You to Be® is a call to dads to step up to the plate to become the loving, actively engaged father that a daughter needs for life and relational success.
Your little princess needs you to be actively and lovingly engaged if she’s going to be successful in life. Her self-esteem, choices, behavior, character, and ideas about marriage are all directly tied to you – her “representative” of men. With simple yet profound suggestions, Dr. Kevin Leman helps you become the dad she wants you to be!
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Dessert Designer
$7.95 Add to cartDesign and decorate like a pro with no baking skills required! Using premade cupcakes, cookies, and cake, kids of all ages will learn tips and tricks for creating whimsical, inspiring, and utterly gorgeous desserts. It’s deliciously fun!
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Polar Bear Alabaster Carving Kit
$40.80 Add to cartPolar Bears are amazing animals, with good sense of smell and great at swimming. They hibernate between 5 and 8 months.
Try our new Alabaster stone carving kits. Alabaster is a semi-translucent stone from Spain and finishes a beautiful white. Use water to shape the stone with all supplies included in our premium level kit.
Comes with a fold up diorama and cool fun facts about the animals.
Great for ages 8+… It would take about 2 hours to complete. Our visual instructions now have QR codes to provide helpful videos for each step.
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Plaited Basket Kit
$34.70 Add to cart- The kit contains fiber splint, fiber rush, clothespins and color photo instructions
- You will need: scissors and a ruler
- Makes one basket about 6” wide by 4” high
- Ages 12 and up, adult participation necessary for younger ages
- Made in USA
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Living Off The Land Pre-Reader
$27.50 Add to cartThis unit is written by Rebecca and has a strong focus on home economics and DIY skills, some of which are lost arts. The student pages feature more hands-on/project-based ideas such as candle dipping, soap making, sewing, etc. But, don’t worry, they are entirely optional. You don’t have to do dioramas if you don’t want to, you can simplify things and just watch videos or read about how things were done without needing to get a bunch of supplies and make a big mess IF you want. This unit offers optional tie-ins including canning, dehydrating, and choosing to make things from scratch as much as possible. Living off the Land features, for the first time, family devotional prompts at the start of each lesson. Each prompt ties into the lessons, and is meant to prompt you into prayer or discussion or asking hard questions.
What to buy? You will need to purchase a physical workbook for each child as well as a Teacher’s Guide for yourself. The Teacher’s Guides contain all the actual teaching, they are not just for answers, so they are critical to your lessons. Printed books are printed on 32lb. paper and are shipped to you coil bound.
How long are units designed to last? Each unit is designed to be 4-5 weeks. Our main units and most of our mini units include 20 lessons and can be done as a 4-day school week (lasting 5 weeks) or a 5-day school week (lasting 4 weeks) to offer flexibility. You’re in control! Set a schedule that works best for your family and your pace will dictate how quickly you complete any given unit
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Daily Higher-Order Thinking, Grade 5
$32.50 Add to cartCritical thinking skills are more important than ever in academic and real-world situations. Daily Higher-Order Thinking provides you with daily activities that build and grow students’ problem-solving skills in engaging formats such as logic and visual puzzles, brainteasers, creative writing, picture comparison, word play, and “what if” questions.
Daily 20-minute practice lessons help students apply critical thinking skills across subject areas. The lessons develop students’ higher-order thinking skills and allow them to integrate their learning and make deeper connections between their learning and the real world.
Use Daily Higher-Order Thinking for warm-up exercises, extension activities, early finisher tasks, and small-group center activities to develop your students’ critical and creative thinking skills.
How it works:
- Monday–Friday: Full-page daily activities focus on a specific behavioral verb each day. The verb is defined at the top of the page so students become aware of when and how they are using the thinking skill.
- Each full-page activity gives students an opportunity to practice a higher-order thinking skill in the context of a different curriculum area.
- Questions and tasks are open-ended and can be used to promote peer-to-peer discussions as students share and discuss answers, while also fostering critical thinking skills.
- An answer key provides sample responses for each day’s activities. Evaluate students’ responses based on your own expectations and on what content your students have encountered.
Grade 5 activities include: logic puzzles, creative writing, picture comparisons, and “what if” questions. Daily lessons practice higher-order thinking skills such as:
- Analyzing
- Predicting
- Designing
- Composing
- Organizing
- Evaluating
- Imagining
- Strategizing
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Daily Higher-Order Thinking, Grade 6
$32.50 Add to cartCritical thinking skills are more important than ever in academic and real-world situations. Daily Higher-Order Thinking provides you with daily activities that build and grow students’ problem-solving skills in engaging formats such as logic and visual puzzles, brainteasers, creative writing, picture comparison, word play, and “what if” questions.
Daily 20-minute practice lessons help students apply critical thinking skills across subject areas. The lessons develop students’ higher-order thinking skills and allow them to integrate their learning and make deeper connections between their learning and the real world.
Use Daily Higher-Order Thinking for warm-up exercises, extension activities, early finisher tasks, and small-group center activities to develop your students’ critical and creative thinking skills.
How it works:
- Monday–Friday: Full-page daily activities focus on a specific behavioral verb each day. The verb is defined at the top of the page so students become aware of when and how they are using the thinking skill.
- Each full-page activity gives students an opportunity to practice a higher-order thinking skill in the context of a different curriculum area.
- Questions and tasks are open-ended and can be used to promote peer-to-peer discussions as students share and discuss answers, while also fostering critical thinking skills.
- An answer key provides sample responses for each day’s activities. Evaluate students’ responses based on your own expectations and on what content your students have encountered.
Grade 6 activities include: logic puzzles, creative writing, picture comparisons, and “what if” questions. Daily lessons practice higher-order thinking skills such as:
- Analyzing
- Predicting
- Designing
- Composing
- Organizing
- Evaluating
- Imagining
- Strategizing
- Grade Assigned
Critical and Creative Thinking Activities, Grade 4
$32.90 Add to cart“We must empower students to become creative thinkers, critical thinkers, and problem solvers—people who are continually learning and who can apply their new knowledge to complex, novel, open-ended challenges.” – Educational Leadership, Summer 2008, Volume 65
Engage your grade 4 students in thinking skills practice with Critical and Creative Thinking Activities! 140+ pages of fun, imaginative activities motivate students as they practice thinking in multiple ways about a variety of curriculum and theme-based topics.
46 theme-based units make it easy to find activities that fit your core curriculum:
- Places:
My Room, My School, The Supermarket, At the Dinner Table, Eating Out, In the Car, On a Walk, At the Library, At the Beach, On a Field Trip - Nature in Action:
6-Legged Crawlies, Big Birds, Wild Cats, Sssnakes, Dolphins and Whales, Trees, Mountains, Caught in a Storm - People:
Fictional Characters, Friends, Family Trees, Who’s In Charge? - Fantasy:
Superheroes, Elves and Fairies, Dragons, Kings and Queens, Magic, Mythical Creatures - Things I Use:
My Bike, My Pencil, My Hands, The Dictionary, Locks and Keys, Manners, Hats & Caps - In My World:
Presents, Chores, Our Earth, Garbage, Colorific!, Cats & Dogs, Lost and Found, Up, Up, and Away, Help!, Sticky Stuff, Rules
This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.
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