It?s Nikki Maxwell?s birthday! Nikki and her best friends Chloe and Zoey plan a big birthday party, but things go wrong when Nikki?s mom says there isn?t enough money for it. Nikki thinks about giving up, but then unexpected help comes from someone she didn?t expect. This birthday turns out to be unforgettable!
Bird and Squirrel are back home but face new problems ? a blocked river, a forest danger, and a party plan. They work with forest friends to fix things and have fun.
What is a family? Once, it was said to be a father, mother, boy, girl, cat and dog living in a house with a garden. But as times have changed, families have changed too, and now there are almost as many kinds of families as colours of the rainbow - from a mum and dad or single parent to two mums or two dads, from a mixed-race family to children with different mums and dads, from families with a…
In Why Character Matters, a leader in the character education movement and author of the landmark book, Educating for Character, Tom Likona now lays out 100 specific strategies that will help parents as well as teachers instill children with the values that will help them lead good and successful lives
It started with a simple observation: Students need their teachers present to answer questions or to provide help if they get stuck on an assignment; they don't need their teachers present to listen to a lecture or review content. From there, Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams began the flipped classroom: Students watched recorded lectures for homework and completed their assignments, labs, and t…
Now in seventh grade Gregory K. is frustrated by all the homework that leaves him no time for writing, which is what he loves to do--so he decides to go on a homework strike, and with his history teacher's encouragement he learns a valuable lesson in civics and standing up for what you believe in