Early Learning

Foster a love of reading and help your child get ready for kindergarten. Your child will enjoy the illustrated stories and activities, which are related to identifying insects, different kinds of insects, and identifying spiders. You will appreciate the engaging language, math, and alphabet card activities that teach basic reading and math readiness skills. Early Bird: Insects includes:

• Three colorful storybooks: Bug Jars, Insects, and What Is It? Your child can read the story aloud or listen to you read the story to him or her. The interesting topics and illustrations motivate children to read.

• Fun activities that provide age-appropriate practice of language, math, and fine motor skills. After each story, the activity pages help your child show what he or she learned and practice fundamental skills. Sample skills include:

◦ Following directions; categorization; vocabulary development ◦ Geometric shapes; beginning computation; measurement

• Rhymes and chants to help your child learn new vocabulary

• Theme-based alphabet cards with games. The flashcards can be cut and sorted to play fun matching games with your child. Hands-on activities further help your child learn letters and their sounds.

• Answer key

Great for Preschool and Transitional Kindergarten.  64 pages.  From Evan-Moor.

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Foster a love of reading and help your child get ready for kindergarten. Your child will enjoy the illustrated stories and activities, which are related to ocean plants and animals and protecting ocean life by keeping beaches clean. You will appreciate the engaging language, math, and alphabet card activities that teach basic reading and math readiness skills. Early Bird: Ocean includes:

• Three colorful storybooks: 1, 2, 3 What Do You See?, I Live in the Ocean, and Clean It Up! Your child can read the story aloud or listen to you read the story to him or her. The interesting topics and illustrations motivate children to read.

• Fun activities that provide age-appropriate practice of language, math, and fine motor skills. After each story, the activity pages help your child show what he or she learned and practice fundamental skills. Sample skills include: ◦ Following directions; story comprehension; left-to-right tracking ◦ Counting to 20; geometric shapes; graphing

• Rhymes and chants to help your child learn new vocabulary

• Theme-based alphabet cards with games. The flashcards can be cut and sorted to play fun matching games with your child. Hands-on activities further help your child learn letters and their sounds.

• Answer key. 64 Pages. Great for Preschool and Transitional Kindergarten. From Evan-Moor.

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Foster a love of reading and help your child get ready for kindergarten. Your child will enjoy the illustrated stories and activities, which are related to plants and how we use them. You will appreciate the engaging language, math, and alphabet card activities that teach basic readiness skills. Early Bird: Plants includes:

• Three colorful storybooks: Plants Are Living Things, Plants Have Parts, and How We Use Plants. Your child can read the story aloud or listen to you read the story to him or her. The interesting topics and illustrations motivate children to read!

• Fun activities that provide age-appropriate practice of language, math, and fine motor skills. After each story, the activity pages help your child show what he or she learned and practice fundamental skills. Sample skills include: ◦ Following directions; story comprehension; rhyming; vocabulary ◦ Counting to 20; geometric shapes; measurement • Rhymes and chants to help your child learn new vocabulary

• Theme-based alphabet cards with games. The flashcards can be cut and sorted to play fun matching games with your child. Hands-on activities further help your child learn letters and their sounds.

• Answer key. 64 Pages. Great for Preschool and Transitional Kindergarten. From Evan-Moor.

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Foster a love of reading and help your child get ready for kindergarten. Your child will enjoy the illustrated stories and activities, which are related to weather conditions, daily weather changes, and how weather helps us. You will appreciate the engaging language, math, and alphabet card activities that teach basic readiness skills. Early Bird: Weather includes:

• Three colorful storybooks: Wondering About the Weather, A Wonderful Week of Weather, and Weather Helps Us. Your child can read the story aloud or listen to you read the story to him or her. The interesting topics and illustrations motivate children to read!

• Fun activities that provide age-appropriate practice of language, math, and fine motor skills. After each story, the activity pages help your child show what he or she learned and practice fundamental skills. Sample skills include: ◦ Story comprehension; letter recognition; sequencing ◦ Counting to 20; patterning; beginning computation

• Rhymes and chants to help your child learn new vocabulary

• Theme-based alphabet cards with games. The flashcards can be cut and sorted to play fun matching games with your child. Hands-on activities further help your child learn letters and their sounds.

• Answer key. 64 Pages. Great for Preschool and Transitional Kindergarten. From Evan-Moor.

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Lizzy Rockwell's charming fairy tale characters, locations, and iconic objects can be arranged and rearranged to create logical and/or hilarious tales. Kids will build critical thinking skills when they devise a way to incorporate a fire-breathing dragon and a flask of magic potion into their tale of a clever boot-wearing cat.

Features:

For ages 3 and up

36 cards Instructions included

Cards are 3.75" x 4.75"

Winner of the Oppenheim Gold Award

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Emotional literacy provides an essential foundation for empathy, socialization, and self-understanding. Use eeBoo's How Am I Feeling? conversation cards to interpret facial expressions and inspire conversations about what makes us feel the way we do, improving our emotional intelligence. The 48 cards deploy award winning artwork, by Saxton Freymann, delightfully demonstrating a broad range of emotional fruits and vegetables with no age, race, or gender.

Features:

Box: 5" x 1 ¼" x 6 ½"

Card size: 4 ½" x 6"

48 Cards

2 Parent cards

Winner of the Oppenheim Platinum Award

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Melissa Sweet has painted scenes and characters full of intrigue and suspense.Storytellers will find plenty of images to develop a mystery and solve it, too. Will they connect the squirrel eavesdropping on chipmunks with the squirrel hiding golden coins under his acorns?Which happened first?

Recurring characters, locations and props encourage linking the cards in endless combinations for fresh, new stories every time it's played.

Features:

For ages 3 and up

36 cards Instructions included

Cards are 3.75" x 4.75"

Winner of the Oppenheim Gold Award

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Recurring characters, locations, and props encourage linking the cards in endless combinations for fresh, new stories every time it's played. Illustrated by Alex Barrow. Can be played individually or in a group, make up your own way to play!

Features:

For ages 3 and up

36 cards - instructions included

Cards are 3.75" x 4.75"

Winner of the Oppenheim Gold Award

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The What Do I Do Flash Cards are a wonderful tool for anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of subverted social expectations. This deck of 48 cards helps children understand how to handle various social situations with poise, grace, and confidence. The encouraging illustrations and simple instructions are perfect for opening up dialogues between parents and children about what behavior may be expected from them in various social environments. By encouraging kids to understand and digest positive social behavior rather than memorizing it, these cards will help kids to comfortably respond to a wide range of social cues. Illustrated by Saxton Freymann.

Features: All learning levels

48 flash cards

Cards are 4.5" x 6"

Winner of the Oppenheim Gold Award

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What's Going On Here? conversation cards help us to understand the friendly illustrations by making inferences using logic, observation, and social experience. What's Going On Here? conversation cards cultivate valuable communication skills and help build an essential foundation for social literacy, analyzing clues, and problem solving. The cards deploy artwork by Saxton Freymann, delightfully demonstrating a broad range of emotions and situations.

Features:

Box: 5" x 1 ¼" x 6 ½"

Card size: 4 ½" x 6"

50 Cards

2 Parent cards

Winner of the Oppenheim Gold Award

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This wood and nature-inspired calendar display comes with easy-to-read number pieces, colorful monthly headers, and additional pieces for holidays and special occasions as well as pieces for yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Blank calendar measures 24" x 18".

91 total pieces.

Set includes:

• calendar chart and 12 monthly headers

• 33 pre-numbered calendar days

• 15 special days/events cards and 11 blank labels

• 76 chart labels

• days of the week chart

• seasons/weather chart

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Perfect for sharing at bedtime, this beautifully illustrated collection of classic fairy tales will fill little one’s dreams with fairy godmothers, talking cats, helpful elves and happy ever afters... Featuring a whole host of popular fairy tales including Cinderella, Puss in Boots and Aladdin, all specially written for reading aloud together. In luxurious binding with a ribbon marker, this book is a pleasure to hold, read and keep - a wonderful gift to be treasured.

Series: Read-Aloud Story Books     These delightful books make great stories and gifts for young and old readers alike!

Age 3 years and up                        Publisher: Usborne

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Help little learners practice their sorting, number, and counting skills with these fun and friendly Farm Animal Counters. Children can play and pretend while they build their imaginations and communication skills. Comes with 60 animals that all store neatly in the convenient bucket! Largest figure measures 2”L x 2”H. Ages 3+. From Learning Resources. Learn More

A special paint palette is embedded right in the pages of this all-inclusive paint-with-water art activity. With a cup of water and the included paintbrush, beginning painters can get instant rewards - with no messy paint spills! Twenty adorable farm-animal scenes are fun for kids to color and easy to display. Dimensions: 11" x 8.25" x 0.2" Packaged. Recommended Ages: 3+ years. From Melissa and Doug. Learn More

Dip your fingers into a jar of this gel-like finger paint and get inspired! Four vibrant finger paints come in 3.5 ounce plastic jars with wide, easy-grip, screw-on lids. Non-toxic, washable paint. From Melissa & Doug. Dimensions: 2.5" x 6.25" x 6.25" Packaged Recommended Ages: 3+ years Conforms to ASTM D-4236. Learn More

Publisher ‏ : ‎ USBORNE

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 64 pages 

Reading age ‏ : ‎ 9 - 12 years 

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.66 x 1.1 x 10.24 inches

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Learn about the orchestra thanks to this new sound book. The sounds are embedded on the page, and everytime you press a button, a different instrument will play. Learn about the different groups of instruments (winds, strings, etc). On the last page, every group of instruments will come together to create a beautiful piece of music. QR codes included that direct users to different sounds. Learn More

By Holly Bathie, Illustrated by Jean Claude

From a wildflower meadow to a snowy woodland, children will love learning about the seasons whilst decorating the scenes in this beautifully illustrated book. With over 200 stickers of animals, plants, flowers and insects, and links to specially selected websites for video clips and activities.

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This classic Usborne book has now been revised to include many brand new illustrations and it continues to stimulate and delight today's generation of children as it did when it was first published over 20 years ago. It provides a treasury of learning opportunities as an exciting talk-about book for the very young, a stimulating picture word book for pre-readers and a lively source of ideas and spellings for first writers.

Stephen Cartwright's brilliant illustrations, with their wealth of detail and gentle humor, will give many hours of valuable entertainment and enjoyment. (Gold Award Winner, Best Pre-School Information Book, Parents Play and Learn Awards, 1996)

Series: First Thousand Words

Offers a wide range of learning opportunities from early reading and spelling to dictionary use. Foreign language editions include dictionaries and phonetic pronunciation guides; some have online pronunciation guides and internet links.

Age 3 years and up                Publisher: Usborne

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A heart-warming collection of eleven gentle animal stories, perfect for sharing together at bedtime. Cozy stories include ‘Little Lion’s Roar’, ‘Badger’s Happy Feeling’ and ‘Dog and the Balloon’. With enchanting illustrations and just the right length for the end of a busy day. Publisher Usborne

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Teach writing skills using the Four Square method, which has been proven to work in classrooms just like yours. The Four Square method can be used with all forms of writing and will fit any reading or language arts program. This step-by-step approach is built around a simple graphic organizer that first shows students how to collect ideas and then helps them use those ideas to create clear and polished writing. Open-ended reproducibles make the technique accessible to writers of all ability ranges. Also great for content area writing. Gr. Pre-K-K. 80 Pages. Learn More

In winter, spring, summer, and fall, Frog and Toad are always together. From sledding in winter to eating ice cream on hot summer days, these two friends have fun the whole year round! Part of the I Can Read Books series. Level 2 is for readers who still need help. Softcover 64 pages. Learn More

Put your imagination to work as you layer simple felt shapes and wiggly eyes onto a child-sized felt board. Perfect for preschoolers, this open-ended activity will reinforce patterning and creative thinking. Develops fine motor skills, fosters imaginative play and teaches shapes and colors. No mess and great for travel, this felt board includes a neat and tidy storage bag.

Ages: 3+

Contents Include: Felt shapes Felt wiggly eyes Felt board Storage Bag

Warning: Choking Hazard - Small parts not for children under 3

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Finally, a fun, colorful, easy-to-use phonics program that is comprehension centered!

This 320-page book is based on the scientific findings of the National Reading Commission. It emphasizes sound/spelling patterns, vocabulary, and comprehension, not memorization.

The colorful game-like activities engage students through listening, thinking, speaking, and reading.

Fun-Time Phonics! teaches students that spoken words are composed of individual sounds (phonemes), and those sounds are written with letters.

Armed with this understanding of how print works as a code, reading becomes much easier than other more complicated approaches.

This program ensures complete phonemic awareness mastery by focusing on vowel isolation, which is often the most challenging–but most important–part of learning to read.

Once students grasp how vowels influence the sound of the consonants and control the meaning of the words, they are only a step away from fluency.

Fun-time phonics! teaches students that spoken words are composed of individual sounds (phonemes), and those sounds are written with letters.

Armed with this understanding of how print works as a code, reading becomes much easier than other more complicated approaches.

This program ensures complete phonemic awareness mastery by focusing on vowel isolation, which is often the most challenging–but most important–part of learning to read.

recommended ages 4 and up.

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