Junior Books

The fine illustrations show marketplace details showing a lifestyle very different from ours. The story is entertaining to children because of the mischevious goat. I bought it for my grandchildren because I want them to understand that there are many styles of living.

I decided to buy this book for my grandchildren after first seeing it in the public library. The story is very understandable. The illustrations show very well the marketplace, the activities there, and a different style of living. I highly recomend it.

Children of today are growing up in a world more unified than ever before! Help your little ones understand life the world over with this lively glimpse into a Nigerian marketplace. It's colorful and fun, full of cultural references, unusual language, and wonderful terms of respect (for example, Ayoka talks to 'Oni Breadi' aka: man older than me who sells bread!). This book made my four year old want to visit Nigeria!
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This book was an amazing addition to my classroom library. I have used it weekly to help my seventh grade students open up and we've formed bonds that you wouldn't believe. I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking to take their advisory classes to a whole new level.

I have been graced with the opportunity to experience Chicken Soup for the Soul in the Classroom by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Anna Unkovich. I am a Spiritual Leader and the Youth Ministry Coordinator for Unity Church Five Cities in Arroyo Grande, California.

We are constantly on the hunt for worthy educational materials to teach and support our children. Also, it needs to be something interesting enough that not only keeps the children's attention but the attention of our Sunday school staff.

These books have been a God send. Not only are they fun and easy to use but they're inspirational as well. It is not always easy to find a curriculum that is systematized so that we may bring any of our teachers in and they will have a formula to follow. The Chicken Soup for the Soul in the Classroom books are just that.

With each story there is a not only a lesson plan, activities and questions for our teachers to follow, but each story comes with a positive life lesson... a life lesson, which serves our children's personal and especially their spiritual growth.

I would love to corner the markets on these books and keep them only in our Sunday school, but I must recommend them to anyone who has children or young adults.
Whether in a Sunday school setting such as ours, or public and private schools and especially those of us whom home school, these books are an excellent addition to anyone's curriculum.

Appreciating you,
Billy Mitchell

As a teacher of 42 years, I have taught the three R's Reading,Writing,and Arithmetic. Now here is a book for the fourth R Responsibility. Chicken Soup for the Soul in the Classroom gives teachers stories and activities to empower children to take responsibility for their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Children are taught many life lessons in the classroom. This book is a great aid to teachers. LoveGramma Shirah www.joysongcreations.com

Every elementary art teacher I know has this book. I have taught for 9 years, and I learned things from this book! It has great tips and ideas for running a creative, yet organized, art class. The projects look great. Her clay book is also helpful!

This is one of the most practical and teacher-friendly books I have ever purchased. I teach art at an elementary school and my students have loved using the techniques and projects from this book!

Topal provides excellent examples throughout including lovely color reproductions of both children's and professional artwork. Her explanations are clear and the materials list is not extravagant for most of the projects.

Every regular classroom teacher would benefit from the beautifully layed out art elements and principles in this book. At the very least it would be worth having as a resource in a school library. This book is a keeper!

I am professional artist and my primary medium is painting. I also hold an MFA in Painting and Drawing and I have been teaching art to adults and children for 20 years now. This book is the best resource I have seen on teaching painting to children. I have actually used one of the exercises on texture with my adult students and adapted it to charcoal and acrylics. I want to encourage any elementary classroom teacher who wants to teach painting to students to buy this book! Please don't be afraid of paint and the mess as the benefits far outweigh the effort. The author understands the process and techniques of painting and her easy-to-follow her exercises will ensure satisfaction, fun and success.

The book will give detailed information on setting up your classroom for painting, specific suggestions on which paints and brushes and papers will work best, materials to gather for study observation and motivation. In my years of training classroom teachers to build an art curriculum and I came to understand the frustrations of classroom teachers not knowing which brushes to use for which type of paint, not understanding how to build and layer a painting, how to guide students through the difficult parts and motivate them to keep working. This book demystifies all that and more. It is full of specific lesson plans to help you plan a sequential curriculum and teach your students basic visual literacy and the deep satisfaction of creating and expressing.

I am a curriculum project manager at Houston ISD. I have been researching material for a Story-teller program we are starting this summer and... this is the best!

As a classroom storyteller, I have found this teacher's guide and collection of tellable stories to be extremely useful, clear, and reliable. The experience and common sense of the authors provide teachers with a valuable resource for storytelling. You will use this book again and again.

If I were forced to choose only one resource to help me as I teach kids how to go about choosing, learning and telling a story, this would be it. The authors have extensive experience helping thousands of children to tell stories through their school residencies. Many ideas and activities are spelled out to help teachers or coaches prepare students for the often scary task of getting in front of the audience and telling a tale. A variety of methods for story-learning are detailed, allowing for the variety of learning styles encountered in a classroom. Many ideas for ways to use storytelling in school, from a school festival to an inter-generational fair, are suggested.

Especially enjoyable are the many real-life story maps, quotes and photos of kids involved in this rewarding activity. An anthology of twenty-five stories for kids to tell is included to get your student tellers started.

We do not give kids enough opportunities to get up in front of a group and share something they love. Storytelling bridges so many of these gaps, and even the shyest kids often discover a new-found love when given the chance to tell a story. If you are at all considering having kids tell stories, get this book. It will convince you that you are making the right choice, and give you the tools to carry out your ideas.

(Gwyn is a professional storyteller who has coached many middle school students in the telling of their first story).

This energetic, colorful little book is delightful to read to your little ones while using enough golf terms to keep the parent smiling.

My husband and I both golf and would like to get our children interested. This book was both creative and informative using proper golf language. The illustration were both fun and realistic to the game of golf. Our children loved chip and his adventure.

I had an opportunity to see an early copy of this book and was very impressed. The book is colorful and the story is clever and fun. This is a great way to introduce children to the game of golf.

It's a short, relatively inexpensive book, and it hits just about everything that you need for disciplining a child. You've got the theory (i.e. Dreikurs), developmental chapters, and a section (Part 3) that forces the teacher to consider a child's cultural and experiential background before making discipline decisions. That's often neglected.

Well-written and easy to read!

I work as a Lead Teacher in an Early Childhood Education setting and this book gave me a whole different approach to discipline in the classroom. I was doing everything wrong and constantly putting my kids in "time-out" ALL DAY LONG. When that didn't work for some kids, I would get frustrated and my whole day would become stressful. After reading this book and applying it's principles, my days went much easier and my preschoolers respected me and listened to me alot more, as well. I highly recommend it to any teacher working with pre-schoolers.

This book is concise and informative. Unlike some books, it does not exhaust the reader with verbiage. To paraphrase Goldilocks, "This book is just right!"

Let's face it, if you're working with Jr. High kids, there's something that's a little funny in your wiring anyhow. And, I believe that this book is written perfectly for the Jr. High worker, whether full-time, part-time, volunteer, or potential youth worker. There's so much useful, beneficial information, and Kurt drives it home. I'm currently IM'ing another one of my jr. high staff, and telling him to pick it up! a MUST for everyone who works with jr. high!

Kurt's wisdom about this age group has been HUGELY valuable to me as I've led our jr. high ministry. No doubt this book is worth the read --- and then daring to put the ideas into practice to serve these amazing people called jr. high students!

Kurt Johnston's book should be read by anyone who is in Youth Ministry, be they volunteer, parent or Pastor. He offers insights into all aspects of Junior High Ministry, including suggestions on recruiting volunteers and making them feel they are a viable part of the effort. He offers suggestion after suggestion on everything from games, to messages, to small groups, to special events. The section on creativity will help you think of being creative in a whole new light.
There are sound suggestions on how to build trust and relationships with students who are facing an awkward phase of life, realizing that not every student responds the same.
Most importantly this book will help you to show students that not only do you care about them, but Christ cares for them more than they know.
Give this book to your church's Youth Pastor, you will be glad you did.

I loved it....

I can't wait for my 5 year old to be old enough to read it himself. I now he will like it as much as I do.

I especially enjoyed the the conclusion to the book it was definately a delightful surprise.

DC

The Coolest Nerd was a wonderful read. The story of Chuck is one that many people, young and old, can relate to because many of us face issues of self-esteem and self-love. What I particularly like about this book is that is does not talk down to the child reader that it targets. It's full of humor and many lessons to walk away with. I hope Mr. Easley continues to write. I especially hope to read more about Chuck, Shannon ad the rest of the crew.

Mr Easleys work is most enjoyable. The book is very user friendly for the age in which he targets. As an adult, I read the book to preview before using it with my students and family members and couldnt put it down. I was substituting kids I deal with everyday for the characters in the book realizing how they would relate to the mission of the story. Job well done, Mr Easley...looking forward to your next piece of work!!!

I am a student in a Compostion Techniques course that recently read about the Storyline method. The Storyline method is a very interesting approach to teaching students Math, Geography, History, Language Arts and other subjects. Having children create their own hotel, radio station, etc., gives them reason to want to learn in a fun and exciting way. I am glad I got to read this book and recommed it to others students that are going to teach the early grades and are looking for new and exciting ways to teach the curriculum.

I am a student in a Compostion Techniques course that recently read about the Storyline method. The Storyline method is a very interesting approach to teaching students Math, Geography, History, Language Arts and other subjects. Having children create their own hotel, radio station, etc., gives them reason to want to learn in a fun and exciting way. I am glad I got to read this book and recommed it to others students that are going to teach the early grades and are looking for new and exciting ways to teach the curriculum.

As a former elementary principal and now, as an educational consultant, I worry about the loss of creativity, spontaneity and engagement in the classroom as we focus intensely on reform and test scores. Jeff Cresswell's book describes a well tested approach which I believe, can lead to very high achievement while preserving the essence of childhood--curiosity, enchantment with ideas, creative thinking and the production of products which make sense to the child. If I had an elementary staff, I'd purchase the book for all of them. Mr. Creswell includes in the title the words "teacher to teacher." This is a critical element in the success of the work. All the practical questions are answered--What does a day with Storyline look like? Do you still teach regular math and reading? What does your plan book look like? What are the roles of the teacher and student? What are some sample Storyline study projects which have been successful? This book answers all these questions in a reader friendly, very visible way. Teachers need the exhilaration and joy of exploring and teaching this way as much as the children do. Storyline preserves the wonder of the journey we call learning. It makes every child want to achieve!

this book has almost everything that the 9th edition has and is mush ceaper. Marcia A Mcmanus

I recieved my book promptly and my book was in great condition. I would buy from again.

Mayesky balances theory, standards, and practicality in her book by organizing it like a house. She builds up the discipline from the ground (what is creative arts in early childhood) to the unique, but unnecessary, touches (applying early childhood creative arts for holidays).

It's expensive, but worth the price. Vocational schools that offer early child development training use this text.