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ALPHABETTER® Learning Vitamins for Alphabet Mastery and Reference Book Skills
-- $18.95 $15.47
-- Do your children do what mine do when I say "Go get the dictionary."? Why is it that many children (and adults) do not like using one? The authors of AlphaBetter suggest that a key reason to our "reference phobia" can be a simple lack of mastery of the alphabet. The 4 minute AlphaBetter exercises drill your children on rapid recall of the relative positions of any letter with respect to all other letters.
Fandex - 50 States
-- $10.95 $8.53
-- 50 States: It's a portable, information-filled atlas of the United States. Alabama's hospitality. Texas' feistiness. Alaska's frontier spirit. California's innovation. More than just capitals, mottoes, and state birds and flowers, 50 States is a fresh collection of in-depth profiles featuring customs and culture, personalities and anecdotes, natural wonders and treasures, state by state (including Washington, D.C. ). Taken together, it's a guide that weaves a rich mosaic of the United States. Includes . . .
Fandex - Birds
-- $10.95 $8.53
-- With its large images, bright colors, and die-cut profiles unmistakable the bird and the bird card could almost be one and the same. Birds: Wild Birds of North America is the ideal way to learn about North America's songbirds, backyard birds, shore birds, and birds of prey. From the diminutive Indigo Bunting, which navigates by starlight during its long migrations, to the fearsome Red-Tailed Hawk, Birds introduces 47 species and covers their habitat, range, diet, nests, eggs, and up-to-date conservation . . .
Fandex - Bugs
-- $10.95 $8.53
-- A perfect marriage: bugs, kids, and Fandex. Meet South America's Hercules Beetle, as big as a dollar bill and the strongest creature on earth, able to lift 850 times its body weight. (That's like a 100-pound person lifting four school buses!) The Black Widow Spider, whose females, contrary to reputation, rarely eat their mates. And the wonderfully bizarre Walking Stick, sometimes called "Frankenstick" for its ability to reattach its own severed head. Plus Treehoppers and Leafhoppers, centipedes and . . .
Fandex - Butterflies
-- $10.95 $8.53
-- A favorite subject of kids, nature lovers, scientists, and collectors, Butterflies takes full advantage of Fandex's unique full-color die-cut format to celebrate 50 butterfly species, from the enormous Queen Alexandra Birdwing, with its 11-inch wingspan, to the Blue Morpho, whose stunning metallic-blue color is caused by tiny prisms in its wings. Each entry includes the Latin name, range, plants used for laying eggs and drinking nectar, migration and mating habits, and how to recognize the species . . .
Fandex - Civil War
-- $10.95 $8.53
-- Civil War: An illustrated cultural history of the Civil War, is told through the stories of the men and women who lived and fought it, and the battles, accoutrements, issues, and events that defined it. The Clara Barton card not only tells of the "Angels of the Battlefield" but also explores the state of medicine during the war. The Shiloh card recounts a battle after which "the South never smiled again." Fifty full-color die-cut cards.
Fandex - Composers
-- $10.95 $8.53
-- Composers is a chronological history of composers and their music, with intriguing facts, anecdotes, and musical insights into composers from Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven to Gershwin and Bernstein, together with other composers who form the Western musical canon.
Discover the first musical superstar—Lizst. The bourgeois Bach behind the heavenly Brandenburgs. Brahms, who grew up playing piano in bars and brothels, and Stravinsky, whose work incited a full-scale riot. It's every music lover's handheld . . .
Fandex - Explorers
-- $10.95 $8.53
-- From Columbus spying the New World to Balboa beholding the Pacific to Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon, EXPLORERS brings all the world's greatest explorers to life, from the Phoenicians to the present.
Fandex - Presidents
-- $10.95 $8.53
-- New, updated edition for 2009 featuring the 44th President of the United States - Barack Obama.Fandex Family Field Guides: Presidents presents a chronological field guide to all 44 of America's chief executives. Which President made the Louisiana Purchase? Which President won a Nobel Peace Prize?Which President also served as chief justice of the Supreme Court? Who was in office during the Teapot Dome scandal, and who endured the childhood nickname "Useless"?From the historic Founding Fathers (three . . .
Information Please! Advanced (Grades 9 & up)
-- $16.00 $13.24
-- This series could prove to be the most worth while investments you make for your children. It's not just a list of questions, it's a scavenger hunt for information making use of the encyclopedia, the atlas, the almanac, and all the other reference books you may have on your shelf collecting dust. Or it's ideal to learn your way around the library. Pat Wesolowski, home schooling mother of 7 children, came up with this when she realized she had an abundance of reference books at home, but her children . . .
Information Please! Intermediate (Grades 5-8)
-- $16.00 $13.24
-- This series could prove to be the most worth while investments you make for your children. It's not just a list of questions, it's a scavenger hunt for information making use of the encyclopedia, the atlas, the almanac, and all the other reference books you may have on your shelf collecting dust. Or it's ideal to learn your way around the library. Pat Wesolowski, home schooling mother of 7 children, came up with this when she realized she had an abundance of reference books at home, but her children . . .
Information Please!, Getting Started Supplemental Questions
-- $16.00 $13.24
-- A series of supplemental questions for Information, Please! Getting Started' to give more practice.
Keyboarding Skills (2nd Ed)
-- $22.95 $18.67
-- Keyboarding and typing skills are increasingly important for student writers, especially those who struggle with the motor tasks of manual writing. This proven approach uses the innovative multisensory "alphabet method" to teach keyboarding skills to students of varying ages. This second edition from Educators Publishing Services contains new and expanded exercises and a student-friendly design. The book forms its own easel for ergonomic comfort.
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