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Cooperative Board Game teaches about Natural Backyard Habitat

Max the Cat cooperative Board Game Max the Cat is Hungry! Scurry, Climb or Fly for your Lives! While blue jays sing in the trees, chipmunks scavenge for nuts and seeds, and mice do what mice do, a fat old cat named Max finds his way out the door of his house. His owners have [...]

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Ducklings Play Follow the Leader

Ducklings Play Follow the Leader Ducklings in Alphabetical Order Ducklings Play Follow the Leader Buy at AllPosters.com Write the names of each of the ducklings on the rubber ducks and then ask the children to put them in ABC order. This makes a wonderful activity for the first few children who come into the classroom [...]

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Garner Rix’s Apple Tree

The apple tree that Garner Rix planted for his wife, Betsey, just fell down. He had planted it across the road from the house he built for her in 1798. The apple tree blossomed each spring and produced an abundance of apples to be eaten crisp and ripe in the fall, dried and cooked into [...]

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Betsy, Tacy and Tib: A Book for Girls about to Turn Ten

Our favorite book for girls about to turn 10 years old is Betsy-Tacy and Tib ” Betsy, Tacy and Tib are nine years old and about to turn 10. This is important, Betsy tells Tacy, because ten year olds have two digits in their ages. These girls are such good friends that they vow not [...]

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Go Away, Big Green Monster!

“Go Away, Big Green Monster! And don’t come back, …
until I say so.”

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