Who do you want to be? Enter a world of imaginative play! Meet Daisy, Robin and their toy Mouse who feature throughout the course. They love to dress up, and their different costumes in every unit lead to new adventures, capturing children's imaginations. With Mouse and Me!, children learn by doing. Exciting interactive routines and songs with actions make new language more memorable. There are lots of opportunities to act out the stories, and children will love the adorablepuppet. Fun craft activities embrace multiple intelligences. Pop-outs make fun 3-D objects to use in games or to review language. Mouse and Me! educates the whole child. Through the stories, children learn important values, for example being respectful, tolerant, and friendly towards others. Rich, captivating video content engages children, develops their understanding of the language, and encourages them to make cultural comparisons. Live-action songs enable children to learn from other real-life children, andanimations of thestories bring the characters and stories to life. Live-action footage from a British nursery school enables children to relate to children just like them. Cross-curricular Smart topics develop children's multiple intelligences, meeting the different learning strengths of each child. Mouseand Me! is designed to help you establish a home-school link. Review worksheets enable you to compile evidence of learning, and through My Book activities, parents can see what their child has learnt. Parents can play songs and watch the stories with their childat home, and an end-of-year performance gives children the opportunity to show what they've learnt to friends and family. Mouse and Me!'s easy-to-teach methodology helps you teach with confidence. Clear learning objectives in every lesson mean you instantly see the lesson aims, and the 'Hello' routine at the start of each lessonhelps you establish routine and consistency in the classroom. The wealth of teacher materials - including story books, posters, flashcards, a Mouse puppet, Smart topic photographic flashcards, worksheets, and videos - together with clear teaching notes and ideas, give you all the supportyou need. Mouse and Me! also provides a flexible and fun phonics programme. Resources include teachers notes, flashcards, lettercards, and audio, all developed by experts in phonics teaching.

Mouse experiences some of the joys of summer for the first time, from eating watermelon and flying a kite to watching fireworks in the night sky.

"Weird Al" Yankovic's new tale of Billy, the irrepressible star of the New York Times bestselling When I Grow Up, is an uproarious back-to-school delight. Dazzling wordplay and sparkling rhyme combine in a unique appreciation of the rewards of unabashed originality and the special joy of viewing the world gently askew.

Explore the world through imaginative play with Daisy, Robin and Mouse!Mouse and Me!'s lively adventures featuring Daisy, Robin and Mouse's different costumes capture children's imaginations and teach important values. Engaging cross-curricular Smart topics develop multiple intelligences, and the fun action songs, crafts, stories with opportunities to join in, and pop-outs encourage hands-on learning. The abundant videos bring the characters and stories to life, and the real world - and real English - into the classroom. The rich package of integrated print and digital resources and easy-to-teach methodology gives you all the support you need.The easy-to-use Mouse and Me! Plus Activity Book provides a wide range of practice activities to consolidate what is taught in the Student Book. It can be used to check children's learning in class, or can be taken home to complete with parents.

In this off-beat book perfect for reading aloud, a Caldecott Honor winner shares the story of a duck who rides a bike with hilarious results. One day down on the farm, Duck got a wild idea. “I bet I could ride a bike,” he thought. He waddled over to where the boy parked his bike, climbed on, and began to ride. At first, he rode slowly and he wobbled a lot, but it was fun! Duck rode past Cow and waved to her. “Hello, Cow!” said Duck. “Moo,” said Cow. But what she thought was, “A duck on a bike? That’s the silliest thing I’ve ever seen!” And so, Duck rides past Sheep, Horse, and all the other barnyard animals. Suddenly, a group of kids ride by on their bikes and run into the farmhouse, leaving the bikes outside. Now ALL the animals can ride bikes, just like Duck! Praise for Duck on a Bike “Shannon serves up a sunny blend of humor and action in this delightful tale of a Duck who spies a red bicycle one day and gets “a wild idea” . . . Add to all this the abundant opportunity for youngsters to chime in with barnyard responses (“M-o-o-o”; “Cluck! Cluck!”), and the result is one swell read-aloud, packed with freewheeling fun.” —Publishers Weekly “Grab your funny bone—Shannon . . . rides again! . . . A “quackerjack” of a terrific escapade.” —Kirkus Reviews

When You Hear Me (You Hear Us) is an anthology of poetry and personal stories centering the voices of those directly impacted by the incarceration of young people in the United States. Compiled by Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop, this rich collection includes firsthand accounts from both the young people charged and incarcerated in the adult criminal legal system and from the community at large: the mothers, the loved ones, the correctional staff, public defenders, prosecutors, and others harmed and left with unhealed trauma. These critical voices, uniquely combined, illustrate the ecosystem that surrounds youth who are incarcerated--and expose the ripple effects that touch us all. This book challenges us to hear these voices calling out for accountability, transformative justice, and healing. Together, they demonstrate the collective impact of the prison system, and our collective responsibility to create a society where every one of us can thrive.