Nikki Marie is three years old and wants to have fun today. But what should she do? She could ride her bike. She could climb a tree. But wait! Mom has a special surprise. She's taking Nikki to Wild Mustang Horse Ranch. Nikki is excited to see the pretty horses and maybe even get to ride one. She never imagined that Nikki's List of Fun Things to Do Today would end like this!

Bring peace and joy into your workspace as you learn how to declutter your office and create a stress-free work environment. Clutter and mess can distract you, stress you out, and get in the way of efficiently getting work done. That's why Beautifully Organized at Work was created to give you practical tips and tools for how to mindfully transform your workspace and get organized so you can feel better about your work and be better set up for success. YouTube star and professional organizer Nikki Boyd, author of the bestselling book Beautifully Organized, brings her expert skills to this book. Beautifully Organized at Work includes: Everything you need to know about decluttering your desk and organizing files--both in your physical and digital space Valuable advice on how to plan your work days so you can have a well-balanced and productive week How to select the desk, chair, and lighting that are ideal for your needs Information tailored for cubicle, co-working spaces, working from home, and more Tips on how to get your coworkers involved in creating a beautifully organized breakroom, conference room, and lobby

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Foreword by Ann Magnuson -- Introduction -- Essays ¡Feminista! By Alice Bag -- Neo Boys Liner Notes by Suzi Creamcheese -- 1. Midwest: Hit Girls, Haute Girls -- Destroy All Monsters -- The Welders -- Nikki & -- the Corvettes -- Flirt -- Chi-Pig -- DA! -- The Shivvers -- The Waitresses -- Bitch -- The Dadistics -- The Cubes -- Unit 5 -- Ama-Dots -- The Dents -- Kate Fagan -- Algebra Suicide -- Dummy Club -- 2. South: Feast on My Heart -- Pylon -- Cichlids -- The Klitz -- The Delinquents -- Mydolls -- Screaming Sneakers -- The Cold -- F-Systems -- Teddy and the Frat Girls -- The Foams -- 3. Northwest: Guys Are Not Proud -- The Dishrags -- Chinas Comidas -- The Accident -- Neo Boys -- The Anemic Boyfriends -- Sado-Nation -- Art Object -- The Braphsmears -- The Visible Targets -- Bam Bam -- 4. West Coast (South): Manic in a Panic -- Backstage Pass -- The Bags -- The Controllers -- Castration Squad -- The Alley Cats -- The Eyes -- Suburban Lawns -- The Dinettes -- The Brat -- 45 Grave -- Tex & -- the Horseheads -- Sin 34 -- The Pandoras -- Screamin' Sirens -- 5. West Coast (North): Shake the Hands of Time -- Mary Monday -- The Nuns -- The Avengers -- The Blowdryers -- The Urge -- VS -- VKTMS -- U.X.A. -- IXNA -- Los Microwaves -- Romeo Void -- The Contractions -- Inflatable Boy Clams -- Wilma -- Frightwig -- 6. East Coast: Subversive Pleasure -- Jayne County -- Mars -- The Phantoms -- Helen Wheels Band -- 'B' Girls -- Teenage Jesus & -- the Jerks -- Cheap Perfume -- DNA -- Nasty Facts -- UT -- ESG -- Plasmatics -- Tiny Desk Unit -- Disturbed Furniture -- Bush Tetras -- Y Pants -- Egoslavia -- Dizzy and the Romilars -- Chalk Circle -- The Excuses -- Red C -- The Bloods -- Pulsallama -- IN MEMORIUM -- AUTHOR'S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CITATIONS -- INDEX.

Growing is hard, whether you're 18 or 80. For the 20-year-old Niketa (aka Nikki) Sane, it's a tad bit more challenging. Severely bullied in college and constantly pressured to excel in studies, she is left anxious to try even the simplest of things in life. She takes to writing in secret and often daydreams about finding love. Things start to look much better when she meets Aarav, an artist who encourages her to follow her passions. Slowly, with the help and support of her family, Nikki embarks on her journey to recovery, but just as things start falling into place, the ghosts of her past come back to haunt her in the form of her former bullies. But this time, she is determined to stand up and fight back her bullies. With drama swirling in her life again, will she be able to conquer her fears and give it back to her tormentors? Will her romantic daydreams ever become real? Above all, amidst all this chaos, will Nikki find herself?

In this unique text, Dr. Brenda Jacobs brings together two important ideas that have become central to learning and development in education, demonstrating the core relationship between self-regulation and inquiry-based learning in primary classrooms. The author compellingly shows that inquiry-based learning can empower children and is vital to becoming self-regulated learners. Drawing on real-life classroom examples, the volume outlines four key insights: that children learn self-regulation during inquiry-based learning in the same way they do during play; that teachers can use scaffolding strategies to support this development; that inquiry-based learning promotes the positive emotions essential for the development of social and emotional learning; and, finally, that during inquiry-based learning, children use oral language as a self-regulatory tool. These insights are applied to the four components of emergent curriculum—inquiry design, classroom environment, conversation, and documentation—to show how educators can help children become self-regulated learners. Considering how COVID-19 has exacerbated children’s social, emotional, behavioural, physical, and mental health problems, this timely volume also provides guidance about how to do inquiry-based learning in virtual classrooms. Concise and practical, Self-Regulation and Inquiry-Based Learning in the Primary Classroom is an invaluable foundational text for students in Education and Early Childhood Education and for pre-service and in-service teachers alike.

Come visit Bluestar Island with its sunny skies and warm sea breeze. This boxset includes three sweet contemporary small-town romance. The titles included are: LOVE BLOOMS, HARVEST DANCE and A LIGHTHOUSE CAFÉ CHRISTMAS. These books are swoon worthy and heartwarming stories about love, family and community. Love Blooms ~ He's an injured firefighter. She bakes the most delightful treats. When their worlds collide will the baker help heal the firefighter with a mix of blueberry muffins and her caring way? Harvest Dance ~ A single dad, who's in over his head, and an event planner running from her past, are drawn together on charming Bluestar Island by a determined seven-year-old and her escape-artist goat. A Lighthouse Café Christmas ~ When Santa's sleigh crashes into The Lighthouse Café, Bluestar's beloved waitress is reunited with the one man who broke her heart.

Examines how the social and cultural contexts of classroom and community shape four classroom practices involving literature - read aloud, peer-led literature discussions, teacher-led literature discussions, & independent reading.