Our January activity book has been prepared to help teachers of lower elementary grades in teaching a unit on the five senses. At the conclusion of this unit, children will have a greater sense of self-awareness. Included are worksheets, recipes, and art ideas.

Each of 36 weekly themes is accompanied by a list of materials, patterns, activities, and more.

Help children measure and tell time by the sun, the clock and the calendar; and learn why there are 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week and 365 days in a year. Here's a cross-curriculum approach to time with learning activities that bring together history, science, language arts and math. A comprehensive look at time from the ancient civilizations who first tried to understand, arrange and measure it - to modern society where we organize our lives around the clock!

Children of today are so used to going everywhere quickly and comfortably in the family car, they take the whole thing for granted. They don't have a clue about the problems and challenges that had to be met by early inventors and automobile factories to make a smooth ride possible for us today. So why not bring one of the inventors of the automobile right into your classroom! Introduce Henry Ford to your students and let them discover for themselves the exciting early history of cars!

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage—and a life, in good times and bad—that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later—the night before New Year’s Eve—the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma. This powerful book is Didion’ s attempt to make sense of the “weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness ... about marriage and children and memory ... about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.

There are years that challenge you. There are years during which you grow a lot. And then there are years you don't seem to really grow at all. There are years full of such unadulterated bliss that you'd choose to live them over again, if only the universe provided you with that option - and there are years so tumultuous, you wish with all your might that you could scrub the days of that year from the haunted recesses of your mind. A year is a long time. A year flies right by. A year can be ruled by love or it can be governed by loss. A year can cause you to embrace fear or it can turn you into someone utterly fearless. A year can change the entire trajectory of your life, and there's always that one year you will never forget. That year? It made me weak and it made me strong. It made me cynical and it taught me how to trust. It made me confront exactly what my life and my soul were missing. It made me explore a future I didn't even know I could hope for. That year almost broke me. But that year might have saved me.