It's the night before the Big Day—first grade. Penny is excited to start the year with her best friend right beside her in the same classroom. This humorous take on Clement C. Moore's classic tale has a perfect twist ending that will surprise readers—as well as the “heroine” of the story—and help all about-to-be first-graders through their own back-to-school jitters.

Book summary and author information, vocabulary builders, comprehension discussion questions, graphic organizers and writing activities, effective management ideas, reproducibles for the book Pedro's journal by Pam Conrad.

Eureka helps students to truly understand math, connect it to the real world, and prepare them to solve problems they haven't encountered before. The team of teachers and mathematicians who created Eureka Math believe that it is not enough for students to know the process for solving a problem; they need to know why that process works. Eureka presents math as a story, one that develops from grades PK through 12. In A Story of Units, our elementary curriculum, this sequencing has joined with the methods of instruction that have been proven to work, in this nation and abroad.