Summerford describes her innovative school physical fitness and health program called PE-4-Me Radical Wellness Program, implemented at her middle school in Apple Valley, California. The program combines movement, music, authentic assessment, thematic instruction, and brain-based learning into a physical education program. Several times the role of movement and health is emphasized as a way to help students become better learners in other areas. Summerford includes seat work and activity program sheets which support the program.

"This book gives valuable information on the necessity of incorporating movement in the classroom. The activities are easy to understand and follow." —Debbie Jo Halcomb, Fourth-Grade Teacher Robert W. Combs Elementary School, Happy, KY "Summerford gives teachers a format for convincing administrators that movement is a component of best practices." —Stephanie Eagleton, Second-Grade Teacher Shaker Heights City School District, OH Use movement and music to stimulate children′s ability to absorb and retain new information! Getting children up and moving can help stimulate their brains and increase their ability to learn. This resource focuses on using movement and music to energize young students and boost their capacity to absorb and remember new content. Packed with games and activities for teachers in K–5 settings, this research-based book offers strategies for basic energizers, clear objectives for standards-aligned instruction, and a student/teacher/principal agreement to commit to active learning. Showing how exciting and fun learning can be, this new edition: Includes new chapters on planning and organizing lessons Offers sample activities in math, social studies, science, language arts, health, and physical education Provides tools for assessing the effectiveness of activities Presents updated brain research This invaluable resource helps teachers meet the needs of all students by using multisensory learning techniques that develop enthusiastic learners.

The Shenandoah Valley had all the visible makings of the finest Holiday greeting card with its lush rolling hills, majestic mountains and the mighty Shenandoah River. Abby and Andi were raised in the valley among a beautiful community of faith. They were raised to love Jesus and were deeply rooted in GodaEUR(tm)s Word; but these identical twin sisters lived completely opposite lives. Abby, a home-health nurse, was well loved and respected by her family and friends. Andi, AbbyaEUR(tm)s mirror twin sister lived a rebellious, sordid life. Between empty, loveless affairs and alcohol addiction she was on a fast track to destruction. The day Isaac Graham, a widower and father of a four-year-old daughter, moved to the Shenandoah Valley was more than anyone could have expected. Dr. Graham was an earnest believer who came to town to serve his indigent patients in the community clinic. But when Abby arrived for her appointment to abort her unborn child, he never thought he could be so disconcerted with both shock and betrayal. Living Waters Church was a bulwark of the community and few things came in or went out of the Valley without passing through the prayer gates of this body of believers. But for several prominent families, what was about to transpire would forever change the entire landscape of their lives. Come to the river to find what tests, trials, joy and triumphs they experienced.

The novel is set at a prison camp where the inmates are allowed to go into town to work and earn money. At the start the camp is calm and collected. Then a man was sent to the camp as a punishment for wrongs he did and turned the whole camp upside down. The captain tried to stand up for his men and the inmates but was told as a warden he did not need a captain who was in his mind nothing but a figure head. Then this warden left under strange circumstances and the older man that should have been dismissed a lot earlier, all the warden's took pity on him, and kept him around. His first assignment was to get rid of the captain. This captain was stepping on too many toes to help everyone and the department could not take this type of behavior.

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