The goal of the bulletin board and the activities included in this book is to provide you with the materials you need to create a friendly and welcoming environment for your students during the first few days or weeks of the new school year.

The Complete Welcome Back-to-School Book helps you create a colorful, inviting classroom, involves children in stimulating activities right from the start, and makes paperwork and administration easier. This book is brimming with creative room decorations and little extras based on six favorite themes: Animals, Healthy Habits, Teddy Bears, Fall, Things That Go and Fairy Tales.

Celebrate special days and themes August to December with the creative ideas in this 320-page book--bulletin boards, teacher helps, reproducible student activities, resource lists, parents' letters and much, much more! Plus a CD-ROM (print books) or .zip file (eBooks) chock-full of clip art. A valuable resource to keep close at all times!

Do you want to encourage your students to follow directions, enhance their creativity and increase their motivation in a fun-filled, productive way? If you do, then this is the book for you! These step-by-step activities also expand reading and vocabulary skills if you have students read them, and they develop listening skills when you read them aloud to your class. Organized by seasons, the activities include Presidents' Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day and a variety of other subjects and special days throughout the year. Students will learn how to follow directions for coloring, changing words into other words, drawing pictures, folding paper and more. Each activity includes easy-to-understand directions, and requires a minimum of preparation time by the teacher. Your class will enjoy the mystery of following step-by-step directions without knowing the results until they're actually done!

More than 450 messages to help you communicate effectively with students, parents and administrators. Outstanding NEW messages for report cards and assessments, also requests, invitations, thank-yous, notes of encouragement, letters about discipline and much more!

Celebrate special days and themes with the creative ideas in this 320-page book--bulletin boards, reproducible student activities, resource lists, parents’ letters and much, much more! Features a CD-ROM (print books) or .zip file (eBooks) chock-full of color and black & white clip art images. A valuable resource to keep close at all times!