WHAT IT IS: This and hilarious fun musical play helps you teach the standards while bringing your classroom to life! Easy-to-do play comes with script, audio CD, and teacher's guide. NO music or drama experience is required¿you don't have to sing or play a note! Go big and perform on stage, keep it simple with a classroom performance, or simply do reader's theater in class. No fancy sets, costumes, or performance spaces are needed, so it's all up to you! Flexible casting for 8-40 students and permission to edit the script and songs make it easy to tailor the play to the needs of your class and community. Your purchase of one copy per teacher includes permission to photocopy the script for students. /// WHAT IT TEACHES: In "The Turkeys Go on Strike," Thanksgiving is in danger of being cancelled because of some extremely dissatisfied poultry. While negotiations go on around the clock¿an event covered by TV reporters and influenced by ambitions members of the Squash family¿students learn about the historical origins and the real meaning of the holiday. 20 minutes; grades 2-6. /// WHAT IT DOES: "The Turkeys Go on Strike" is a great complement to your curriculum resources in social studies and holiday fun. And, like all Bad Wolf Press plays, this show can be used to improve reading comprehension, vocabulary, performance and speaking skills, class camaraderie and teamwork, and school engagement and parental involvement¿all while enabling students to be part of a truly fun and creative experience they will never forget!

You won’t strike out with this book full of fun facts about baseball, soccer games, football fields, and more! Did you know that the most popular sport in the world is soccer? How about that if you are 7 feet tall or taller you have a 17% chance of playing in the NBA? Or that, in bowling, a “turkey” is when you get three strikes? Filled with tons of cool facts about sports, plus colorful, humorous illustrations, this book is sure to be a home run.

The story of how Mr. Weatherall, the headmaster of a school and an ordinary man, was introduced to a huge nationwide black market operation. It seems anything goes to ensure profits of crime on a vast scale. Moreover, was the victim run over by a train before, or after, he died? And can Weatherall succeed in a one man battle against such odds?

The perfect picture book for the holiday, this hilarious twist on the traditional Thanksgiving feast features Turkey as he hops from hiding place to hiding place to avoid ending up as the main course. With Thanksgiving only one day away, can Turkey find a place to hide from the farmer who's looking for a plump bird for his family feast? Maybe he can hide with the pigs . . . or the ducks . . . or the horses . . . Uh-oh! Here comes the farmer! Run, Turkey, run!