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The 4A Reading Glossary is a compendium of "hard-to-find" words that come up in the required books on the 4A-1 and 4A-2 Reading Guides. By "hard-to -find" is meant words that students would not find in a good dictionary for their reading level. (In this case the Scholastic Children's Dictionary. Explanations are simple, conceptual and clearly written, so students don't have to look up a lot of words to understand them. This glossary puts a tool into students' hands that they can use to read and learn more independently. It is also reasoned that with word explanations plentiful and very easy to find and "grok", students will learn more vocabulary and will (ideally) develop more familiarity and a better understanding of what it's like to understand what is read, and greater reach for doing so.The glossary has several maps developed by Heron Books.

A short book that gives students simple insights and tips to move through the Math Facts on the Computer program quickly.The accompanying learning guide directs students learn how to move with confidence and success thorough the Math Facts on the Computer program.

This companion to the classic history text, The Story of Mankind, augments that study with clarification of what history actually is, presents literature projects and book lists that can help bring the study alive, introduces the use of time lines as a tool to help the study of history, provides key history benchmark events, and presents additional historical information. A glossary is also provided.

This is a very simple dictionary of hard-to-find (meaning student would not find them in a dictionary at his or her level) words from the final Form 2 reader, Adventuring, for use with the Activity Guides that go with that reader. Words explanations are simple, and 2 examples sentences are provided for each one.

Covered in the book are the main divisions of geography-physical, human (which includes political and economic), and environmental. Students learn about statistics and trends in analyzing data and making predictions. With the accompanying Learning Guide, they research topics and answer questions based on their research, and using a program call Gapminder, are able to create their own visual representations. A glossary of terms is included.

This is a glossary of words from required books on the two 4C Reading Guides, words that students will not find in a dictionary at their reading level. It explains many historical terms, and has several historical maps created by Heron Books. It is simply and clearly written so students are able to easily absorb concepts of unfamiliar words. With the two 4C Reading Guides students have the opportunity to read several books in depth and learn a lot of new vocabulary.

This is a short course that quickly orients students starting Elementary School Reading to how the program works. Simple and inviting, it starts them out right!

For an older child who may not have learned cursive earlier, or who needs a brush-up, this book presents properly formed cursive letters and words in upper and lower cases.

In this course, with many illustrations, the student learns what energy is, how it comes from the sun, and how it can change from burning wood to steam heat for heating a building.

This book accompanies the Middle School Science with Vernier text and provides a basic reach into the use of sensors and computer software to collect and analyze experimental data. With accompanying learning guide, students use four different sensors to do both required and elective experiments.

In this book, the student learns what a time line is, and how it can be a useful tool for placing events in a correct sequence--whether in studying history, reading a book, or understanding a current event.

Has your child ever asked why things have different colors? This simple book provides simple concepts regarding light, along with fun activities involving prisms, color mixing and bending light.

This course defines key terms such as music and rhythm, and teaches the student how to play rhythms on everyday instruments such as bottles and cans. With accompanying Learning Guide, the student practices rhythms, learns the 1,2,3,4 and 1,2,3 counts, and then makes up a song and rhythm that they will play for others.

Macramé is the art of tying knots in rope or cord to make a design. In this introductory book, the student learns basic skills such as how much cord is needed to make a piece of macramé, how to tie different kinds of knots to make pleasing designs, and how to incorporate items such as beads, buttons, pine cones and feathers into the design. Hand-drawn illustrations accompany the step-by-step instructions.

How can we tell if it is going to rain soon? What is the jet stream? This illustrated book introduces the fascinating subject of weather, including how the sun affects all weather, what causes wind and rain, how clouds are formed, the water cycle on Earth, and basic weather prediction, Full of hands-on activities that teach a student to read a thermometer, measure air temperature, make some wind, demonstrate the water cycle, and keep weather records.

Sponges and potatoes become tools for creating art in this simple and enjoyable book. It offers many fun activities that allow a young student to explore the different shapes and designs that can be created with these and other found objects.

This book covers some basics of singing as a communication, what melody is, and musical rounds. Through activities in the book, the student learns to play a rhythm instrument while singing, and learns two-part and four-part musical rounds. Singing musical rounds activities require additional participants. Best done after Music and Rhythm, or minimally that student have an understanding of rhythm and the 1, 2, 3, 4 count.

In this course the student is introduced to the orchestra, learns about the four families of the orchestra, and the instruments that are in each family. The student builds their own string instrument--a box harp--made out of a cardboard box. The course also covers the fundamentals of music note reading, and as final activities the student writes music for their box harp and then plays it.

Heron Spelling is a comprehensive spelling program designed to work both for student who struggle with spelling and for those who pick it up quickly. Each level is accompanied by a learning guide and workbook. With this text, along with the four accompanying learning guides and workbooks, the student learns about vowel and consonant digraphs, suffixes and prefixes, silent letters, hard and soft g and c and compound words.

A supplemental course for use as needed. With the accompanying learning guide, it introduces the importance of discipline in a positive way, setting the student up for success in spelling. Best done mid spelling level 2 or later.

Heron Spelling is a comprehensive spelling program designed to work both for students who struggle with spelling and for those who pick it up quickly. With this text, along with the four accompanying learning guides and workbooks, the student learns about plurals, possessives, contractions, compound words, adding suffixes, silent e rules, commonly confused word pairs, vowel sounds in stress and unstressed syllables and Greek word elements.

The 4A Reading Glossary is a compendium of "hard-to-find" words that come up in the required books on the 4A-1 and 4A-2 Reading Guides. By "hard-to -find" is meant words that students would not find in a good dictionary for their reading level. (In this case the Scholastic Children's Dictionary. Explanations are simple, conceptual and clearly written, so students don't have to look up a lot of words to understand them. This glossary puts a tool into students' hands that they can use to read and learn more independently. It is also reasoned that with word explanations plentiful and very easy to find and "grok", students will learn more vocabulary and will (ideally) develop more familiarity and a better understanding of what it's like to understand what is read, and greater reach for doing so.The glossary has several maps developed by Heron Books.Overall it provides a tool with which students can read in greater depth and with a richer understanding.