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Preschool Mailbox Magazine

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The Mailbox Magazine: October / November 2010

Grade Level: Preschool
Price: $5.95
Product #: 2041051

Give them a great start! It's easy with The Mailbox Magazine!

The Mailbox magazine brings you the best ideas, activities, and tips in preschools today.

• Early literacy units for letters and sounds
• Early sorting and counting activities to capture their imaginations
• Movement-related songs, rhymes, and activities just for preschoolers
• Exploration-based centers to combine developmentally appropriate skills with play
• Ready-to-go patterns, forms, and activity cards to make the ideas easy to use

Special features in this issue include:

• Perfectly Pleasing Pumpkins! - This divine collection of ideas celebrates that famous fall fruit - the pumpkin!
• Candy Centers - No doubt your little ones will be delighted with this collection of sweet centers!
• Fabulous Feelings - You're sure to have happy little ones when they take part in these activities on emotions!
• Where the Wild Things Are - Activities to supplement this book by Maurice Sendak.
• Splendid Slime! - Your little ones will be fascinated by this unique slimy substance!
• A Feast of Literacy Ideas! - No doubt your little ones have a craving for unique literacy activities. Look no further than this buffet of ideas just perfect for the Thanksgiving season!
• Fire Safety Month - Spotlight National Fire Prevention Week (October 3-9, 2010) with this selection of red-hot math ideas!
• Ready-To-Use Activity - centerfold: word cards

In every issue:

• Learning Centers
• Classroom Displays
• Contributor Page
• Science Explorations
• Songs & Such
• Kids in the Kitchen
• Arts & Crafts
• Management Tips & Timesavers
• Storytime
• Circle Time
• Busy Hands
• Instant Seasonal Activities
• Our Readers Write

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Our complete collection of The Best of The Mailbox Magazine series of books

NEW! Kindergarten Mailbox Magazine

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The Mailbox Magazine: October / November 2010

Grade Level: Kindergarten
Price: $5.95
Product #: 2042051

You'll see real results every day. Grab their attention with ready-to-go ideas and activities that deliver on your curriculum.

With The Mailbox Magazine you'll get:

• Fresh reading activities to build basic skills
• Math skill-building activities designed to meet and beat your state's standards
• Easy-to-use arts and crafts and classroom display ideas
• Ready-to-go posters, forms, patterns, and activity cards
• A new skill index that lets you find what you need fast

Special units in this issue:

Learning Centers

• Literacy and Math
• Center Mat and Cards: beginning sounds
• Step-by-step center activity: comparing sets to 12

Literacy

• Sorting Activity: initial consonants
• Making the Most of Morning Messages! - Cock-a-doodle-do! Start the morning with these fresh and creative ideas!
• Reproducible Partner Game - rhyming pictures
• Reproducible Booklet
• Building Reading Skills - letter knowledge, letter-sounds associations, high-frequency words, phonological awareness
• Writing Helpers - fall word bank, sequencing

Literature

• The Book Corner - Activities to supplement the following literature selections:The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle, Jungle Halloween by Maryann Cocca-Leffler
• Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert - positional words, sorting by attribute, contributing to a class story

Math

• Building Math Skills - data collection and analysis, number sense, ordinal numbers
• Reproducible Partner Game - counting to 20
• "Ship Shape" Math - Watch your little sailors cruise through shape experiences with these nautical ideas.

Science and Social Studies

• Simple Science - exploring the five senses, experimenting with sinking and floating
• Let's Do Social Studies - understanding the significance of Veterans Day, using basic map skills, understanding how things change over time

Seasonal

• Apples and Pumpkins - Students are sure to have bushels of fun with these science, math, and literacy ideas!
• 'Tis the Season - Spiffy Spiders (song, spider facts), Candy Corn Estimation (math skills), Thankful Thoughts
• Seasonal Lotto - Wow, What a Nut! (writing numbers to 20 or beginning sounds)
• Fabulous Fire Safety - These red-hot ideas are engaging and educational-and just what you need for reinforcing fire safety!

Ready-to-Use Teacher Tools

• Gameboard - "Birthdays are the Best" (matching uppercase and lowercase letters)
• Step-by-Step Center - "Cupcakes and Sprinkles " (comparing sets to 12)
• Poster - "Corners and Curves" (describing solid figures)

In every issue:

• Classroom Displays
• Arts & Crafts
• Management Tips & Timesavers
• Skills in Your Issue
• Contributor Form
• Our Readers Write

You may also like:
Our complete collection of The Best of The Mailbox Magazine series of books

NEW! First Grade Mailbox Magazine

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The Mailbox Magazine: October / November 2010

Grade Level: First Grade
Price: $5.95
Product #: 2040051

You'll see real results every day. Grab their attention with ready-to-go ideas and activities that deliver on your curriculum.

With The Mailbox Magazine you'll get:

• Fresh reading activities to build basic skills
• Math skill-building activities designed to meet and beat your state's standards
• Easy-to-use arts and crafts and classroom display ideas
• Ready-to-go posters, forms, patterns, and activity cards
• A new skill index that lets you find what you need fast

Special units in this issue:

Learning Centers

• Literacy and Math
• Step-by-Step Center Activity - plurals with s
• Center Mat and Cards - solid figures

Literacy

• Skills for Young Readers - comprehension, onsets and rimes, short vowels, word recognition, changing first and last letters
• Reproducible Partner Game: high-frequency words
• Read and Do!
• Dropping In on Word Families - Lift students' literacy skills sky-high with these creative ideas!
• Write On! - the writing process, punctuation, booklet
• Make-and-Write Word Activity
• Writing Activity Card - Spin A Story!

Literature

• The Book Corner - Activities to supplement the following literature selections: Stellaluna by Jannell Cannon, A Plump and Perky Turkey by Teresa Bateman

Math

• Building Math Skills - doubles facts, estimating, using tally marks
• Reproducible Partner Game - addition to 12
• Just the Facts! - Addition and Subtraction: Count on these "paws-itively" fun ideas to get your students hot on the trail of mastering basic math facts.

Science and Social Studies

• Simple Science - characteristics of spiders, night and day
• Let's Do Social Studies - Veterans Day, past and present, Thanksgiving Day

Seasonal

• Seasonal Skill Practice: Pumpkins - Harvest improved science, math, and literacy skills with this crop of fresh ideas!
• Seasonal Activity Cards - plurals with s, word families, addition, ordinal numbers, responding to a prompt, short-vowel words, subtraction stories, problem-solving
• 'Tis the Season - Falling Into Order (word order), Whooooo Knows (math practice), Just "Write" Turkey (writing)

Ready-to-Use Teacher Tools

• Gameboard - "Cookies and Milk" (comparing numbers)
• Writing Activity Card - Spin a Story! (writing prompt)
• Poster - Read-a-Lot (short vowel word families)

In every issue:

• Classroom Displays
• Arts & Crafts
• Management Tips & Timesavers
• Skills in Your Issue
• Cards for Pull-Out Centerfold Game
• Our Readers Write
• Contributor Form

You may also like:
Our complete collection of The Best of The Mailbox Magazine series of books

Grades 2 - 3 Mailbox Magazine

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The Mailbox Magazine: August / September 2010

Grade Level: Second - Third Grade
Price: $5.95
Product #: 2043050

You'll see real results every day. Grab their attention with ready-to-go ideas and activities that deliver on your curriculum.

With The Mailbox Magazine you'll get:

• Graphing and measurement activities for building math skills
• All new standards-based activities for language skills and paragraph writing
• Ready-to-go patterns, forms, and activity cards
• Bright, colorful, perforated curriculum posters for class instruction
• A new skill index that lets you find what you need fast

Special units in this issue:

Language Arts

• Reading Tips & Tools - modeling, motivation, introducing and using reference materials, retelling story elements, synonyms, activating prior knowledge, prediction
• At-Home Reading Log
• Partner Game: spelling
• Graphic organizer: personal narrative
• Writing Tips & Tools - descriptive writing, preparing writers' notebooks, identifying nouns, writing friendly letters, using indefinite articles
• Reproducible Writing Prompts
• Brain Boosters
• Reading Practice Pages - beginning blends: br, cr, fr, gr, main idea and details, fiction comprehension
• Writing Practice Pages - generating story ideas, punctuation
• Activity Cards - categorizing and classifying words, compound words, writing details, using a dictionary

Math

• Math Tips & Tools - collecting and graphing data, recording time, schedules, using ordinal numbers, understanding capacity, making change, adding and subtracting money
• Activity Cards - subtraction, odd and even numbers, graphs, ordering numbers
• Mind Builders
• Step-by-Step Center - nonstandard measurement
• Practice Pages - addition strategies; basic facts, reading a calendar, determining reasonable estimates

Social Studies and Science

• Exploring Social Studies - map skills, landforms
• Social Studies Comprehension Pages - Constitution Day
• Simply Science - weather, scientific inquiry

Ready-To-Use Teacher Tools

• Gameboard - Horsing Around at the Ranch (comparing numbers)
• Poster - Cheering for Reading: Comprehension Strategies

Multitopic

• Learning Centers - high-frequency words, editing for capitalization, number sense, commutative property of addition
• Celebrate the Season! - using a Venn diagram, presenting information, writing questions and statements, sorting and classifying, using a dictionary
• Seasonal Practice Pages - patterns, one;two;and three syllable words
  

In every issue:

• Classroom Displays
• Arts & Crafts
• Skills in Your Issue
• Management Tips & Timesavers
• Our Readers Write
• Answer Keys
• Contributor Form

You may also like:
Our complete collection of The Best of The Mailbox Magazine series of books

The Mailbox Magazine: October / November 2010

Grade Level: Second - Third Grade
Price: $5.95
Product #: 2043051

You'll see real results every day. Grab their attention with ready-to-go ideas and activities that deliver on your curriculum.

With The Mailbox Magazine you'll get:

• Graphing and measurement activities for building math skills
• All new standards-based activities for language skills and paragraph writing
• Ready-to-go patterns, forms, and activity cards
• Bright, colorful, perforated curriculum posters for class instruction
• A new skill index that lets you find what you need fast

Special units in this issue:

Language Arts

• Reading Tips & Tools - comparing and contrasting, reading sight words, understanding cause and effect, using a thesaurus, fictional reading terms,
• Activity Cards: writing a friendly letter, adding -ed, similes, alphabetical order
• Graphic organizer: logical sequence
• Writing Tips & Tools - replacing overused words, imaginative narrative, capitalization, quotation marks, published writing
• Reproducible Writing Prompts
• Brain Boosters
• Reading Practice Pages - suffixes: -er, -est, -ly, sequence
• Writing Practice Pages - singular and plural nouns, revising for word choice
• Activity Cards - multiple-meaning words, summarizing, proper nouns, purpose for reading

Math

• Math Tips & Tools - motivation, assessing prior knowledge, comparing numbers, estimating measurement, mastering basic facts, rounding numbers to the nearest ten
• Activity Cards - number words, attributes of plane shapes, estimating sums, patterns
• Mind Builders
• Practice Pages - representing numbers, rounding to the nearest hundred

Social Studies and Science

• Exploring Social Studies - government services, voting
• Prompts for Social Studies
• Simply Science - forces and motion, human skeleton, animal camouflage

Ready-To-Use Teacher Tools

• Step-by-Step Center - Give Me Details (descriptive writing)
• Gameboard - Movie Night (long vowels)
• Poster - Flipping for Inverse Operations

Multitopic

• Learning Centers - spelling, writing friendly letters, identifying plane shapes, recording data, elapsed time
• Celebrate the Season! - book sharing, addition, logical reasoning, contractions, writing a thank-you note, addition and subtraction
• Seasonal Practice Pages - writing money amounts, ordering numbers, capitalization, reading a diagram
  

In every issue:

• Classroom Displays
• Arts & Crafts
• Skills in Your Issue
• Management Tips & Timesavers
• Our Readers Write
• Answer Keys
• Contributor Form

You may also like:
Our complete collection of The Best of The Mailbox Magazine series of books

Intermediate Mailbox Magazine

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The Mailbox Magazine: October / November 2010

Grade Level: Intermediate (Fourth - Sixth Grade)
Price: $5.95
Product #: 2044051

You'll see real results every day. Grab their attention with ready-to-go ideas and activities that deliver on your curriculum.

With The Mailbox Magazine you'll get:

• Easy-to-use activities for math skills including fractions and measurement
• Standards-based activities for sentence skills and reference materials
• Ready-to-go forms, patterns, and activity cards
• Bright, colorful, perforated curriculum posters for class instruction
• A new skill index that lets you find what you need fast

Special units in this issue:

Language Arts

• Tips & Tools -synonyms, antonyms, literature response, plot, helping verbs, building vocabulary, making text connections
• Comprehension Pages - historical fiction comprehension, graphic organizer: analyzing plot
• Independent Practice Grid - spelling
• Practice Pages - possessive nouns, cause and effect
• Reproducible Partner Game - easily confused words
• Brain Boosters
• Write Now! - descriptive details, sentence fragments and run-on sentences, writing a script, how-to paragraph, generating writing ideas
• Activity Cards - main idea, strong verbs, run-on sentences, inflected endings
• Writing Organizer - fictional narrative
• Writing Prompts

Math

• Math Mind Builders
• Tips and Tools - data analysis, two-digit multiplication, decimal computation, solving algebraic equations, capacity
• Reproducible Partner Game - extending patterns
• Math Prompts
• Independent Practice Grid - multiplication
• Practice Pages - prime factorization, area and perimeter, graphing and analyzing data
• Ready-to-Use Center - locating decimals, fractions, and mixed numbers on a number line
• Activity Cards - geometry, multiplication, multiplying decimals, fractions

Science and Social Studies

• Simply Science -constellations, erosion, weathering, animal classification
• Science Comprehension Pages - animal classification, plant life
• Exploring Social Studies - creating a timeline, research, geography
• Social Studies Comprehension Pages - state research, Appalachian and Rocky Mountains

Ready-To-Use Teacher Tools

• Poster - divisibility rules
• Game - fact and opinion

Seasonal

• Monthly Writing Prompts
• Skills for the Season - measurement to 1/8 inch, persuasive writing, measuring angles, research, types of verbs
• Practice Pages - adding and subtracting decimals, summarizing, ordered pairs, dictionary skills

In every issue:

• Skills in Your Issue
• Classroom Displays
• Management Tips & Timesavers
• Our Readers Write
• Answer Keys
• Contributor Form

You may also like:
Our complete collection of The Best of The Mailbox Magazine series of books

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