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Mailbox Magazine: April / May 2010
Grade Level: Preschool
Price: $5.95
Product #: 2041048
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:
- Let's Go to the Zoo - Your youngsters will be wild for these fabulous zoo-themed activities!
- Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale - Activities to support this book by Mo Willems (promoting interest in the story, responding to a story through art, understanding positional words, developing visual memory, developing fine-motor skills)
- A Bouquet of Math Ideas - Little ones' math skills will be in full bloom with this collection of ideas!
- Let's Learn About Letters and Sounds - These letter and sound ideas are packed with learning fun!
- Splendid Rain Centers - Math center, gross motor area, fine motor area, art center, writing center
- Fine-Motor Fun! - Little ones get a fabulous finger workout with this collection of unique fine-motor activities!
- Terrific Trees - Little ones focus on trees with this lovely, leafy collection of activities!
- Ready-To-Use Activity - counting, pre-addition
In every issue:
- Learning Centers
- Classroom Displays
- Contributor Page
- Science Explorations
- Songs & Such
- Kids in the Kitchen
- Arts & Crafts
- Management Tips & Timesavers
- Storytime
- It's Circle Time
- Busy Hands
- What Works for You?
- Our Readers Write
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Kindergarten Mailbox Magazine
 The
Mailbox Magazine: February / March 2010
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Price: $5.95
Product #: 2042047
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
- Envelope center and cards: initial consonants
- Step-by-step center: coin values
- Sorting activity: hearing syllables
Literacy
- A Special Delivery of Short-Vowel Word Families - Check out these first-class ideas that can be used with any word family!
- Writing Helpers: journal prompts, word banks, graphic organizer
- Building Reading Skills - phonics, letter-sound associations, letter knowledge, high-frequency words, reading strategies
Literature
- The Book Corner - Activities to supplement the following
literature selections:The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss,Punxsutawney Phyllis by Susanna Leonard Hill, Dear Tooth Fairy by Pamela Duncan Edwards, Froggy's First Kiss by Jonathan London
- I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! by Dr. Seuss - reinforcing rhyming words, writing, identifying sight words
Math
- Building Math Skills - odd and even numbers, modeling subtraction, problem solving
- Reproducible Math Games - coin values, addition to six
- Sailing Into Addition! - Ahoy! Set sail into beginning addition with these hands-on ideas!
Science and Social Studies
- Simple Science - investigating the relationship between force and motion, making observations about magnets
- Let's Do Social Studies - learning about famous Americans, recognizing items used by the president, classifying types of transportation
Seasonal
- Seasonal Skill Practice: Candy - This delicious assortment of math and literacy ideas is sure to bring sweet success to your kindergarten classroom!
- 'Tis the Season - Groundhog Graph (prediction), Heartfelt Math (addition), Lucky Shamrocks (initial consonants)
- Seasonal Lotto - equal/unequal parts or blending onsets and rimes
- "Snow" Much Fun! - Celebrate winter sports with this winning lineup of activities.
Ready-to-Use Teacher Tools
- Gameboard - "Around and Around" (high-frequency words)
- Step-by-Step Center - "Stamp It!" (coin values)
- Poster - "It's Time"
In every issue:
- Classroom Displays
- Arts & Crafts
- Management Tips & Timesavers
- Skills in Your Issue
- Contributor Form
- Our Readers Write
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Mailbox Magazine: April / May 2010
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Price: $5.95
Product #: 2042048
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:
Literacy
- Sorting Activity - hearing middle sound /i/
- Building Reading Skills - segmenting words into phonemes, beginning sounds, word family -ip, high-frequency words, fluency
- Word Families - make-and-read activity: -ay words
- Writing Helpers - graphic organizer, journal prompts, word bank
Literature
- The Book Corner - Activities to supplement the following
literature selections:The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, On Top of Spaghetti by Paul Brett Johnson
- Duck and Goose by Tad Hills - making predictions, making comparisons, comprehension, speaking to answer questions
Math
- Building Math Skills - addition combinations, data collection and analysis, counting by twos
- Reproducible Math Games - addition partner game, subtraction to five partner game
- Right On Time! - Give your students high-flying math practice with these timely ideas.
Science and Social Studies
- Simple Science - understanding animal adaptations, life cycle: butterfly
- Let's Do Social Studies - reinforcing the concept of community, reinforcing the parts of a map, learning recycling rules
Seasonal
- Showers and Flowers - When it rains literacy, math, and science, your youngsters are sure to bloom!
- 'Tis the Season - Jumping for Jelly Beans (counting to 30), Lots of Eggs (word families, ending consonants, uppercase and lowercase letters, addition, money), Small Seedlings (giving back to the earth)
- Seasonal Lotto - solid shapes or word recognition
Ready-to-Use Teacher Tools
- Poster - "Mice on Ice " ( -ice words)
- Gameboard - "Ladybugs on the Move " (subtraction stories)
- Envelope Center - "Big Banana Split" (counting coins)
In every issue:
- Classroom Displays
- Arts & Crafts
- Learning Centers (Literacy and Math, alphabetical order)
- Management Tips & Timesavers
- Skills in Your Issue
- What Works for You? - "Morning Message"
- Our Readers Write
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First Grade Mailbox Magazine
 The
Mailbox Magazine: February / March 2010
Grade Level: First Grade
Price: $5.95
Product #: 2040047
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 - related facts
- Envelope Center Activity - contractions
Literacy
- Skills for Young Readers - story elements, word recognition, words with -ed and -ing, compound words, ch and sh
- Long and Short e Word Sort
- Read and Do!
- Sweet on Reading - asking and answering questions, answering questions about what is read, identifying text features, responding to reading, long and short a
- Write On! - journal prompts, parts of a friendly letter, prewriting activity, describing words
Literature
- The Book Corner - Activities to supplement the following
literature selections:Slugs in Love by
Susan Pearson, Groundhog Gets a Say by Pamela Curtis Swallow, Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg, and The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
- We Love Dr. Seuss! - main idea, reading motivation, book report, rhyming, fluency, writing to explain, data analysis, making observations
Math
- Building Math Skills - using inequality signs, fact families, counting by fives, telling time
- Reproducible Math Games - counting coin combinations, odd and even numbers
- Sliced for Math - fractional parts of a whole, fractional parts of a set, counting coin combinations, modeling money amounts, telling time
Science and Social Studies
- Simple Science - making observations, classifying solids
- Let's Do Social Studies - understanding holidays and traditions, Presidents' Day, recognizing historic figures
Seasonal
- Hooray for Winter Sports - social studies, character education, geography, writing
- Seasonal Activity Cards - telling time, fractions, plurals, contractions, equivalent money amounts, fact families, long and short o, responding to a prompt
- 'Tis the Season - Take Heart (plural nouns), Wishful Thinking (writing), Kite Count (place value)
- Just for Valentine's Day - writing motivation, mouse bookmark, party game, "send-sational" sorting, decoration
Ready-to-Use Teacher Tools
- Gameboard - "Time to Bloom!" (time to the half hour)
- Step-by-Step Center Activity - Flip the Facts! (related facts)
- Poster - Compound Words
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
 The
Mailbox Magazine: April / May 2010
Grade Level: First Grade
Price: $5.95
Product #: 2040048
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 (spelling, addition, adding two-digit numbers, forming sentences)
- Envelope Label and Cards: addition and subtraction facts
- Step-by-Step Center Activity:"ou" and "ow" words
Literacy
- Skills for Young Readers - comprehension, vocabulary, "ar" words, long i words, /oo/
- Read and Do!
- Word Sort: long a, i, and o
- Three Cheers for Spelling
- Writing Activity Card
- Write On! - poetry, transition words, spark students' interest in writing
Literature
- The Book Corner - Activities to supplement the following
literature selections:Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney, Tuesday by David Wiesner
Math
- Building Math Skills - subtraction, fractions, addition with three addends
- Reproducible Math Games - Fractions, Missing Addends
- It's Time! - These fun-filled ideas are sure to help your students' time-telling skills blossom!
Science and Social Studies
- Simple Science - needs and parts of plants, conserving water
- Let's Do Social Studies - caring for the environment, using cardinal directions, using maps
Seasonal
- Seasonal Skill Practice: Eggs - Crack open this Grade A unit for great science, literacy, and math activities!
- 'Tis the Season - Growing Readers (motivational tool), Buggy Lineup (less-than), Hiding in the Hive (onsets and rimes, plurals with s and es)
- Seasonal Activity Cards - "ou" and "ow", problem solving, writing events in sequence, addition with three addends, addition and subtraction, R-controlled vowel: ar, inflectional endings
Ready-to-Use Teacher Tools
- Poster- Adding Two-Digit Numbers
- Gameboard - "Zippy's Car Wash" (R-controlled vowels: ar, ir, or)
In every issue:
- Classroom Displays
- Arts & Crafts
- Learning Centers
- Management Tips & Timesavers
- What Works for You? "Indoor Recess "
- Our Readers Write
- Contributor Form
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Grades 2 - 3 Mailbox
Magazine
 The
Mailbox Magazine: February / March 2010
Grade Level: Second - Third Grade
Price: $5.95
Product #: 2043047
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 story elements, drawing conclusions, synonyms and antonyms, fact and opinion, fluency
- Ready-to-Use-Game: synonyms and antonyms
- Graphic organizer: imaginary narrative
- Step-by-Step Center Activity - plural nouns
- Writing Tips & Tools - revising topic sentences, verb tenses, word choice, adding details, revising, identifying and planning for audience
- Reproducible Writing Prompts
- Brain Boosters
- Reading Practice Pages - multiple meaning words, prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-
- Writing Practice Page - commas
- Activity Cards - similes, pronouns, possessive nouns, persuasive writing
Math
- Math Tips & Tools - fractions, plane shapes, perimeter, identifying angles, addition with regrouping, division
- Activity Cards - patterns, multiplication facts (6-9), problem solving, fractions on a number line
- Mind Builders
- Practice Pages - congruent shapes, two-digit subtraction with regrouping, mixed practice
Social Studies and Science
- Exploring Social Studies - economics, cardinal directions
- Social Studies Comprehension Page - Presidents' Day, compare and contrast
- Simply Science - plants, food chain
Ready-To-Use Teacher Tools
- Partner Game - synonyms and antonyms
- Gameboard - money
- Poster - paragraph pointers
Multitopic
- Learning Centers - descriptive writing, pronouns, important details, geometry terms, review of basic math facts
- Celebrate the Season! - line plots, sequencing, estimating and measuring nonstandard length, descriptive writing, multiplication
- Seasonal Practice Pages - subject-verb agreement, choosing the operation
In every issue:
- Classroom Displays
- Arts & Crafts
- Skills in Your Issue
- Management Tips & Timesavers
- Our Readers Write
- Answer Keys
- Contributor Form
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complete collection of The Best of The Mailbox Magazine series
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 The
Mailbox Magazine: April / May 2010
Grade Level: Second - Third Grade
Price: $5.95
Product #: 204308
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 and Tools - making connections, classifying genres, reading for information, identifying long-vowel sounds, understanding abbreviations
- Partner Game: plural nouns
- Graphic Organizer: expository text
- Reading Practice Pages - suffixes: -ful, -less, using a thesaurus
- Writing Tips and Tools - writing haiku, writing reports, journal responses, using commas in a series, descriptive writing
- Reproducible Writing Prompts
- Language Arts Brain Boosters
- Graphic Organizer: Poetry
- Writing Practice Page - adjectives
- Activity Cards - abbreviations, imaginary narratives, guide words, writing a list poem
Math
- Math Tips and Tools - decimals and fractions, problem solving, capacity, computation skills, fractional parts of a set
- Step-by-step center: comparing fractions
- Partner Game: division
- Mind Builders
- Practice Pages - multiplication readiness, area
- Activity Cards - three-digit addition, capacity, probability, permutations
Social Studies and Science
- Exploring Social Studies - United States government, natural resources, historic figures
- Science Comprehension Page - the earth's resources
- Simply Science - rocks, patterns in the sky
Ready-To-Use Teacher Tools
- Gameboard - "Slither Through the Swamp" (multiple meaning words)
- Poster - Probability
Multitopic
- Learning Centers - adding money, capitalization practice, word building, spelling practice, multiplication fact families
- Celebrate the Season! - writing directions, speaking, base words and affixes, equivalent fractions, story analysis, math facts
- Seasonal Practice Pages - ordering numbers, fact and opinion, contractions, fractions of a set
In every issue:
- Classroom Displays
- Arts & Crafts
- Skills in Your Issue
- What Works for You? "Student Paperwork"
- Management Tips & Timesavers
- Our Readers Write
- Answer Keys
- Contributor Form
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Intermediate
Mailbox Magazine
 The
Mailbox Magazine: February / March 2010
Grade Level: Intermediate (Fourth - Sixth Grade)
Price: $5.95
Product #: 2044047
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 - analyzing challenging words,
- Independent Practice Grid - similes and metaphors
- Practice Pages - prefixes and suffixes, reference materials
- Reproducible Partner Game - parts of speech
- Write Now! - persuasive writing, adding descriptive details, summarizing, prewriting
- Activity Cards - palindromes, antonyms, anagrams, homophones
- Language Arts Brain Boosters
- Partner Game - irregular verbs
Math
- Math Mind Builders
- Tips and Tools - mixed-review game, elapsed time, common denominators, perimeter, fraction and decimal relationships
- Ready-to-Use Center - fractions, mixed numbers
- Math Prompts
- Independent Practice Grid - multidigit multiplication
- Practice Pages - multistep problem-solving, solid figures
- Reproducible Partner Game - fraction, decimal equivalents
- Activity Cards - probability, volume, measurement, multiplication
Science and Social Studies
- Simply Science - vocabulary, comets, animal adaptations
- Science Comprehension Pages - black holes
- Exploring Social Studies - government, roles of the president, geography, physical features, research
- Social Studies Comprehension Page - Washington Monument
Ready-To-Use Teacher Tools
- Poster - customary and metric units of weight
- Gameboard and Cards - irregular verbs
Seasonal
- Monthly Writing Prompts
- Skills for the Season - research, comparing, ordering fractions, review game, geometry, circles, identifying facts and opinions
- Practice Pages - multiple-meaning words, range, median, mode, and mean
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
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Mailbox Magazine: April / May 2010
Grade Level: Intermediate (Fourth - Sixth Grade)
Price: $5.95
Product #: 2044048
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
- Activity Cards - prepositional phrases, cause and effect, synonyms and antonyms, descriptive writing
- Ready-to-Use Center - "Tuning Up " (analogies)
- Comprehension Page - fiction comprehension
- Independent Practice Grid - prepositions and prepositional phrases
- Reproducible Partner Game - editing for spelling
- Brain Boosters
- Writing Graphic Organizer - descriptive writing (sensory details), descriptive details
- Practice Pages - verb tenses, elements of fiction
- Write Now! - varying sentence structure, research, descriptive writing, concrete poetry, using specific nouns and adjectives
- Tips & Tools - speaking, word study, punctuation review, cause and effect, identifying information
- Poster - helping verbs
Math
- Math Mind Builders
- Partner Game (centerfold) - fraction, decimal, and percent equivalents
- Tips and Tools - division, problem solving, mean, median, and mode, area and perimeter, reviewing math concepts
- Math Prompts
- Independent Practice Grid - volume
- Practice Pages - algebraic expressions, integers, multiplying fractions
- Reproducible Partner Game - transformations
- Activity Cards - decimal operations, lines, capacity, variables
Science and Social Studies
- Simply Science - classifying living things, forms of energy, solar system
- Science Comprehension Page - animal survival
- Exploring Social Studies - geography, government, history
- Social Studies Comprehension Pages - research organizer, transcontinental railroad
Seasonal
- Monthly Writing Prompts
- Skills for the Season - poetic elements, multiple-meaning words, measurement, latitude and longitude, research
- Practice Pages - probability, complex sentences, comparing graphs, synonyms, antonyms
In every issue:
- Classroom Displays
- What Works for You?
- Management Tips & Timesavers
- Our Readers Write
- Answer Keys
- Contributor Form
- Skills in Your Issue
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