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Current issues available: October/November 2009 & December/January 2009-10

Preschool - Dec./Jan. 2009-10

Kindergarten - Oct/Nov 2009
Kindergarten - Dec./Jan. 2009-10

Grade 1 - Oct/Nov 2009
Grade 1 - Dec./Jan. 2009-10

Grades 2-3 - Oct/Nov 2009
Grades 2-3 - Dec./Jan. 2009-10

Intermediate - Oct/Nov 2009
Intermediate - Dec./Jan. 2009-10

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The Mailbox Magazine: December / January 2009-10

Grade Level: Preschool
Price: $5.95
Product #: 2041046

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:

• Penguins - Youngsters will be charmed by this selection of activities about everyone's favorite flightless bird!
• Arts & Crafts for Classic Read-Alouds - These creative arts-and-crafts projects go with your youngsters' favorite classic stories! (Corduroy, Jamberry, If You Give a Moose a Muffin, Goodnight Moon, & Where the Wild Things Are)
• A Hot Cocoa Shop Center - This hot cocoa shop is sure to be a popular wintertime center in your classroom!
• Crazy About Numbers - From centers to large-group activities, here's just what you need to stir up a bunch of number-related fun!
• Cozy Quilt Centers - Art center, writing center, literacy center, puzzle center, math center
• A Flurry of Literacy Ideas! - Sorting uppercase and lowercase letters, letter-sound association, recognizing the letter G, forming the letter J, matching letters, writing a caption, participating in a rhyme, letter formation, writing, letter recognition
• Ice is Nice - Here's a slick selection of ice-themed activities just perfect for the chilly season!
• Ready-To-Use Activity - Matching Letters

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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NEW! Kindergarten Mailbox Magazine (2 issues available: October / November 2009 & December / January 2009-10)

The Mailbox Magazine: October / November 2009

Grade Level: Kindergarten
Price: $5.95
Product #: 2042045

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

• High-Frequency Word Booklet
• From A to Z Part 2 - In the Aug./Sept. 2009 issue we served up activities to use with the letters A through M. Now it's time to continue the fun with ideas that focus on the second half of the alphabet!
• Building Reading Skills - environmental print, predictable text, letter-sound associations, rhyming, high-frequency words
• Writing Helpers - sentence starter cards

Literature

• The Book Corner - Activities to supplement the following literature selections: Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh, Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins, Pumpkin Day by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace, I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie by Alison Jackson
• The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! by Mo Willems - varied speaking tones in reading, beginning sounds, graphing

Math

• Building Math Skills - sorting, number order, shape recognition, counting, math vocabulary
• Reproducible Math Games - patterning, comparing sets
• Mouth Roundup - counting, patterning, sorting geometric shapes, modeling numbers, comparing sets, nonstandard measurement

Science and Social Studies

• Simple Science - understanding the pumpkin life cycle, using the sense of hearing
• Let's Do Social Studies - knowledge of family, understanding community, expressing thankfulness

Seasonal

• Seasonal Skill Practice: Bats - activating prior knowledge, graphing, positional words, following directions, characteristics of bats, rhyming, initial consonants, word family /at/
• 'Tis the Season - Eight Legs (letter recognition), In the Pumpkin Patch (counting syllables), Hide and Hunt (matching numbers, number words)
• Seasonal Lotto - positional words or initial consonants

Ready-to-Use Teacher Tools

• Gameboards - "Goody Gumballs! " (rhyming) and "Busy Builders " (counting objects)
• Center Mat and Cards - "Nighttime Nibbles " (counting, number recognition)

In every issue:

• Classroom Displays
• Arts & Crafts
• Learning Centers (Literacy and Math, matching numbers to sets, comparing numbers)
• Management Tips & Timesavers
• Skills in Your Issue
• What Works for You? - "Managing Centers "
• Our Readers Write

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The Mailbox Magazine: December / January 2009-10

Grade Level: Kindergarten
Price: $5.95
Product #: 2042046

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

• Blast Off with High-Frequency Words - spelling, reading words, motivation, reading
• Building Reading Skills - word family: -at, color words, letter formation, letter-sound association, beginning, middle, and end
• Writing Helpers - sentence starter cards, graphic organizer

Literature

• The Book Corner - Activities to supplement the following literature selections: Pattern Fish by Trudy Harris, Old Black Fly by Jim Aylesworth, Dream Snow by Eric Carle, My Crayons Talk by Patricia Hubbard
• Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson - developing rhyming skills, distinguishing real from pretend, writing, retelling a story

Math

• Building Math Skills - counting by fives, equal and unequal parts, gathering data, adding
• Reproducible Math Games - Number Order, Coin Identification
• How Tall? How Heavy? - comparing lengths, ordering by weight, comparing weights, comparing heights

Science and Social Studies

• Simple Science - animal adaptations, mixing colors, using senses
• Let's Do Social Studies - recognizing holidays around the world, working toward a class goal, distinguishing between needs and wants

Seasonal

• Wrapped Up For the Holidays - color words, graphing, ordinal numbers, patterning, letter-sound correspondence, shapes, writing
• 'Tis the Season - Light the Tree (initial consonants, high-frequency words, number identification, coin identification and value), A Brand-New Year (class writing activity), A Tall Snowman (ordinal numbers)
• Seasonal Lotto - ending consonant sounds
• Let's Celebrate the 100th Day of School - matching numbers, number order, counting, critical thinking, tally marks, writing, counting by tens

Ready-to-Use Teacher Tools

• Posters - "Count by 5s" and "-ag Words"
• Center Mat and Cards - "A Colorful Bird" (matching colors and color words)

In every issue:

• Classroom Displays
• Arts & Crafts
• Learning Centers (Literacy and Math, phonological awareness)
• Management Tips & Timesavers
• Skills in Your Issue
• What Works for You? - "Morning Message"
• Our Readers Write

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NEW! First Grade Mailbox Magazine (2 issues available: October/November 2009 & December/January 2009-10)

The Mailbox Magazine: October / November 2009

Grade Level: First Grade
Price: $5.95
Product #: 2040045

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 - word order
• Step-by-Step Center Activity - addition to 12

Literacy

• Skills for Young Readers - word recognition, final consonants, comprehension, high-frequency words, word families
• Fun with Short-Vowel Words - sorting, spelling, real and nonsense words, making words, changing first and last letters, short i and o words
• Read and Do!
• Word Family Make-and-Read Activity - -an words
• Write On! - adjectives, asking sentences, sentence-writing activity

Literature

• The Book Corner - Activities to supplement the following literature selections:Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden by George Levenson,Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann, The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza) by Philemon Sturges, and The Very First Thanksgiving Day by Rhonda Gowler Greene

Math

• Building Math Skills - data analysis, making ten, related facts
• Reproducible Math Games - subtraction to ten, solid figures
• Made to Measure - measuring height, weight with nonstandard units, comparing nonstandard units of measure, exploring weight, using standard units of linear measure

Science and Social Studies

• Simple Science - animal characteristics
• Let's Do Social Studies - understanding the significance of Thanksgiving, connecting the past and present

Seasonal

• Seasonal Skill Practice: Spiders - characteristics of spiders, spelling, addition combinations for eight, distinguishing fact and fiction, number order, final consonants,
• Seasonal Activity Cards - word families, patterning, asking sentences, addition stories, skip-counting, writing, number sense, short-vowel words
• 'Tis the Season - Sweet for Stories (story parts), Bat Puzzler (subtraction), Gobble! (reading game)

Ready-to-Use Teacher Tools

• Gameboards - "Swim to Win! " (short i word families) and "Catch!" (addition to 12)
• Step-by-Step Center Activity - Grab Bag Math (addition to 12)

In every issue:

• Classroom Displays
• Arts & Crafts
• Read and Do!
• Management Tips & Timesavers
• Skills in Your Issue
• What Works for You? "Teacher/Parent Conferences "
• Our Readers Write

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

The Mailbox Magazine: December / January 2009

Grade Level: First Grade
Price: $5.95
Product #: 2040046

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

• Skills for Young Readers - asking and answering questions, word families, retelling a story, word wall, consonant blends: cl, cr, fl, fr
• Read and Do!
• Cool Writing Ideas - writing stories, using describing words, action words, responding to prompts, how-to directions
• Word Family Make and Read Activity - ake words
• Write On! - prewriting activity, story writing idea, capitalization and punctuation

Literature

• The Book Corner - Activities to supplement the following literature selections: The Emperor's Egg by Martin Jenkins, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett

Math

• Building Math Skills - time to the half-hour, fact families, fractions
• Reproducible Math Games - Addition to 18, Place Value
• Fast With Facts - addition and subtraction, missing addends, fact families
• Make a Splash on the 100th Day of School - number sense, skip-counting, comparing numbers, number order, measurement

Science and Social Studies

• Simple Science - observing patterns in weather, characteristics of penguins
• Let's Do Social Studies - Kwanzaa, geographic locations, Martin Luther King Day

Seasonal

• 'Tis the Season - Odd for a Mitten (odd and even numbers), Delightful Lineups (text to text connections, alphabetical order)
• Seasonal Activity Cards - math stories, problem-solving, responding to a prompt, changing the last letter of words, fact families, word family: -ice, writing events in sequence

Ready-to-Use Teacher Tools

• Posters- Fact Families and Let's Revise
• Step-by-step center activity: Words That Stick (describing words)
• Center Mat and Cards: story problems

In every issue:

• Classroom Displays
• Arts & Crafts
• Learning Centers - Literacy and Math
• Management Tips & Timesavers
• What Works for You? "Indoor Recess "
• Our Readers Write
• Contributor Form

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Grades 2 - 3 Mailbox Magazine (2 issues available: October/November 2009 & December/January 2009-10)

The Mailbox Magazine: October / November 2009

Grade Level: Second - Third Grade
Price: $5.95
Product #: 2043045

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 - asking and answering text questions, word recognition, main idea and details, nonfiction text features, drawing conclusions,
• Graphic organizer: reading fiction text, friendly letters
• NEW! Step-by-Step Center Activity - nonfiction text features
• Writing Tips & Tools - spelling motivation, identifying transition words, personal narrative, word order, writing contractions
• NEW! Reproducible Writing Prompts
• NEW! Brain Boosters
• Reading Practice Pages - compound words, context clues
• Writing Practice Pages - ending punctuation, inflectional endings

Math

• Math Tips & Tools - geometry terms, time to the minute, estimation, number sense, identifying coins, multidigit addition and subtraction
• Reproducible Math Game: Rounding
• NEW! Mind Builders
• Practice Pages - odd and even numbers, making change from $1.00

Social Studies and Science

• Exploring Social Studies - geography, elections
• Social Studies Comprehension Page - Native American housing
• Simply Science - weathering, weighing

Ready-To-Use Teacher Tools

• NEW! Gameboards and Activity Cards - "Soccer Stars " (capitalization) and "Fill Your Tank" (comparing numbers)

Multitopic

• Learning Centers - antonyms, polygons, fractions, adjectives, multiplication
• Celebrate the Season! - sequencing, making and interpreting graphs, descriptive writing, community service, number sense, classifying nouns
• Seasonal Practice Pages - expanded form, reference materials
  

In every issue:

• Classroom Displays
• Arts & Crafts
• Skills in Your Issue
• What Works for You? "Parent Conferences"
• Management Tips & Timesavers
• Our Readers Write
• Answer Keys
• Contributor Form

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

The Mailbox Magazine: December / January 2009-10

Grade Level: Second - Third Grade
Price: $5.95
Product #: 2043046

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 - multiple-meaning words, syllabication, cause and effect, author's purpose, dictionary skills
• Ready-to-use Game: synonyms
• Graphic Organizer: nonfiction text
• Reading Practice Pages - antonyms, suffixes: -ly, -ful
• Writing Tips and Tools - writing directions, editing and revising, descriptive writing, sentences, motivation, editing
• NEW! Reproducible Writing Prompts
• NEW! Language Arts Brain Boosters
• Graphic Organizer: Persuasive Writing
• Writing Practice Pages - editing for capitalization, past and present tense verbs

Math

• Math Tips and Tools - place value, multiplication, number sense, comparing numbers and expressions, linear measurement
• NEW! Step-by-step center: division
• Reproducible Math Game: symmetry
• NEW! Mind Builders
• Practice Pages - time to the minute, problem-solving, geometry

Social Studies and Science

• Exploring Social Studies - community jobs, goods and services, map skills
• Social Studies Comprehension Page - trade, reading a table
• Simply Science - solids, liquids, and gases, water cycle

Ready-To-Use Teacher Tools

• Gameboard - "A Tiger's Tale " (punctuation)
• Poster - Measurement Tools to Measure Length

Multitopic

• Learning Centers - homophones, relating multiplication and division, handwriting, comparing fractions, words with prefixes
• Celebrate the Season! - writing descriptive sentences, identifying polygons, probability, community awareness, conflict resolution
• NEW! Activity Cards - Language Arts (personal narrative, word building, prefixes, poetry) / Math (subtraction with regrouping, interpreting graphs, ordering numbers, comparing fractions)
• Seasonal Practice Pages - two-digit addition with and without regrouping, using a table of contents
  

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 (2 issues available: October/November 2009 & December/January 2009-10)

The Mailbox Magazine: October / November 2009

Grade Level: Intermediate (Fourth - Sixth Grade)
Price: $5.95
Product #: 2044045

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 - homophones, descriptive verbs, spelling, questioning, nonfiction text features
• Reading Graphic Organizer
• Practice Pages - combining sentences, cause and effect, synonyms
• Reproducible Partner Game - synonyms
• Write Now! - proofreading, narrative writing, expository writing, writing motivation, writing a friendly letter
• Writing Graphic Organizers
• Language Arts Brain Boosters
• Partner Game - adjectives and adverbs

Math

• Math Mind Builders and Tips and Tools
• Math Prompts
• Poster Practice Page - math word clues
• Practice Pages - estimating products, equivalent fractions
• Activity Cards - place value, estimating products, measurement, subtracting decimals, area, subtracting across zeroes, number patterns, equivalent fractions

Science and Social Studies

• Simply Science -scientific method, food chains, weather patterns
• Science Comprehension Pages - scientific method, animal survival, rocks and minerals
• Exploring Social Studies - current events, economics, supply and demand, using map scale to determine distance
• Social Studies Comprehension Page - supply and demand, Ponce de Leon

Ready-To-Use Teacher Tools

• Punctuating Quotations Game Mat and Cards and math activity cards

Seasonal

• Monthly Writing Prompts
• Skills for the Season - function tables, reviewing any subject, mean, median, mode, and range, identifying geographic features, writing with adjectives
• Practice Pages - mean, median, mode, and range, pronouns, measurement, problem-solving, fact and opinion

In every issue:

• Skills in Your Issue
• Classroom Displays
• What Works for You?
• 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: December / January 2009-10

Grade Level: Intermediate (Fourth - Sixth Grade)
Price: $5.95
Product #: 2044046

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 - plural nouns, writing a poem, combining sentences, homophones, narrative writing, apostrophes, synonyms, parts of speech
• Ready-to-Use Center - "Face Off" (analyzing complex words)
• Reading Graphic Organizer - character analysis
• Practice Pages - cause and effect, idioms
• Write Now! - peer editing, planning an expository essay
• Writing Graphic Organizer - descriptive writing
• Poster Practice Page (centerfold) - editing symbols
• Language Arts Brain Boosters
• Tips & Tools - punctuating titles, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones, spelling, story elements, answering questions

Math

• Math Mind Builders
• Reproducible Partner Game - multiplying decimals by whole numbers
• Tips and Tools - multiplication, division, comparing decimals, writing and simplifying fractions, problem solving, standard and metric measurement
• Math Prompts
• Practice Pages - congruent figures, adding and subtracting like and unlike fractions
• Partner Game (centerfold) - comparing fractions

Science and Social Studies

• Simply Science - habitat research, properties of matter, weight of air, simple machines
• Science Comprehension Pages - experiment: properties of matter, animal adaptations, erosion and deposition: glaciers
• Exploring Social Studies - government, analyzing a chart, American history, geography, using cardinal and intermediate directions
• Social Studies Comprehension Page - westward expansion

Seasonal

• Monthly Writing Prompts
• Skills for the Season - possible outcomes, multiplying by percents, prepositional phrases, collecting and graphing data, reviewing any subject
• Practice Pages - collecting and displaying data, ordered pairs, prepositions and prepositional phrases, area and perimeter, building vocabulary

In every issue:

• Classroom Displays
• What Works for You?
• Management Tips & Timesavers
• Our Readers Write
• Answer Keys
• Contributor Form
• Skills in Your Issue

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

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