Books with author Barbara Allman

A heart-shaped rose-colored balloon floats around its owner’s house after being brought home from her retirement party. The balloon, named Rose, is on quite an adventure after she sees the majestic big balloons in the sky from the windows of the house. Her journey takes her on a search for a way out as she longs to fly in the sky with the big balloons, hot-air balloons which carry people in their basket and soar over the beautiful country side.

A heart-shaped rose-colored balloon floats around its owner’s house after being brought home from her retirement party. The balloon, named Rose, is on quite an adventure after she sees the majestic big balloons in the sky from the windows of the house. Her journey takes her on a search for a way out as she longs to fly in the sky with the big balloons, hot-air balloons which carry people in their basket and soar over the beautiful country side.

A Lyrical Tale - Read and sing-a-long with this old tale of tails that has captured so many children's hearts and imaginations. Call out the animals to the ark, two by two, and celebrate in song with them as they land in the morning light! Lyrical Tales are read & sing-a-long books for children with songs available on iTunes, Amazon and Spotify. - Author/songwriter Barbara Allyn (Treehouse/Sesame Street), Holly Truax illustrator (featured artist in Bezier The Best Vector Artists Worldwide), and John Alcorn (Dora Award) series co-song writer/singer, are joined by recognized vocalists Micah Barnes (formerly w/The Nylons), Melissa Stylianou (with praise from DownBeat to The New Yorker) and the incomparable Canadian vocalist Jackie Richardson (Gemini Award) to create the first 3 of 12 children's read sing-a-long books. The books titled 'A Fish Named Thirsty' (jazz/scat), 'Betty the Bike' (Traditional english folk) and 'Two By Two" (hip hop/gospel) each introduce a different musical genre to children by lyric, picture and song. This new series is published under Lyrical Tales. The songs are engineered and recorded by Juno Award winning Jeff Wolpert at his Desert Fish Studio in Toronto. You order the book, then download the song matching the book title on iTunes and Spotify!

Each of the 12 units in Spell & Write, Grade 2 is introduced by a story that establishes the unit theme and features some of the ten spelling words. Students are then presented with eight activity pages that provide meaningful spelling and writing practice, centering on the unit's theme.Activities may include practice with:grammar and punctuation rules,vocabulary exercises,creative writing,and

Listening skills prepare a child for school and in particular, for learning to read. The activities and games in this book are designed to help children identify and categorize sounds, recognize rhythms and rhymes, and encourage an awareness of the elements of language. Through cross-curricular activities that incorporate games, music, phonemic awareness, phonics, and literature, your students will learn to attend to the world of sounds around them. These experiences will prepare children for Kindergarten where they will learn to link sounds to letters and blend sounds to make words.

Encourage young children to learn about themselves and others. The teaching ideas in All About Me will help you to give children opportunities to share their interests, experiences, similarities, and differences. With cross-curricular activities in language, math, science, social studies, and more, your students will discover ways in which they are unique and special. The activities in this book will help children develop a positive self-concept, foster social skills, and encourage independence and decision-making skills, all while preparing them for the exciting world of kindergarten.

The Classroom Helpers series offers a new spin on skill-specific learning. Based on Frank Schaffer's highly successful Homework Helpers, these books challenge and engage young learners with fun activities that build basic skills. The content in the Classroom Helpers series represents the most requested topics from teachers across the country. Use the reproducible pages for classroom work or for homework assignments and watch your students gain confidence from these grade-appropriate exercises.