Books with author Karen Mitzo Hilderbrand

Learning the 50 United States and their capitals is as easy as singing a familiar tune! Introduce each state with an interesting fact about the state’s history, geography or a famous attraction. Learn the states in alphabetical order—slow at first and then double-time for even more fun! Finally, learn each state and its capital in rhythm. The 96-page companion workbook features a profile of each state: Region, Abbreviation, Statehood, Nickname, Capital, Largest City, Size, Population, Industry, Bordering States, Presidents, Flower, Tree, Bird, and Flag. Create your own MapAdventure highlighting the states you’ve visited. The Pocket-sized Study Guide is great review anytime, anywhere. Play the “What State Am I?” question and answer game or sort, compare, and collect the states with The United States Trading Card Game. Use the Piano-Vocal Score, Instrumental Tracks, and Readers’ Theater lyrics for a great classroom production. Ages 7 – 12 Approximate Run Time: 40:00 • Music CD with original songs that teach all 50 U.S. States & their Capitals • 50 State Profiles including Region, Abbreviation, Statehood, Nickname, Capital, Largest City, Size, Population, Industry, Bordering States, Presidents, Flower, Tree, Bird and Flag • Pocket-sized Study Guide to the 50 States & Capitals • The United States Trading Card Game – players sort, compare, and collect the states by region, population, size, or statehood • “Which State Am I?” Card Game • MapAdventure—create your own US Map • Puzzles, Games, and Activity Sheets • Instrumental Performance Tracks and Readers' Theater Lyrics for classroom productions • Piano-Vocal Score Included

Skills include: Understand place values, add & subtract within 20, work with time & money, represent & interpret data, gain an understanding og beginning multiplicationreason with shapes & their attributes, apply grade-level phonics in decoding words, decode words with common prefixes & suffixes, identify main idea & details of a story, make inferences, draw conclusions, recognize fact & opinion, predict outcomes and much more! Also included are 20 downloadable songs. Great preparation for Common Core Standards.

Your children will join Joseph, Mary, the shepherds, and the angels as they celebrate the birth of Jesus with this charming storybook and CD set. Young readers will enjoy singing and reading along with the "Happy Birthday, Jesus" song--which follows the story word-for-word. Then, after reading the Christmas story, your kids will be entertained and delighted as they sing along with other Christmastime favorites. Happy Birthday, Jesus is perfect for home, school, and church--plus it makes a great gift!

Read the story. Then sing the story! It isn’t a secret that using songs to teach children pre-reading skills is fun and successful. This classic song is featured as a read-along and a sing-along. And learning rhyming words has never been more fun! “Have you ever seen a snake baking a cake down by the bay?” “Have you ever seen a mouse painting his house down by the bay?” “Have you ever seen a pig doing a jig down by the bay?” Fun illustrations, rhyming text, and silly rhyming words encourage early literacy skills for young readers. This classic children’s song will become your family’s favorite story! The fun Sing A Story series includes: Five Little Monkeys Jumping On The Bed, Old MacDonald Had A Farm, Ten In The Bed, B-I-N-G-O, Down By The Bay, Humpty Dumpty & Other Nursery Rhymes, Six Little Ducks, Five Little Skunks, ABC Nursery Rhymes, The Wheels On The Bus, This Old Man, How Many Ducks?, Old MacDonald’s Letter Farm, The ABCs, Singing The Consonant Sounds, The Farmer In The Dell and It’s Silly Time!

Learning the alphabet and beginning letter sounds is fun and easy with The Animal Alphabet song, mini-book to maike and read, 26 finger puppets, art activities, tongue twisters, animal facts, and worksheets included on the music CD and the 96-page workbook. Introduce counting from one to twenty, counting by tens, number recognition and writing and more with the songs, activities, worksheets and mini-books included. Designed for home or classroom learning. Approximate run time 40:00.