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Books with author cally Fiinsbury

  • Eventually

    Cally Finsbury, Timothy Finsbury

    language (, Nov. 1, 2017)
    EventuallyThis is a little story about a girl with a growth mindset and how she tells how you can get one too. This story explores the achievements that can be done with the great growth mindset. Life can be a challenge and it can easily get you down, but this simple story reminds you that you can cope with any situation if you remember the power of yet.This simple story reinforces the Growth Mindset model and language. It's so easy for children to just give up on something is new, difficult or challenging. Negative self-talk and comparing yourself to others does a real number on confidence. If you are a teacher, parent, school counselor or someone who wants to teach kids about the power behind Growth Mindset - use this simple story. It has life long lessons that kids can apply immediately and you can reinforce. The power of yet for Growth Mindset!
  • Animals: Describe us

    Cally Finsbury, Timothy Finsbury

    language (, July 30, 2017)
    AnimalsDescribe usThese are simple books for you and your child. These books are simple but have the objective of encouraging interaction between you and your child.It is important to spend time with your child but what should you do? You could talk to your child about your day or something you know about. This book is a stimulus for you to help to develop your child's vocabulary. Most kids learn about one new word per week between 18 months and 2 years of age and can say about 50 to 100 words by age 2.This simple book is a great way to expose your toddler to a variety of new words all day long.It is vital that you make the opportunity to make sure your toddler's hearing a steady stream of language.By keeping up a constant conversational flow, using a diverse vocabulary, you're setting your child up for better reading, writing, and spelling skills later in their life.This book 'Animals describe us' can be read many times by making up your own questions or playing describing games.
  • Animals: Can you guess what animal am I?

    Cally Finsbury, Timothy Finsbury

    language (, June 3, 2017)
    Animals Can you guess what animal am I?This book can adapt with the child.It has pictures of animals to reinforce children’s identification of animals.It has questions about animals to help a child to understand characteristics of animals.It has question prompts to develop children's thinking and questioning skills.It can be used as a very simple reference book for young readers to stimulate and encourage further reading, investigation and research about animals that interest them.It has simple tips, suggestions and guidance about how to further extend the activities.Helping a child to understand animals.A very simple “Spot the Difference” activity.In short, this book acts as a prompt to encourage an interest in animals and nature.Animals included can you guess what animal am I : cats, dogs, hedgehog, snake, elephant, dolphin, shark, cow and a mouse.
  • Science Fair

    Cally Finsbury, Timothy Finsbury

    language (, March 15, 2018)
    Science Fair This is a simple story about science week.Join Amy as she prepares and enjoys science week. This story is for young children or primary school children who want to know more about what Amy did at school during science week and the experiments she did with her mum with household items she had around the house. She explores her garden, the park and enjoys how science is in nature and in her home.Amy's teacher wants the children to know more about how fun science is. Through their preparation for a class assembly and their interests, the children find out more about experiments.Science is amazing and children should be encouraged to be curious and ask questions about what they notice. They should be helped to develop their understanding of scientific ideas by using different types of scientific enquiry to answer their own questions, including observing changes over a period of time, noticing patterns, grouping and classifying things, carrying out simple comparative tests, and finding things out using secondary sources of information. This story can be used as a stimulus to encourage children to find out why things happen.Includes a simple list of key vocabulary.
  • Remembrance Day: Why we remember

    Cally Finsbury, Timothy Finsbury

    language (, Nov. 8, 2017)
    Remembrance DayA short, concise story about a child who has questions about Remembrance Day.After seeing poppies and exploring a beautiful landscape a child wants to know more about why poppies are worn.Why do we wear poppies?What is the meaning of poppies?Why do we remember...You may be interested in finding out related days of remembrance Armistice Day, Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Anzac Day
  • St Patrick's Day: Sleep over with my friend

    Cally Finsbury, Timothy Finsbury

    language (, March 11, 2017)
    St Patrick’s DayAn illumining and informative tale about friendship, set within the backdrop of the St Patrick’s Day celebrations.Have you ever had a sleep over?Have you ever wondered what St Patrick’s Day is about?Have you ever made pancakes?Do you know how much fun you can have while cooking with a friend?A short and charming story about friendship.A short story about the importance of making a friend.Homes can be fun especially when you do things with your mum.
  • I shall succeed eventually

    Cally Finsbury, Timothy Finsbury

    eBook (, Oct. 26, 2017)
    You shall succeed eventually.This is a little story about a boy with a growth mind-set and how he tells how you can get one too. This story explores the achievements that can be done with the great growth mind-set. Life can be a challenge and it can easily get you down, but this simple story reminds you that you can cope with any situation if you remember the power of yet.
  • Friendship: St Patrick's Day

    Cally Finsbury, Timothy Finsbury

    language (, March 11, 2017)
    Friendship St Patrick’s DayAn illumining and informative tale about friendship, set within the backdrop of the St Patrick’s Day celebrations.Have you ever had a sleepover?Have you ever wondered what St Patrick’s Day is about?Have you ever made pancakes?Have you ever made healthy green drinks?Do you know how much fun you can have while cooking with a friend?A short and charming story about friendship.A short story about the importance of making a friend.Homes can be fun especially when you do things with your mum.Use this story to stimulate discussions about cultural differences and acceptance.Use this story to explore cultural and religious differences.Use this book to inspire and encourage your child to do further research about their cultural heritage.
  • Spring Festival : Chinese New Year

    Cally Finsbury, Timothy Finsbury

    eBook
    Spring Festival Chinese New YearA simple story about how a class teacher introduced the children to their assembly topic. The children find clues such as red envelopes and decorations and then the teacher introduces the children to a big book that tells the children about the twelve zodiac animals in the Chinese New Year cycle. Includes a Did you know?There are also a few simple facts about Chinese culture.Find how what Amy has been doing.What is Amy curious about now?What has she learnt about other cultures and children around the world?
  • Charlie's week

    Cally Finsbury, Timothy Finsbury

    language (, Nov. 7, 2016)
    Charlie likes to runMeet Charlie, he is seven years old. Charlie’s friend is Timothy Bloom and he is a great critical thinker.Will Charlie be able to calm down when he is moaning and groaning? Follow Charlie and observe what he gets up to as he is running about. Will Charlie be mindful and enjoy the sights or will he be preoccupied with just running about?
  • Never give up: High frequency words

    Cally Finsbury, Timothy Finsbury

    language (, Jan. 26, 2018)
    High frequency wordsChildren's story to help to demonstrate the importance of determination and grit.What can you do to help your children become more successful?Read with your child and provide examples of characters who have a growth mindset and attitude that helps them to resolve difficult or challenging situations.Teach resilience, grit, determination, and strength of mind, resilience is being able to spring back after a setback and define one’s self as a person who doesn't give up.It is vital that your children know strategies to gain help and support and to feel like they will eventually succeed because of a growth mindset, effective coping skills and strong inner values. Empower your children and help them thrive and not feel prolonged anguish! What to say when your child is struggling. This simple story about a child who had a tough day and was feeling glum. An observation of a spider helped the child to realise something important about resilience. This story can be used as a prompt about growth mindset and how to develop grit and determination to cope with any situation.Find out how growth mindset helped this child.Remember to read:Never Give Up Cally Finsbury & Timothy FinsburyEventually Cally Finsbury & Timothy FinsburyI Shall Succeed Eventually Cally Finsbury & Timothy FinsburyWillpower Cally Finsbury & Timothy FinsburyHigh-frequency words are taught the same as tricky or sight words. This helps children become fluent readers as they should not need to use their phonics to decode these words that appear often in their reading.
  • Chinese New Year: Celebrations and cultural events

    Cally Finsbury, Timothy Finsbury

    Paperback (Independently published, Feb. 14, 2018)
    Chinese New YearA simple story about how a teacher explained to her class about Chinese New Year.Includes fun facts & trivia.Join Timothy Bloom as he discovers why there are different animal years such as the dog, rat, horse, ram, snake, pig, monkey, horse, dragon, rabbit, Cockerel, and the ox. The children are amazed by the story of the Chinese festival also known as the spring festival and the Asian festival. Encourages curiosity and wonder about other cultures and awareness of how amazing the world is. Have you ever wondered about the Chinese New year? Do you need a children's book that gives a simple insight to help with the education of your young child? The book can be used as a simple reference to the history of how the animals had a race and the impact of this custom and folklore on our storytelling of human characteristic and animal characteristics. This book is an ideal source of information to add to your social science library or anthropology library. Great book for assemblies on religions or comparisons with Buddhism or religious celebrations and festivals. A great early learning book about the traditions, customers and activities that children do to remember and respect Chineses New year.