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The colorful flowers in Mama’s garden reveal a strange-looking creature. “What is it? Does it sting, does it bite?” Join in this photographic journey as the young girl and her mother care for the caterpillar. Watch as it transforms into a chrysalis and then emerges as a beautiful monarch butterfly. How can the young girl “claim” the butterfly as her own but still let it go free?

Have fun learning new words with Sylvan's proven techniques for success!Kindergarten Word Games helps children improve their words skills through engaging games and activities. Packed with colorful pictures and short, fun exercises, this book helps students learn and practice words while they:· Search for words with specific endings in a word hunt· Navigate a maze by following a path of words that share the same ending sounds· Color spaces that contain rhyming words to reveal a mystery picture· And much more!

Felina the Florida panther loved growing up in her forest home, until the forest starts to shrink! Trees begin to disappear, and Felina doesn't understand the new busy highway in the neighborhood. Other animals are in danger, too. Will Felina find a way to survive as humans threaten to ruin her home? Environmental science writer Loran Wlodarski gives children a look into deforestation and endangered animals in Felina s New Home: A Florida Panther Story, complemented by the detailed, emotive illustrations of Lew Clayton. Learn whether the animals in Felina s forest adapt to the new human presence and what children can do to keep wild animals safe, happy, and healthy. Gold President s Book Award Bock Book Award 4 pg For Creative Minds educational section in the back 54 pg cross-curricular Teaching Activities and 3 Interactive Quizzes available free on the book's homepage eBooks with Auto-Flip, Auto-Read and selectable English and Spanish text and audio Aligned to State Standards / Lexile, Guided Reading, AR, Reading Counts, and Fountas & Pinnell

GET READY TO HEAD BACK TO CLASS! Prepare your child for 1st grade with this math workbook full of fun, engaging exercises and activities, designed to refresh kids on what they need to know before returning to school.Parents, you know that disruptions (whether for summer break, vacations, or other reasons) can put your child's education on pause. By adding just a few pages per day of material from the previous grade into kids’ routines, you can help your child keep their skills fresh and set them up success for when they return to the classroom! The exercises and activities in Get Ready for 1st Grade Math are drawn from our top-selling SUMMER SMART workbook series (designed to combat summer "learning loss"). Inside, you'll find:• Links to download printable versions of activities with physical components (coloring, tracing)• 40+ pages of teacher-created learning exercises to reinforce math skills your child should know going into the 1st grade• Fun, engaging activities that feel like playWith Sylvan Learning, you don’t have to compromise between entertainment and education. Your child will love the great mix of activities, stories, and games in these pages. You’ll love seeing their improved confidence and newfound love of learning!

Success in math requires children to make connections between the real world and math concepts in order to solve problems. Successful problem solvers will be ready for the challenges of mathematics as they advance to more complex topics. The activities in this workbook are designed to help children see how math skills are relevant in their daily lives. Best of all, they’ll have lots of fun! Here’s a peek at what’s inside: High ScoreStudents calculate the number of points earned and the total scores of different players of a video game, reinforcing skills in place value, adding three or more numbers, multiplication, as well as comparing numbers by ranking high and low scores. Going GreenEstimating the number of discarded plastic bottles or the fraction of trash that can be recycled in different types of bins are a few practical ways students use math to learn how to improve the environment. Kate’s KitchenIn Kate’s Kitchen, students practice grouping skills when they package containers of dried mango snacks, and dividing skills when they determine how many glasses of orange juice can be made from some oranges. Scaling up smoothie recipes gives multiplication practice, while making parfait desserts gives practice with fractions. Buildings of the WorldStudents use their knowledge of solid shapes to determine the shape of buildings such as the Louvre Pyramid in Paris or the Capital Records building in Los Angeles. Graph GrabberDetermining which of four graphs shows the number of visitors to a science museum is just one way students reinforce their skills in interpreting graphs. Give your child’s confidence in math a boost with 3rd Grade Math in Action.

Success in math requires children to make connections between the real world and math concepts in order to solve problems. Successful problem solvers will be ready for the challenges of mathematics as they advance to more complex topics. The activities in this workbook are designed to help children see how math skills are relevant in their daily lives. Best of all, they’ll have lots of fun! Here’s a peek at what’s inside: That Does Not Compute!The Great Roboto is on the fritz and is spitting out some wrong answers. Children use their skills in number patterns, subtraction, fractions, and inequalities to separate the correct and incorrect answers. Piggy BankMoney has been saved in some piggy banks. Children calculate how much money will be in the piggy banks after receiving birthday money or spending it on a new DVD. Zoo CrewChildren use subtraction and measurement skills to help the zoologists compare the lengths of reptiles or weights of primates and measure the length of aquarium animals. Once Upon a TimeSkills using odd and even numbers come in handy to help Hansel and Gretel find candy to take from the sugarcoated house. Knowledge of telling time helps determine when Cinderella can get some shopping done before her stagecoach turns into a pumpkin at midnight. Field TripChildren practice measurement skills when they take a ruler to the grocery store to measure items in inches, or to the toy store to measure items in centimeters. Give your child’s confidence in math a boost with 2nd Grade Math in Action.

Success in math requires children to make connections between the real world and math concepts in order to solve problems. Successful problem solvers will be ready for the challenges of mathematics as they advance to more complex topics. The activities in this workbook are designed to help children see how math skills are relevant in their daily lives. Best of all, they’ll have lots of fun! Here’s a peek at what’s inside: Excellent ExerciseFour friends have been working out together all week. Students use multi-digit multiplication to calculate the number of times each friend did jumping jacks, sit-ups, push-ups, and pull-ups. Cool CollectionsStudents use multi-digit division to find out the number of album pages needed to hold collections of baseball cards, photographs, stamps and stickers, or use percents to determine how many video games in a collection are adventure, arcade, or sports games. Track and FieldAthletes have come from all over the country to participate in track and field events, including shot put, long jump, and the 100-meter hurdles. Students round the scores to help rank the athletes. Copy ShopCoco’s Copy Shop has different prices for copies depending on how many copies you make and whether they are black and white or color. Students determine the price to make copies of a band flyer, poem, or vacation photograph. Graph ItStudents survey friends about books they’ve read in the past month and use their graph skills to plot the answers. Then they determine the range, median, mode, and mean of their results. Give your child’s confidence in math a boost with 5th Grade Math in Action.

Bonus $10 discount coupon off your child’s Skills Assessment at a Sylvan Learning Center with the purchase of every Sylvan Workbook!Is your child ready to master the letters of the alphabet? Sylvan’s Kindergarten Alphabet Activities workbook will help teach your child the alphabet letters and sounds. It is full of curriculum-based activities that strengthen what kids are already learning in the classroom. Each activity focuses on a skill needed to help your child succeed in school.Why Sylvan Products WorkSylvan Learning Workbooks won a 2009 Honors Award from the National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) as a top book series for children in the elementary-aged category. The NAPPA is the nation’s most comprehensive awards program for children’s products and parenting resources, and has been critically reviewing products since 1990. The Award recognizes Sylvan Learning Workbooks as some of the most innovative and useful products geared to parents.Sylvan's proven system inspires kids to learn and has helped children nationwide catch up, keep up, and get ahead in school. Sylvan has been a trusted partner for parents for thirty years, and has based their supplemental education success on programs developed through a focus on the highest educational standards and detailed research. Sylvan’s line of educational products equips families with fun, effective, and grade-appropriate learning tools. Our workbooks and learning kits feature activities, stories, and games to reinforce the skills children need to develop and achieve their academic potential. Students will reap the rewards of improved confidence and a newfound love of learning.

Success in math requires children to make connections between the real world and math concepts in order to solve problems. Successful problem solvers will be ready for the challenges of mathematics as they advance to more complex topics. The activities in this workbook are designed to help children see how math skills are relevant in their daily lives. Best of all, they’ll have lots of fun! Here’s a peek at what’s inside: While Supplies LastA radio station has a certain number of T-shirts, concert tickets, and gift certificates to give away to the first callers. Students practice subtracting five-digit numbers to calculate how many callers didn’t get a prize. Skateboard SortFrom a dozen skateboards with different designs and patterns, students determine the fraction of striped skateboards, skateboards with flames, skateboards with blue wheels, and other groupings. Angled AlphabetStudents practice recognizing right, acute, and obtuse angles found in particular letters of the alphabet. Find the FlagStudents are shown flags of different countries and find intersecting, perpendicular, and parallel lines in their designs. Favorite FlavorsIra’s Ice Cream Shop is thinking about changing its flavors. From a graph of the flavors people bought on a hot afternoon, students determine the most popular flavor, which sold in equal amounts, which fraction of people bought Fudge Ripple, and which flavor should be replaced. Give your child’s confidence in math a boost with 4th Grade Math in Action.

Come spend A Day on the Mountain, the follow up to Kevin Kurtzs award-winning first book, A Day in the Salt Marsh. Rhyming verse and vibrant illustrations take readers up a mountain, from the forested bottom to the snow-covered top. While climbing, they witness the changing habitats and meet the plants and animals that live there. Learn about Black bears, Great Gray Owls, Garter snakes, Clarks nutcrackers, Bighorn sheep, Hummingbirds, Yellow-bellied marmots, Mountain goats, Salamanders, and Snow fleas. The For Creative Minds educational section includes: Mountain Ecosystems, Mountain to Arctic Pole Map Comparison, Above or Below the Tree Line?, and Match the Animals. Additional Teaching Activities and Interactive Quizzes are available on Sylvan Dell Publishings website.

Cross The Little Red Hen with a burro and his friends and you get a humorous Southwestern retelling of a childhood favorite, Burro finds it hard to get any help from his friends as he diligently works to turn corn into tortillas. Young children will love the repetition; older children will enjoy the book s many puns. In addition to its Southwestern flavor, the delightful story imparts an accurate picture of the traditional way that tortillas are made. A Spanish/English glossary and a simple recipe for making tortillas are included in the For Creative Minds section.