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  • Word Power! Grade 1: Activities and Word Tiles to Help You Master 100 Words!

    PlayBac

    Hardcover-spiral (Play Bac, July 28, 2010)
    Pave the way to reading success with Word Power books! Word Power! Grade 1 boosts first graders' growing vocabulary by teaching them 100 words that appear frequently at the first grade reading level. It comes with 150 color-coded tiles representing different parts of speech, that can be used to complete a variety of grade-appropriate, challenging, and most of all, fun activities inside. Readers can use the tiles to complete silly poems, discover secret codes, finish word finds, and more! The tiles are housed on the front cover in a clear, plastic case for easy storage. All of the words were carefully chosen by a learning consultant.
  • Homework Helpster Grade 3

    PlayBac

    Spiral-bound (Play Bac, Sept. 19, 2007)
    A homework help flip card guide with core curriculum for grade 3. Give your child the best school help available with Homework Helpster for third grade. Featuring an easy to use stand-up, stand-out format, this guide includes the latest fast facts to make homework easier. · The core curriculum in 200 full-color, at-a-glance flip cards · 4 sections: Math, Science, Language Arts, and Social Studies · Subject dividers make answers quick and easy to find · Kid-friendly full-color maps, pictures, charts, keywords, and diagrams make learning easyFun, brief kids lessons provide math help, English help, science help, and more to build knowledge and reading comprehension. Compiled by fourth grade teachers using core curriculums and standards, each entry focuses on a key concept. Homework Helpster is the one reference every 3rd grader needs. Homework help is on the way!
  • Make Your Own Sticker Fun: Fairy Tales

    PlayBac

    Paperback (Play Bac, June 1, 2010)
    Take a pinecone, add two strawberries, some leaves, and maybe a butterfly wing and what do you get? A fantastic sticker of a knight in shining armor made from objects found in nature! With Make Your Own Sticker Fun: Fairy Tales, you can create and design amazing stickers from beautiful natural patterns and shapes. Simply trace the shape you want over your favorite pattern, cut it out, and you will have created your very own custom sticker! Background pages, decorative stickers, silhouette stickers, pattern pages, and stencils make this a jam-packed book with endless possibilities. There are also activity pages with easy-to-follow examples and an instructional page that provides suggestions on how to use the book.You can create sticker gnomes, fairies made of flowers, chariots made from pumpkins and seashells, and castles made from mushroom stickers. There's no other sticker book like it!
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  • Incredible Insects!: Eye-opening Photos of Amazing Bugs

    PlayBac

    Hardcover (Play Bac, Oct. 1, 2009)
    Bug lovers rejoice! From laboring dung beetles and marching ants, to curious mantises, mysterious moths, and smelly stink bugs, Incredible Insects! is a full-color visual feast for young readers. In 46 eye-popping spreads, photographs of crawling, flying, slithering bugs showcase the tiny world of insects in new and totally captivating ways. Coupled with fun facts and amazing records, these jaw-dropping photographs dominate each double-page spread and instantly draw the reader into the wonder of the natural world. Incredible Insects! provides "under-the-rock" access to a rich variety of bugs as you’ve never seen them: Up-close and personal!
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  • Word Power! Kindergarten: Activities and Word Tiles to Help You Master 100 Sight Words!

    PlayBac

    Hardcover (Play Bac, July 28, 2010)
    Pave the way to reading success with Word Power books! Word Power! Kindergarten helps kindergarteners learn 100 sight words - words that do not follow regular spelling rules and cannot be sounded. It comes with 150 color-coded tiles representing different parts of speech, that can be used to complete a variety of grade-appropriate, challenging, and most of all, fun activities inside. Readers can use the tiles to play word bingo, word spy, matching word games, make funny word lists, and more!. The tiles are housed on the front cover in a clear, plastic case for easy storage. All of the words were carefully chosen by a learning consultant.
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  • My Busy Book: Ages 4-5: Brain-Building Activities to Give Your Preschooler a Head Start!

    PlayBac

    Spiral-bound (Play Bac, May 21, 2010)
    All doting parents want the best for their preschooler, but entertaining while educating a child when on the go often presents a challenge. The My Busy Book series, packed with forty-eight wipe-clean pages and an erasable marker, is just the thing to keep preschoolers busy for hours with drawing, logic, counting, and other brain-building activities! Young readers will learn letter and word recognition, practice adding by grouping quantities and comparing numbers, and create their own drawings and artwork with easy-to-follow instructions and kid-friendly examples. My Busy Book: 4-5 includes activities that are just right for this age group. From complete the drawing games and shell Sudoku, to putting numbers in sequence and figuring out a maze, there's always something exciting to do. This book includes charming, photographic art and illustrations as well as pages that can be wiped clean with a dry cloth for endless learning and fun!
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  • Baby EyeLike: Stripes

    PlayBac

    Board book (Play Bac, April 1, 2009)
    Animals, flowers, fruits, feathers, and seeds all show their stripes! Teach your child all about stripes and patterns using concepts from nature. Inspired by the bold graphic design of the best-selling EyeLike series, Baby EyeLike opens the door to a lifetime of discovery. Each page is simple - yet dramatic - in design and detail. Die-cut pages reinforce the learning theme and allow babies and toddlers to grip and learn.
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  • Square One SmartCards about Horses

    PlayBac

    Cards (Play Bac, Oct. 1, 2009)
    Square One SmartCards are the quickest, hippest how-to guides for kids on the go. Designed to clip on to backpacks, belt loops, or any convenient spot, these 40-card decks are the perfect introduction to kids’ favorite subjects. Each card has both instructional information as well as solid background information on the subject (For example: If all ponies are horses, why aren’t all horses ponies?) The cards are numbered, detachable, and interchangeable so the decks can be personalized and customized. Each deck comes with a doorknob hanger. Square One: SmartCards for cool kids! Giddy-up horse lovers! Square One SmartCards about Horses is a cool new way to learn everything you need to know about horses. You don’t need to own a horse to enjoy these colorful card decks linked to a carabiner ring. Did you know that horse fossils date back 50 million years; or that there are coldblooded, hot-blooded and warm-blooded horses? Learn how to groom, feed and even understand horse language! Yee Ha!
  • Homework Helpster Grade 4

    PlayBac Staff

    Hardcover (Play Bac, March 15, 2007)
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  • Vocabulary Power: Sound-A-Likes by PlayBac

    PlayBac

    Spiral-bound (Play Bac, March 15, 1723)
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  • Help Your Parents Save The Planet: 50 Simple Ways to Go Green Now!

    PlayBac

    Paperback (Play Bac, April 10, 2009)
    This is the first green guide for kindergarteners and first-graders who are ready to get busy and make a difference. An uncomplicated guide for kids who know they "know better," How to Help Your Parents Save the Planet is filled with actions you can take immediately and implement easily. The style is light, informative, and—above all: kid-friendly. With a focus on the Three R's—Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle—this is the perfect introduction to a lifetime of care and nurturing of planet Earth. Curious children will learn: • Why cooking at home beats ordering in • How to recycle crayons • How dusting your light bulbs and putting on a sweater can help • Why you should never let go of that balloon! • What are the best "re-use" ideas for coffee cans and oatmeal containers
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  • EyeLike Sticker Fun: Animals

    PlayBac

    Paperback (Play Bac, Sept. 1, 2009)
    EyeLike Sticker Fun: Animals Design your very own stickers! With over 500 stickers and a full panel for stencils, create your own stickers from beautiful, natural patterns. In addition to hundreds of sticker possibilities, each book provides backgrounds (Garden of butterflies, anyone?), or ideas (Animal portraits?), and suggestions on how to get started. Simply trace the shape you want over your favorite pattern, cut it out, and you will have created your very own custom stickers!Create your own stickers in EyeLike Sticker Fun: Animals! Lizards that look like pebbles, elephants with zebra stripes, and cats with cherries for eyeballs are all possible in this interactive, sticker-making book. With over 500 stickers, a full panel of stencils, and patterns pages from which to create new sticker shapes or sticker backgrounds, animal art stickers are just around the corner!
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