The schoolwork that kids will WANT to do! The award-winning Big Fun First Grade Workbook presents a unique approach to first-grade learning that blends puzzles and lessons in one fun activity book. Parents will find a variety of content to appeal to kids with a broad range of learning styles, plus an introduction that gives helpful tips on how to combine fun with early learning activities.Even better, the cheerful illustrations and humor keep kids absorbed longer, which builds persistence and attention to detail. A certificate of completion included in the back of the book reinforces kids? achievements.Kids will practice: ABCs, Word recognition, Digraphs and Consonant Blends, Homophones, Colors, Shapes, Numbers, Addition and Subtraction, Sequencing, Beginning Science, and more!
This innovative book is the first to provide a fun, interactive way to learn about architecture. Filled with an array of beautiful and elegant drawings, it poses all manner of architectural challenges for the user: from designing your own skyscraper, to drawing an island house or creating a Constructivist monument, plus many others more. Aimed at anyone who loves drawing buildings, it encourages the user to imagine their own creative solutions by sketching, drawing and painting in the pages of the book. In so doing, they will learn about a whole range of significant architectural issues, such as the importance of site and materials, how to furnish a space, how to read plans, how to create sustainable cities and so on. The book also includes numerous examples of works and ideas by major architects to draw inspiration from and will appeal to everyone from children to students to architects.
You don't need to pay a fortune for expensive "green" commercial cleaning products. It's easy and inexpensive to mix up effective, nontoxic alternatives using basic kitchen staples baking soda, vinegar, lemon juice, herbs, and borax plus a handful of easy-to-find essential oils. Karyn Siegel-Maier offers 150 all-natural recipes for cleaning everything in your home from bathrooms to bedding, carpets to cabinetry. The formulas are so simple that anyone can make them, but they are at least as effective as the commercial options. Try making your own Rosemary-Geranium Floor Wipes for electrostatic floor mops, weekend warrior wicker wash, telephone dirty talk tamer, clear the air room spritzer, or lavender lift automatic dishwasher soap.