The Evan-Moor Skill Sharpeners: Critical Thinkingseries features engaging full-color exercises across four different themes. In this grade 1 workbook, students will enjoy exercises about the animal kingdom, time, technology, and places. "Read All About it" pages provide content for children to read for the theme-based activities that follow. "Tell What you Know" activities provide opportunities for children to connect their knowledge and opinions to a topic. "Critical Thinking Activities" are designed to give kids opportunities to engage in application, analytical, synthesis, and evaluative tasks, and then art projects and hands-on activities let children integrate critical thinking skills with art skills. 144 non-reproducible pages, softcover. Answer key included with reduced full-color student pages with the correct answers overlaid. Grade 1.

The 100+ Activities are organized around these 1st Grade themes:
- Animals: Cats and Dogs; Giraffes and Elephants
- Transportation: Cars, Trucks, and Buses; Planes and Trains
- Plants: Trees and Flowers; Fruits and Vegetables
- Places: The Playground and the Beach; Home and School

Help Thomas find the missing sheep in this lift-the-flap adventure! With big flaps for little hands! Lift all the flaps to find Thomas' missing sheep. Discover all the farm animals along the way, and meet some of Thomas' engine friends too! Little engineers will have lots of fun spotting familiar characters in this playful lift-the-flap book. Thomas has been teaching children lessons about life and friendship for over 70 years. He ranks alongside other beloved character such as Paddington Bear, Winnie-the-Pooh and Peter Rabbit as an essential part of our literary heritage.

Feathers is a Bluebird with an appetite for seeds and for flying adventures. It was the cold fall wind full of sleet and ice that flung him unexpectedly to the other end of the valley and to the Forbidden Forest. He now faces the unknown and perhaps death. He is a dedicated "responsible" family bird full of morals and purpose. He may never see his family again. His family ethics and principals are weighed and tested in this story. The Golden Spruce Tree Seed has purpose also, as he tries to dig his roots into the ground to make him the tallest tree in the forest and to make his parents, who stand above him, proud. He is facing death head-on The words of his parents, "you are not dead until you rot" seem an aimless and distant phrase. He knows he needs heat and sunlight to fulfill his dreams of touching the clouds and the top of the sky. How these two dissimilar personalities challenge each other in the midst of mean ol' crooked trees, raging rivers, the slicing knives, and vermin who would like to see both of our characters on their dinner plate, gives parents who like to read to their young children, and young persons already maturing into life's challenges, a vehicle by which the lessons of patience can be taught and exemplified with fun and good story. Teachers also may find this a neat story to use in the class room leisure reading. In a present time when the challenges of leaving nest and home and family to discover one's own destiny are met with the fear of the unknown in life's toy store that has such overwhelming careers in each isle, in packages not yet opened.the hope that the author is trying to impart is that; life taken one step at a time, until the mountain is taken anddefeated, is the way of all heroes and heroines. The bumps in the road are only meant as impediments if the traveler falls. They keep that person from sliding unabated to the bottom of the mountain to have to start all over again. Doors we selfishly want to open and that slam shut on us, only open new doors of much more worthy challenges and pleasures. There is always hope in the next day's sunrise if we lead our lives in a good way. This is a story that tries to teach that no one ever got to the top of the mountain in one giant leap Nor was the true destiny and ever continuing story of Feathers and the Golden Spruce Tree to be learned for many hundreds of years later, after this story began.

A heart-warming Christmas tale about hope, friendship and being different. Children and grown-ups will fall in love with little Bruce Spruce and his fir tree friends! For ages 3-5 +. As the snow starts to fall on Christmas Eve morning, little Bruce Spruce dreams about finding a home for Christmas Day. But when things don't quite go to plan he finds that his friends are there for him - and all is not lost... This delightful children's Christmas picture book from international bestselling children's author of The Secret Lake, Karen Inglis, comes with stunning pen and ink hand-drawn illustrations by Anne Swift, featuring little Bruce Spruce, Penelope Pine, Douglas Fir and Cedrick Cypress - along with a charming Christmas robin and an inquisitive squirrel! Perfect for parents and grandparents to share with pre-school children and grandchildren or for nursery school or kindergarten teachers to share in class in the holiday season. The cast offers plenty of scope for children to dress up as the characters and act out the story and discuss hope, empathy, kindness and friendship. A wonderful Christmas story gift for children ages 3-5 or ages 4-6, and for all grown-ups who love picture books! Scroll up to order with one click today!