Created by teachers and classroom-tested, these fun and meaningful enrichment activities build children's skills in problem solving, decision making, cooperative learning, divergent thinking, and communication while promoting self-awareness, tolerance, character development, and service. Kids create books, write stories, resolve to help others, explore their own values, discover why mistakes can sometimes be beneficial, practice patience, and more in projects that combine enjoyment with learning.
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“Provides effective, easy, thought-provoking, and fun activities that can begin or continue conversations with your children.” —California Association for the Gifted
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Deb Delisle has been an educator for more than twenty years. Currently Director of Curriculum for West Geauga School District in Ohio, Deb has also been a primary teacher, gifted education teacher, public school administrator, and university instructor. Deb has been listed in Who's Who Among American Teachers, was a finalist for the Ohio Teacher of the Year, and was selected as one of America's Top Twenty Educators by Learning magazine and the Oldsmobile Corporation. Deb serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Roeper Review and is a committee member of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Deb frequently conducts workshops for educators on curriculum development, global awareness, and alternative assessment. Deb lives in Kent, Ohio, with her husband, Jim, their son, Matt (when he is not attending college in Boston), and their cat, who never travels.
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Great New Ideas,
This review is from: Growing Good Kids: 28 Original Activities to Enhance Self-Awareness, Compassion, and Leadership (Free Spirited Classroom) (Paperback)
This is a book that will give you fun new writing activities that have personal meaning for kids of all ages.
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A wonderful teaching tool.,
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This review is from: Growing Good Kids: 28 Original Activities to Enhance Self-Awareness, Compassion, and Leadership (Free Spirited Classroom) (Paperback)
this book is a must for any teacher. i had the pleasure of hearing Jim Delisle speak and his thoughts are excellent. This book is filled with great ideas for a fun yet effective classroom.
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The best resource and material book since publication !!!,
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The difference between a goal and a dream is attitude. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
growing good kids, classroom pledge, decorative art materials, assigned framework, reproducible master, storyboard template, ultimate vacation, introduce the activity, copies for each student, bug parts, activity steps Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Free Spirit Publishing Inc, Related Curriculum Language Arts, Time One, New York, Gcowing Good Kids, John Goddard, Possible Dreams, Product Student-created, The Address Book, Four Ways, Miss Rumphius, Calendar Template, Gcowing Goad Kids, Kayaks Down the Nile, Pledge of Allegiance, Project Person, Random Acts of Kindness, Time Two, Wheel of Fortune, Mistakes That Worked, New Year, Product Individual, The Me I'd Like Others, Wet Hen, Wheel of Fantasy New!
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The difference between a goal and a dream is attitude. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
growing good kids, classroom pledge, decorative art materials, assigned framework, reproducible master, storyboard template, ultimate vacation, introduce the activity, copies for each student, bug parts, activity steps Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Free Spirit Publishing Inc, Related Curriculum Language Arts, Time One, New York, Gcowing Good Kids, John Goddard, Possible Dreams, Product Student-created, The Address Book, Four Ways, Miss Rumphius, Calendar Template, Gcowing Goad Kids, Kayaks Down the Nile, Pledge of Allegiance, Project Person, Random Acts of Kindness, Time Two, Wheel of Fortune, Mistakes That Worked, New Year, Product Individual, The Me I'd Like Others, Wet Hen, Wheel of Fantasy New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Kayaks Down the Nile by John Goddard on 4 pages
- Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days! by Stephen Manes on page 13, page 16, and page 18
- Green Eggs and Ham (I Can Read It All by Myself Beginner Books) by Dr. Seuss on page 13, page 65, and page 67
- The Address Book: How to Reach Anyone Who Is Anyone by Michael Levine on page 13, page 18, and page 99
- Live and Learn and Pass it on: v. 1 by Jackson H. Brown on page 11, and page 107
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