Based on a true story, author Gloria Houston's joyous recounting of her great-aunt Arizona's quiet yet meaningful life reminds us of the special place a great teacher can hold in our hearts—even after we've grown up.Arizona was born in a log cabin her papa built in the Blue Ridge Mountains. She grew into a tall girl who liked to sing, square-dance, and—most of all—read and dream of the faraway places she would visit one day. Arizona never did make it to those places. Instead she became a teacher, helping generations of children in the one-room schoolhouse which she herself had attended.Supports the Common Core State Standards.

    Introduces different kinds of poems, including headline, letter, recipe, list, and monologue, and provides exercises in writing poems based on both memory and imagination.Book Details: Format: Paperback Publication Date: 11/1/1992 Pages: 203

    However, for children three to five, sociodramatic play is a way to invent and make familiar the rhythms and actions of everyday life.

    Habad was founded by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745-1813) who established a Hasidic community in Belorussia and who set forth the new Habad doctrine in a book entitled Tanya (Likutey Amarim). This doctrine expounded the mystical ideas underlying the quest for God. Its essential innovation lay in the formulation of a religious outlook which concentrated upon perceiving the divinity: its essence, its nature, the stages of its manifestation, its characteristics, its perfection, its differing wills, its processes, the significance of its revelation and the possibilities of its perception. This conception generated a profound transformation of religious worship and was the cause of great controversy throughout the Jewish world.

    Gives suggestions for play enhancement. Presents a play checklist and guidelines for observation. Discusses goals, priorities, and the role of the adult. Gives suggestions for improving the play skills. Discusses the role of evaluation.

    It introduces the theories of Piaget, Vygotsky, Erikson, Mead, and many contemporary researchers; explores the traditional curriculum arenas of early childhood education; and includes discussion of the role of work, adult models, and authority in children's play.

    She traveled throughout the southern United States and Caribbean to collect what she called lying stories. These tales of African-American culture and folklore became the core of her writing. With easy-to-read simplicity, Patricia and Fredrick McKissack paint a lyrical portrait of this gifted storyteller of the Harlem Renaissance.