I Spent My Summer Vacation Kidnapped Into Space

Reeann and her best friend Jared are kidnapped by Torkan aliens and taken to the planet of Freetal to fight Andovian slime worms.

Everything you need to create exciting thematic science units can be found in these handy guides. Developed for educators who want to take an integrated approach, these teaching kits contain resource lists, reading selections, and activities that can be easily pulled together for units on virtually any science topic. Arranged by subject, each book lists key scientific concepts for primary, intermediate, and upper level learners and links them to specific chapters where resources for teaching those concepts appear. Chapters identify and describe comprehensive teaching resources (nonfiction) and related fiction reading selections, then detail hands-on science and extension activities that help students learn the scientific method and build learning across the curriculum. A final section helps you locate helpful experiment books and appropriate journals, Web sites, agencies, and related organizations.

Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, k, p, e, i, t.

Writing time is topical and fun with this huge collection of instant prompts correlated with the calendar-two for each day of the school year! Topics include historical happenings, famous folks, inventions, world-wide holidays, funny factoids, and so much more. A must-have for every teacher who uses journals! For use with Grades 3-6.

This book provides teachers, librarians, and other educators, parents and relatives, and students with a comprehensive and detailed examination of Canadian children's books. Each of the 133 entries on authors and illustrators presents factual and critical information along multiple dimensions. In addition to authors and illustrators of historical and contemporary importance in the English mainstream, creators of ethnic, Aboriginal, and French-Canadian origin also are included. There are representatives of regions--the North, the East, the West, and the rest between--and of all genres: retold folktales and myths, mystery, science fiction, fantasy, sports, wilderness adventure, animal epic, chapter books, picture books, poetry, stories for reluctant readers. Appendices list the winners of the major English-Canadian children's book awards and sources for further reading.

Eleven year old Jake and his family take their annual summer holiday camping trip to the Sequoia National Park only to be abducted there by aliens from outer space. Jake's family is taken away to another world far into the reaches of space, where they are displayed inside an alien zoo as humans from Earth. An implanted chip makes them think that life is normal not knowing that they are actually being observed and watched by thousands of aliens. When Jake finally realizes what has happened to them, he tries to find a way to escape back to Earth with his family and the help of his extraordinary new friend called Lumynous.