Ready Set Build

Grab your hard hat and get ready for a day of construction fun with a busy builder and his friend, now available as a Mini Bee Board Book! Grab your hard hat, tie your boots. Pack your lunch. Ready? Scoot! Sketch a dream. Post a chart. Hatch the plan before you start. Get ready for a day full of construction fun! Children can follow a busy dog builder as he sketches and plans his dream, clears rubble to make space, and gets to work digging, lifting, and sawing. Now even the youngest of readers can enjoy building with a busy dog! This playful and imaginative story is now available as a Mini Bee Board Book!

With a focus on early literacy skills, this resource supports first grade teachers in their use of centers in the classroom. Included in this book are 10 easy-to-use, research-based literacy centers that each align with Common Core State standards and that focus on the five areas of reading-Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension. You'll find fun, engaging designs and all of the necessary materials needed to implement each center. Each center contains three differentiated activities to meet the needs of all learners, recommended children's literature for additional text support, and a family letter to build a school-home connection.

82% of coaching businesses fail within two years. Ready, Set, Coach! is your guide - based on 40 years of experience - to build a thriving coaching or consulting business. Ready helps you discover who you are as a coach and if you are suited for consulting, coaching, or a hybrid model. Personalized activities help you build your own "Coach Canvas" with guidance to practically apply the insights. Set teaches you essentials of messaging and marketing, client contracts and proposals, creating and pricing services, assessments, niches, attracting clients, passive income, and hiring the right assistant. Coach! guides you through discovery calls and time management, best practices and tools for coaching, handling free service requests, managing difficult clients, and more! Ready, Set, Coach! is the "Coach's Bible" to refer to again and again.

The time to save the planet is now. Ready? Set? Green! Living green means reversing climate change, but it also means protecting your kids and pets, improving your own health, and saving money. And it doesn't necessarily demand a radical overhaul of your life-just some simple adjustments, such as switching to healthier cleaning products and driving fewer miles each week. Written by the visionaries at Treehugger.com, the most heavily trafficked site of its kind, Ready, Set, Green is the definitive (and recyclable) guide to modern green living. It offers solutions to make your home, office, car, and vacation more eco-friendly. For example: - Using a dishwasher instead of hand washing will save you 5,000 gallons of water annually. - Eating less beef will save you 250 pounds of CO2 per year. - Washing your clothes in cold water instead of hot will save 200 pounds of CO2 annually. - Replacing three of your home's most frequently used lightbulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs will save 300 pounds of CO2 every year. Including advice on how to properly insulate your house, cancel junk mail, and choose fruits and veggies wisely, Ready, Set, Green will help you change the future of the planet and restore balance to your daily life.

Disasters strike with little warning, but the right preparation can be the difference between life and disaster. "Ready, Set, Survive" is your comprehensive guide to understanding, preparing, and overcoming the chaotic forces of nature. This essential manual is your requisite tool to ensure that when the elements unleash their fury, you are equipped with practical knowledge, techniques, and strategies to protect yourself, your loved ones, and your community. Embark on a lucid exploration of natural disasters, demystifying the science behind their destructive force, and learn how historical events offer invaluable lessons for current preparedness. "Ready, Set, Survive" doesn't just acquaint you with disaster patterns but prompts you to assess risks that are specific to your life and locale. In a world where family is paramount, this eBook delivers an entire chapter on creating a comprehensive family disaster plan that includes clear communication strategies, emergency roles, safe meeting places, and intricate consideration for all family members, including children, the elderly, and your beloved pets. When disaster hits, resources are scarce. Prepare to build an essential survival kit tailored for you, keeping in mind custom approaches for varied calamities. Securing your abode is a top priority; hence, "Ready, Set, Survive" guides you through safeguarding your home against earthquakes, floods, fires, and storms with practical, actionable advice. Financial preparedness is often overlooked in disaster planning. Dive into insightful sections on disaster insurance, asset protection, emergency funds, and navigating aid. This indispensable resource ensures you're financially fortified against catastrophes. The aftermath is daunting, but this guide equips you with psychological first aid tactics and systematic recovery processes to help you rise from the ruins with resilience and determination. "Ready, Set, Survive" also presents cutting-edge technological tools, tips for children's education and community involvement, and special topics ranging from pandemic preparedness to eco-friendly strategies. It even addresses the unique needs of urban dwellers and apartment residents to ensure readers from all walks of life can adapt, survive, and thrive, no matter their living situation. Prepare to engrain yourself in a culture of safety. Whether you're maintaining your preparedness, advocating for better legislation, or taking part in community safety networks, "Ready, Set, Survive" is more than a book; it's your roadmap to enduring and outliving natural disasters. Equip yourself for the unforeseen—your future self will thank you. Secure your copy today, and when calamity calls, answer with confidence!

What types of instructional experiences help K-8 students learn science with understanding? What do science educators, teachers, teacher leaders, science specialists, professional development staff, curriculum designers, and school administrators need to know to create and support such experiences? Ready, Set, Science! guides the way with an account of the groundbreaking and comprehensive synthesis of research into teaching and learning science in kindergarten through eighth grade. Based on the recently released National Research Council report Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8, this book summarizes a rich body of findings from the learning sciences and builds detailed cases of science educators at work to make the implications of research clear, accessible, and stimulating for a broad range of science educators. Ready, Set, Science! is filled with classroom case studies that bring to life the research findings and help readers to replicate success. Most of these stories are based on real classroom experiences that illustrate the complexities that teachers grapple with every day. They show how teachers work to select and design rigorous and engaging instructional tasks, manage classrooms, orchestrate productive discussions with culturally and linguistically diverse groups of students, and help students make their thinking visible using a variety of representational tools. This book will be an essential resource for science education practitioners and contains information that will be extremely useful to everyone �including parents �directly or indirectly involved in the teaching of science.

An inspirational guide for overcoming adversity and leading a fulfilled life, with contributions by more than two dozen experts on personal transformation. Trials and difficulties are a part of life. Whether these adversities are related to one’s health, finances, career, or family, we all have burdens to work through. With wisdom from more than 25 transformational leaders, including New York Times–bestselling authors Janet Bray Attwood, Marci Shimoff and Chris Attwood, this inspiring collection offers practical advice for pushing through hardships and consciously creating the life you’ve always wanted. Here you will find engaging personal accounts punctuated with humor, deep insight, and heart-centered wisdom. These entertaining tales contain the knowledge, tools, and motivation you need to build abundance, happiness, health, and love. Covering topics from career to relationships to personal growth, this international team of authors will show you how to finally overcome some of life’s most stubborn challenges and live the life you were destined for. No matter what your circumstances, there is a way to make a change. Let Ready, Set, Live! Be your guide.

Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.