Fun and Games Books

This book describes almost every major disability and gives the teacher ways to handle classroom strategies for each one.

This is an excellent, inexpensive overview of Special Education impairements/disorders. It concentrates heavily on the 5 forms of Autism. It breaks down the other impairments in a way a general education teacher can understand for IEP's. I think all teachers should have a copy of this. It helps out us Special Educators to keep you up to date.

If you're new to the special education world, this book would then be a good read for you. It's simple, opens each secion with a quick story to match the disabilities in the chapter, then goes into breaking down what you need to do for children with disability need from you and what you need to do (leagally) for them.
This isn't a tell all book, meaning, pick up more specialized special ed books as needed, but this book is a great start with very helpful, useful, and practical information.

This book is great for kids who want to learn sudoku and it keeps them occupied.

It's a good book to introduce kids to sudoku. It starts off very easy and then gradually becomes more challenging.

This is a great book on Sudoku for kids. The book includes 150 puzzles. The puzzles are of various sizes: 4x4, 6x6, and 9x9. The solutions are at the end of the book. There are four levels of difficulty for the puzzles.

The first four pages in this book are dedicated for strategy, hints, rules, or tips. All the puzzles in the book are Classic Sudoku (with numbers). There are no Alphabet Sudoku (with letters) or Symbol Sudoku (with shapes and symbols) like the two books "Kindergarten Sudoku" and "Super Sudoku for Kids".

I am an acting teacher who owns her own studio and incorporates body movement into each and every class. I also taught yoga for the first time this summer and found this book to be very helpful. I use many of the exercises in both drama and yoga class and the children ages 4 - 16 loved them. I can't wait to use them in my new classes this Fall.

I've found this book very helpful in the classroom. Having one game a page makes it easier to read and use, along with the symbols at the top of each page that tell you what age group the game is appropriate for, whether you'll need props or a large space, and about how much time needed to play.

Some activities were completely new to me, and some were games I have know forever -- but with a tickling twist! Although some results are difficult to analyze accurately without a Master in Psychology, the exercises allow players to learn something about themselves. Good buy.

I've just purchased this book and am really impressed. Good to see so many quick yet powerful exercises in one book. Most of them I haven't seen before and that is refreshing. I am always on the look out for creative experiential resources and this book certainly fits the need.

I'd highly recommend this book to teacher's looking for ideas to make Morning Messages more valuable. My NYU student-teachers agree that Valerie Schifferdanoff provides great ideas for maximizing this opportunity for teaching and learning.

While helpful and full of good ideas, this book on morning messages through daily letters to your class is too general for the average classroom teacher. The main problem with the book is that it spans kindergarten through second grade, covering a range of age levels, though none very thoroughly. Unless you teach in a multi-age classroom, it leaves you feeling as though you should have paid much less for the amount of material that applies to your grade level.

This is the second Boggle book that I have bought. I absolutely love them because I enjoy the challenge of making as many words as I can. The book starts with a simple 4x4 block of letters and has about 36 lines that you can use to make words. The challenge to me is to try to make double that amount. After a certain amount of the 4x4 grids, they increase to 5x5, 6x6 and then there are a couple of 18x18 grids in the end. Also, on each page there are special "Brainbusters" for you to find. They give the clues and then you have to find the words. Some are easy, some require a bit more thinking. It's great brain exercise. This is a great puzzle book to have during a lunch break, waiting at the doctors/dentist office, recuperating from an illness/surgery, during a trip or waiting on transportation for the trip or just relaxing at home or even in the park. If like to have fun with letters and words then you will enjoy Boggle Brainbusters.

I bought this one and the first one for my Mom who loves Boggle and playing word games on the computer. Great to have when you do not have internet access and need to exercise your brain. Only gave 4 out of 5 because it would be better is it was spiral bound so you could do the backside puzzles easier. Great product just keep making them thicker.

Excellent practical application book of concepts in the English language. The emphasis is on sentence structure and word usage (like verb agreement, capitalization, punctuation, etc.), and the analogies are good in terms of reinforcing word meanings. The only thing missing for me is the instructions for the concepts covered. For instance, explaining the use of quotation marks would have been helpful (my son is more of a visual learner than auditory - so having instructions written out helps him understand the concepts better than a lecture from me). In spite of this, my son likes this book almost as much as I do!

What I LOVE about it is the daily practice and review. I am a firm believer in small doses of practice everyday - makes a real difference in holding onto a concept. My only regret is that I didn't find this kind of book 2 years ago! You won't be disappointed!!

This book keeps my students current with the information they need to build and improve their grammar skills. They look forward to the daily exercises and participate willingly each morning. I have shared this book with other teachers and they have all since bought their own. I would highly recommend this book to any educator.

I'm a firm believer of practice early on math. It will build kid's interest and confidence for the long run. This book is invaluable. It breaks grade 3 math into small pieces and let your child do a little every day. My daughter learned a lot from this book. She often asks further questions and thinks a lot more. It helped her do well in math. In the Beestar online math contest (a nice web site http://www.beestar.org), she often wins honor mentions. Very good math supplement.

As a homeschooling mom, the search for texts is difficult! This is not our main math text, but an easy way to keep my child up to speed in many different areas of math. For example, if we are studying geometry, he will still get daily practice in addition and subtraction... We use this book daily. I would recommend it as a supplement for any math program.

Great book with easy to follow step by step instructions which show you the fine details of teaching the behaviour

A very nice pictorial pointing out the steps and positions for the dog and handler as well as side bars that give common issues you will find when training for each exercise.

If you aren't a deep reader then this book is up your alley. If you are looking for training theory and behavior, pass this one up.

I don't feel this workbook does the best job of helping children understand sentence structure. The child work from the same picture for 3 days progressively building more of the sentence themselves each day. It is ok practice but if I used the whole book it would be quite redundant. This book is not a bad purchase but not quite what I was hoping for. What it does do is give more handwriting practice without actual copy work which is good.

I had been searching for a good program that would grab the attention of my son. He is reluctant to write and feels he can't draw worth a darn. So, I got this. He loves it. He asks to work in it and has actaully been drawing the little pictures all over everything. I have him do the excercises and then draw the picture/sentence/word again in his writing journal. He loves it.