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Before Five In A Row (Ages 2-4)
Divided into two parts, the first section contains hundreds of simple ideas and activities developed around 23 of the finest books for young children. Each unit provides creative ideas and enjoyable activities designed to cultivate intimacy with your child while building vital learning-readiness skills for the future. Part 2 is a rich resource, filled with specific ideas designed to help you prepare children for learning through fun, simple, everyday activities. You'll find ideas for bathtime, bedtime, in the kitchen, at the grocery store and much more. Reg.$24.95 |
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Shape Sorting Clock (wood)
This is really nice and a great price!! Solid wood clock with removable shapes to idenify and sort--self-correcting-only one piece fits in each number. Moveable hour & minute hands--it's a puzzle, learn shapes and numbers AND it's a perfect introduction to telling time. Ages 3+ |
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Strong Start Series by Ruth Beechick
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A Home Start in Reading
Practical guide for teaching Grades K-3; covers pre-reading, beginning phonics, blending, decoding & fluency. Start here to gain understanding of how to teach your child to read. |
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SKU: 347 |
$3.95 |
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An Easy Start in Arithmetic
(by Ruth Beechick) Hands-on teaching guide for the 5-8 year old. |
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SKU: 348 |
$3.95 |
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The Three R's (Ruth Beechick)
Formerly called "The Strong Start" series now combined into 1 volume, includes a Phonics Wall Chart. All you really need to get started with your Kindergartner is here. Ruth Beechick takes the mystery out of teaching reading, gets you off to an easy start in arithmetic, and explains the method of copying and dictating. |
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SKU: 349 |
$11.99 |
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Early Education at Home
"A Curriculum Guide for Parents of Preschoolers & Kindergartners, by Jean Soyke
A complete course of instruction for children ages 3-5, using simple inexpensive materials that can be found in the home. It includes all the basic concepts, such as letters, colors, numbers, and shapes. Although it is structured to fit a regular 36-week school year, it is flexible enough to be used in almost any home setting under almost any schedule. Just the right amount of material so you know what to teach, as well as lists of ideas for how to present concepts, without overwhelming you with too much material to wade through. One letter, color and number are explored each week as well as a character quality, Bible story, plenty of read-aloud library suggestions and alternating lessons in science and social studies. An appropriate, fun curriculum that is easy to use!""" |
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My Father's World Kindergarten Curriculum
"My Father's World is a complete Kindergarten curriculum, written by a homeschooling mother of six with extensive experience as a teacher, for a year's adventure investigating the wonders God created. Reading is taught using a highly successful multi-senso" |
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My Father's World First Grade Curriculum
"My Father's World First Grade Curriculum
Whether following My Father's World Kindergarten program or not, this curriculum has been receiving high praises from parents. Integrated lessons include Language Arts, Social Studies, Art, and Bible. Suggestions for an informal approach to Science and Math are provided. Reading is taught with step-by-step phonics insturction, beginning with a quick review of letter names and sounds, followed by in-depth teaching of all necessary phonics to produce an independent reader. By Lesson 31, students are able to read Bible stories in a special beginning Bible Reader (included). Besides the Teacher's Manual, there are Student Worksheets with hands-on phonics activities and Proverbs handwriting and memory verses, the Bible Reader, Bible Notebook, Time Line Figures, Alphabet Flashcards, Bible Books & reading Chart, and 3 Usborne Science books.
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Take-Along Tool Kit
"Classic Wood Puzzles
We are thrilled to make these educational wooden toys available at these great prices!
A great value for the budding carpenter! Includes 24 smoothly-sanded wooden pieces & tools for hours of pounding, screwing and cranking fun. Ages 3+." |
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Band-in-a-Box
What a value! This 10-piece set has the favorites-tambourine, triangle, rhythm sticks, etc. packed in sturdy wooden storage case. Ages 3 & up. |
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Basic Skills Board
Classic Wood Puzzles
We are thrilled to make these educational wooden toys available at these great prices!
Six durable actvities for developing skills: shoe tying, zipper, buttons, buckle, & more on removable puzzle pieces. Hide & seek artwork is hiding beneath each piece. 16" x 20". |
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Classics Toys in a Box
Six brightly colored favorites-- yo-yo, jump rope, Jacob's ladder, ball catch and 2 super-fast tops-stored in a sturdy wooden box with see-through lid. |
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Magnetic ABC Book
Classic Wood Puzzles
We are thrilled to make these educational wooden toys available at these great prices!
This innovative magnetic wooden book is a novel way to learn the alphabet. Read along with the rhyming poem while matching the 26 removable wooden magnetic pieces to their correct puzzle spots. Ages 2+. |
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Alphabet Puzzle (Upper and Lower Case)
Classic Wood Puzzles
We are thrilled to make these educational wooden toys available at these great prices!
12" x 18", each letter has an accompanying picture beneath it to aid in learning letter sounds. |
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Foam Fun Magnetic Sets
Foam Fun Magnetic Sets:
Backed with flexible magnet material allowing for strong hold to any magnetic surface, pieces are 1" to 2" tall and completely washable! Packed in a handy storage bucket, each set comes with a colorful booklet loaded with fun activities. Ages 3 & up.
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Uppercase Letters
Uppercase Letters 58 letters, 4 colors |
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SKU: 8266 |
$10.95 |
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Pattern Blocks Magnetic
Pattern Blocks - 200 pieces: 20 yellow hexagons & orange squares, 40 each green triangles, red trapezoids, blue parallelograms, & white rhombi. |
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SKU: 8268 |
$10.95 |
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Lowercase Letters
Lowercase Letters - 70 letters, 4 colors
THIS SET UNAVAILABLE UNTIL 1/07 |
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SKU: 8267 |
$10.95 |
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Magnetic Numbers
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SKU: 8265 |
$10.95 |
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Calendar Math (Grades 2-6)
Lessons on the calendar which involve a child in counting, adding and subtracting, number patterns, problem solving, and a fascinating look at calendars--past and future. 12 chapters (1 for each month). |
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Help Your Child Learn to Read
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I Love Chores
"Can children really learn to ""love"" chores? They can if they're taught just how valuable they--and their contributions--are to the family. Help them develop a positive attitude about responsibilities, themselves, and family unity with this colorful, simple system. Includes the chart, 50 illustrated chore cards, 12 custom cards, reward tokens, and parent instruction book." |
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Leading Little Ones to God
The return of another classic we used to carry, this is a doctrinally sound devotional book for younger children. Basic Bible doctrines are presented with a short story, a suggested Bible reading, discussion questions, a memory verse, and even a suggested hymn. A very clear presentation of Bible truths. Ages 4-7 .(reg $18.00) |
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Baby Lambs Book of Art
(ages 3-5) by Barry Stebbing
Teaches beginning drawing, beginning color theory, beginning lettering, beginning addition & subtraction, and beginning writing--all with art! Also, a cut and paste section, stories from the Bible, puzzles and the ABC's with scripture. Over 100 pages. |
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Preschool Activity Workbook Set of 4
"Set of 4 workbooks, in the style and spirit of the Pathway Readers, provide activities in pre-reading, writing, numbers, shapes, and colors. About Three and Bigger Steps are for 3-year-olds; Color, Count, and Cut and Doing My Best are for 4-year-olds." |
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Puzzle Math (Ages 3-8)
"4 colorful puzzles show kids how to count, add & subtract. Both an exciting game and a great play-alone activity, it adjusts to 3 different levels so kids can play without frustration. They build colorful puzzles while learning important number manipulation skills that build their confidence" |
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Ready Writer: Learning Vitamins for Stylus Skills
A fun and effective foundation for beautiful handwriting, each exercise portrays a scene from Farmer Brown's farm, with a brief, fun story in the instructor's guide to set the context. Children complete various visual elements in the pictures, getting lots of practice in stylus skills and forming complete printed characters, with much more enjoyment than beginning penmanship workbooks. 12 pages of each of 16 progressive one-page exercises for a total of 192 in all (1-year unit). Each one takes only a few minutes a day. Instructor's Guide and 16 Achievement Certificates are includes. Ages 4-7. |
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Rules for Young Friends
"A coloring book curriculum to help children learn to be good hosts and good guests. Includes rules for family relationships and responsibilities and for friendships. A ""jelly-proof"" master list of the rules for the refrigerator is included." |
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Slow & Steady, Get Me Ready (4th Ed.)
Five years of 260 weekly, fun, educational activities appropriate for the developing child from birth to age 5. Inexpensive materials around the home are used in this unstructured, flexible curriculum. |
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Mighty Mind (Ages 3-8)
"Award winning set contains 32 colorful quality plastic shapes, contained in a plastic storage tray with numbered cards. Encourages and entices a child to build complex designs and puzzles without assistance. A great confidence builder. Winner Parent's Choice Honor Toy." |
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Smarty Farm (Ages 3-8)
"Kids learn important perception skills by identifying shapes of animals and matching them to windows in a barn. It prepares them for learning how to read and see the differences between letters like ""b"" & ""d,"" ""e"" & ""f.""" |
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Super Mind (Ages 5-9)
"This sequel to Mighty Mind is a play-alone activity kit that stimulates a child to explore and discover the fascinating way shapes go together to make delightful pictures and designs. 32 colorful quality plastic shapes, neatly contained in a plastic storage tray with numbered, advanced cards. Builds important skills and confidence" |
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Super Mind Design Book
"Extends a Mighty Mind set, converting it into a Super-Mind, presenting the same design patterns contained in Super-Mind. Sturdy book is printed on heavy cardboard." |
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Things People Do
"Hardcover, large format, all about careers. Ages 3-8, Reg. $11.95 (Limited qty)" |
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Creating Calendars
Reproducible monthly grids, numbers, months and seasonal pictures for children to make their own calendars, thereby gaining understanding of numbers, days of the week, months, dates, holidays and seasons. Ages 4-9 |
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Wonderboard sets
This award-winning series combines fun and learning. Each set includes a generous selection of flexible magnet pieces, information and activities. These travel well! Ages 4 & up. SETS (those listed at $10.99) include a 9"" x 12"" double-sided magnetic playboard.
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Magnetic Board 9" x 12" (2 sided)
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SKU: 1046 |
Reg. $5.95
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Create A Castle Full Set with board
Create A Castle Full Set with board - 105 pieces |
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SKU: 1039X |
Reg. $11.99
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Fun with Letters Set
Fun with Letters Set - 99 lower case, 26 upper case & 7 blank tiles for letter recognition, matching & spelling.
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SKU: 1038X |
Reg. $11.99
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Fun With Letters Sub Set (board not included)
Fun With Letters Sub Set (board not included)
132 letter tiles (including 7 blanks) for fun with letter recognition, matching, spelling and sentence formation. |
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SKU: 1045 |
$5.99 |
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Fun with Math Double Sub Set (board not included)
Fun with Math Double Sub Set (board not included):
50 numbers, operational signs, fraction bars and base ten tiles for place value. |
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SKU: 1041 |
$8.99 |
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Junior Architect Set
Junior Architect Set 150 architectural elements and shapes." |
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SKU: 1044X |
Reg. $11.99
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Wonder Wheels Set
Wonder Wheels Set: Build 6 or more vehicles with tons of add-on accessories including a boat & trailer, racing numbers, exhaust pipes, and more." |
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SKU: 1035X |
Reg. $11.99
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Kindermath
"Well designed sequentially, a good math program for kindergarten. Uses worksheets, flashcards, and word problems to teach formation of numbers, counting to 100 by 1's, 2's, 5's, and 10's, ""greater than"" & ""less than,"" ""equal to,"" simple addition facts, simple geometry, money, telling time & sequence." |
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BOB Books
These 5 sets of beginning readers are phonetically organized, yet the stories are interesting! Recommended by Ruth Beechick, Mary Pride & Cathy Duffy. Each set of 8-12 child-sized books contains 144 -160 pages of charming text & pictures and an easy Teaching Guide. Complements any good phonics program, providing successful early reading experience. Reg.$16.95 each
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Bob Books Set 1: Level A
Set 1: Level A (Short vowel words)
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SKU: 793X |
$15.95 |
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Bob Books Set 2: Level A
Set 2: Level A (primarily 3 letter words)
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SKU: 794X |
$15.95 |
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Bob Books Set 3: Level B
Set 3: Level B (consonant blends, compound words, includes 2 activity books.)
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SKU: 795X |
$15.95 |
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Bob Books Set 4: Level B
Set 4: Level B: (More blends, sight words & compound words)
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SKU: 791X |
$15.95 |
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Bob Books Set 5: Level C
Set 5: Level C (Long vowels) |
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SKU: 792X |
$15.95 |
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USBORNE STARTING POINT SCIENCE Series:
Colorful, fascinating! Ages 4-9. reg.$4.95 each/$4.50 each or any 3 Starting Point titles/$11.99
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Usborne Starting Point: What Makes it Rain?
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SKU: 2712 |
$4.50 |
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Usborne Starting Point: What’s Under the Sea?
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SKU: 2783 |
$4.50 |
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Usborne Starting Point: Why is Night Dark?
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SKU: 2727 |
$4.50 |
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FELT ACTIVITY BOOKS
(Betty Lukens & Little Folk Felts) Ages 3-7.
Beautiful, bright and colorful, easy-to-assemble kits, 6 to 8 pages each (story scenes or activity pages) with pockets attached to hold all the pieces for plenty of quiet activity, creative story-telling, and hours of imaginative play. Good for language development, builds dexterity and creativity, as well as fun! Great for quiet play, and they are a great gift choice (about 2-3 hours to cut out & assemble). Excellent value! Reg.$13.95
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Felt Activity Book Kit: BASIC LEARNING SKILLS
Colors, shapes, #s, days, months, opposites, time & more.
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SKU: 25 |
Reg. $13.99
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Felt Activity Book Kit: Bible Stories
Creation, Nativity, David & sheep, Eve in the Garden, Noah's ark & animals, Jonah & the whale & Peter fishing
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SKU: 03 |
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Felt Activity Book Kit: FARM Book
Includes lots of animals, children, vegetables & more for scenes: a garden, inside a barn, a field, pond & a hen’s nest.
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SKU: 01 |
Reg. $13.99
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Felt Activity Book Kit: HOLIDAYS
Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's and the 4 seasons.
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SKU: 14 |
Reg. $13.99
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Felt Activity Book Kit: MORE BIBLE STORIES
Daniel/lion's den, fiery furnace, Moses/the Red Sea & more.
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SKU: 15 |
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Felt Activity Book Kit: WILD ANIMALS
Colorful mothers & babies and scenes of their natural habitats forest, desert, Africa, prairie, Arctic, Australia)
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SKU: 02 |
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Felt ABC TRAIN Kit
Have fun matching the lower-case letter on each car to the corresponding upper-case letter on the tracks with this adorable, colorful set. 26 lower case train cars, 3 ½ “ tall, 8 upper-case track sections. Can be used to decorate your child’s walls, too! Reg. 14.95
ABC TRAIN PHONICS SET - 31 adorable felt pictures 3”-5” tall and 31 corresponding words represent every letter of the alphabet, including the long & short sounds for every vowel. 8328--$10.50* 8328P--PHONICS SET - Precut--$15.95*
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Felt ABC TRAIN PHONICS SET Kit
31 adorable felt pictures 3”-5” tall and 31 corresponding words represent every letter of the alphabet, including the long & short sounds for every vowel.
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Little Hands to Heaven
A complete, Bible-based preschool program that includes: letter recognition, formation, and sounds, early math skills, Bible activities, devotional topics, art projects, dramatic play, active exploration, finger-plays and music. Simple daily lessons require little or no preparation and use only materials you’re likely to have on hand. There is no literature to gather. Simply use your Bible or one of the Bible storybooks listed below. Lessons are flexible so you can use them with multiple ages at the same time and activities can be done in one sitting (about 30 min.) or throughout the day. Ages 2-5. Choose a Bible story book and a devotional based on your child's age:
Ages 2 & 3: A Child's First Bible & Playtime Devotions
Ages 4 & 5: The Bible in Pictures for Little Eyes & Small Talks About God |
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SINGING BIBLE, The
Use with Little Hands to Heaven but delightful alone as well! More than 50 original songs on 4 cassettes. Each song
retells the story from the lesson. A lyric booklet is included. Ages 3-8.
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A Child’s First Bible
Ages 2 & 3
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Playtime Devotions
Ages 2 & 3
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Small Talks About God
Ages 4 & 5 |
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Bible in Pictures for Little Eyes, The
Ages 4 & 5
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Magnetic Learning Boards
These large, sturdy, wood-framed, interactive boards provide multiple learning opportunities as well as organizational help. The folding design allows for easy storage and transport. Similar non-wood products run the same price!--A lot for the money here! Ages 4 & up. 12" x 16" (closed) 24" x 16" (open)
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Magnetic Calendar
Make learning the days of the week and months of the year (counting, too!) easy and fun with this colorful, interactive, perpetual calendar. 140 magnetic wood pieces illustrate most holidays and common childhood activities. |
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SKU: 1960 |
$19.95 |
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Magnetic Responsibility Chart
Includes 134 wooden, magnetic pieces depicting chores, behaviors and rewards with 4 blanks to personalize. A dry erase surface allows even more personalizing! |
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SKU: 1956 |
$19.95 |
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WIN Dictation Book
Preschool-Grade 1 (nonwriters). You transcribe stories narrated by your child, then he/she illustrates them. The child learns about story construction (setting, characters, events, etc).
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Language & Thinking for Young Children
"by Beechick & Nelson. A complete year's course in oral language ideal for the Kindergarten year (can be used for Pre-K through 2nd grade). No workbooks required, builds vocabulary and language for the non-reader." |
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Little Hearts for His Glory Curriculum
An early learning program for ages 5-7 that is flexible and easy to use. Lesson plans allow for customizing to suit your child's needs. Quick and easy activities require little or no preparation and daily lessons are filled with ideas that get kids moving, exploring, and playing in a meaningful way. Little preparation is required and all skill areas are covered. |
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Mighty Mind Challenger
Expand your Mighty Mind set with this "flip style" book with 26 more designs that become increasingly more challenging. (requires either MightyMind or SuperMind design tiles) |
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Gobble Up Math
Gr.K-3 A fun and delicious way to learn about math, nutrition, and the Food Guide Pyramid. Kids use healthy foods such as raisins, pasta, cereal, and fruit to learn about patterns & sets, geometry, measurement, number operations, fractions, and estimation. As they finish each exercise, they gobble up the results--an ideal way to motivate kids to enjoy math at home! 136pp. |
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Pattern Blocks
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Pattern Animals Book
"(Gr. 1-4)
20 unique, problem-solving puzzles using Pattern Blocks and animal outlines to compare, count, estimate, and sort. worksheets focus on symmetry, sequences, and spatial awareness. 48pp.
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SKU: 8114 |
$9.50 |
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Pattern Blocks Bucket
"Set of 250, 1 cm thick, sturdy plastic shapes include hexagons, squares, triangles, trapezoids, parallelograms and rhombi. Includes Learning With Pattern Blocks Teacher Guide. Enough for 4-6 students. Gr. Pre-K-8.
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SKU: 8112 |
$14.50 |
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Pattern Blocks Bucket
"Set of 250, 1 cm thick, sturdy plastic shapes include hexagons, squares, triangles, trapezoids, parallelograms and rhombi. Includes Learning With Pattern Blocks Teacher Guide. Enough for 4-6 students. Gr. Pre-K-8.
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