Meredith Johnson
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What's the best way to solve problems between people? By talking them over and working them out. It's never too soon for children to learn the process of peaceful conflict resolution. This book distills it into clear, simple language and supporting illustrations. Children learn to calm themselves, state the problem, listen, think of solutions, try one, evaluate results, and even agree to disagree when a solution isn't possible. Includes skill-building...
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Knowing how to listen is essential to learning, growing, and getting along with others. Simple words and inviting illustrations help children develop skills for listening, understand why it's important to listen, and recognize the positive results of listening. Includes a note to teachers and parents, additional information for adults, and activities.
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A child who can't follow rules is a child who's always in trouble. This book starts with simple reasons why we have rules: to help us stay safe, learn, be fair, and get along. Then it presents just four basic rules: "Listen," "Best Work," "Hands and Body to Myself," and "Please and Thank You." The focus throughout is on the positive sense of pride that comes with learning to follow rules. Includes questions and activities adults can use to reinforce...
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The world can seem so perilous, especially where our children are concerned. But even very young children can learn basic skills for staying safe in ordinary situations and preparing for emergencies. Without scaring kids (or alarming adults), this book teaches little ones how to avoid potentially dangerous situations, ask for help, follow directions, use things carefully, and plan ahead. Includes questions, activities, and safety games that reinforce...
11) Join in and play
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Simple text discusses how to develop the skills to make friends and to learn to play with others. Includes role-playing activities.
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It's never too soon to learn the difference between what's true and what isn't. Words and pictures help young children discover that being honest in words and actions builds trust and self-confidence. They also learn that telling the truth sometimes takes courage and tact. Includes discussion questions, skits, scenarios, and games that reinforce the ideas being taught.
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Reassuring and supportive, this book helps preschool and primary children learn concrete social skills for anger management and discover that when they cool down and work through anger, they can feel peaceful again. The English-Spanish editions from the popular Learning to Get Along series help children learn, understand, and practice basic social and emotional skills. Real-life situations and lots of diversity make these read-aloud books appropriate...
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Could the new teacher at Sprinkledust Elementary School be a fairy-tale character in disguise? When Fiona and Frieda sense that they have a fairy-tale emergency on their hands, they activate their magic rhyming powers. Soon these experts are inside the real Snow White story. The Evil Queen is already in the cafeteria cooking up the poison apple. Will Fiona and Frieda be able to stop her before Snow White goes into a coma?
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Join Fiona and Frieda on an all-school field trip to the Sprinkledust Wild Animal Park. Even though they are not able to be partners, they use their rhyming powers to take their own field trip in the magic realm of faiy tales. They end up in the girl's bathroom with Goldilocks, and she's begging them for their help. Will Fiona and Frieda get everything straightened out?
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Fiona and Frieda love fairy tales. Every day at recess, they act out their favorite stories. Then on the fifty-seventh day of third grade, something amazing happens. Magic sparkles fill the air and the girls discover they have magic rhyming powers. All of a sudden, Cinderella's sitting at the bottom of the curly blue slide and she's crying harder than a kindergartener on the first day of school. Can Fiona and Frieda help Cinderella find her fairy...