Hora de recreo (Recess Time)

How do you truly engage students in learning history? When students make personal connections to the subject, they’re much more motivated to learn. This Spanish book provides firsthand accounts of history that give personal insights into historical events. This primary source book explores California’s unique geography: the coastal region, the Central Valley, the mountain region, and the desert region. With a visually appealing layout, this book features captivating text, fun facts, sidebars, and time lines that help students grasp the essential concepts they need to know at their grade...

Learn how a designer's sketch becomes the fashion we wear and how a designer uses math and geometry to make their designs successful in this fashion-filled book! Including information about the fashion industry, clothing fabrics, patterns, and textures, readers learn all about the different aspects of the fashion industry. With a glossary, index, vivid images, informational text, and interesting facts, this Spanish-translated nonfiction book with engage students from beginning to end.

The need for speed is the motivating factor in this engaging, Spanish book. Readers learn the history of travel from the very slow to the supersonic and beyond, including everything in between. They learn and discover the factors that influence motion for all types of vehicles: land, air, and water alike. They also learn different ways to measure speed and read about energy uses for different vehicles. With greater speed comes greater risk. Readers learn how engineers are always seeking new and better ways to keep people safe as they travel faster and go farther.

Ever wonder how a balloon is made? Follow the journey of a balloon from its beginnings as gooey sap in a tree to its completion at a rubber factory. You'll be surprised to discover what a balloon started out as and how it becomes the bright, air-filled decoration that you enjoy today.

«De vez en cuando me han pedido que contara mi experiencia personal de la literatura o que escribiera sobre algunos de mis maestros, y yo he procurado hacerlo siempre con un máximo de claridad y franqueza. Cuando he tenido que explicarme en público, he procurado hacerlo por escrito: detesto la improvisación, la charla presuntamente espontánea y en el fondo hecha de muletillas y rutinas, de una autoindulgencia intelectual que se ha convertido en costumbre cuando los escritores van a eso que se llama, algo ignominiosamente, hacer bolos.» Con ese mismo espíritu ‹claridad y franqueza‹...

Es el momento de cambiar de cuento. Damiselas que se rescatan solas, mujeres que salvan a sus maridos, reinas guerreras y muchachas sabias que resuelven acertijos: ¿dónde estaban escondidas? Esta recopilación de cuentos populares de todo el mundo nos descubre a las heroínas que estábamos buscando. En una preciosa edición en formato regalo, altamente ilustrada a todo color, quince chicas se enfrentan a ladrones, gigantes, maldiciones y prejuicios, y viven mil aventuras. ¡Es el libro de cuentos que todas hubiéramos querido leer! Incluye los cuentos de: Blancaflor, Kupti e Imani, El...

This Book Talks About How Everyone Has Problems And How Most Problems Have Solutions. How It Is Important To Stop And Think, Get All The Facts , And Be Better Prepared To Solve A Problem When It Happens To Them. Complete K-5 Social Skills Collection. Paired With A Fiction Social Skills Title.