Our Little Heroes / Nuestros pequeños héroes

What's the best way to keep the body and mind healthy? This book explores helpful ways to keep bodies in good shape and brain strong as well as the importance of being happy. The language arts connection is important vocabulary about staying healthy.

It was September 14, 1814, and America and Great Britain were at war. Frances Scott Key watched from the deck of a British ship, where he was being held captive, as cannons exploded around them. After 25 hours, the fighting ceased and Key peered through the clearing smoke, looking for some sign as to the outcome of the battle. Was the American flag still flying? His wartime experience inspired Key to write a poem, which was later set to music and became America’s national anthem. This book tells the story of the inspiration behind our national anthem, which helped transform the flag into a...

NOS ENCONTRAMOS ANTE una realidad social volátil y vertiginosamente cambiante, que nos obliga a una renovación permanente de ámbitos y situaciones que hasta ahora parecían relativamente estables, o bien evolucionaban de una forma lenta y más o menos controlada. El rápido desarrollo tecnológico y las nuevas y variadas formas de comunicación en las que estamos inmersos están configurando y reclamando un nuevo espacio educativo, un replanteamiento de las finalidades de la educación y la enseñanza. Las instituciones educativas no pueden permanecer al margen de esta realidad social por...

Trabajadores que me cuidan (Workers Who Take Care of Me) builds critical literacy skills with this exciting Spanish-translated nonfiction reader. Engage students with fascinating content that will keep them enthralled from the first page to the last. Focusing on different types of workers, children will be introduced to all the people who work hard to take care of us. This informational text features simple phrases, exact text-to-image relationships, vivid photographs, and large font to encourage students to examine different professions, including doctors, police officers, and firefighters....