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From September to June and all through the summer, here are "fresh & fun" ideas for teaching favorite monthly topics! These creative collections of terrific, teacher-tested activities, games, and manipulatives will boost learning in math, reading, writing, social studies, and art for kids of all learning styles. Includes calendar activities, pocket chart poems, a read-aloud play, collaborative banner, songs, math storymats, mini-books, art projects, graphic organizers, book links, computer connections, and a big, colorful poetry poster complete with week-by-week teaching activities! For use with Grades K-2.

Davy''s mother is dead. Davy''s father is so wrapped up in his own grief that he can no longer care for his son. For Davy, his world has been turned upside-down, he no longer recognises his father and feels lost and lonely in a way he has never experienced before. Then he is sent to live with his grandfather, Batt Quilty. Batt is a shepherd in a remote valley in Kerry. He is a difficult man to live with. But there is more to Batt than meets the eye: his life seems to be lived under the shadow of the past. What is he hiding in the chest under his bed? Why do the townspeople seem to fear him? And what is Davy to make of the rumours about the dark secret that lies deep in the valley. Batt is connected in some way -- but how much should Davy believe of what he hears, and can he trust Batt when the word ''murder'' whispers through the valley?

Dozens of instant and irresistible ideas abd activities to teach about the flag, the pledge, the presidents, and more-- from creative teachers across the country.

I use the passage of the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 (TIPRA), which alters the after-tax considerations of foreign internal capital markets, as a quasi-natural experimental setting to test whether a reduction in the tax costs associated with moving foreign capital increased firms'' use of holding companies. In separate tests using Compustat and IRS data, I document that firms increase holding company use after TIPRA. Furthermore, I find that firms with the greatest increases in holding companies also increase their post-TIPRA foreign sales and generate more persistent foreign earnings. I interpret these findings to suggest that TIPRA is associated with increased global competitiveness for firms that actively modify their organizational structures. In additional analysis, I attribute this increased global competitiveness to maintained liquidity and capital investments during a financial crisis, relative to firms that do not respond as strongly to tax incentives to utilize holding companies.

Whether you''re a beginner, a fitness enthusiast or an avid martial artist, this little book explains all you need to know about the basics of boxing, regardless of your style. Expert instructor Master Frank Murphy, 7th Dan, uses a simple step-by-step a