Smart Start, Grade K

Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781629384030
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Children get a Smart Start with colorful activities that practice science, math, reading, geography, and thinking skills. Fun art projects provide opportunities for hands-on activities such as cutting, gluing, coloring, and more! Children practice foundational skills such as following directions, using picture clues, and problem solving. There are six certificates for children to display and a full sheet of stickers to mark their achievements!

Smart Start

Author: Margaret Sasse
Publisher: Exisle Publishing
ISBN: 1921497181
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
Children need exercise, not just to stimulate their bodies but to stimulate their brains as well. The first five years of a child’s life are now seen as crucial to later health, well-being and success. Exercise and good diet are especially important in ensuring that the pre-schooler has a healthy start in life, develops a good brain and avoids the problems of obesity. Margaret Sassé has had decades of practical experience in the area of child development, and in training parents and teachers on the importance of healthy food and exercise. Smart Start is a practical guide for parents on how to give their children the best start in life, with down-to-earth advice on diet and exercise to encourage optimum physical and intellectual development. The book is carefully organised to provide a step-by-step programme for each year. Simply written, and attractively presented with dozens of lively illustrations and practical exercises, it will soon become an indispensable tool in raising your child.

Hire Smart from the Start

Author: Dave Carvajal
Publisher: AMACOM
ISBN: 081443827X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
This book distills lessons gained from the author’s 20 years of experience, building out and staffing two enormously successful Internet startups and helping firms land the talent they need to reach their greatest potential. Don't rely on instincts alone. Hiring is king and while the lesson seems so basic, so many good companies stumble and lose their stride just when they were poised for rapid growth. Why? Their leaders treated hiring as a tedious chore. They posted an ad hoc ad. Took the first person with the right skills. Hired for immediate needs, rather than future flourishing. Whether you're a high-tech entrepreneur taking a startup public, or a food truck vendor with a concept that's taking off, Hire Smart from the Start offers a proven formula to help you: Find candidates whose values and working style fit your business Spot the 5 types of applicants you should never, ever hire Motivate "reach" candidates to leave their jobs and take a chance on your vision Develop meaningful incentives that make people stay Accelerate success: hire smart from the start. This book shows you how.

Smart Start-Ups

Author: David Silver
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470107421
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
Praise for Smart Start-Ups "Silver's new book is a masterpiece of clarity concerning the next great entrepreneurial wave, and my only problem with it was the charley horse in my elbow I got turning the pages." -Robin Richards, founding President, MP3.com, and CEO, Notification Technologies Inc. "Silver is a modern-day Prometheus. For community entrepreneurs, Smart Start-Ups contains the secrets of fire from the heavens. If you work with communities of any kind, you ignore this book at your own peril." -John Szeder, former senior game developer, Digital Chocolate, Inc., and CEO, Mofactor, Inc. "Silver dives in and pulls the naked truth out of the world of online communities. There's nothing like it on the shelves. He speaks with the best and brightest in the mobile and online community markets." -Sean Malatesta, founder, Yack Media Services, and Vice President, Indiagames, Inc. "Smart Start-Ups is a must-read for any aspiring Internet entrepreneur. Silver cuts right to the heart of the important fact that communities are like entire nations, but without geographic borders, and they're creating the greatest transformation since the Industrial Revolution." -Clarence Briggs, founder and CEO, AIT.com "Silver's book is an excellent, captivating, ingenious, and essential read for anyone who wants to know how to create wealth by starting an online community. One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way; Silver certainly succeeds in that respect." -Kyle E. Gillman, founder and CEO, Forgefinder, Inc.

Smart Start: Math: Stories and Activities, Grade Prek

Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781645141501
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Give your child positive math experiences and strong math foundations with Smart Start: Math: Stories and Activities. The colorful activities introduce math concepts in creative ways using math stories to help children recognize number relationships in the world around them. Smart Start: Math: Stories and Activities workbooks provide structured weekly activities to help children practice and learn numbers, counting, measurement, addition and subtraction, shape recognition, and graphing. Audio story read-alouds with colorful illustrations help students learn math concepts and make connections to the real world. Illustrated activities provide meaningful practice in a variety of formats, giving children multiple opportunities to achieve understanding. Math activities: - Provide strong math foundations that teach the most important math skills. - Include creative and fun lessons that help children create positive math connections. - Provide reward stickers to motivate children to complete the activities. - Include audio stories that incorporate reading comprehension and vocabulary to demonstrate how math works in the real world. Smart Start: Math: Stories and Activities is organized into weekly lessons around one math skill or strategy. Each unit begins with activities that have simple tasks that help children better understand the concept. Children gain confidence as they compete each activity and gradually progress to completing more difficult math tasks. Each unit includes: - Math stories: audio read-aloud stories help children experience math with real-world problem solving. - Math practice activities: introduce one skill/concept per week. - Write It! activities: build math vocabulary, beginning writing, and fine motor skills. Throughout this early learning series, children will practice essential foundational math skills, such as: - Beginning counting - Shapes - Patterns - Measurement - Addition and subtraction Includes answer key.

Smart Start

Author: Stacy Westfall
Publisher: Active Interest Media
ISBN: 9781929164578
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 108

Book Description
Whether you want to build a solid foundation in your young horse or refresh an older horse's manners, this colt-starting program, featuring emotional training, is for you. It's based on techniques Stacy Westfall used to win the prestigious Road to the Horse colt-starting competition in 2006. Stacy Westfall shows you how to introduce pressure to a horse in a safe environment so he'll be able to control his fear in the real world, thus building his and your confidence, and making him a safer partner. In "Smart Start," you'll learn how to: Read your horse's body language to establish the communication necessary for safety and basic control Establish respect and build trust Develop responsiveness and self-confidence in your horse Gain independent control of his head, shoulders, and hips, which will increase your safety and ability to direct his movement both on the ground and under saddle Establish forward motion the key to control when you mount up Use verbal cues Despook your horse

Smart Start: Beginning Coding Stories and Activities, Grade Prek

Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781645141532
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Give your preschooler a strong computer science foundation with Smart Start: Beginning Coding Stories and Activities. Children will learn important coding concepts with engaging stories and practice activities. Based on the K-12 Computer Science Framework, this dynamic early learning series helps children understand coding concepts to develop a strong foundation in computer science, including computational thinking, problem solving, and critical thinking. Each full-color activity book is organized into eight themed units around one coding concept and includes: - Coding stories that demonstrate what coders do and include an audio read-aloud feature - Concept pages that connect coding concepts to real-world situations - Practice activities that reinforce important coding rules - Review pages for every coding concept practiced - Coding projects with print-based games and puzzles - Mini coding handbook with key terms Computer science concepts and skills help early learners become critical thinkers by practicing the building blocks of thinking such as: - Algorithms that design simple steps to solve problems - Decomposition that shows how to break down complex problems into smaller ones - Sequencing that demonstrates how the order of things is important - Pattern recognition that makes connections between similar problems Programming language concepts such as: - Debugging that shows how to look for mistakes and correct them - Loops that can be used to save time by instructing a computer to repeat an action Children will also practice a variety of readiness skills such as print awareness, visual discrimination, following directions, and fine-motor skills. *Includes answer key

Smartstart Guitar

Author: Jessica Baron Turner
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780793573486
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Students as young as four succeed with SmartStart Guitar and so can you. You will learn the fundamentals and eventually strum and sing 19 of your favorite songs including such classics as: Are you Sleeping?, Buffalo Gals, On Top of Old Smoky, Shady Grove, and many more.

Smart Start

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child development
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description

Smart Start Garden Planner

Author: Megan Cain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692832103
Category : Kitchen gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 135

Book Description
"The most successful gardeners take some time before the garden season begins to devise a simple and smart plan for the year. A smart garden plan lays the groundwork for a beautiful garden that yields lots of food for the least amount of time and money invested" -- page 4 of cover.