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Start Thinking! - Grade 1

matt — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 21:00:50 +0000

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Let’s put thinking skills back in the classroom—every day.

Introducing Start Thinking!, a unique curriculum for the elementary grades designed to give first graders a quick daily dose of critical thinking and creativity.

Start Thinking! incorporates the very best work produced by Tin Man Press. We’ve modified existing activities and have developed original material. There are 150 activity pages for each grade—one for each day of a typical school year.

Unlike other Tin Man Press products, Start Thinking! offers workbooks that kids keep handy for daily use. There are three books for each grade level, plus a teacher’s guide. Each workbook covers 10 weeks of the year. The activities in Start Thinking! are designed to be done in just five or ten minutes. We provide clear instructions so kids can do the activities independently—no teacher preparation or instruction is required.

The philosophy behind Start Thinking! is this: Our children’s education is dominated by rote learning and preparing for tests. This might be necessary, but it shouldn’t come at the expense of helping them become more flexible, critical and creative thinkers. Encouraging that kind of thinking leads to greater success in all parts of a child’s education.

These activities are intellectually rigorous and address a wide range of skill areas. They're fun, too. We take pride at Tin Man Press in developing activities that children actually like to do. We firmly believe that thinking should be fun!

Please contact usabout discount pricing for 40 units or more.

Note: Start Thinking! includes original activities and activities adapted from existing Tin Man Press materials.

$40.00

Whole-Year Program

Grade Level:

1st Grade

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Whole-Year Program

https://tinmanpress.com/sites/default/files/teacher-page/Start-Thinking-1-Intro.pdf

https://tinmanpress.com/sites/default/files/sample-files/Grade%201%20Sample.pdf 150 activity pages and a 33-page Teacher's Guide Grade 1

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Weekly Freebie

admin — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 16:19:47 +0000

We're going to start mixing in 10 challenges about concepts kids are already familiar with to our Sunday Night Weekly Freebie offerings.

This one is all about computers.

1) What is a computer?

2) Why do computers have keyboards?

3) Why don't we usually use computers when we're standing up?

4) Name one word hidden in the word "computer."

5) How is your brain different than a computer?

6) Name one way a computer is like a telephone.

7) Why don't dogs and cats have computers?

8) If you draw a picture of a computer, what would you draw first?

9) What's the difference between a computer and a phone?

10) What can you do on either a computer or a phone?

Skill Area:

Flexible thinking

Grades 2-6

Just Write! III

admin — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 18:25:22 +0000

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141

There's The Straight Page, The Baby Page, The Fast Page—giving children new writing ideas about common concepts. Very entertaining—and students will hardly know they are gaining experience in thinking—and writing!

$5.00

Thinking Through Writing

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Activity sheet

https://tinmanpress.com/sites/default/files/teacher-page/Just-Write-III-Introduction-2nd-3rd-4th-5th-grade-writing-activities.pdf

https://tinmanpress.com/sites/default/files/sample-files/Just-Write-III-2nd-3rd-4th-5th-grade-writing-activities-sample.pdf 20 pages Grades 2-5

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Is It Friday Already?

admin — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 18:25:11 +0000

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Make learning centers a vibrant part of your classroom. Here are more than 250 practical activities and a whole year's worth of learning center ideas. The centers are easy to assemble and are designed to be used by all students in the classroom—not just the best and the brightest. Like many Tin Man Press activities, the centers make use of concepts that are already within a child's realm of experience.

The centers are divided into nine subject areas: art, listening, language arts, reading, cognition, handwriting, science, work-study, and creative writing. There are also some revolutionary ideas for implementing the learning-center approach—like making their use mandatory in your classroom!

This is a meat-and-potatoes type of book, full of center ideas. Since the book is subject oriented, you’ll find a lively mix of activities in the various content areas. Also provided are practical approaches for making the centers. You'll end up with centers that have an appealing, hand-fashioned quality, but which are in fact quite easy to make.

NOTE: After 33 years in print, we've decided that "Friday" has a few too many references to cassette tapes, vinyl records, old magazines and textbooks—you get the idea! Despite the out-of-date references, it's still full of great ideas which we're incorporating into other new Tin Man offerings. Get the last in-print "Friday" books at half price—just $10!

$10.00

Learning Centers

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Book

https://tinmanpress.com/sites/default/files/sample-files/Is-It-Friday-Already-learning-centers-book-sample.pdf 240 pages Grades 2-6

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Discover! Series I

admin — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 18:25:11 +0000

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021

A true Tin Man original! The "Discover!" series is a wonderful tool for prompting children to think creatively and deductively by manipulating and thinking about the most ordinary of items.

In these days of diminished attention spans and digital everything, the "Discover!" series serves a fundamental purpose: Allowing a youngster the fun and growth of examining an object in depth.

In all cases, the activities can be done independently and are open-ended enough to appeal to students of varying abilities.

"Discover!" can be used at centers or as individual seatwork. It works superbly in conventional classrooms and in gifted programs, as well as for home-schoolers. It is also a fine motivational tool to encourage reading and writing.

Each set includes 20 activities, plus answers and a teacher card. For ordering convenience, the 24 card sets are divided into Series I and Series II, but you can also order the card sets individually.

Order all 12 card sets in electronic format and save $12.00!

$42.00

Discover! Series I

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Card set series

https://tinmanpress.com/sites/default/files/sample-files/Discover-Series-I-task-card-thinking-challenges-critical-thinking-skills-sample.pdf 288 cards total (12 sets of 24 cards in each set) Grades 2-6

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Gotta Think!

admin — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 18:25:07 +0000

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058-d

The motivational material in Gotta Think! will encourage students to "wanna think!" These 50 lively activity sheets foster higher-level thinking and analysis.

Like its companion book, WakerUppers, Gotta Think! offers friendly, hand-drawn activity sheets. Unlike WakerUppers, each activity sheet in Gotta Think! revolves around a single subject, such as necks, movies, pumpkins, paper—even ants.

This is an essential Tin Man Press strategy—beginning with a topic children already know something about and then stretching out in all sorts of unexpected directions.

The activities themselves run the gamut from abstractions that require in-depth analysis to word puzzles that foster language development.

This is a highly flexible learning tool. You may use Gotta Think! activities as enrichment rewards once curricular work is finished. They are a wonderful option for keeping early-finishers busy and happy. Or you may want to hand them out first thing in the morning, letting children work on them in their spare time.

However you use them, give children one of these engaging activities and watch them jump to the challenge.

$16.00

Thinking Challenges

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Book

https://tinmanpress.com/sites/default/files/sample-files/Gotta-Think-warm-up-thinking-activities-book-critical-thinking-skills-sample.pdf 112 pages Grades 2-6

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31536000