teaching tools for kids
The Little Fig’s team of experts offers free teaching tools for kids in multiple formats. Enjoy activities, curriculum guides, templates, videos, music, author readings, presentations, book trailers, and more. Our way of saying thanks!
TEACHING TOOLS - ART TO MUSIC TO SCIENCE & MORE
* Reaching the whole child * Inspiring discovery * Offering outlets for positive expression * Encouraging physical activity * Title-specific music and 20-page guides include activities across a variety of areas of interest *
Fire and Ashes Activity Guide for the African Proverb children's picture book series. Includes social emotional teaching tools.
Fire Fall Down - Calming Music
* Approved by California Department of Education Social Content Review approved inclusion of FIRE AND ASHES: A BOY AND AN AFRICAN PROVERB for the SOCIAL EMOTIONAL (supplemental materials).
* Coauthors presented this title at the Child & Adolescent Mental Health Conference 2023. The 2nd in the African Proverb series, A TANGLE OF THORNS, is coming January 1, 2024.
* Distributed with Kuzidi Comfort Kits to children who are refugees with a partnership of Minnesota Association of Children's Mental Health and Kuzidi, non profit organizations helping children who are underserved.
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The Greatest Thing Curriculum Enhancement Guide
The Greatest Thing a Story About Buck O’Neil - promo video
Buck O’Neil Presentation - author reading with full illustrations, including awards he received, and highlights of his life
* Inclusion of both the book and guide in Florida's 4th grade curriculum
* Approved by Major League Baseball, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Chicago Cubs, and the heirs of Buck O'Neil
* Awards for The Greatest Thing: A Story About Buck O'Neil:
2022 Kansas Notable Book Award – June 1, 2022 Author, Kristy Nerstheimer
Pitch Best of KC 2021 – Voted Best Local Author
The 41st Annual Original Art Exhibition – Christian Paniagua, illustrator, juried works accepted for inclusion in the NY Society of Illustrators Museum
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Kuzidi Activities - No outlets required! Fun, fascinating, and inspiring mind-powered adventures. 32-pages of activities specifically crafted for outdoor learning, children who are refugees, and/or kids who have suffered loss due to devastating weather or fires.
* Distributed with Comfort Kits to children who are refugees with a partnership of Minnesota Association of Children's Mental Health and Kuzidi, non profit organizations helping children who are underserved.
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TEACHING TOOLS FOR KIDS - JUMP, JIGGLE, AND JAM
WALK AND READ about bugs' and the jobs they do. Permanent posters featuring this title's interior spreads are posted throughout the Children's Nature Book Trail at the University of Tennessee's Arboretum. Also at the Oak Ridge Arboretum, the Challenger Reader's Center, and more.
Included in both the London and Frankfurt Book Fairs
Author, Nancy Kelly Allen, awarded Kentucky government grant for presenting school visits Spring, 2023
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So Much More - Create a reading camp. Give campers’ competence and confidence as they incorporated reading, speaking, listening, and action skills into their performances. Added bonus is observing as their camaraderie blooms.
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YouTube Videos - The Little Fig offers jingles that get kids moving and grooving in the collection of tunes and videos created to make learning fun. Includes Potty in the Potty Chair.
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TEACHING TOOLS FOR KIDS - DISCOVERY
Worldwide recipes - Fun with Foods - Emma Graham, illustrator, gives you the recipes for each of the foods presented in this delightful story, Everybody Counts. A great teaching tool that combines cooking, discovery of ingredients from around the world, and mastering counting in each of the twelve countries represented.
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School Library Journal review - posted September 1, 2023
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Planetariums in schools Planetariums Nationwide
*Approved by California Department of Education Social Content Review approved inclusion of YOU ARE HERE (supplemental materials).
Included in both the London and Frankfurt Book Fairs
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Saguaro teaching tool, a great place to learn more about the King of the Desert.
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The Little Fig collaborates with Star Bright Books, a multilingual publisher of picture books for kids, to craft activity guides for several of their titles.
Dinosaurs Count Enhancement Guide - Common Core and STREAM aligned Table of Standards included. Contact sherry@thelittlefig.com for links and/or printed copies of this guide.
From the tiny Changyuraptor to the ginormous Brachiosaurus - find your favorite activity, develop exercises to the beat of the music jingle, create a hand puppet, or choose from many more.
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A Stick Until Curriculum Guide - Common Core and STREAM aligned Table of Standards included. Contact sherry@thelittlefig.com for links and/or printed copies of this guide.
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Jake Series Guide - Activity guide published by The Little Fig for The Jake Series books.
THE JAKE SERIES INTEGRATION ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:
Art...................................2
English Language Arts..........4
Global Language..................5
Library & Technology.............6
Math...............................8
Music & PE..........................12
Science.............................13
Social Emotional.................18
Social Studies.....................21
Table of Standards...............23
More coming soon . . .