Kids Wings
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Hallettsville, Texas, United States
About the store
Suzy Red has taught for over 30 years from Kindergarten through University, and delivered over 750 teacher workshops. She has created literature guides, songs, and surprising activities for all levels. She believes that the smiles and laughter of children are essential catalysts to their lifelong learning and to your lifelong joy of teaching. Their natural curiosity, songs, and love of movement are nurtured in today's most effective classrooms which no longer are hamstrung by standardized testing, but rather, welcome it as the Olympics of the classroom!
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Walls Within Walls by Maureen Sherry, Historical Fiction, Mystery with Puzzles
A seventy-year-old mystery remains unsolved. The Post Cereal family treasure remains hidden. Their enormous, eloquent apartment has been subdivided into four luxury apartments on New York's Fifth Avenue, remodeled according to Lyon Post's will: WALLS IN THIS STRUCTURE MAY NOT BE DESTROYED OR CHANGED IN ANY WAY. How, then could they section it into four apartments? Architects ADDED new walls in front of the old walls they could not change.
The Posts' aging daughter Eleanor now lives in one of th
4th - 7th
Literature, U.S. History
Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage, A HYSTERICAL Newbery Honor Murder Mystery
Three Times Lucky weaves together engagingly fishy characters, hysterical dialog, a captivating plot, profoundly important subplots, and the most fascinating, unique figures of speech ever painted into one great book. It's a favorite among gifted kids who appreciate comical situations and terrific figurative language.
Mo comes from an unusual family. Born eleven years earlier in an unknown upstream location to a desperate mother trapped in a hurricane, Baby Mo was tied to a sign that read "CAF
4th - 7th
Literature
Surviving Antarctica by Andrea White, A Chilling Tale from the Future
Imagine the world of the future! No wars. The crime rate is low. School is on television! You are required to watch 30 hours of television a week! Your lessons are in the form of adventures and and game shows! No more soft, warm boring food. Your food is now in the form of crispy chips! You can skateboard on abandoned freeways. Sound perfect? Sure. Everyone gets a fair chance. One roll of the dice determines who will go to college and who will not. Only those who go to college get the decent job
6th - 9th
Literature, Reading Strategies
BEAR SNORES ON plus 4 MORE KARMA WILSON BEAR BOOKS WITH SKILL BUILDING FUN!
What could be more fun than becoming friends with BEAR whose rhythmic rhyming stories make you want to dance? Here is a collection of Kids Wings Activities for five of Karma Wilson's BEAR books that you will want to read and hear over and over again throughout the year!
BEAR SNORES ON! Have you ever fallen asleep and didn't want to wake up? That happens lot with Bear, too. Have you ever felt like you've been left out of the fun? That happens to Bear, too, in Bear Snores On. After you read the
1st - 3rd
Balanced Literacy, Literature
SAVVY by Ingrid Law! A Newbery Honor Book! Share the magic of finding a talent!
SAVVY by Ingrid Law is a one-of-a-kind-fantasy about a family discovering and using their wildly unique talents. What gift or talent would YOU wish for?
Growing up is never easy. It is especially never easy-easy when you are a Beaumont who starts the process on your thirteenth birthday. Add to that birthday the fact that your special savvy will drop on you, BING BANG BOOM, like a rock and you know it is not something you want to share with just anyone. Especially when you have no idea what you
4th - 6th
Literature, Reading Strategies
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About the store
Experience
Suzy Red has taught for over 30 years from Kindergarten through University, and delivered over 750 teacher workshops. She has created literature guides, songs, and surprising activities for all levels. She believes that the smiles and laughter of children are essential catalysts to their lifelong learning and to your lifelong joy of teaching. Their natural curiosity, songs, and love of movement are nurtured in today's most effective classrooms which no longer are hamstrung by standardized testing, but rather, welcome it as the Olympics of the classroom!
Teaching style
Award-winning literature offers endless possibilities for integrating the curriculum. When subjects are taught individually there really isn't enough time to fit everything in, but then, the real world doesn't divide our day into math, reading, science, social studies, physical education, music, art, and recess. But, the real world does not work in absolutes and individual subjects. Rarely, does one find the answer to a problem at work by doing one-step arithmetic or by looking up the definition in a dictionary. Instead, in the real world, successful people in all walks of life use all of the tools at their disposal to tackle real world issues. Sometimes LIFE demands that you save a bird, design a plan with a group of friends, outrun a bear, draw a map, counsel a co-worker, or decipher directions in a foreign place.
Police officers and scientists use logic, group problem solving, research, math, questioning, science, intrapersonal skills, maps, and language skills to solve a crime or find a cure. A business man pours a myriad of skills into creating a sound business. In the same way, our best teachers do not isolate the skills they teach, but draw on the strength of some to empower the weaknesses of others.
Literature is a natural source of integrating problem solving and character-building with skills for the real world.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Teacher of the Year in Lockhart, TX;
Exchange Teacher with Texas State University;
My own education history
BS in Elementary Education, University of Texas, Austin;
Kindergarten Certification, West Texas State University;
Masters in Education, West Texas State University;
Trainer of Trainers for Here's Looking at You 2000;
Trainer of Trainers in Future Problem Solving;
Trainer of Trainers in Law-Related Education;
Western Plateau Elementary School, Amarillo, TX;
El Dorado Elementary School, San Antonio, TX;
Clear Fork Elementary School, Lockhart, TX;
Plum Creek Elementary School, Lockhart, TX;
Texas State University, San Marcos, TX;
Language Arts Instructional Strategist, K-12, Lockhart ISD;
Additional biographical information
25 years experience in grades K-12
Married to Charles Red, Principal for grades 4-12;
Two grown children, 8 grandchildren;
Creator of Kids Wings Educational Associates;
Writer of over 1000 literature guides for award-winning books;
Writer of Chalkboard Songs;
Language Arts Coordinator for grades K-12;
Odyssey of the Mind Coach
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