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Inherited from Maria Montessori in 1907, the Montessori Method is a child-centered educational approach celebrating and nurturing each child's desire to learn – an approach valuing the human spirit and full child development: physical, social, emotional and cognitive. The Montessori Method is increasing in popularity and more and more Montessori schools are opening up around the world.
Curious to see how the Method works first hand, filmmaker
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Showcases a year in the life of a bear family as two impressionable young cubs are taught life's most important lessons. Set against a majestic Alaskan backdrop teeming with life, their journey begins as winter comes to an end and the bears emerge from hibernation to face the bitter cold. The world outside is exciting-but risky-as the cubs' playful descent down the mountain carries with it a looming threat of avalanches.
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Learning Shapes Has Never Been So Much Fun™
Children will fall in love with these wonderful characters as they Meet the Shapes. Children who watch Meet the Shapes can easily learn to identify and name eight common shapes in a few days. Preschool Prep Series™ have won hundreds of awards and are used in millions of homes and schools around the world. You will be amazed at how easily your little one can learn shapes!™
Featuring: Circle, Diamond,...
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Henry needs to have his diaper changed before he can go out and play. But Mom and Dad have just brought home a big package, and he's anxious to see what's inside. Is it a rocking chair? Or maybe a bed for Teddy Bear? No, it's a potty! It's time for Henry to graduate from his diapers and learn how to use the potty.
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Hannah needs to have her diaper changed before she can go out and play. But Mom and Dad have just brought home a big package, and she's anxious to see what's inside. Is it a rocking chair? Or maybe a bed Teddy? Not, it's a potty! It's time for Hannah to graduate from her diapers and learn how to use the potty.
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Learning Phonics Has Never Been This Easy!™
Children will fall in love with these wonderful characters as they Meet the Blends. Two letters that come together and keep their own sounds are taught in primary school as "letter blends." Meet the Blends makes learning to identify blends fun and easy. Meet the Blends teaches 20 basic blends that are taught in primary schools across the country. Blends are taught both alone and in word context. Preschool...
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It's science time! Highlights Explore & Learn! videos combine educational segments with entertaining storytelling that will encourage young children's curiosity around science topics. Learn all about meat-eating plants and other interesting animal and plant facts in The Wonderful Animal Kingdom. Highlights is an essential part of childhood, inspiring memorable experiences for generations of families. Highlights' Fun with a Purpose! philosophy has...
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Scout & Friends head over to Shapeville in this delightful skill-building adventure that shows what a circle, square and triangle can really do. A new playground is being built at the park by the Beaver Brothers and soon the pets have their hands full helping with the construction. With the guidance of 'measuring' mice, the pets learn how to measure out all the various shapes, sizes, and dimensions needed to build the perfect parts of a perfect playground....
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Scout and his friends, Violet, Eli and Penny have all kind of learning adventures along with their magical toy car, Axle. They are engaged in a game when they learn that the Museum of Opposite Words is opening in their town today. They hurry off to the museum where they find the Beaver Brothers struggling to get the exhibits completed in time for the opening night. Together they use vocabulary skills to unlock the clues and help the Brothers complete...
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Thousands of prehistoric footprints left by Ice Age humans and animals stretch for miles across the blinding white surfaces of New Mexico's White Sands National Park. The phenomenal collection of prints preserves a unique series of snapshots of life and behavior, capturing moments when humans crossed paths with extinct Ice Age beasts, including enormous ground sloths and mammoths.
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Designed to teach babies and toddlers to identify colors by means of color characters, guessing which colors will jump in and out of familiar objects, and watching color characters color black and white pictures. Features the colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black and white.
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Word documents are in for a heavy-duty upgrade! Learn what tools and options are available to help streamline workloads and power-up documents, all while tracking changes, formatting elements, embedding videos and adding richer comments, switching viewing modes and more. In these ten lessons, learn more than just keystrokes, discover key concepts using results-oriented examples and explanations guaranteed to make viewers more confident and effective...
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"So how do you tell stories that stick-- in your own mind and in the minds of your family, friends, colleagues, and clients? That's precisely what you'll learn in The Art of Storytelling: From Parents to Professionals, an enthralling course that reveals the tried-and-true methods experienced storytellers use to develop and tell engaging, entertaining, and memorable tales. In 24 lectures, Professor Hannah B. Harvey of East Tennessee State University...
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"Many words don't follow basic decoding rules and are taught in pre-k and kindergarten classrooms as 'sight words', 'instant words', 'high frequency words' or 'star words.' ... [This DVD featured sight words are] all, at, be, by, from , her, him, look, one, or, some, there, this, up & word."--Container.
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Former Vice President Al Gore explains the facts of global warming, presents arguments that the dangers of global warning have reached the level of crisis, and addresses the efforts of certain interests to discredit the anti-global warming cause. Between lecture segments, Gore discusses his personal commitment to the environment, sharing anecdotes from his experiences.