Gifts

<p><i>Gifts</i> a book in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 1-3 gives students the opportunity to discover extrinsic and intrinsic gifts available to them in their everyday lives. The books in Prufrock's new Differentiated Curriculum Kits employ a differentiated integrated curriculum based on broad themes. This all-in-one curriculum helps teachers save planning time ensure compliance with national standards and most importantly pique their students' natural excitement and interest in discovery.<br><br>By participating in the wide variety of activities in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 1-3 students will discover the gifts around them and gain a lifelong desire to learn. Sentimental personal historical symbolic endangered and fragile gifts are explored. Students also will learn the concept of supply and demand when assessing value or worth. The process and science of the preservation of national treasures also is investigated by students. From Egyptian pharaohs to poor farmers students will find that everyone has gifts to offer.<br><br><i>Gifts</i> along with the other books in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 1-3 (<i>Discoveries</i> <i>Faces</i> <i>Cycles</i> and <i>Symbols</i>) makes teaching advanced learners easier!<br><br>Grades 1-3<br><br>This curriculum unit makes use of the following great children's literature books:</p><ul> <li> <i>Tutankhamen's Gift</i> by Robert Sabuda;</li> <li> <i> Song and Dance Man</i> by Karen Ackerman;</li> <li> <i>Alejandro's Gift</i> by Richard E. Albert;</li> <li> <i>This is Our Earth</i> by Laura Lee Benson;</li> <li> <i>The Giving Tree</i> by Shel Silverstein;</li> <li> <i>The Velveteen Rabbit</i> by Margery Williams;</li> <li> <i>Aunt Claire's Yellow Beehive Hair</i> by Deborah Blumenthal;</li> <li> <i>The Pain and the Great One</i> by Judy Blume; and</li> <li> <i>The Great Trash Bash</i> by Loreen Leedy.</li> </ul>