Construyamos un patio de juegos (Building a Playground)

A community center has many exciting activities to choose from. You can play games, swim, and even learn how to cook there. As you read, you can compare the size of a tennis racket to a ping pong racket, use cubes to measure the world's smallest snake, and even use feet to measure the length of a basketball court. What would you use to measure a snake?

Practice nonstandard measurement at the zoo! This exciting, Spanish-translated title encourages readers to practice measuring their favorite zoo animals, such as elephants, giraffes, pandas, and more. A gorilla weighs the same as three men! When a cheetah runs, its stride length is the length of three men! An elephant weighs the same as three pickup trucks! Vivid images, fun practice questions, early STEM themes, and helpful mathematical diagrams make nonstandard measurement entertaining and easy for children to understand.

Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739) fue uno de los mas destacados compositores italianos de la primera mitad del siglo XVIII. Miembro de la aristocracia veneciana, firmo como musico dilettante un gran numero de composiciones vocales e instrumentales. Testigo privilegiado del esplendor operistico que se vivio en la Venecia de su tiempo, El teatro a la moda (ca. 1720) constituye un testimonio unico sobre el fascinante mundo del melodrama barroco. Su estilo satirico proporciona una imagen nitida y viva de los verdaderos protagonistas del mismo (cantantes, empresarios, compositores...), aunque...

The Brightest Star in Science Stephen Hawking has been one of the most brilliant scientists of the 20th century and the one who best understood the universe. He suffered a serious illness that left him immobilized and continued to study, had children, participated in movies, wrote extraordinary books and even travelled to the space in his wheelchair. He was a genius but, above all, a man with an enormous desire to learn and to live. Both the narrative register and the style of the images are suitable for children between 8 and 11 years old. The text and illustrations deal with didactic themes ...

Weather is an important science concept at the early elementary level. Recognizing and identifying kinds of weather requires observational skills and certain vocabulary terms. This bright volume allows young meteorologists to correlate weather in carefully selected photographs with descriptive weather vocabulary, such as rainy, sunny, and foggy. It's never too early to tackle this essential STEM theme!

This starter volume uses everyday examples such as a baseball and a beach ball to demonstrate the contrast between hard and soft objects.