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Westcott pencil sharpeners are necessary for any school or office that uses pencils regularly. A good pencil sharpener will keep your writing instrument sharp and ready to use for a long time. Westcott offers a wide variety of pencil sharpeners to meet your every need. This electric pencil sharpener quickly sharpens the tip of your pencil. The sharpener does all the work, and the container neatly captures all the shavings until its time to empty it. The heavy duty construction ensures long lasting performance.

• Winner of the 2017 Teachers' Choice™ Award
• Auto stop technology
• Designed for high volume school and office use
• Multi-hole dial accommodates all popular pencil sizes
• Low noise rating
• Super-fast sharpening using helical 12-blade technology
• Large, EZ-view shavings reservoir
• Safety cutoff if the shavings reservoir is removed

These friendly community helpers help teach about safety, health and community. Multicultural characters have safe embroidered eyes, approx. 11". The puppets comfortably fit little or big hands. Set includes farmer, mailman, doctor, nurse, policeman, fireman, chef, safety engineer, teacher, and surgeon or dentist

Explore grammar and usage conventions in a fun, non-threatening way with these colorful word cubes. Sturdy 11⁄4" plastic cubes have a related high frequency word on all six sides. Sentence Building with Word Cubes teaching guide provides step-by-step lesson plans. Children build sentences, then vary them just by turning one or more cubes. Each of the six color-coded nine-cube sets explores a different sentence structure. Change declarative sentences into interrogative ones or present tense into past, affirmative into negative, and much more. Especially useful for identifying children with syntax problems or working with ELL students. 54 cubes.

These boards are made from sturdy corrugate and are perfect for any desk, table or computer area. They help keep students focused, distractions out and help prevent wandering eyes. 48" x 16".

Build words with your Tri-Blocks® and learn consonants and short vowels (CVC).Turn each block and manipulate the middle vowel sound or change a spelling with a consonant. Tri-Blocks® let children know spelling rules by their color coding and unique block orientations. Also, for use with CVC Builder and Word Builder box card sets (sold separately). Teach phonemic awareness, word building and spelling. Tub contains 90 x Tri-Blocks®

These self-contained, portable centers are a wonderful, motivating way for students to practice important skills. Storage system is built-in hanger pockets, shoe boxes, or folders. Includes teacher directions, patterns to construct the centers, and students task cards. 12-18 self-contained centers per book. 160-192 pages.

The glass optics and power settings from 50x to 900x provide young scientists with superior precision viewing. Kit includes professionally prepared slides as well as everything you need to make your own specimen slides. Features a camera mount so you can photograph your findings and a projection/drawing device to display images for tracing or group viewing. The high-quality components include a built-in color-filter wheel, interchangeable eyepieces, and die-cast metal body. Light requires 2 “AA” batteries, not included.

Climb the ladder to word-building success! This adorable classroom activity makes it easy to teach and learn important skills like word analysis, swapping phonemes, and spelling. Students look at the included pictures, choose the letters needed to form that word, write the word, then adjust the letters to build more words as they climb up the ladder. Includes 38" x 26" chart with write-on/wipe-off surface, 40 picture cards, 64 letter cards, card storage pocket, and teacher guide. The 40 Word Ladder activities reinforce word-building, spelling, and phonics skills including recognizing beginning, medial, and ending sounds and adding and deleting target sounds to change words.

There are no right or wrong answers in these 6 unique board games. Each game has players discuss the solutions to socially challenging situations. Together the group decides upon the best action encouraging all players to communicate, listen and participate. Games target six important issues that students often struggle with: morals, manners, empathy, friendship, showing emotions, and managing emotions. Contains 6 game boards, 24 counters, one die, and one spinner.

Explore each war's background, causes, major battles, key figures, final outcome, and the significance to the world today. Includes reading passages, hands-on activities, a comprehension quiz, and more. 48 pages, 6 mini posters. Grades 5-8; Reading Levels 3-4.

Students can practice math problems, letters, writing skills and more with these 12" x 9" pockets that are open on the long side. Saves paper, time and money by eliminating copying worksheets over and over. Reusable super heavyweight pocket lasts a long time. Convenient eyelet for hanging. Cleans easily with a soft dry cloth or tissue when used with a low-odor dry erase marker or crayon (not included). Free downloadable templates at C-Line.com/template. Insert size 9" x 12". Assorted Neon colors include: red, orange, yellow, green and pink.

Mix, match, score and win! Qwirkle is a must-have for your next family game night. MindWare's best seller is a simple game of matching colors and shapes that requires tactical maneuvers, quick-thinking and a well-planned strategy. Players of this addictive game score points by building rows and columns of brightly-colored tiles that are either all the same color or all the same shape, without creating duplicates. Look for opportunities to score big by placing a tile that touches multiple pieces with matching attributes; create a line of all six in a row, and you score a "Qwirkle". The player with the most points when the tiles run out wins! Qwirkle combines the game play of Dominoes and Scrabble and is the perfect combination of skill and chance! This easy-to-learn, yet challenging game for children and adults will have all three generations on the edge of their seat and excited to play again! Grab your family and friends and see for yourself why everyone is hooked on Qwirkle!