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You can contact me at 705-309-7452     Aesop's Fables (5-9 year olds)  A great number of teachers and TL's are buying Aesop’s Fables for   their classrooms andthe school. Aesop's fables have been specifically rewritten to address the variety of reading levels found in primary classrooms.  This is an ideal book to be used for the whole class from grade 1 to grade 3.   The book is a great buy as it contains 20 fables with lessons that   resonate with decision making when it comes to appropriate behaviour.   Perhaps one of the most quoted fables by parents and teachers is the one from the Grasshopper and the Ants - f irst, you work and then you play.  A Wish for Haidan (7-9 year olds) This fairy young boy  who is granted 3 wishes on one condition.  Trying to meet this condition brings astonishing  changes to his  environment and  his life.  This book will inspire young readers to become  more engaged i...

Years ago, I would spend hours and hours cleaning up the garden so that it was transformed into a barre n bed of lumpy soil.  To put the garden to bed I cut back all my perennials, I pulled out all my annuals, I raked the leaves from the garden and lawn and dug  up, pulled all the weeds, and turned over the soil.  It was a lot of backbreaking grunt work, but I thought it was necessary to get the garden ready for spring planting. Then, after reading about the components and importance and healthy soil I realized I had been doing a lot of counterproductive and unnecessary work. First of all I learned that soil is teeming with living organisms inducing bacteria, archaea, actinomycetes, fungi, algae, protozoa, and a wide variety of larger soil fauna, including springtails, mites, nematodes, earthworms, ants, and insects that spend all or part of their life underground, including larger organisms such as burrowing rodents. It tu rns out one teaspoon of...