Helgas Dowry

Educational resource for teachers, parents and kids!

Helga, a troll, ventures into the world of people to earn her dowry to marry Lars, but things do not work out as she hopes.

Helga, a troll, ventures into the world of people to earn her dowry to marry Lars, but things do not work out as she hopes.

While storytelling is a great favorite of preschoolers, many elementary age children are more drawn to crafts and other activities. StoryCraft is an award-winning library program that combines storytelling with crafts in an exciting and engaging activity for children in first through third grades. Each one-hour program includes storytelling, a craft, movement, activities, music, and discussion. This collection of StoryCraft programs presents 50 fun and educational theme-based sessions. Each includes suggestions for promotion, music, crafts, activities, and stories. The sessions also include bibliographies to help direct young readers toward additional reading, as well as diagrams, detailed instructions, and supply lists for the crafts. The themes range from a Jungle Safari to Math Mayhem to a Western Roundup, all encouraging children to enjoy reading in a variety of ways. Each session has plenty of suggestions, so that the program can be customized. Helpful Hints for implementing the program can help any librarian, volunteer, or parent turn a ho-hum storytime into a dazzling StoryCraft time.

This publication contains complete instructions for teaching the lessons in Choices and Changes, Grades 24. The Choices and Changes series is designed to help students understand how the U.S. economy works and their roles in the economy as consumers, savers and workers.

Provides articles covering children's literature from around the world as well as biographical and critical reviews of authors including Avi, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, and Anno Mitsumasa.

At the close of the fifteenth century came a talented young man from a small German village whose only ambition was to serve God as a musician. Lorenz Lemlin was a gifted singer and player of the lute, but he was destined to become much more. Providence led him to Heidelberg where he eventually became an instrumental figure at the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. From the lofty ramparts of the Heidelberg Castle, he was poised to watch history unfold around him. He was surrounded by scenes such as Martin Luther’s defiance of Rome and subsequent trial at Worms, the bloody Peasants’ Rebellion, and a sympathetic ruler who embraced Luther’s doctrines. In Heidelberg, Lemlin finds God’s will for his life in the ministry of music at the court of Elector Ludwig V. While attending the university, Lorenz meets Liesl Gunter, a pretty tailor’s daughter with whom he shares happiness and sorrow. Their eventual love is deceitfully stolen from them, but each finds strength in God’s love for the dangerous and lonely challenges that lay ahead.

Catalog of an exhibition sponsored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts.