Elementary Bundles

This bundle includes 2023-2024 First Nation Communities READ nominated titles for children. 

First Nation Communities READ (FNCR) is the Ontario First Nation Public Library Community's contribution to the reading movement. Launched in 2003, it promotes a community-based approach to reading. Learn more HERE!

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This bundle includes all 16 titles in the Strong Science - Animals series, the Strong Science - Animals Teacher's Guide, and additional resources for learning, such as connecting books for read-alouds or shared readings and puppets.  

About the Student Books & Strong Science - Animals Series
Strong Science - Animals is a language-based science series for primary students featuring animals that all Canadian students will recognize. Photographs and Indigenous artwork illustrate the series. Common learning objectives in science curricula across Canada are addressed, and suggestions for extending the learning to other curriculum areas, including Indigenous cultural awareness, language arts, math, and art, are included in the teacher’s guide. The sixteen books in this series are grouped into four levels that increase in complexity, designed to accommodate students with various reading abilities within a classroom. This feature facilitates the use of this series in literacy programs along with the Strong Readers series.

About the Teacher's Guide
The teacher’s guide supports a language-based Science unit for early primary classrooms, using the sixteen titles in Strong Nations Publishing’s Strong Science - Animals series. The unit introduces early primary students to four easily recognizable animals that live in or near many communities in Canada: beaver, black-tailed deer, mallard duck, and raccoon. While learning about the animals, students will gain knowledge and skills mandated by Ministry of Education Science curricula in Canadian provinces and territories. In addition, this teacher’s guide addresses other curriculum areas— Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, and Art—and provides information to help develop an appreciation for and understanding of Indigenous cultures.

This teacher-friendly, comprehensive teacher’s guide provides:

• lesson plans to introduce the books in the Strong Science - Animals series;

• lesson plans to address knowledge and skills common to Canadian Science curricula;

• activities to integrate the unit across the curriculum;

• activities to wrap up the unit;

• reproducible activity pages.

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This bundle includes resources for learning about food and cooking.  Learn how food is grown, gathered, prepared, cooked, baked, and more!  Some of the topics/themes explored include gardening and growing food; healthy eating; sustainable harvesting; traditional Indigenous dishes; food as medicine; and connection with the land. Some stories share stories about making food and how food connects to culture, family, and more! 

Indigenous and non-Indigenous resources are included.  Many of the stories contain a recipe, and cookbooks and educator/classroom resources contain further information about food and/or recipes.

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This bundle includes social-emotional learning resources for children ages 0 to 5. 

Social and emotional learning (SEL) in the early years is important for helping children to develop self-awareness, understand and regulate their emotions, form healthy relationships and friendships, engage and empathize with others, and make good choices.

Indigenous and non-Indigenous resources are included.  

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This bundle includes rubber stamps from Tsimshian/Tlingit artist Bill Helin. 

Included in this bundle currently are the following stamps (14 stamps total):

Rectangle Stamps - Dimensions 1.75 x 2.75" or 2.75 x 1.75"

• Beaver
• Eagle
• Orca
• Salmon
• Tree of Life 

Square Stamps - Dimensions 1.75" x 1.75"

• Copper
• Dolphin
• Frog
• Hand
• Hummingbird
• Raven
• Snowflake
• Sun Mask
• Wolf

Educator Information
Download a free English stamp book here: Stamp Book English

Download the French stamp book here: Stamp Book French

Please note: This bundle originally included a Bear stamp, but it is now out of print and, therefore, no longer included in this bundle. The Stamp booklets reference the Bear stamp.

Additional Information

• Stamps are designed and made in Canada!
• These stamps work wonderfully with many of our books and book series, including the From the Mountains to Sea series, the Strong Readers series, and Animals Care for Mother Earth.
• NOTE: Product availability may fluctuate.  If a stamp(s) goes into reprint, it will not be included in the bundle and the price of the bundle will reflect the cost without the stamp(s) included.

This bundle includes Indigenous and non-Indigenous music resources. Find books for kindergarten to grade 7 students on singing, drumming, dancing, and making music of all kinds!

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This theme bundle is all about supporting numeracy development.

Early development of numeracy skills provides children with a foundation for their learning and development, preparing them for daily life, problem solving, and more.

Indigenous and non-Indigenous resources are included.

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This bundle includes resources for learning and sharing about beavers!

Indigenous and supplementary resources are included.

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This bundle features resources for learning about birds!

Key Topics: bird facts, bird life cycles, bird conservation, ornithology, endangered species, habitat loss, young birders, Canadian birds, Indigenous stories, traditional knowledge.

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This theme bundle includes a collection of social and emotional learning (SEL) resources for children and educators/adults who work with children.

Indigenous and supplementary books explore emotions and feelings, self-regulation, social awareness skills, and social-emotional learning. Fiction and nonfiction resources are included.

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This resource bundle includes resources for learning about fish and fishing.

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Resources in this theme bundle are perfect for learning about forests and trees.

Indigenous and non-Indigenous resources are included.

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This theme bundle includes resources for exploring gifts from the land.

With these resources, readers will learn about some of the many gifts the land and Mother Earth provide; the importance of learning from, giving back to, and exploring our connection to the land; the connection different Indigenous cultures have to the land; what stewardship of the land means and encompasses; and more!

Indigenous and non-Indigenous resources are included.

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This bundle includes a variety of Indigenous middle-grade reads, spanning different genres, themes, and topics, as well as a variety of reading levels.

This bundle's resources are sure to engage both strong and reluctant/struggling readers alike!

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This bundle includes Indigenous resources for students in grade 1.

This bundle Includes:

• Diverse Indigenous voices and stories from across Canada
• A mix of fiction and nonfiction books
• A mix of genres and themes to appeal to a variety of reader interests and abilities 
• Books for read alouds and individual reading 
• Leveled books for grade 1 students from the Indigenous leveled reading series the Strong Readers and Nunavummi Reading Series.

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