Kids on the Ball or The Style Guy

Kids on the Ball: Using Swiss Balls in a Complete Fitness Program

Author: Anne R Spalding

They're colorful, big, and enticing. In recent years, innovative teachers have introduced the Swiss Ball, previously used primarily for therapy, into educational settings. Now you can use this unique tool to help children develop balance, coordination, rhythm, and fitness skills. In Kids on the Ball the authors, three physical educators and a physical therapist, explain the benefits of using Swiss Balls; describe activities using the ball; include step-by-step instructions, reproducibles, and written objectives; discuss modifications for special needs students (mainstreamed or not); address safety procedures, management, and care of the ball; provide curriculum ideas for incorporating the Swiss Ball into your present program; integrate Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences and different learning styles; and list content standards and benchmarks (NASPE and APENS).

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Explains how to use large, colorful Swiss balls, in educational settings to help children develop balance, coordination, rhythm, and fitness skills. Describes activities using the ball, and includes step-by-step instructions, reproducibles, and written objectives. Discusses modifications for special needs students, and addresses safety procedures and care of the ball. Provides curriculum ideas, integrating Gardner's theory of multiple intelligence and different learning styles. Presents a total of 118 activities and 23 complete lesson plans. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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The Style Guy: The Answers to the Questions Men Are Asking on Sex, Manners, Grooming, Fashion, Travel, Women, and the Meaning of Life

Author: Glenn OBrien

"Style isn't fashion.
Fashion is about what everybody's doing, what everybody's wearing.
Style is about what you're doing, what you're wearing."

As the no-nonsense columnist for Details magazine, Glenn O'Brien has helped thousands of guys naturally develop their own unique sense of style. Now he can help you. Here is practical, down-to-earth advice on dress, manners, sex, grooming, and dating—including cigar and cell-phone etiquette, tips on ordering wine in restaurants, and the cold, hard facts on cutoff jeans, ribbed tank tops, black shoes with white socks, and the age-old conundrum: boxers or briefs.

What's the difference between a ticket pocket and a fob pocket? A raconteur and a loudmouth?
Does slipping a maitre d' a tip like they do in the movies get you a better table?
How do you tell your date that she has spinach in her teeth?
What's the best thing to say to someone when you've prematurely ejaculated?
What do you wear with a brown suit?

If guys (and their girlfriends) are wondering about it, then O'Brien has the answers. Having style was never so easy!