McGregor

Long Way Round (Deluxe) Long Way Down (Deluxe) Race To Dakar - Complete 8 DVD Box Set
$49.99
This was a fantastic adventure!!! If you ride motorcycles and travel on them, this is a must for you!!! You feel like you are right there with the riders. My husband and I were so sad when we ended the final DVD disc, meaning that the journey had come to an end! Come the winter months I won't be surprised if we start the adventure over again. It is excellent!!!

Sings Jamaican Classics
$18.98

Snowy River: Mcgregor Saga - The Race [VHS]
$9.98
I would like to see more episodes on this series. I was disappointed that it was not based on the movie The Man from Snowy River with Kirk Douglas, which I loved. This is a good series, however, and I hope that it will be released on box set DVD here in the USA. So far, box sets are only available in Austrailia, and I'm not sure I have a multi-region DVD player.

Comprehension Connections: Bridges to Strategic Reading
$23.75
This book is just...... wow. I feel like it should be way more known in the teacher crowd than it is. Every elementary teacher should have this book. I kept reading chapter after chapter getting more and more excited, thinking-- this is what I've been looking for all along! Tanny takes each "big idea" comprehension strategy-- matacognition, schema, etc. and gives you a handful of perfect lessons to teach it. When I say perfect, I mean PERFECT. They are so engaging and cute, yet drive the idea home so no student will ever forget it. The lessons all start with something concrete, like paint color samples, salad bowls, a lint roller. These props are the things that make the lessons stick in kids' minds, yet they are the things that I am never creative enough to come up with on my own. After the idea is introduced with this concrete object, students explore it with wordless picture books and then move on to texts. I can't remember the last time I've been so excited about a teaching book. It definitely goes in my top 3 teaching books ever. (The other two are The Daily 5 and On Solid Ground.)