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Getting Involved in Your child's Education
When
parents are involved in their children's education, kids do better
in school. 1. Want to learn how to
help your child achieve and succeed? Read on! You'll learn
why involvement is so important and suggestions
for
how to get involved.
Looking at the
processes and actions embedded
within various team and individual sports is a great way to get
exposed to concepts and ideas from physics, engineering, and any
other number of basic and applied sciences.
Angela
Maiers puzzle lesson
Angela Maiers demonstrates to 1st grade students how piecing
together a puzzle is similar to being a great reader
Share the World
Share the World is an educational
programme designed to help students
better understand and appreciate the
animal kingdom. The site provides
worksheets and assembly ideas.
Indian in the Cupboard Study
Guide
Omri receives several conventional gifts for his ninth birthday,
including
longed-for skateboard. However, two gifts you would expect to be of
least
interest to a young boy prove to be magical and exciting. Suitable for
primary aged students this study guide has learning outcomes in key
learning
areas such as English, Art and Society and Environment.
Quizlet
Quizlet is similar in concept to flashcards, but much more interactive. You
can create short quizzes then choose from a range of activities to perform
the quiz, share it with others or a select group or class.
Backyard Buddies are the native animals that share our built-up areas,
waterways, backyards and parks.
Backyard buddies are also the people who value native animals and plants, and want
to protect and help them
Video
- The Road to Meaning
The process of
reading is very like that of
driving a car. As readers, it is
our charge to "navigate" our way
to meaning as we enter
nonfiction texts and tasks. For
students the,
road to meaning in informational
text is one paved with
challenge and complexity. This
presentation explores what great
"drivers" need to do before,
during, and after reading to
successfully arrive at their
final destination...UNDERSTANDING
THE BIG IDEA!
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Poetry
Poetry – Interactive
http://www.libbyhathorn.com/lh/emma/index.html
Australian author
Libby Hathorn has developed this appealing poetry website focusing mainly on
interactive poems for younger students. Additional material is available for
older students and teachers.
for Poetry:
http://www.worldofpoetry.org/
http://www.emule.com/poetry/
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/
and for the little ones:
http://www.gigglepoetry.com/
Jack Prelutsky
http://www.jackprelutsky.com/
A selection of Jack
Prelutsky's inventive and humorous poetry is brought to life on this
interactive, animated website. Teachers are also catered for with specific poems
and a range of classroom activities.
List of Films Based on Poems -
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_poems
And far more of them than you would ever guess. It's not just Beowulf and
Dr. Seuss books that have inspired moviemakers, but also Gunga Din, The
Raven, Jabberwocky, The Cremation of Sam McGee and many others.
From: Neat New Stuff I Found This Week
http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html
Copyright, Marylaine Block, 1999-2007. Baby karaoke
http://www.abc.net.au/parents/baby_karaoke/
This ABC site provides simple songs for singing to young children. The songs are
provided as animations with sound, and subtitled with words highlighted as they
are sung. So they can be used as a reading exercise as well.
Library of Congress: Poetry [pdf, Real Player]
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/
On a recent visit to the Library of Congress: Poetry website, the first line of a poem by William Stafford appeared on the top of the page. The poem in question was “At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border”, and it just one of many poems that can be found on this simple delightful site. Amidst this cornucopia of poems, visitors can also learn about the current poet laureate and take in a few webcasts from the “Poet Vision” series. It is an august group indeed, and some of the programs include those that profile Rita Dove, Louise Gluck, and Stanley Kunitz. Visitors can also look over a list of poetry news and events and breeze on through the related resources offered by the Library of Congress. Educators and students will want to pay close attention to the “For Teachers & Students” area, where they can find resources designed to bring poetry into the classroom in an experiential fashion.
From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2007. http://scout.wisc.edu/
The Gingham Dog and the
Calico Cat aka The Duel (Eugene Field)
The Adventures of Isabel (Ogden Nash)
Custard the Dragon
edward lear
lewis carroll
shel silverstein
jack prelutsky
doug florian
I know that kids love poetry and they really have fun with it;
especially
when they get to pick what they want to write about. Go over the
different
kinds of poetry (limmerick, acrostic, cinquain, shape poetry,etc.) and
let
them choose who one they prefer.
The K-3s
Shel Silverstein's
(The Light in the Attic, Where the sidewalk ends, etc.)
Jack Prelutsky
The New Kid on the Block, Something Big has Been Here and My
Parents Think I'm Sleeping.
Arnold Adoff
stories in rhyme,
like The Giant Jam Sandwich
For the older kids,
Casey at the Bat,
Sharon Creech's Love
That Dog,
Karen Hesse's Out of
the Dust.
Dennis Lee,
Kalli Dakos,
a bookcalled Jumpety
Bumpity Hop,
Eric Carle's Animals
Animals andDragons Dragons,
Lewis Carroll,
A. A. Milne,
Kenn Nesbit,
Eve Merriam,
Valerie Worth,
Vachel Lindsay,
Aileen Fisher,
Bobbi Kalman.
illustrated by
Christopher Bing,
"Casey at the bat".
"Hurry, hurry, Mary
Dear"
A.A. Milne
Title: Casey at the bat : a ballad of the Republic sung in the
year 1888 /
Author: Thayer, Ernest Lawrence,
Title: The midnight ride of Paul Revere /
Author: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth,
With maps and facsimiles of actual documents.
Subjects:
Title: Hurry, hurry, Mary dear /
Author: Bodecker, N. M.
A woman frantically rushes to prepare fot the
fast-approaching winter while her husband sits idly by.
Subjects:
Title: Now we are six /
Author: Milne, A.A.
A collection of poems reflecting the experiences of a
little English boy growing up in the early part of the twentieth
century.
Florian, George,
J.Patrick Lewis,
Grimes, Aileen
Fisher;
Dickinson, Frost,
Stevenson, Wallace
Jack Prelutsky
Shel
Silverstein,
Nicky Grimes
Poems Third Graders should know
Adventures of Isabel by Ogden Nash
By Myself by Elise Greenfield
Catch a little Rhyme By Eve Merriam
Dream Variations by Langston Hughes
Knoxville, Tennesee by Nikki Giovanni
The Crocodile by Lewis Carroll
Trees by Sergeant Joyce Kilmer
For want of a nail (Traditional Mothe Goose rhyme)
Jimmy Jet and his TV set by Shel Silverstein
First Thanksgiving of All by Nancy Byrd Turner
Eletelephony by Laura Richards
Father William by Lewis Carroll
POEMS Fourth Graders Should Know
Monday's Child is fair of Face Author unknown
Humanity by Elma Stuckey
Fog by Carl Sandburg
Things by Eloise Greenfield
Dreams by Langston Hughes
Afternoon on a Hill by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Rhinioceros by Ogden Nash
The Pobble who has no toes by Edward Lear
A Tragic Story by William Makepeace Thackeray
Clarence by Shel Silverstein
Paul evere's Ride by Heny Wadsworth Longfellow
Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson
George Washington by Stephen Vincent Benet
Acrostic poetry: using digital imaging
http:// stars-cwc.cwc.cc.wy.us/lessonbank/DC/IT/Website/1/
teaching fourth grade students how to write acrostic
poetry using word art and digital mage importing to produce a PowerPoint
presentation and a hard copy
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Watch a video of Peter Rabbit by
Beatrix Potter
Teaching Outside
the Box:
How to Grab Your
Students By Their Brains
by LouAnne Johnson
This book is a must for beginning teachers and for pros who need
new ideas. It combines street smart practicality
with the creative thinking we need to reach kids
today.
Try RocketReader Kids
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The ultimate child reading tutor. Ages 4
to 8.
What is it that
excites you, makes
you smile and fuels
your dreams?
Click on
the picture for more about this
inspirational book for children.
For
children, sight word
recognition is an
important step to
being able to
efficiently learn to
read. If they don’t
have to stop and
consider what each
word is, they will
have the freedom to
comprehend the
meaning and context
of sentences and
paragraphs.
Consequently, it’s
critical for
parents,
babysitters,
guardians,
grandparents and
educators to help
beginning readers
How good is your knowledge of
sports?
Play Sports Hangman
Mapping our world
Discover a unique perspective on the
world with this interactive
whiteboard resource for ages 8-14.
Islam for Kids Many
non-Muslim
children (and
their parents)
know very little
about how
Muslims practice
their faith.
This great site
will answer the
most common
questions that
kids and adults
have about
Islam, including
what the month
of Ramadan and
the celebration
Eid ul-Fitr are.
Catch the Fly
Mr. Frog needs you to give him the x, y coordinates for a fly so he can
dine. Type in the correct coordinates of where the fly lands to feed the
frog.
The
Courage to Teach: Exploring the
Inner Landscape of a
Teacher's Life
by Parker
J. Palmer
“Though not an easy book to
read, as a teacher of some
thirty years I find this
book to be challenging,
inspiring and definitely
thought-provoking. Mr.
Palmer is challenging us to
reexamine not only our
teaching styles but
ourselves as teachers..”
Teaching notes for "The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas
Flamel Series" by Michael Scott
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