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| Banned Books Week |
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Banned Books Week celebrates the Freedom to Read during the last week of September each year, September 25-October 2, 2010. For more information on getting involved, please see Calendar of Events and Ideas and Resources. Who topped the chart as the Most Challenged Book of this decade? The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. Amazon.com [...] |
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| Geography Snacks |
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Geography & Food – Try Some of These Snacks Kids Make Around the World http://www.sara-jordan.com/activities-snacks.shtml Snack ideas come from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Egypt, France, Guyana, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, Netherlands, USA
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| Animal Sciences Unit |
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Animal DatabaseAnimal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan. http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html
Animal SoundsIn different languages what do we say to mimic animal sounds? Visit the world’s biggest multilingual list. A guiding principle behind this list is to visualise a comic book, in your [...] |
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| Mexico Study Helps |
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Pictures of Mexico in general and cities http://www.picturesofplaces.com/Caribbean/mexico.html
Online Change Maker game – Mexican money version http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/cr.cgi?A1=s&A14=medium&country[mex].x=40&country[mex].y=38
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico Open Source info on Mexico. Edit these in MSword with Teachers Pet.
http://www.teachers-pet.org/ to make up great worksheets in the topic
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| Discover America |
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Discover America State by State Series http://www.gale.cengage.com/DiscoverAmerica/guides/index.htm.
All 50 states plus Washington, D.C. are available to download in pdf. Download them soon before their gone from their website. Extensive Students Activities are available for all of the Discover America series. They are wonderful resources for the classroom as well as for library, school and home! Example: [...] |
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| Hispanic Heritage Month |
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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with free resources from Gale, part of Cengage Learning, at Gale, part of Cengage Learning http://www.galeschools.com/hispanic_heritage/index.htm
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| Literature Based Themes |
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Join Literature Based Themes at http://lbt.wikispaces.com/
LBT has thematic materials such as worksheets, activities, study guides and more to expand favorite Story Books and Childrens & Young Adults Literature.
For those on the old groups, I am combining the PreK-4 & 5-12 Literature Groups. The two groups will be closing as soon as everything is moved off [...] |
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| Free Bird Font |
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Birds of a Feather Font is a free to download font that you can use to make games. Find a color picture of the bird and match it to its silhouette, make a GeoSafari card to identify what each bird is and use them on a game board path.
http://www.dafont.com/birds-of-a-feather.font
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| Pirate Lapbook |
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Our Facebook group now has photos! Come join and view the neat Pirate Lapbooks done by Amanda & her kids (grade 2 & grade 5).
Homeschooling With Lapbooks and scroll to photos
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| Free Online Math Textbooks |
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Online Mathematics Textbooks, a link list to higher math texts
http://www.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.html
Online Statistics Textbooks
http://www.isixsigma.com/st/online_textbooks/
Comprehensive listing of freely available online textbooks for undergraduated and graduate Mathematics and Physics
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jmg336/html/mathematics.html
Online Math & Science Texts
http://spot.colorado.edu/~dubin/bookmarks/b/1240.html
Textbooks, Lectures & Tutorials in Mathematics
http://www.geocities.com/alex_stef/mylist.html
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| Unit-Safari |
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Unit studies are an integrated thematic approach to learning several subjects/concepts through a main topic. Topics or themes can be chosen by the child’s interests, experiences in family life, books, events in the news, etc. This method can be used with different grades at one time to incorporate all the children of a family.
Have you [...] |
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| Solar System & DNA Kit Recalls |
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CPSC issued on March 19, 2008 a recall on Educational Craft Kits by FloraCraft, specifically the Solar System Kits and DNA Kits. For the Solar System kit, it is the assembly wires that are on recall.
I was unable to find any infomation at FloraCraft’s website other than a picture of Solar System and a link [...] |
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| Happy Pi Day |
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3/14 (Saturday) is Pi Day 3.14 and Einstein’s birthday. It is called Einstein’s Big Idea
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.pi.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/
http://www.piday.org/
http://www.wikihow.com/Celebrate-Pi-Day
http://www.pidayinternational.org/
http://charlottemasonhomeschooling.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/celebrate-pi-day/
http://search.enchantedlearning.com/cgi-bin/uncgi/search?key=pi
http://www.homefires.com/clickschool/archive.asp?d=2009/03/09
http://www.exploratorium.edu/pi/index.html
It includes articles, history, information, biography challenges and obstacles as well as achievements–called “Einstein the Nobody†before his discovery in 1905).
Also has a section with several physicists speaking of Einstein, E = mc2 etc. Visuals, of course, in all sections and [...] |
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| Free Coffee at Panera 1/28/09 |
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Free coffee and samples at Panera January 28, 2009
When you visit on January 28th for free coffee and delicious breakfast samples, we also invite you to donate $1 to support our Operation Dough-Nation Community Breadbox program. Participating bakery-cafes will match the amount raised, up to $250 per bakery-cafe, with funds going to support local programs [...] |
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| Wordle |
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I put this blog’s url into Wordle and got the cloud tag below. I hope I removed words like ‘and’, etc. Have you Wordle’d your blog?
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| Pancake Day & FREE pancakes at IHOP |
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Join IHOP to celebrate National Pancake Day February 24, 2009 from 7am-10pm. They ask that you consider making a donation to support local children’s hospitals through Children’s Miracle Network or other local charities.
http://www.ihoppancakeday.com/
http://www.childrensmiraclenetwork.org/
Short history on pancakes, celebration notes and recipes at
http://allrecipes.com/HowTo/Batter-Up-Its-Pancake-Week/Detail.aspx
More history and pancakes around the world at Pancake Appreciation Society
Perfect Vegan Pancakes Every Time
Moby’s [...] |
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| Saving Kids Clothes |
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If you save a lot of your kids clothes, put them in Ziplock bags with their names and the name of the person who made it or the significance of it. Then store it in a Rubbermaid container. It seems to me that Rubbermaid makes the best containers. They take our abuse without cracking, which [...] |
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| Scrapbook On A Shoestring |
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This question was posted on the old forums
Question
How do you accomplish scrapbooking cheaply. We do some lapbooking, but I saw several scrapbook type projects on the Internet that were based on educational topics. It looked really fun, but when I looked into materials and equipment, it seemed quite expensive.
So any ideas how to scrapbook on [...] |
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| Winter Safety |
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Winter Survival - A Health & Safety Unit for Young Children (Gr 1-2)
http://www.lnc.k12.nd.us/Resources/LessonPlans/Susan/Winter_Survival.htm
Billy & Maria learn about winter weather coloring pages
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/edu/bm/bm_main.html
Red Cross “Be Ready 1-2-3″ materials help young children, ages 4 to 7, learn through activities and demonstrations
http://www.redcross.org/services/disaster/eduinfo/
Winter Safety coloring book to d/l (right-click and save as) and print, free pdf.
Owlie Skywarn: Winter Storms - [...] |
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| Win Zip Alternative |
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CoffeeCup Free Zip Wizard makes it easy to zip and unzip files. It has built-in e-mail and FTP functions, so you can zip and send your files in one easy step. Free Zip Wizard can also run any program or setup file inside ZIP files. It can also create self-extracting EXE files and find all [...] |
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