2008-2009

 

1997-1998
1998-1999
1999-2000
2000-2001
2001-2002
2002-2003
2003-2004
2004-2005
2006-2007 2007-2008

 

Week 1-10
Week 11-20
Week 21-30
Week 31-40

 

Week #1
9/2/08 - 9/5/08

 

A Literary Map of Maine
An Interactive Map of Maine
(Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
& Maine Humanities and library groups)

Paper Version: Maine Sunday Telegram, Sun. 8/31/08

(To Submit a Book:)

Ed Helper

Check out the good back to school activities and ‘Classroom Helpers’

BrainPop

Has a ‘Back to School’ movie
also Test Taking Skills, ‘Internet Searches’

Week #2
9/8/08 - 9/12/08

 

Patriot Day: Remembering September 11

September 11 Through Children’s Eyes

Scholastic: 9/11/2001 The Day that Changed America

National Geographic Kids
We Survived September 11th (New York’s PS 234)

Fema for Kids Celebrating Patriot Day

Week #3
9/15/08 - 9/19/08

 

Two Major Holidays in September:

Ramadan: begins Sunset 9/1/08 - 10/2/08

Ramadankids.com

Ramadan on the Net

Rosh Hashanah: The Jewish New Year - Sunset 9/29/08 - 9/30/08

High Holy Days on the Net

Fact Monster Rosh Hashanah

Week #4
9/22/08 -9/26/08

 

Here comes FALL!

Equinox:

Seasons:

Week #5
9/29/08 -10/3/08

 

Yom Kippur: Jewish Day of Atonement - Sunset 10/8/08 - 10/9/08

Torah Tots: Yom Kippur

Akhlah: Jewish Children’s Learning Network: Yom Kippur

Fact Monster Yom Kippur

Columbus Day
2 New Sites

Columbus Day (Apples 4 the Teacher.com)

BBC: Famous People: Christopher Columbus (includes slideshow)


Sites Aimed at Younger Students

ImAHero: Christopher Coumbus - ‘Hero History’

Enchanted Learning - Columbus Day

Enchanted Learning- Christopher Columbus

Columbus Navigation Homepage

Columbus

More Advanced Sites

The Explorations of Christopher Columbus

Extract's from Columbus's Journal (Medieval Sourcebook)

1492: An Ongoing Voyage
Learn about America before European explorers arrived. Discover how the arrival of Columbus affected many different peoples and cultures.

CDLTK's Crafts for Kids: Columbus Day Activities

 

Week #6
10/6/08 -10/10/08

 

 

Week #7
10/14/08 -10/17/08

 



Week #8
10/20/08 -10/24/08

 

Phil Tulga‘s Music Through the Curriculum
Music Activities and Arts Integration Lessons
- connecting music to reading, math and science

Try Musical Fraction Bars, Fraction Pies, Prediction Squares and much more

Magnetic Poetry: Kids Kits

Week #9
10/27/08 -10/31/08

MSAD #75 Report Card - HELP

Songs for Teaching:
Using music to promote learning
(Math, Science, Reading / Lang. Arts, Social Studies, Child Lit, Test Taking)

 

HALLOWEEN!

Happy Halloween from Ben & Jerry's

Fun Halloween Activities for Kids

Halloween with Boowa and Kwala

Week #10
11/3/08 -11/7/08


 

 

Week #11
11/10/08 -11/14/08

Veterans Day

Veterans Day 1 (BCS)

VA Kids, K-5th

Infoplease Veterans Day
Short historical background of Veterans' Day, an overview of the wars in which the United States has taken part, and related links.

EnchantedLearning.com
Veteran's Day Crafts, Projects, and Printouts

Veterans' Day (Miami-Dade County Public Schools)

Blackwell's Best: Veterans Day & Memorial Day
Excellent list of links

Week #12
11/17/08 -11/21/08

THANKSGIVING

Plimoth Plantation: Kids

Plimoth: You are the Historian

Scholastic's First Thanksgiving
Mayflower Tour & Voyage; Life as a Plimoth Pilgrim;
Life as a Wampanoag; Daily Life in 1621

PBS Colonial House Interactive History

The Mayflower Web
Clothing, Letters, Pilgrim children

Jamestown Online Adventure

Thanksgiving on the Net

Sail 1620: Pilgrim Biographies

Week #13
11/24/08 -11/25/08

A NUMBER OF USEFUL SITES

CatalogChoice.org (Save a Tree! Eliminate unwanted Catalogs! (20 billion catalogs mailed / year = 63 / every man, woman and child)

US Made Toys.com

babblefish.com Want to know how to say something in Spanish, German, Arabic...?
“Promoting world peace through global communication - Babblefish.com specializes in language translation, travel and money conversion, and more.”

SurveyMonkey.com
“SurveyMonkey has a single purpose: to enable anyone to create professional online surveys quickly and easily.”

SuperKids Educational Tools
(Worksheets, word, quote, or the day, and more

MrDonn.org (Lots of education stuff... content, themes like debate, more)

Education Oasis

LOTS of Stuff:
Curriculum,Teacher Tools (Awards & certificates, bulletin boards, forms to go), Book Central (Reviews etc.)
Printables

Education Oasis Awards:

PHONICS: Interactive Activities
(Just born but Growing)

Week #14
12/1/08 -12/5/07

CHESTER GREENWOOD!
Chester Greenwood Day- 1st Saturday in December (12/1/07)

at About.Com

on the Secretary of State Kids Page

Earmuffs

Hanukkah (sunset 12/21 - 12/29, 2008)

Chanukah on the Net

Hanukkah: Festival of Lights

Virtual Chanukah

PBS KIDS: Hanukkah

Week #15
12/8/08 -12/12/08

Christmas (12/ 25)

Christmas on the Net

Merry Christmas.com

Christmas at Apples for the Teacher.com

Bethany Roberts Christmas Fun for kids

PBS KIDS: Christmas

******

December Holidays

Week #16
12/15/08 -12/19/08

BillyBear4Kids Award Maker
Personalized Award Certificate Online Maker

Education Oasis Award Maker

Kwanzaa (12/ 26-1/1)

Kwanzaa Welcome Page

Official Kwanzaa Web Site

Kwanzaa (from Wikipedia)

PBS KIDS: Kwanzaa

Week #17
12/22/08 -12/23/08

AN ASSORTMENT FOR THE NEW YEAR!

Great American Health Challenge

HealthyToys
The Consumer Action Guide to Toxic Chemicals in Toys

Charity Navigator: Your Guide to Intelligent Giving
Rates charities on a number of criteria

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/

******* Last Year's Assortment

Those Were the Days
‘What happened this day in history’ (Including Birthdays)

Kidspiration
http://www.inspiration.com/productinfo/kidspiration/index.cfm

Merriam Webster's Word Central
• Student Dictionary
• Daily Buzzword
• Rhyming Dictionary
more

Recycle Holiday Cards:

 


Week #18
1/5/09-1/9/09

 

Week #19
1/12/09 -1/16/09

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King Day on the Net

Enchanted Learning's All About Martin Luther King
Printable Booklets, etc

King Celebration

Meaning of MLK, Jr. Day

Activities, Printouts, Special MLK Writing Paper

Martin Luther King at Bowdoin College


Week #20
1/20/09 -1/23/09

Ambleside Primary School (Cumbria UK)
Neat school site. Another great set of links
Check out numeracy and literacy hours

South Washington County (MN) Schools
Virtual Media Center
Excellent collection of learning links

Week #21
1/26/09-1/30/09

From Kate: 'Example of VoiceThread being integrated into a PBwiki and being used by students and teachers for mathematics in grades k-7.'

Math Playground’s
Mathcasts 500 Project
http://www.mathplayground.com/mathcasts500.html

Groundhog Day!
FactMonster’s Groundhog Day

Stormfax Weather Almanac’s Groundhog Day

KinderArt’s Groundhog Day

Groundhog Day at Apples4theTeacher

Howtopedia ‘Simple technologies, Simply shared’

Week #22
2/2/09 -2/6/09

February is Black History Month
Introduction
The following six Web sites were created as models to suggest ways to integrate the World Wide Web and videoconferencing into classroom learning. African-American History was chosen as a topic because of its importance, popularity and the wealth of Internet resources available on the topic.

Enchanted Learning's Black History Month

The History Channel's Black History Month


Happy Valentine's Day

BETHANY ROBERTS' VALENTINE'S DAY FUN FOR KIDS
(and the Young at Heart!)

Valentines Day on Apples4theTeacher.com

JanBrett's Valentines (e-postcards to send)

Week #23
2/9/09 -2/13/09

Cornell Backyard Bird Count: 2/13 - 2/16, 2009
Fun, Easy, & Free

Internet Public Library
Presidents of the United States

Presidential Timeline

President's Day at Apples 4 the Teacher

Week #24
2/23/09 -2/27/09

Teach-nology.com
TeAchnology.com offers teachers FREE access to thousands of teacher resources, lesson plans, and rubrics.

Read Across America
March 2, 2009.......... Dr. Seuss's 103rd Birthday!!

NEA Read Across America- Building a nation of Readers

Dr Seuss Goes to Heaven (Student book on line)

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

Week #25
3/2/09 -3/6/09

Teach-nology.com
TeAchnology.com offers teachers FREE access to thousands of teacher resources, lesson plans, and rubrics.
http://www.teach-nology.com/

Themes we use: cells, nutrition, volcanoes, space, oceans, human body, more

Retrevo: Matching people and electronics
Download site for electronics manuals, reviews, etc.

http://www.retrevo.com/

 

March is Women's History Month
Women in History: a Page of Links
•About the women's movement,
•Biographies of famous women

The Iditarod The great sled dog race

Daylight Saving Time!
We change to Daylight Saving Time next Sunday, 3/9

For more about Daylight Saving time: Information, Rationale, History, Anecdotes, etc.

Better site but blocked to students.... To use it, sign in as yourself

Week #26
3/9/09 -3/13/09

St.Patrick's Day

A Wee Bit of Fun

Black Dog's St. Patrick's Day

St. Patty's Pot O' Gold Game

St Patrick's Day at Billy Bear's

Happy St Patrick's Day from Arthur Elementary School, Arthur, Illinois

Week #27
3/16/09 -3/20/09

Lisa Hogan’s Web 2.0 Wiki
Twenty-first Century Learning
http://21st-century-learning.pbwiki.com/FrontPage

TAXES

Federal
Internal Revenue Service:
Information & Forms, etc (a very useful site)

State
Maine Revenue Services Homepage

FREE CREDIT REPORT
Under a new Federal law, you have the right to receive a free copy of your credit report once every 12 months from each of the three nationwide consumer reporting companies. To request your free annual report under that law, you must go to www.annualcreditreport.com.

 

Week #28
3/23/09 -3/26/09

Kidspiration:
Product Information, Examples, Curriculum Integration
Free 30 day Download (Mac or PC) (Try it at home.)

Extra Templates & Activities to download

Online Tutorials (How to create /modify customized activities, etc.)

Week #29
3/31/09 - 4/3/09

April is Poetry Month
BCS Poetry Page

Giggle Poetry

Poetry for Kids (Kenn Nesbitt’s Children’s Poetry Playground)

Education World’s April is Poetry Month

Scholastic’s National Poetry Month

KidzPage: Poetry & Verse for Children of All Ages

Maine Historical Society’s
Maine Memory Network
Maine’s Online Museum
The Maine Memory Network is a statewide digital museum that provides unprecedented access to over 12,000 historical items from over 180 museums, historical societies, libraries, and other organizations from every corner of Maine
Week #30
4/6/09 - 4/10/09

Google for Educators
Tools for the Classroom NEW: Google Sky!
Activities
Posters
Teacher Blog ‘Infinite Thinking Machine’

McAfee SiteAdvisor
Checks sites for problems

OnLine Practice Modules

 

Week #31
4/13/09 - 4/16/09


EARTH DAY - 4/19/09

Kids in Action: Earth Day

EarthDay.gov For Kids..great links: information, activities, games

PlanetPals: Earth Day

Week #32
4/27/09 - 5/1/09

 

Ticks, Ticks, Ticks!!

Mainely Ticks... Are you at Risk?

American Lyme Disease Foundation

The International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS)

Week #33
5/4/09 -5/8/09

Way Cool Vocabulary Games from Judy Moody!

FreeRice (Challenging Words)

Eight Letters in Search of a Word

Text Twist

Find BrainPOP movies that address

Maine Learning Results:

http://www.brainpop.com/support/standards_correlation.weml

or Go to BrainPOP and click on State Standards
(Under large Movie Box)

I did this at home without having to log in.

Choose state, grade and subject and you will get a list of movies and the standards they relate t

Week #34
5/11/09 -5/15/09

BookSwim.com
“BookSwim is the first online book rental library club lending you paperbacks and hardcovers netflix-style directly to your house without the need to purchase!” ($19.95/ year)

 

Kids Konnect.com A safe Internet gateway for kids created and maintained by educators
A truly amazing set of well organized links
Animals to Transportation and MANY topics in between!

 

Week #35
5/18/09 -5/22/09

IN HONOR OF MEMORIAL DAY:

The Story of Memorial Day

PBS.org History of Memorial Day

Memorial Day Online Activities

Memorial Day Home Page

Curtis Library Pejepscot Historical Society's
Joshua Chamberlain Area

Week #36
5/27/09 -5/29/09

Rebekah Raye
Learn more about the artist who created our animal wall sculptures and who visited BCS last May.

Kidspiration Activities & Tutorials
(We can download any of these and add them to our Kidspiration

Kidspiration - Activities

Kidspiration in the Classroom

TOGETHER : Kidspriation templates

Week #37
6/1/09 -6/5/09

Learn Bird Songs.com
Great site for learning a number of common bird songs
and information about the birds. (Unfortunately blocked to students at school, so you need to log in as an adult
or log in at home)

See also:
BCS Web Page / Grade 4 / Science Resources / Birds
for other sites about birds and birding

Vicki Blackwell’s Internet Guide for Educators
The purpose of this website is to provide a resource for the teachers of Tangipahoa Parish School System and teachers all around the world, as they continue to incorporate the use of technology into the curriculum.

"Blackwell's Best"

Week #38
6/8/09 -6/12/09

Picturing America

An Incredible Site!! Lots of ways to fit it into our curriculum!

 

TUXPAINT Free Download - Mac, or PC,

OnLine Practice Modules
Word, Excel, Explorer, Power Point, Kidspiration, DreamWeaver , more

Daily Dose of the Web
Question of the Day
"Daily Dose' By Subject Area
(Like Analogy of the Day, This day in History, etc.)
Quotation
Brain Teasers
Interesting Trivia

6/15/09 - 6/19/09

Discovery School’s PuzzleMaker

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for educators
a lot of great things here!!

Internet 4 Classrooms
OnLine Practice modules

Zimbra (e-mail)

Drupal (Web Page Creator)

Have A Great Summer!!