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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!!