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A blogspot for students, parents and early childhood educators. It offers links to websites along with ideas for activities for kindergarten.

RSS Feed - A Kindergarten Blog. On this blog some new content that I found was this voice recorder that you can use to put stories or other things on blogs or internet, It is called Vocaroo. She used it as a story of a leprechaun coming into the classroom. I thought this was cute!

Gifted ed is not a well-funded program in our district, so I found this for tips and insight...both educationally and as a referral source for parents/parenting.

This would be a fun program to use for projects.

A site with 293 mini-stories in Spanish  with a message. Great for reading in class or as homework

"Snopes offers clickable links to the most common or most recent legends and a search engine for the rest. This site is fun to visit even if youve never been fooled by an e-mail scam -- and are sure you never will be. It can also be the start of a great Web literacy lesson for your students!"

Students will: 1. learn what probability is, 2. learn different ways to express probability numerically: as a ratio, a decimal, and a percentage, and 3. learn how to solve problems based on probability. The class will need the following: 1. Begin the lesson by asking students to define probability (the likelihood or chance that a given event will occur).

Oh another good way to start a class...start with a quote....talk about it.....journal/blog about it!

180 quotes of the day

Sheep and wolves is a fun and easy game for elementary physical education. Very limited amount of equipment is needed and it keeps students moving! Sheep & wolves can be played inside or outside.

Article to create a successful open house. In my school parent invovlement is a target area as a part of school improvement - so this was good for me and to share with staff to increase parent involvement

A very good resource for recommending books to students and finding a book for your own units and lessons.  WONDERFUL!

Teaching Gems is a searchable database of over 1000 of the most engaging, interactive animations, tutorials, learning games, virtual labs and demonstrations freely accessible on the Internet in a wide range of academic subjects.

One of my FAVs for a tech resource from Maryland. This Wiki is a place for MHMS teachers to share information & professional development products that will help the day-to-day life for the teachers in our middle school and other teacher librarians. There's no need to join this wiki if you want to link to it or snag some pages with linkbacks & attribution - we're all Creative Commons Share Alike!

Article suggests a possible way for new genes to show in a population

This is an article describing how to raise student interest in reading for fun or leisure.

Despite schools focus on reading, many students still are not reading independently or for pleasure. A program developed by a college professor stresses hooking students on reading by introducing them to challenging subject matter that interests them. Included: A description of a comprehensive reading program.

Visual Arts Social Studies- Students engage in a mock trial to decide if a work of prospective public art is "art" and accepted for a city park. -Stephanie Jones

TOEFL Network Provides a free set of TOEFL iBT practice test online. We will help you get high scores in the test by providing you with a multitude of practice tests Online.

"Webster's defines kaffeeklatsch as "an informal gathering to drink coffee and chat." I feel it is a perfect analogy for a blog! (And you are welcome even if you don't drink coffee!) I will be posting thoughts, discoveries, and ideas here as I discover them, primarily on educational technology topics, and I invite you to do the same! "

Short reviews of new technologies!

This a blog by Kathy Schrock.  It has some great insight on the education world today.

A quality TOEFL Reading Practice comes with great reviews, which you should never dismiss. In the end, you want a quality material that is reliable for your TOEFL online preparation process.

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