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For those who don't know, the DeForest Library subscribes to this service. It allows you to enter your library card number and download up to three free songs every week. I use it to add music to my atmosphere in the classroom.

Sadly, my Madison PL card doesn't work. :(

Keep yourself, and you students, current on any exciting events or contests going on at the public library, one of our community's most valuable resources.

Digital library - check out audio books to listen to on your ipod, electronic books for your electronic book reader.

BadgerLink is a project of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI), Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning. Its goal is to provide access to quality online information resources for Wisconsin residents in cooperation with the state's public, school, academic, and special libraries and Internet Service Providers. (http://www.badgerlink.net?)

This is a great website where you can download audiobooks to a computer. They then can be transferred to an MP3 player for listening. I have done this for sections of books that we have read in class. All you need is a public library card

How neat! I could use this in my class listening center. It'd be especially helpful for my struggling readers. Thanks for sharing!

A great resource similar to Amazon for reading book reviews and downloading the digital version of good books.

Freeplaymusic.com has a library of copyright-free music spanning all genres, available for download either on-line or through a portable hard-drive. Music is organized by style, feel, and volume and features many classical composers, indie artists, and various sound effects. If students are making a video for a project, they will definitely want to check out this site!

Hundreds of reproducible worksheets covering many different topics in the areas of math and language arts.

This is a great site to introduce to new teachers who have few resources for student practice pages. I've enjoyed using this site as I build my fourth-grade resource library.

Search for your next great read.

This website offers many manipulatives to help students understand, practice and review math concepts. I particularly like the fraction manipulatives. Some of my students have difficulty perceiving fractions and I believe this will be an excellent tool for exploration, practice and review.

The idea behind this website is very interesting to me, and after playing with it a bit, I did find some of the manipulatives useful. However, many of them I found to be quite cumbersome. I was really excicited about the base ten blocks manipulatives for helping my students add and subtract, and once I figured it out, it was great. However, I had to read the help directions to get to that point. If I was able to spend the time showing my students how to use these, I think it'd be a wonderful tool. However, I was hoping I'd be able to simply direct my students and their parents to this site so they could use it for help at home. I'm afraid that many of the parents would not take the time to read the help area to figure it out, and I know my students wouldn't (or wouldn't understand them if they did). So while I was initially impressed with the idea of this site, I might search for something a bit more user friendly.

A bountiful resource for reader's theatre scripts.

I actually did a presentation on reader's theatre when I was in college and this was one of the sites I used. It is wonderful and has a great library of scripts at many levels. Very useful to teachers looking for a creative way to revamp their reading curriculum.