e-news 01.14.02

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Monday, January 14, 2002

Celebrations

Diane Wiles, Principal of Harrison, and some of her students were pictured on the FCPS.net Home Page last week. I’m not sure how often they change those photographs, so the Harrison crew may still be pictured there!

The electronic Jeopardy game, made on PowerPoint, is a terrific resource to review in any subject area. At Lansdowne, Maguerite Waddell used the game to review Kentucky History. Students in Sharyl Yingling’s gifted program at Rosa Parks are making a Jeopardy game to be used for test review in Bill Gatliff’s social studies classes.

STLP students at Yates and Lansdowne have just started making school announcements. Annette Moore and Boyd Huffman work with students at Lansdowne. They make a weekly video that includes announcements and feature articles. Beth Drake guides STLP members as they make comprehensive daily announcements in PowerPoint, which are shown on the school television channel. Following a daily patriotic song, Yates pledge, and menu, in depth school information plays all day on a looped PowerPoint. Many classrooms leave televisions on all day to see the school announcements and information.

STLP students at Harrison and Yates will have articles in the up coming edition of the FCPS electronic magazine, TIPS. At that point, students from each of my four schools will have had an article by a student in TIPS! Considering that there have only been five issues of TIPS, we’re doing well to already have four student authors. A very special thanks to Annette Moore, Karen Schneider, Diane Graham, Wendy Dick, and Beth Drake who worked with our young authors!

Web Sites of the Week:

We have a lot of holidays and celebrations on the horizon. As such, I am including a wide variety of websites for all these occasions. Please let me know if you find these helpful, and if there are specific areas for which you would like websites.

Dr. Martin Luther King

ABC OF CIVIL RIGHTS

http://www.holidays.net/mlk/

ENCARTA

http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?z=1&pg=2&ti=761557424

HOLIDAYS:

http://www.holidays.net/mlk/

Kid friendly with links to other MKL sites.

KING CENTER, ATLANTA

http://www.thekingcenter.com/

Very comprehensive. Includes audio tapes of King’s speeches.

LIFE MAGAZINE TRIBUTE TO MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

http://www.lifemag.com/Life/mlk/mlk.html

Wonderful photographs.

MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1465/mlk.html

Kid friendly! Includes lesson plans and other information.

TEACHERVISION BY THE LEARNING NETWORK:

http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-6643.html

This site has just about anything a teacher could want for a cross curriculum lesson. Includes many free printable pages, lesson plans in most every subject area, and lots of ideas. NOTE: Books and on-line quizzes are also available for purchase.

Presidents’ Day

BEN’S GUIDE TO THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES:

http://bensguide.gpo.gov/3-5/government/national/president.html

Ben’s Guide is a favorite site of elementary teachers and students. Good basic information.

CYBERGRANDMA’S PRESIDENTS’ DAY

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/2328/presday.htm

Information on each individual president. Brief biographic sketches.

INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY

http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/

Biographical sketches of each President.

PRESIDENTS DAY

http://www.patriotism.org/presidents_day/

Site by the Miami-Dade Public Schools. Includes lesson plans and great links.

PRESIDENTS’ DAY ACTIVITIES FROM PICADOME ELEMENTARY

http://www.picadome.fcps.net/lab/currl/presidents/default.htm

Melissa Moore treats us again with wonderful sites for another holiday!

PRESIDENTS’ DAY LINKS

http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/socialstd/Presday.html

Montgomery County Schools links to educational sites.

TEACHERVISION BY THE LEARNING NETWORK:

http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-6658.html

Lessons and activities from across the curriculum. Some books and on-line quizzes are available for purchase.

WHITE HOUSE: PRESIDENTS’ HALL

http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/

Paintings and biographies of each President.

100^th Day of School

A-Z 100^TH DAY OF SCHOOL

http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/themes/100days.shtml

Printables, worksheets, lesson plans, and links from A to Z Teacher Stuff. Lots of sample classroom activities.

CELEBRATING THE 100^TH

http://www.minnetonka.k12.mn.us/science/lessonsk1/hundred.html

Activities from Minnetonka Public Schools in Minnesota and is sponsored by the Science Center

FIRST 100 DAYS OF SCHOOL

http://www.kings.k12.ca.us/neutra/97_98yr/100days.html

Celebrated by an elementary school in NAS Lemoore of California.

100 DAY OF SCHOOL CELEBRATION

http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/100th/

Ideas from the author of the 100^th Day of School, Joan Holub.

100 Days of School Ideas

http://shade.grove.iup.edu/~njyost/KHI/Days.html

100 Day songs, poems, snacks, activities and books to read.

100 DAYS PROJECT:

http://lee.boston.k12.ma.us/gr/apod.asp

The Joseph Lee School of Boston outlines their 100 Days celebration, offering several suggestions that you might try out with your own students. Scroll down for their listings.

Olympics

I’ve been getting lots of requests for more sites on the Olympics:

BRAIN POP OLYMPICS:

http://www.brainpop.com/specials/olympics/

The very first winter Olympics were held in 1924, when the International Olympic committee conferred the title upon a winter sports festival in Chamonix. Here is an on-line movie on the history of the Olympics, especially suitable for younger grades. After viewing the movie, let your

students complete the interactive Olympic quiz--give both options time to download.

OLYMPICS RESOURCES:

http://www.boardman.k12.oh.us/bdms/golubic/olympicideas.htm

Nancy Golubic’s First Grade

Market Street School, Boardman, Ohio

http://www.boardman.k12.oh.us/bdms/golubic/olympics1.htm

*Try Nancy's Olympic resources (1st URL above) for several suggestions and activities to follow the 2002 Olympic Games--both online and publications listings included.

WINTER OLYMPIC ACTIVITIES:

http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/olympics/activities.htm

Wordsearches, puzzles, fill-in-the-blanks, quizzes, and lots more... print some out for your students while you are covering the Winter Olympics.

OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALS:

http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/goldmedal.html

Students can craft their own gold medals (or silver or bronze) for your own Olympic events. Try using gold paint instead of spray paint in the classroom; you might also consider incorporating a lesson on paper (and tree resources, recycling) by making your own paper and papier mache for the project. If not planning an Olympics Day or event at your school, then have student teams choose a country, chart their progress

with bulletin board graphs (decorate the top of your bulletin board with the Olympic rings), and award the medals to the student team/countries accordingly as the Olympic games unfold.

A MEASURE OF GREATNESS:

http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/00-2/lp2148.shtml

Early elementary students can practice measurement skills with these "soft" Olympic activities for the classroom. Let third grade students create conversion charts for metric versus standard measurements.

THE OLYMPIC GAMES:

http://library.thinkquest.org/27528/main.htm

Third grade students can use this site from Thinkquest to explore memorable Olympic events, people, and the history of the games. Let your students work in teams to each take one category from the listings here to create a multimedia presentation for the class--try using Kid Pix (available at: http://www.learningcompanyschool.com )

THE OLYMPICS AND WORLD CELEBRATIONS:

http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/TLresources/longterm/LessonPlans/Byrnes/olympics.html

Find a fairly comprehensive unit here on the Olympics for elementary classes. Topics include training and nutrition, events, economic benefits, and history. Working with a teammate, students will research one specific related topic to present to their class, and create a timeline

and a statement of intent.

TEACHERVISON BY LEARNING NETWORK:

http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-6651.html

Lots of cross curricular lesson plans and activities. Most items are free, but also offers books and on-line quizzes at a small cost.

UTAH -- FACTS AND PRINTABLES:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/utah/

Learn the state symbols for Utah, and then print out a map to color. Also print copies of the quizzes available here, on both Utah's map, and a reading comprehension quiz on Utah's state flag.

Schedule:

Monday, January 14 Float: Central Office and Lansdowne