November 2003 Newsletter

Edited by teacher, speaker and author Marjan Glavac.

All Saints’ Day – Toussaint – Allerheiligen November 1
Veteran’s Day (U.S.) November 11
Remembrance Day (Canada) November 11
Eid-ul-Fitri November 26
Thanksgiving Day (U.S.) November 27

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Lesson plan ideas with a holiday theme at Santa’s Secret Village
http://www.northpole.com/ben.html

Northpole.com is a commercially banner-free, year-round site geared to Pre-K
to 3rd Grade students. This site provides a wealth of useful, creative ideas and
activities to enhance lesson plans for teaching counting, numbers, and letters.
With stories to read and color, flash cards, mazes, math riddles, puzzles, and
an online coloring book, kids learn while having fun. Teachers, use this site to
teach computer skills, reading (narrated stories), writing (letters to Santa), and
even print customized diplomas/awards to recognize performance. Don’t miss
the new Tell Time and Count Money teaching games. This award winning
site is a real gift to teachers. http://www.northpole.com/ben.html
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In This Issue:

* E-BOOK REVIEWS
* NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE EDLINKS (PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS)
* THE ART WINDOW (GR. 4-12)
* FLORIDA ONLINE READING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (PRE-K-12)
* SUPER SCIENCE FAIR PROJECTS (K-12)
* HONG KONG FLORA AND VEGETATION (ALL)
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E-BOOK REVIEWS

The Ultimate Check Writing System

by Dianne Dillabough, B.A., B.PE., B.Ed., M.Ed.
http://hop.clickbank.net/?busyeducat/tchrebks

The eBook, "The Ultimate Check Writing System," is aimed at parents and teachers. It gives step-by-step instructions for teaching children (or adults) how to write checks and how to keep accurate records of their savings and expenditures.  It gives  the students an opportunity to put their learning about place value into a real-life situation.  They will quickly see how important it is to understand how to read and write large numbers as they write out checks for purchases. They will see how critical it is that they know how to add and subtract accurately as they learn to balance their check books. The eBook includes practical exercises that take the students through a three-month period of tracking their spending and savings, and it comes complete with the necessary blank forms and answer sheets.  A great eBook to start children on the road to financial success! 
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Street Smarts for Job Seekers

by Jemimah St. Hilaire
Reviewed by Thomas Meldrum, B.A. 
http://hop.clickbank.net/?busyeducat/tchrebks

I found the eBook by Jemimah St. Hilaire entitled, "Street Smarts for Job Seekers"
to be extremely insightful. It outlined areas that I had been doing in my job search,
but often wondered if I was "wasting to much time" finding out what I wanted to do
and not enough time "out looking" for a job. This eBook provides you clear steps to follow through the entire process-from start to finish. Use the principles found in this eBook and you will definitely find a job that satisfies you.  I recommend it to anyone seeking to find work, or for anyone wishing to make a career change.
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NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE EDLINKS (PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS)
http://www.necedlinks.org

EdLinks is a resource for pre-service teachers and other educators. It includes
annotated links to educational web sites containing lesson plans, curriculum
resource materials, teaching tools, assessment strategies, publications, publishers and vendors of educational materials, as well as state and national standards and frameworks. The site is easy to navigate and the many curriculum links offered have been reviewed to support standards. There are many gems.
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THE ART WINDOW (GR. 4-12)
http://www.mmwindowtoart.com/

The Art Window presents  Fine Art concepts with student work  as teaching
displays.  These exemplify a stated  art curriculum offering sample links as topic
examples. A separate directory offers explorations in Art Fundamentals, Drawing,
Graphic, Painting, 3D, Mixed Media and Word art.  It is intended for teachers,
students, and all who many never had opportunities to enjoy the "doing" of art. 
Pages explore basics in art experiences  and techniques at various levels of
competence with light, friendly content. It is an open invitation to succeed.
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FLORIDA ONLINE READING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (PRE-K-12)
http://www.itrc.ucf.edu/forpd/about/

Florida Online Reading Professional Development (FOR-PD) program
is a program that works with school districts and universities to train teacher's to
be effective reading instructors. It takes into consideration the busy schedules of
educators, and provides them with flexible but meaningful opportunities to grow
professionally, improve the quality of instruction provided to their students, while
earning inservice points and / or college credits.
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SUPER SCIENCE FAIR PROJECTS (K-12)
http://www.super-science-fair-projects.com/

Science fair projects, topics, experiments and ideas. Step-by-step, how-to-do
science fair projects: how to choose project, 6-steps of the Scientific Method,
how to write a project report and abstract, how to make a display board, how to
give a presentation, what to do at the science fair, teachers and parents resource
pages.
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HONG KONG FLORA AND VEGETATION
http://www.hkflora.com
 
An education site on the flora and vegetation of Hong Kong, with lots of photos
and concise information on the plants there, to enable teachers and students to
learn to identify, know, appreciate and love plants in Hong Kong.  It also serves
as a tool for visitors taking ecotours in Hong Kong.
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Pre-K, K, ESE, and Reading Specialists
http://www.1second.com/edu_easy.html

Do some of your students have troubles learning their ABCs?
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on Amazon.com. "obvious LETTERS" is popular because - it works!
Get a lesson-plan cost-free for visiting http://www.1second.com/edu_easy.html
Special US K-12 purchase orders possible, see hedgehog w/ flag at the site.

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Wide Web” Completely Revised and Updated 2ND Edition (Foreword by
Dr. Harry Wong) LONDON, Ontario Canada ISBN 0-9683310-1-7 200 pages
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