January 2010 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the January 2010 issue of The Busy Educator's Newsletter edited by teacher, speaker and author Marjan Glavac.

• "BE AN INSPIRING TEACHER!"
• CALENDAR EVENTS
• GREAT TEACHER PROJECTS (TEACHERS GR. K-8)
• INSTANT WORD SEARCH (GR. 4-UNIVERSITY)
• GET SMARTER ABOUT MONEY(TEACHERS, GR. 8- UNIVERSITY)
• FREE PATENTS ONLINE (TEACHERS, GR. 7-UNIVERSITY)
• MS. STEEN'S TECHNOLOGY CLASS (GR. K-4)
• SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION
• BEADS BY U

Be An Inspiring Teacher

“Create Your Ideal Classroom, Motivate Your Students, And Maintain A Work Life Balance"

"In one word, this course was practical!" B. Carriere,
Grade 4/5 Teacher

A Wonderful Resource For Staff PD

Click Here To Discover More About How To Be An Inspiring Teacher

Calendar Events

New Year's Day January 1st
Epiphany January 6
Orthodox Christmas January 7
Orthodox New Year January 14

GREAT TEACHER PROJECTS (TEACHERS GR. K-8)

Laura Mayne, an elementary-school teacher for the past 27 years This book provides more than 75 tried-and-true, classroom-tested, teacher-approved projects designed for use in K-8 classes. Laura's publisher has allowed me to reprint a sample of her projects.  Laura's publisher has allowed me to reprint a sample of her projects. 

This month I've included a Winter Garden project suitable for grades K-6

Click Here For Gr. K-6 Winter Garden Project

INSTANT WORD SEARCH (GR. 4-UNIVERSITY)

Have you ever searched for a word but you only knew some of the letters? This instant word search allows you to search for a word with letters at the beginning, end or anywhere in the word. Great for looking up words for word games, crosswords, poetry.

Click Here For Instant Word Search

GET SMARTER ABOUT MONEY(TEACHERS, GR. 8- UNIVERSITY)

This site uses humorous videos, timely content and independent, unbiased views on the sometimes dry subject of financial literacy. In light of recent economic conditions, schools in Ontario Canada will be offering finance and investing to students in Grades 4 to 12. This is a website that provides useful tools to prepare students for their own money management and financial literacy.

Click Here For Get Smarter About Money

FREE PATENTS ONLINE (TEACHERS, GR. 7-UNIVERSITY)

The FreePatentsOnline search engine is an easy way to search patents. It allows for advanced search techniques such as word stemming, proximity searching, relevancy ranking and search term weighting. The site account features let you organize, annotate and share documents, and Alerts let you instantly be notified when new documents of interest are published.

A great resource for the budding inventors in your class.

Click Here For FreePatentsOnline

MS. STEEN'S TECHNOLOGY CLASS (GR. K-4)

Technology teacher Teresa Steen from Woodrow Wilson Elementary school in Kannapolis North Carolina has created an information and resource packed website that provides useful information for students, parents, and fellow teachers.

Click Here For Ms. Steen's Technology Class Website

Beads By U

You create your own style...now you can create jewelry to match it. And you don't need to spend hours practising - just watch the DVD and start creating! All of the designs featured in the Beads By U DVD are fun and easy to make. They're fast too - you'll finish a project within half an hour...perfect for when you want to wear it right away!

Click Here To Find Out More Beads By U

http://www.beadsbyu.com/

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