September 2004 Newsletter

Edited by teacher, speaker and author Marjan Glavac.

Father’s Day (Australia, New Zealand) September 5
Labour Day (Canada, USA) September 6
Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown September 15
Dia de la Indepedencia September 16
Autumnal Equinox September 22
Yom Kippur begins at sundown September 24

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My summer holiday has come to an end and I begin my 23rd year of teaching in a
grade 5 class on Tuesday.  I’ve been busy fine tuning some first day procedures
and routines as well as some units.

For those of you who start teaching on Tuesday, I’ve included another site to
motivate all of us, this time from a parent’s point of view.
 
Have a great 2004-2005 school year!

Marjan Glavac
editor, The Busy Educator’s Newsletter
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In This Issue:

* FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL (PARENTS AND TEACHERS)
* AOL@SCHOOL (GR. K-12)
* THE MATHWORK SITE (GR. 3-9)
* ART IS GROOVY AND FUN AT MACHESNEY ELEMENTARY (GR. 4-6)
* LEARNING VOCABULARY CAN BE FUN (ESL, GR. 1-9)
* DISABLED WORLD WEB SITE (ALL)
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FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL (PARENTS AND TEACHERS)
http://www.inspiringthots.net/movie/1st-sch.htm

Reminiscing on the first day of school. 
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AOL@SCHOOL (GR. K-12)
http://www.aolatschool.com/

AOL@School is a free website that has over 12,000 student resources, over 9,000
lesson plans and over 5,000 teacher resources. There are a series of six online
learning portals designed for grades K-2, 3-5, middle school, high school, teachers and administrators.Each resource is hand-picked, reviewed for quality educational content and indexed by education professionals. The entire site is made available for free and without any form of user registration whatsoever.
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THE MATHWORK SITE (GR. 3-9)
http://themathworksite.com/

This site allows teachers to generate math with worksheets answer keys. The
worksheets are formatted to fill the page with no extraneous fluff or advertising.
The font is large enough to match a child's handwriting. The worksheets have
sufficient white space for a child to work out the problems.

There are 23 categories of worksheets available for free, covering addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, mixed problems, fractions,  measurement, graphing, telling time and a one hundred chart.
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ART IS GROOVY AND FUN AT MACHESNEY ELEMENTARY (GR. 4-6)
http://lv.harlem122.org/lt/mach/hp.nsf/previewHomePages/sschumacher

Fellow teacher and Busy Educator newsletter subscriber Susan Schumacher is an Art Instructor at Machesney Elementary School, Harlem Consolidated School
District 122 in Machesney Park, Illinois, USA. 

Students in grades four through six attend art class once a week at Machesney.
A comprehensive, or "discipline-based", program is offered that provides
instruction in art production, art history, art criticism, and art aesthetics. Check
out the “groovy and fun art” the students are doing at Machesney.
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LEARNING VOCABULARY CAN BE FUN (ESL, GR. 1-9)
http://www.vocabulary.co.il

There are four educational games on this site designed to teach English to
English as a second language students. The Word Search Game has over 140
subjects to choose from, the Hangman game has a database with over 5,800
words, the Match Game has 3 levels of play and 7 card sets to choose from and
The Vocabulary Quiz expanding database is filled with questions.
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DISABLED WORLD WEB SITE (ALL)
http://www.disabled-world.com

The Disabled World web site, based in Montreal Canada, was launched in
May 2004 to provide a much needed international online community for people
with disabilities. Disabled-World.Com is an interactive website with subject
areas covering up to date news and comprehensive research on everything from
helpful tips to disabled sports articles. These features plus the ability for users to
post their own articles directly to the site make Disabled World an exciting
online community.
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Mr. Marjan Glavac author “The Busy Educator's Guide To The World
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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