December 2007 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the December 2007 issue of The Busy Educator's Newsletter edited by teacher, speaker and author Marjan Glavac.

• "HOW TO THRIVE AND SURVIVE IN YOUR CLASSROOM!"
• CALENDAR EVENTS
• SANTA'S SECRET VILLAGE (PRE-K TO GR. 3, PARENTS, TEACHERS)
• FREERICE (GR. 6-UNIVERSITY, PARENTS, TEACHERS)
• NATIONAL LIBRARY OF VIRTUAL MANIPULATIVES (PRE-K-12, TEACHERS)
• ECHALK OPTICAL ILLUSIONS (GR. 4-12)
• MOVIE IN THE MAKING (GR. 5-12,TEACHERS)
  
• THE BUSY EDUCATOR E-BOOKSTORE
• SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION

How to Thrive and Survive in Your Classroom

“Do You Want To Know How To Create
Your Ideal Classroom, Motivate Your Students, Maintain Their Attention And Keep Them On Task Without Screaming, Pleading Or Burning Yourself Out?”

Audio recordings available now

Click Here To Discover More About How To Thrive And Survive

CALENDAR EVENTS

Chanukah begins December 5
Winter Solstice December 22
Christmas December 25
Kwanza Begins December 26
Boxing Day (Canada, UK, Australia, NZ) December 26
New Year’s Eve December 31

SANTA'S SECRET VILLAGE (PRE-K TO GR. 3, PARENTS, TEACHERS)

Northpole.com is a 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.

Categories include Letters to Santa, Games, Birthday Cards from Santa, Narrated Storytelling, NORAD, What's Cookin'?,Santa's Good Deeds Calendar and much more.

Click Here Northpole.com

FREERICE (GR. 6-UNIVERSITY, PARENTS, TEACHERS)

FreeRice has two goals:

1. Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free.
2. Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.

This is made possible by the sponsors who advertise on this site.

Click Here For FreeRice

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF VIRTUAL MANIPULATIVES (PRE-K-12, TEACHERS)

Here's a link to a great math manipulatives website.
They have a list of resources for grades PRE-K-12 and it's all free.

The goal of the site is to engage students in the learning of Mathematics through the use of manipulatives, physical objects that help students visualize relationships and applications

Click Here For National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

ECHALK OPTICAL ILLUSIONS (GR. 4-12)

Try out this list of optical illusions. They are all designed to amuse, amaze and baffle you.

Click Here For eChalk Optical Illustions

MOVIE IN THE MAKING (GR. 5-12,TEACHERS)

Here's a project that was developed by staff at the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE),

In this project students will report on a book by describing how they would turn that book into a motion picture. After reading and studying the main components of their novel (character, plot, conflict, climax and denouement), students will use their imaginations to explain how they would cast and direct the movie versions. This project also provides enrichment activities where in the students will access archived materials such as the Academy Awards Data Base, movie posters, and movie reviews.

Click Here For Movie In The Making

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