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5th Grade WTR
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- Summary and information about this book
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- A site all about the book with background information
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- Great background information on the characters in the book. This site ties together fiction with non-fiction information.
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- Questions and story lines from this book
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- These sites are about the book "The Tale of Despereaux" by Kate DiCamillo. Includes biographies on the author, book summaries, discussion questions, suggested activities, and a webquest. There are links to eThemes Resources on Fairy Tales, Recommended Reading for Elementary Students, "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine, Cinderella Stories, and "Because of Winn-Dixie" by Kate DiCamillo.
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- Information, activities and much more about this book.
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- In the book The Mysterious Benedict Society, the four main characters find
themselves attending a very special boarding school, The Learning Institute
of the Very Enlightened. The acronym for this school is L.I.V.E. An acronym
is a word formed from the first letters of other words, often used to name
products or organizations.
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- Literature Circle Guide to Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
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- This site gives information by chapter as well as fun activities to complete at the end of chapters.
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- This site deals a lot with the vocabulary found in this book.
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- The author's website with insight to the book
Accelerated Reader
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- To find the test level or if a book is available in AR you may check the store. If you wish to purchase a test for our school please send the test information from this site to Mrs. Leaf
Book Fair
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- Events happening during our Fall 2009 Book Fair
Colonial Sites
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- Much information about the founding of the 13 colonies and the many events and activities about each of the 13 colonies.
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- 35 of the best sites out there on Colonial America. In addition to primary sources, there are also teacher pages, lesson ideas and how-to craft pages all designed to help make learning come alive in your classroom.
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- In this Virtual Field Trip, you will be visiting sites in three of the original colonies: Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Each of these colonies has its own culture because each was settled for different reasons, by different groups of settlers, and had different resources available to it. Pay close attention to the clues about what life was like in each colony because after each colony, you will be asked to complete a trip souvenir. At the end of this field trip, you will create a final souvenir PowerPoint slide show comparing life in the colonies.
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- Have you ever wondered what life was like 375 years ago in America? What did the men, women, and children first see and experience when they landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620? These brave people left their homes in England to escape religious persecution by immigrating to America!
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- Activities and information about colonial times.
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- This page contains several links to Colonial America and are VERY helpful with information and research.
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- Original Colonies. This page presents an overview of the 13 original American Colonies. Please note that you can click on the colony titles and be taken to in depth information on that colony.
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- Test what you know about the colonists and figure out about the lives and members of this colonial family.
Event Links
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- This site is another of Mrs. Leaf's sites. It contains details of different events being or have been hosted by Lakeland Hills Library. There will be a plethora of ideas here for learning fun.
Eye Links
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- This is a pdf from the site about eyes for students.
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- Your eyes are at work from the moment you wake up to the moment you close them to go to sleep. They take in tons of information about the world around you — shapes, colors, movements, and more. Then they send the information to your brain for processing so the brain knows what's going on outside of your body.
First Grade
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- Use this guide to stimulate group discussions with attention focused on themes, symbols, recurrent motifs, great group discussion questions, and a biography on Frances Hodgson Burnett.
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- The Secret Garden
A Literature Mini Unit
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a timeless classic. Here are some unit activities to go along with this wonderful book.
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- This site is wonderful with student activities for keeping track of the book and the movie. It is for fifth grade but can be easily adapted.
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- The Secret Garden is about a garden that has been locked up for ten years and is discovered by a young girl named Mary Lennox. Mary has come from India, orphaned, spoiled, sickly and determined that she will not like living with her uncle, Mr. Craven. When Mary discovered the garden she began caring for it with the aid of her new friend Dicken. The garden and Mary experience a great transformation.
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- It’s a dirty job but someone has to do it - S.K.Worm, the official annelid, or worm, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service answers students' questions about soil. Even their teachers can’t wiggle their way out of this one! Slither your way through these soiled questions.
Global Reading
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- List of books and rules for the King County Library Global Reading 2008-09
Library Help
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- This is the link where you can reserve books, research books, make booklists, find more links and much more.
Other Libraries
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- What will the weather be like a few months from now? The almanac gives that information as well as lots of maps and gardening ideas
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- King County Library
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- The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections.
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Search Engines
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- Ask is a unique service where you enter a question, and Ask tries to point you to the right web page that provides an answer. At Ask For Kids, answers have been vetted for appropriateness. Also, if Ask cannot answer a question, it pulls results from various search engines in its metacrawler mode. At Ask For Kids, no site that is on the CyberPatrol block list is supposed to be listed.
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- A safe search engine for children.
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- Reference provider Information Please produces this site which provides facts and information oriented around the needs of children.
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- From the U.S. Federal Citizen Information Center, this directory provides links to government-related kids' sites along with some of the best kids' sites from other organizations, grouped by subject.
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- Backed by librarians, KidsClick lists about 5,000 web sites in various categories.
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- This website will search through magazines and current events and materials for factual and safe information.
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- This is a site to create vocabulary activities for different learning concepts.
Second Grade
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- Activities for teachers on how to implement the story for historical fiction. This site is for 6th graders so it will need to be adapted.
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- Compares the book with the video with activities and information
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- These activities are designed for intermediate students but are applicable to second graders.
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- This website has an outline of information from each chapter of the book. Vocabulary definitions and worksheets are also included.
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- Book, teacher and student info and leads for the story: "Prince and the Pauper" by Mark Twain
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Third Grade
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- This site gives chapters of the book with information for students and teachers.
Each part will include suggested vocabulary, comprehension questions, activities, and miscellaneous useful link
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- A good comparison contrast of the book and movie is found at the bottom of this synopsis of the movie.
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- These websites are about the book "Misty of Chincoteague" and author Marguerite Henry. There is also information about Chincoteague wild ponies. One website has an audio excerpt from the book.
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- About the horse, the location and the author
Worm Information
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- This website goes along with the children's book Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin
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- This site gives great information about worms. There are many experiments, facts, stories, writing, art and jokes for students.
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- There are 4,400 species of worms - 2,700 different kinds of earthworms to be exact. It's hard to image something more interesting than watching an earthworm give birth or seeing his five hearts beat. So check this out!
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