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Warren Township School District. First Chapter Fridays Are a Fun Way to Introduce Students to New Authors. Have you heard about First Chapter Fridays yet?

First Chapter Fridays Are a Fun Way to Introduce Students to New Authors

They’re taking over the (bookish) world! First Chapter Friday is a fun, super-simple way to bring modern voices into your English curriculum each and every week and encourage your students in their independent reading. Plus, they work easily whether you’re remote or in person. Book Creator. Banned Books - Google Slides. 21st Century Librarian. Lots of NEW Additions To Shannon's Choice Board Gallery For All To Use. A Collection by Destiny of Virtual Field Trips For Anywhere Learning! Library. — Refe & Susan Tuma. Wheel of Fortune: Back to School Edition. T-Rex School Rampage. Explore.org's LiveCams, Lessons and Resources Will Take Your Students To Animals Around The World. Our kids love animals and there is nothing better than being able to see how animals behave, live, act, eat and interact with others.

explore.org's LiveCams, Lessons and Resources Will Take Your Students To Animals Around The World

The website explore.org can bring these amazing animal experiences to all of us, at school and at home through animal livecams from around the world. As shared on the explore.org site, explore.org is a multimedia organization that documents leaders around the world who have devoted their lives to extraordinary causes. Both education and inspirational, explore.org creates a portal into the soul of humanity by championing the selfless act of others. explore.org's growing library consist of more than 250 original films and 30,000 photographs from around the world. @GiftedTawk. Two Valentine's Day BreakoutEDU's For All Students Added To Our February Choice Boards.

I have an exciting addition to the February Choice Boards to share with you.

Two Valentine's Day BreakoutEDU's For All Students Added To Our February Choice Boards

My friends at BreakoutEDU, shared two games that I added under the Technology Fun column. 45 Virtual Field Trips (15 New Ones) On The "Let's Take A Trip Around The World Buncee Choice Board"! It's Time For Our March Choice Board, Friends! March is right around the corner, friends.

It's Time For Our March Choice Board, Friends!

I have put together Our March Choice Boards to share with all of you. March has a few special celebrations and events. I shared those in the March Choice Board too. Learn and Celebrate Black History at WCMS. 3rd-5th Balloons Over Broadway. @thefirstgradecreative. Building beautiful book bentos. My friend Jennifer LaGarde (@jenniferlagarde) recently introduced me, and our Young Adults Reading and Literacy students at Rutgers, to the idea of Book Bentos.

Building beautiful book bentos

Highly visual, creative and interactive the book bento strategy invites book lovers to create, hyperlink and share book titles in an artfully arranged interactive collage. I asked Jennifer to fill me in on the history of this book sharing strategy. She shared that the idea is inspired by Japanese bento boxes. While they feature books rather than food, like the original and delicious artful arrangements, these interactive squares also emphasize symmetry and beauty. Book Creator. Zelda recipe appears in serious novel by serious author after rushed Google search. If you were writing a book and needed to find out how red clothes dye is traditionally made, you’d probably start with a simple Google search.

Zelda recipe appears in serious novel by serious author after rushed Google search

At least, that’s what John Boyne, the author behind The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas says he “must have” done when it emerged that several fantasy ingredients from The Legend of Zelda have appeared in his most recent book, A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom. The problem, as journalist Dana Schwartz notes, is that rather than listing a real-world recipe, the current top search result for “ingredients red dye clothes” links to a guide from Polygon on how to dye clothes in the video game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. April - School Library Month Virtual Activities. FOLKLORE LESSON. Dewey lesson #2. Teach me how to Dewey!

Teaching Young Students How to Use Multiple Sources. Digital Escape Room. Gregory Goyle: A resident of Slytherin House and friend of Draco Malfoy.

Digital Escape Room

Never turns down food. Enjoys playing the role of beater in Quidditch and picking on those who don't match his idea of what a wizard should be. He does whatever Draco Malfoy tells him to do no matter the cost or what it is. He's never seen without food, Draco, and is a follower of Voldemort who will do what he can to protect the future he wants. Draco Malfoy: Slytherin House bad boy. Ron Weasley: Carefree friend of Harry Potter. Hermione Granger: Resident know-it-all of Hogwarts. Harry Potter: Known as "The Boy Who Lived". ReadAnyBook.com - online reading for free.

Book Sets & STEAM Kits - Three Rivers Library System. Escape from Wonderland Digital Escape Room. Dog Man Digital Escape Room. Is Now Free to All « The LibraryThing Blog. Starting today, LibraryThing is free to all!

Is Now Free to All « The LibraryThing Blog

We’re dropping all membership fees and limits. Since opening in 2005, LibraryThing has charged a fee to catalog more than 200 books—$10 per year, or $25 for a lifetime. We felt it was important to have customers, not an “audience” we sell to advertisers. So we focused on attracting customers who paid us by choice—and kept us alive. Meanwhile, we created a series of products for public and academic libraries.