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I have owned a Kindle for a year and have been very frustrated that up until now Amazon has not let me borrow e-books from the public library on my Kindle. I looked enviously at those who had the Nook from Barnes and Noble and other e-readers that enable you to download library e-books. Plus, to make things even worse, my friends who have Kindles in England have been able to download e-books from

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 SUMMER READING AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY  Are you wondering what to do with your time this summer? Would you like to travel around the world? Do you like games and puzzles? Do you like hearing or reading a good story? You will find lots to do at your local public library where the theme of the summer reading program is One World, Many Stories. During the summer, public libraries will be offering

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Shelfari: Book reviews on your book blog <ul><li><a href="http://www.shelfari.com/books/3701949/Keeping-Score?widgetId=172549">Keeping Score</a> by Linda Sue Park</li><li><a href="http://www.shelfari.com/books/3578526/The-Name-of-this-Book-is-Secret?

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Here are some useful resources for students who are learning about daily life in Colonial America. Street Scene in Colonial Williamsburg. Photograph taken by Steve Canipe (Pics4Learning). Colonial Williamsburg This is a fun interactive Web site about daily life in Colonial America. There are fun interactive activities such as learning to write with a quill pen, growing a garden, and trying

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Photograph of the Parthenon taken by Amanda Holtschlag, from Pics4Learning I have created an Ancient Greece pathfinder on the school Google Library Site where you will find links to online encyclopedias, E books, and databases. You can also use the resources I gathered on this blog, including Web sites and books, in an earlier posting about Ancient Greece.Don't forget to explore Discovery

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 Hoi An Market in Vietnam. Photo taken by Terry Rosengart, from Pics4Learning This research project is one of my favorites because of the colorful dioramas that the first grade students make to present the information they have found about markets around the world. The students love this research project, too! You will find many resources about markets around the world in an earlier post on my

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During their library classes, the 2nd grade rewrote and illustrated their own version of The Gigantic Turnip by Aleksei Tolstoy and Niamh Sharkey.

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Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts has an amazing museum devoted to the 1960s and a department with programs and resources for schools and teachers. Resources include two traveling trunks filled with artifacts, information and documents about Personalities of the Sixties and Music Around the Globe. Personalities of the Sixties includes artifacts and

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The Web provides an exciting array of tools for developing students' language and literacy skills. Technology enables us to use multiple formats to engage students' interests and to customize their learning according to individual learning styles. Students live in a world where they encounter and interact with multiple "texts" at home, at school and in their communities. These "texts" include

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There are many different kinds of stories among the folklore of North America, For example, there are tall tales, Native American legends, trickster tales, and many stories from Canada, Mexico and other areas on this continent. Here are some links that take you to retellings of traditional stories from our area of the world. American Folklore from American Folklore.net Aaron Shepards' Folktales

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Integrating technology into students' learning is an integral component of our curriculum as it prepares children for the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. This article, "Why Integrate Technology into the Classroom?" from edutopia explains the reasons for this model of education. It's a good place to begin the discussion . . . Cyber Safety Under faculty supervision students at

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 The Crow and the Pitcher    This is an illustration from a book of Aesop's Fables illustrated by Milo Winter and published in 1919. Source: Annalee Blysse A fable tells a story but also contains a moral or "secret" message. This video tells the story of The Fox and the Cheese, a fable told by Aesop many centuries ago. What do you think is the message of the story? Here is a fable from

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 Ask yourself these questions about the person you have chosen to write about: Who? What? Where? How? and Why? 1. BOOKS Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini by Sid Fleischman. This is one of the biographies we have in our library.You'll find it at 92 HOU. There is a wonderful exhibit--Houdini: Art and Magic-- at the Jewish Museum in NYC now until March 27, 2011. In the exhibit there are

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Where will this QR code take you? To find out, do the following: 1. Download a QR reader onto your smartphone. Here are some sites: QuickMark (iPhone 3), QuickMark 4 ( iPhone 4),i-nigma 4 (iPhone 4), NeoReader (free) UpCode or BeeTagg (Blackberry). Your phone has a QR code reader (Android?) 2.Take a photo of this QR code with your smartphone. Where did this QR code take you? 3. You can access a

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It looks like a cappuccino bar with bar stools and tables, comfy seats, and a TV. Checkout the new teen room at Adriance Library in the city of Poughkeepsie for students in high school. The Teen Room has computers, books,  multimedia materials and, at scheduled times, gaming. It also hosts special events including cooking, SAT prep, and anything else in between. You can read Teen Room News on the

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This year everyone's reading the Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. It's not too late to join in the events and lectures that are being held in the Poughkeepsie area. The Big Read is a national initiative to encourage reading across all states and age groups. Each year, local communities choose books to share with accompanying events, lectures, videos and podcasts.

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I found this thought-provoking video on the topic of books and libraries on YouTube. It is a panel discussion from TV Ontario about the role libraries and teacher librarians play in students' learning and the changing library environment. The panel participants include two teacher librarians who also discuss the role of print materials in this new digital information environment. The discussion

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For those of you (like me) who love to read Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid series mark your calendars for November 9th when book #5, The Ugly Truth will be published. Our library has the first four books in the series: Diary of a Wimpy Kid; Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules; Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw; and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days. Jeff Kinney has also written Diary of a

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Howard Gardner's thoughts on what it means to be ethical in an age of new digital media.

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Reading lists from the public library American Library Association: Building a Home Library Four bibliographies for building a home library. Bank Street College of Education: Best Books for 2009-2010 Children's book committee recommendations for the best children's books organized by children's ages and topics of interest. Children's Literature Web Guide Links to many Internet resources

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 There will be many children's authors and illustrators in Hudson this Saturday, May 1 at the  Hudson Children's Book Festival.

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The Federal Trade Commission and other government agencies recently released a new booklet to help parents and teachers teach kids about Internet safety. Parents can download the booklet from the Onguard Online web site. In Net Cetera: Chatting With Kids About Being Online, OnGuard Online gives adults practical tips to help kids navigate the online world. Kids and parents have many ways of

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Biographies from Infoplease Fact Monster from the Family Education Network Historic Figures from the BBC Who's Who in Medieval History from About.com

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Here are some useful sources of information in our library about notable people who lived during the middle ages.We have many books about the middle ages and a few of them are listed below. We also have many online resources for your research. See below for access to the online resources. Above: An engraving of Marco Polo.  Below: An engraving of Eleanor of Aquitaine. You can illustrate your

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Our school library uses the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system to organize books. Books on the same subject are put together in different "neighborhoods" in the library. You can have fun learning about how DDC works by watching this interactive DDC tutorial.

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The 2010 Winter Olympic Games will take place from February 12-28 and will officially begin when the Olympic Cauldron is lit in Vancouver, Canada. The Vancouver Winter Olympics web site gives information and links about every aspect of this year's Games with schedules of events, listings of records and medals, photos, videos and profiles of athletes. There is also a lot of information about the

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Impact Your World from CNN WorldThe students at our school have already made an impact on the world by raising funds from a bake sale to help the people of Haiti. For more ideas about how to help, here is a useful web site from CNN that provides lists of reputable charities providing disaster relief. These resources include some of the highest-rated charities by CharityNavigator.org (an

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During the summer The New York Times ran the fourth of four articles in "The Future of Reading" series. The article features the strategies of a middle school English teacher in Georgia who allows her students to select their own reading material for reading workshop. This approach has resulted in an increase in the students' enthusiasm for reading and the development of literacy skills that

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For Mid-Hudson Library System libraries. http://midhudson.org/department/youth/bob/Main.htmContact your local public library for information about how to take part in this summer's Battle of the Books!2009 TitlesGregor the Overlander by Suzanne CollinsLast Shot: A Final Four Mystery by John FeinsteinThe Liberation of Gabriel King by K. L. GoingLondon Calling by Edward BloorMiracle’s Boys by

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I have posted two brochures with summer reading suggestions on the library page of our school website. There are two brochures: Prek-2 and Grades 3-6. Here are the links:Grades PreK-2http://www.poughkeepsieday.org/media/Service.aspx?req=getresource&id=18123Grades 3-6http://www.poughkeepsieday.org/media/Service.aspx?req=getresource&id=18124Public Library Summer ProgramDive right in to summer

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Note: Always cite your sources. See my list of helpful links on the "Citations" section opposite. Use the MLA format. This picture is from ClipArt ETC (Florida Center for Instructional Technology) where you will find free clip art for students and teachers. Online Resources Ask Sarah or go to the PDS library portal research page for our school's user name and password to gain access to these

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Thanks to a collaboration with the Frances Loehmann Art Center of Vassar College, the children of the lower school are discussing, creating and performing original works inspired by Joan Miro's painting "Birds, Personages and Blue Star" (1950). To learn more about Miro you can take a virtual tour through the Joan Miro Foundation in Barcelona, Spain to see many of Miro's paintings and to learn

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Online ResourcesNOTE: To access the following two online encyclopedias from home, click on the URLs below and enter our school's user name and password, which are available from Sarah in the library and are also listed on our school's library portal page.Encyclopedia Britannica OnlineThree searchable general encyclopedias at 3 levels: elementary, middle and high school. http://school.eb.com/

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The hot topic among librarians as well as educators everywhere is the notion of "21st Century Literacy" and defining the skills that students need to function, succeed and be creative in this new century. The curriculum at our school fully supports the expansion of this new definition of "literacy" and here are some useful links that describe this literacy in some depth.Standards for the 21st

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A new primary-source database, with on-site search, is now available for schools, libraries, educators and students. Its features include 15,000 images plus documents, narrations, video/audio clips and organized slide shows. Incorporated into the text are also secondary sources, such as links to Google Books.Group access to the site is free for all schools, libraries, educators and students.

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Thanks to a generous grant from our Parents' Association, the poet and photographer Charles R. Smith Jr. is coming to our school on April 7th to read and discuss his work with students in grades kindergarten through 8th grade. He will be making 3 separate presentations during the course of the day for different grade levels.Charles R. Smith Jr. incorporates musical rhythms in his poetry and

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The 1/2s have been learning about Market Street and now they are doing their very first research project: Markets Around the World. Here are some resources to help your children find the information they will need for their research. PRINT RESOURCES The library is a great resource for illustrated books about markets, books about individual countries, and encyclopedias. You can search online for

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Here are some resources to help you find information about contemporary life in different countries around the world. Use this guide to find information on the internet and in books available both in our school and in your local public library.PRINT RESOURCESA good starting point is the reference section where you can read illustrated articles about individual countries in general encyclopedias

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