Throwback Thursday #6

Story time in the 1950s












Story time in the 1960s

A class visits the library- look how well-behaved all the students are!

Library Budget Results: What's Next?

A while back, I asked for some assistance with a brief survey on school library budgets. Now that I have the results, I passed them on to my principal with the hopes of receiving more money next year. (My budget was next to the lowest result of $0) It's a sad fact that the most important place in the school building has been hit with financial cuts across the country. As you can see from the chart below, the highest amount of $90,000.00 is so far above everyone else I am wondering if it is accurate. But, that said, my next step is to find more creative fund raising tactics which I will share in a future post. I welcome your comments below. (By the way, if yours is the $90,000 budget, we are all green with envy.)

March 17th is St Patrick's Day: 33 Cool Resources

RESOURCES
10 Things You Didn't Know About St. Patrick's Day- from TIME

A Brief History of St. Patrick's Day- slideshow from TIME

Facts, Pictures, Meanings and Videos- from History.com

Fun Facts for St. Patrick’s Day infographic

The Real Story of St. Patrick- from Education World

St. Patrick's Day Fast Facts: Beyond the Blarney- from National Geographic

St. Patrick's Day Clip Art

TeacherVision's Resources- includes articles, printables

The Three Leprechauns- animated story written by a ten year old boy named Billy

WatchKnow Videos- filter by age

ACTIVITIES / LESSON PLANS / PRINTABLES
A Day in the Life of a Leprechaun- from TeAchnology

Colleen and the Leprechaun- based on the book with that title

ESL St. Patrick's Day Lesson- from El Civics

ESL Vocabulary Quiz- fill in the blanks

Fun With the Leprechauns!- for first graders

Green Food Graph- from TeAchnology

PowerPoints for St. Patrick's Day

Shamrock Pattern- print and kids can cut it out and color it

Shamrock Spelling- grades K-2

St. Patrick's Day Crafts- nice listing of ideas

St. Patrick's Day Lessons and Irish Heritage Month Resources- art, language arts, math, science, social science and other areas for lessons

St. Patrick's Day Linky Party- many printables on this page

St. Patrick's Day Printable Fun

Talking Book About Ireland- created by a sixth grade class

Teacher Planet's Lesson Plans

GAMES / QUIZZES
Click and Drag Puzzles

Games and Activities- jokes, riddles, mazes, coloring book pages, matching games, much more

The Pot of Gold Game

St. Patrick's Day Hangman

St. Patrick's Day Matching Exercise

St. Patrick's Day Quiz

Throwback Thursday #5

 

Interested in Becoming a Google Educator? Here's How...

The schedule for the 2014 Google Teacher Academy has been posted HERE,  and if you are interested, Google suggests that you first become a Google Educator before applying. Courses are done on your own and exams for each cost are around $15.00 each. When you have passed the exams, you are then considered a Google Educator and will receive the Google Educator certificate.

Running Out of Pages: A Few Modifications

Since Blogger only gives 20 pages per blog, it is easy to fill up those pages. So....I have decided to move Free eBooks to the right side of the blog. It is right above Books for Reluctant Readers and What a Listing! Holidays From September to June. If you ever find any links that do not work, please email me at jgreller AT gmail DOT com.

FREE eBooks!!!

Barnes and Noble Free Nook Books- search 0.00 and get a listing of free eBooks

Bookyards- pdf files can be ported to your Kindle

Books Buddy- a Nook app to locate free books

Digital Library NJ- Kindle, Nook; library card needed

eBooks Habit- regular postings

eReaderPerks- Kindle, Kobo and Nook; also, the "latest device news, book/ereader reviews and author interviews."

Feedbooks- Kindle, Nook; public domain books

Fictionwise eBooks- Kindle, Nook

Goodkindles- up and coming authors offer short-time free downloads via Amazon

Google eBooks: Best of the Free- Kindle, Nook

Inkmesh- search engine for free eBooks, including Kindle and Nook

Internet Archive- Kindle, Nook

Kindle Store's Top 100 Free

Librophile- search by genre

ManyBooks-Kindle, Nook; 29,000 downloadable books

Memoware- Kindle and Nook

Mobipocket- Kindle

The Open Library- Kindle, Nook; one million titles

Penn State University's Electronic Classic Series Site- Kindle, Nook; pdf files

Pixel of Ink- free and bargain Kindle books

Project Gutenberg- Kindle, Nook; 33,000 downloadable books

Public Libraries- Kindle, Nook; check your state and local libraries (I have listed my state of NJ above)

World Public Library- "the world’s largest eBook provider"; mp3, pdf files; they have classic literature, graphic novels, audio books, children's literature and so much more"

***Here is a comparison chart of Kindle vs Nook.***