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Volume 11, Issue 22
June 3, 2009

Flag Day
Flag Day, June 14, is a day to honor and learn about the "Stars and Stripes." The American flag has a colorful history and interesting evolution. Education World brings you crafts, games, music, and more to help your students enjoy this star-spangled day.

End-of-Year Projects #2
A dozen ideas to keep students learning.

Father's Day
Dads are special! Join Education World as we celebrate the important role that fathers play in children's lives. Included: Gift ideas, books, songs, and inspiring activities to help students recognize their dads.

End-of-Year Reviews
Spice up reviews, ensure retention.

More Review Ideas
Reviewing for those inevitable end-of-unit tests doesn't have to be tedious for you and boring for your students. Liven up your review lessons -- or reinforce previously taught skills --with one of these five games that students will love and learn from.

Ten More Classroom Games
Looking for ways to "work" some fun into the final days?

Lesson Plan of the Day
Click the link above to see dozens of recent Lesson Plans of the Day, including the five lessons below that were posted last week.
Flag Mural - School visitors will love it! (Grades K-12)
ZIP Code Math - Add/subtract to solve math word problems. (3-12)
Passport to Stories - Read tales from each continent. (K-12)
My Computer - Draw what its insides might look like. (3-12)
"Bursting" Stereotypes - Balloons and citizenship go together. (3-12)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/dailylp.shtml

Best Books for Teaching About... Each week, Education World presents our Editors' Choices for the best books for teaching about popular classroom themes. Check out our choices and add your own recommendations to the Readers' Voices section of this week's themed booklists: Best Books for Teaching About...Flag Day Best Books for Teaching About...Father's Day

Friday Fun
Use our Math BINGO cards to reinforce math skills across the grades.

Learning Game of the Week
Match words with their definitions in "I Am..." game.

Vicki Cobb's Show-Biz Science
Use the sun to launch a hot-air balloon made from a garbage bag.

Tech Lesson of the Week
Students select poems, create PowerPoint presentations to enhance the poems, and display the presentations as they read their poems aloud.

Rhyme Time: Poems for Early Childhood
This week, early childhood editor Sue LaBella presents...
Fun at the Farm
Early Childhood Teaching Themes
Jump Into June (Fitness)
This month, get -- and keep -- kids moving.
Flag Day
Activities for celebrating the Stars and Stripes.
Celebrate Friendship
Make a friendship fruit salad and more.

Reader's Theater
The Other Cinderella Story
Cinderella's stepmother and stepsisters reveal shocking "truths" about the would-be queen.

From the Reading Machine
Hedgie's Alphabet
Students match words with the illustrations of Jan Brett in this simple alphabet game. (K-2)

Writing Lessons
The ABC Project
Older students create ABC books for younger students. (Grades 3-12)
Aesop's Fables
Use Aesop's fables as a backdrop for citizenship, letter-writing lessons.
(Grades 3-8)

Writing Bugs
If I Were the Teacher
If I were the teacher I would...
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/writing_bug/writingbug005.shtml
I Wish I Had a Million
I wish I had a million... (What?)

From the Math Corner
Go Figure
Count the Monkeys
In this "vanishing" puzzle, students look for an elusive monkey.

Wendy Petti's "Math Cats Math Chat"
Growing a Summer Math Garden
Will the long summer yield a "math drought," an occasional "math drizzle," or a flourishing "garden" of math skills for your students? Discover activities to help their summer math gardens grow.

The Math Machine
Jumping Math Cats
A fun Web site for teaching problem solving. (Grades 4-12)

Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks Math Games With Joanne and Jane
This week: "A-Ten-Tion" teaches place value.

Math Mnemonics
Factoring Binomials

Bulletin Boards That Teach
Check out our archive of 30 bulletin board ideas for use during the school year.

Teacher-Submitted Lesson Plans
Teacher Lesson #1
This lesson reinforces students' knowledge of nouns.
Teacher Lesson #2
Oreo cookies teach a valuable lesson about good writing.
Teacher Lesson #3
"Mr. Great" teaches the concepts greater than and less than.

Every-Day Edits
Primary Edits Edit info about animals from A to Z.
Ele-Middle Edits New editing activities month by month.

Fact Monster Hunts
Students learn Internet searching skills as they search the Fact Monster.
Primary Hunts
Ele-Middle Hunts

Vocab-u-lous!
Words that begin with fl- blends.

5-Minute Fillers Volume 7.

Work Sheet of the Week
"Monsters in My Backyard" -- creative writing idea.

Just for This Month! See our June Month of Fun, June Word Search, and June Coloring Calendar. PLUS! Create your own work sheets for this month's themes: Flag Day.

FROM OUR PRINTABLES LIBRARY

Hunt the Fact Monster
Build reading comprehension and Internet searching skills. Two levels: primary and ele-middle. (Grades 3-9)

Geography A to Z
Learn about world geography one letter at a time. (Grades 4-8)

Make Your Own Holiday Work Sheets
Use these holiday templates to make your own activities for any subject. (Grades Pre-K - 5)

Sudoku Puzzles
These popular puzzles build critical thinking skills. Thirty-six puzzles in all. (Grades 3-12)

Just for This Month!
See our June Month of Fun, June Word Search, and June Coloring Calendar. PLUS: Create-your-own holiday work sheet templates for Flag Day, Independence Day....

Emma McDonald: The New Teacher Advisor
Making the Most of Summer
Ah, summertime! Time to kick back, relax, enjoy your time off -- and get ready for a new school year. Here are a few tips to get you started.

Dr. Fred Jones: Tools for Teaching
The School Discipline Code
The logic of all school discipline codes is timeless: "The greater the crime, the greater the punishment." Does it work?

Professor Joe Martin: The Educator Motivator
I Owe, You Owe, We Owe
If your favorite teacher was anything like mine, I'm sure he or she would say, "Pay your students what you think you owe me."

Miguel Guhlin: The IT Crowd
Beyond E-mail: Managing Content in a Read/Write World
It's not how well a technology director controls the content, but how easily he or she can distribute the authority to end users to maintain their own Web-based work.

Brenda Dyck's Blog
Using the Net to Go Beyond the Real to the Possible
Telecollaborative projects introduce students to meaningful activities designed to challenge their thinking and fuel exploration.

Bernie Poole
Introduction to Word
Learn basic formatting and editing functions in lesson 1 of Bernie Poole's online book of tutorials, Essential Microsoft Office 2007.

Alma Row's Gadget of the Week
MailCatch
MailCatch disposable e-mail is quite handy when you don't want to give out your personal or business e-mail address or can't get to those e-mail accounts.

Lorrie Jackson's Techtorial
Skype: Talk to Anyone, Anywhere for Free
Learn how to install and use Skype, a free peer-to-peer Internet-based telephone system.

The Principal Poet
Education World’s resident poet, Mr. Ivan, presents a poem that is sure to bring grins to school leaders everywhere. This week’s poem is “Summer.”
Like a puppy,
Summer pokes its green nose
Into my classroom,
Begging me outside…
Read more…

Sugar Ban in School Yields Positive Results
When Dr. Yvonne Sanders-Butler was appointed principal, she knew she had a responsibility to change the way students were eating. Poor nutrition was impacting their academic performance and behavior, and she knew good nutrition could improve those things.

Partners for Student Success
‘Project Reach’ Offers Outstretched Hand to Community
When teachers at one Georgia elementary school recognized the need for more frequent and meaningful dialogue with the parents of their students, they decided to take the conversation directly to the parents in the form of "Project Reach."

‘Dictionary Project’ Will Soon Give Away Its 10 Millionth Dictionary
More than 9.9 million children have received dictionaries thanks to the generosity of sponsors of The Dictionary Project. Last year, about 2.5 million dictionaries were handed out. Have dictionaries been handed out in your school?

Wire Side Chat
Schools Where "It's Being Done"
In the book, It’s Being Done, author Karin Chenoweth looks at once-struggling schools that were able to turn around because of high expectations and staff members who were dedicated to helping students succeed.

Template of the Week
June 2009
Look forward to summer with this traceable calendar for June 2009.

Grant of the Week
ING’s “Run For Something Better” grants.

Tips Library
Classroom Management: Parents Have Homework Too
Behavior Management: Modeling and Expectations
Motivating Kids: Relate Lesson to Life
Book Report Makeover: And the Winner Is...
Homework Tips: Clipping Coupons
Best Idea Ever: Do I Know You?
Testing Tips: Learn Test Vocabulary
EdTech Tips: More WordWonders

Each week, we ask readers to cast their votes in The Weekly Survey. Cast your vote in this week's question of interest to all educators.

This Week’s Survey Question
Do you integrate music into your classroom curriculum on a regular basis?

Last Week’s Survey Results
What do your students know about composting?

Each week, Education World spotlights books of interest to educators. This week, read a brief summary of two more of our "top 50 books for educators."

The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher
Harry and Rosemary Wong are, of course, among the deans of education writing in America, and this book is evidence of why. In addition to providing a lot of practical advice -- brought to life with more than 300 photos and illustrations -- the book focuses on three essential characteristics of a successful teacher, namely, positive expectations, classroom management, and lesson mastery, as well as on basic and future "understandings" that are part of the teaching life.
Click to learn more or to purchase this book.

How We Think
John Dewey's classic treatise on what exactly "thinking" means, and how, starting from that definition, it makes sense to educate students to actually do it, is not light beach reading, but this relatively brief book is well worth a rainy weekend. Together with Dewey's "Democracy and Education," "How We Think" provides the modern reader with a clear understanding of the foundations of American educational thought.
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The Best of LEARNING GAMES

If you enjoy Education World's weekly LEARNING GAMES feature, you'll love this book! Education World and the National Education Association (NEA) have joined forces to create a handy, pocket-size booklet of more than 30 of our most popular learning games. PLUS an extra bonus -- ten more games for classroom fun!

These classroom games span the grades and the major subject areas -- and inject a healthy dose of fun into the serious business of teaching and learning. Looking to fill the end of a hectic day with something fun and educational? Looking for a great reward for students that will make valuable use of free time? Looking to reinforce basic skills with a fun activity? These games will fill the bill!

Included in this 80-page booklet you'll find these games and more:

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LEAVE 'EM LAUGHING
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This Is the Captain Speaking

About 90 fifth-graders piled into an airliner on their way home from a school trip. Once the plane was in the air and the crew began serving drinks, no amount of pleading seemed to settle down the students so the other passengers might get some sleep and enjoy their flight. Nothing seemed to help... until the captain picked up his mike in the cockpit and announced... "Children, this is the captain speaking. Don't make me stop this airplane and come back there!"

Out on a Limb

Q: Where do young trees learn their lessons?
A: At elm-'n'-tree school.

Young Wisdom

When her grandson asked how old she was, one grandmother teasingly replied, "I'm not sure." Her grandson's response: "Look in your underwear, Grandma. Mine says I'm four to six."

"Give me a sentence about a public servant," said a teacher. In response, one small boy said, "The fireman came down the ladder pregnant." The teacher took the lad aside to correct him. "Don't you know what pregnant means?" she asked. "Sure," the young boy replied confidently. "It means carrying a child."

A nursery school teacher was delivering a station wagon full of kids home one day when a fire truck zoomed past. Sitting in the front seat of the fire truck was a Dalmatian dog. The children started discussing the dog's duties. "Do they use him to keep crowds back?" asked one youngster. "No," said another, "he's just for good luck." A third child brought the argument to a close. "They use the dogs," she said firmly, "to find the fire hydrant."

Geography Lesson

Teacher: What are the small rivers that run into the Nile?
Sammy: The juve-niles!

Little Johnny Strikes Again

Teacher: Johnny, why are you doing your math sums on the floor?
Johnny: Because you told me to do it without using tables!

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