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Are you a member of the New York Public Library?
If your answer was no, you need to sign up now!! Any resident of New York State may sign up for a card. You can do it right online at this address: http://catalog.nypl.org/screens/selfregpick.html. Your card will be mailed to you, and you can do wonderful things with it: download audio books and videos. It also entitles you to use BookFlix and TumbleBooks for free.

Did you know that I can request multiple copies of books from other school districts in our area? Click on this link to review the title listing! http://nc3r.org/jlbocessls/multiplecopy.htm

You are going to love this site! It allows you to search for books by guided reading level, grade level, topic, and even bookalikes. Looking for a bunch of books leveled "L" ... this is the tool. Want more books like Harry Potter ... check this site out. It's fantastic!

The Library has free access to Mailboxcompanion.com. Click above and use the elementary librarian's e-mail address as the username and "Lowville" as the password. There are bonus forms, calendars, seasonal activities, and searchable archive!

One of the streaming video sites that LACS subscribes to. You will need your own username and password to enter the site. If you don't have one, see the library for the start-up pass-code.

A second streaming video site available to LACS teachers. Again, you will need your own username and password to enter the site. If you don't have one, see the library for the start-up pass-code.

A compilation of over 500 lessons that utilize the SMART Notebook technology. Don't have a SMARTboard yet ... No worries! You can download their software in your classroom and it is available in the computer labs too.

Teachers' Domain resources include video and audio segments, Flash interactives, images, documents, lesson plans for teachers, and student-oriented activities. Once you register, you can personalize the site using "My Folders" and "My Groups" to save your favorite resources into a folder and share them with your colleagues or students.

General Resources for the Teacher

A to Z Teachers Stuff: FREE online lesson plans, lesson plan ideas and activities, thematic units, printables, themes, teaching tips, articles, and educational resources

ABC Teach: 5000 free printable pages and worksheets. Try their search feature - it's like Google for teachers! You'll find tons of resources quickly and easily.

Busy Teacher's Cafe: Lots of great worksheets, theme units, literacy center ideas, file folder game ideas, etc. You just can't believe the wealth of great stuff here.

Day by Day Calendar: A day-by-day guide, with links to lesson plans and Web sites, for holidays, historic and special events, birthdays, and anniversaries.

Education Place: Site maintained by Houghton Mifflin. Click on New York State and choose a subject area. Then explore their collection of outline maps, graphic organizers, shape book patterns, and monthly theme lesson and activity ideas.

Education World: The Educator's Best Friend. Links to Teacher Tools and Templates, Lesson Planning, Professional Development, and Technology in the Classroom. Spend a little time here - one of the most comprehensive sites on the Internet.

EduHound: Don't miss the links to Awesome Clipart for Educators and Educator Templates along the top of the page.

Find A Book: This is a free tool that allows users to type in any book and find the reading level of that book or type in their reading level and interest and build a custom reading list.

Izzit: izzit.org provides more educators with compelling educational DVDs, current events lessons, and unique games and contests. This site has a FREE current event section where daily current events from the news (linked to Science Monitor, NYTimes, etc.) are posted and are accompanied by teacher guides and student handouts that foster critical thinking.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: A categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth.

KizCLUB Learning : FREE blacklines for each letter of the alphabet, clipart for nursery rhymes, worksheets for topics such as animals, body and health, opposites, food and nutrition, etc! Tons of great reproducibles.

LearningPage: You do need to become a member, but it's FREE! This site has some of the very best looking worksheets that I have ever seen on a free website. This is a must see :0)

New York Heritage Digital Collection: If you are a fourth grade teacher, you need to bookmark this one! Lots of primary sources for every aspect of NY state history ... photos, receipts, newspaper clippings. A super tool for DBQs.

SoftSchools: Free math and phonics worksheets, free math and phonics games. Organized by grades and topics.

Teacher's Guide Virtual Fieldtrips: Want to visit a museum, tour the nine planets, or see the inside of the space shuttle. Check out this site that lists websites for virtual fieldtrips. Travel without ever leaving your classroom.

Tools for You and the Kids

Animals by SeaWorld: An impressive site with a wide variety of information on lots of different animals. It includes short, quick facts, longer more in-depth books, and even a library of animal sounds.

SpellingCity: An online spelling program that makes practicing for spelling tests fun.

Tools for the Techie

Digital Storytelling: Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music.

PDFTOWORD: Want to make changes to a PDF file that you liked?? Convert the file to a Word document using this site.

Pixlr: Looking to add details to your photos? Got red-eye ... try a photo editing website like this one.

Soundzabound: Royalty free music to use in Powerpoint projects and Smartboard presentations.

Soungle: Google for sounds ... an easy way to search and find sounds!

SplashUp: An excellent photo editing website.

TeachersTV: Through engaging videos, practical resources, and an active online community, Teachers TV supports the professional development of anyone working in school, enabling them to widen their skills, develop their practice, and connect with others in the field.

ToonDo: A very cool comic creating site that allows you to simply click, drag and drop to create your very own toons. Have fun!

Wingclips: A collection of movie clips that you can view or download ... all organized by title and theme.

Xtranormal: If you can type, you can make a movie! Click here to find out.

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