Lab Links
Useful Websites
- Interactive Poetry from ETTC. Create poetry by filling in the blanks.
- Moving Stories Watch Animated stories such as Anansi and the Pot of Beans and A Tale of Two Frogs Available free from August House. Titles change.
- Kids Space from the Internet Public Library Free. Features Reference, Science Fair help, Author Pages, Story Hour, U.S. Presidents, Arts & Crafts, Games, and much more.
- American Memory Primary source materials from the Library of Congress in many forms: documents, photographs, films, maps, audio files, and more.
- LIFE magazine historical photo image archive hosted by Google
http://images.google.com/hosted/life
- Today in History from the Library of Congress.
- On This Day Highlights in history from the New York Times learning network.
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October: Fall and Halloween
October is the month of pumpkins,
falling leaves, the harvest, and Halloween.
Nonfiction
- Pumpkins by Jacqueline Farmer: 635 FAR
Presents a history of pumpkins, how they are grown, their nutritional value, and recipes using pumpkin.
- The Pumpkin Book by Gail Gibbons: 635 GIB
Describes how pumpkins come in different shapes and sizes, how they grow, and their traditional uses and cultural significance. Includes instructions for carving a pumpkin and drying the seeds.
- Pumpkin Circle by George Levenson: 635 LEV
Rhyming text and photographs follow a pumpkin patch as it grows and changes, from seeds to plants to pumpkins ready to harvest, to jack-o-lanterns and then to seeds again.
- Pumpkins by Ken Robbins: 635 ROB
Follows the life cycle of the pumpkins that become so ubiquitous as the fall season rolls around
- Pumpkins by Ann Burckhardt: 641.3 BUR
Simple text introduces pumpkins and instructions are given for making a pumpkin tambourine.
Pumpkin Stories: Fiction
- The Biggest Pumpkin Ever by Steven Kroll E KRO
- Pumpkin Town! (or Nothing is better or worse than pumpkins) by Katie McKy
Once, after a bountiful pumpkin harvest, as four brothers dispose of unneeded seeds, the seeds suddenly go flying with the wind and cover the town below, but the brothers think nothing more about it.
- Apples and Pumpkins by Anne F. Rockwell: E ROC
In preparation for Halloween night, a family visits Mr. Comstock's farm to pick apples and pumpkins.
- Too Many Pumpkins by Linda White: E WHI
Rebecca Estelle, an old woman whose dislike of pumpkins stems from her childhood when her family had nothing else to eat, finds herself with a bumper crop of the hated orange squash.
- The Pumpkin Blanket by Deborah Turney Zagwyn: E ZAG
A little girl sacrifices her beloved blanket to save the pumpkins in the garden from frost.
- No More Pumpkins by Peter Catalanotto: ER CAT
Second-grader Emily is tired of pumpkins being at the center of every lesson in school, but she is not prepared when a jealous friend damages the jack-o-lantern portrait Emily made for Open House.
- Pinky and Rex and the Perfect Pumpkin by James Howe: ER HOW
When Rex accompanies Pinky and his relatives on their traditional trip to pick and carve pumpkins, she feels left out because of the jealous behavior of Pinky's cousin Abby.
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Discover Stories at Story Bee
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Ability Awareness Books
- Be Good to Eddie Lee by Virginia Fleming (E/FLE): the story of a boy with Down's Syndrome
- Seal Surfer by Michael Foreman (E/FOR): a boy on crutches
- How Smudge Came Story by Nan Gregory (E/GRE)
- Through Granpa's Eyes by Patricia MacLachlan (E/MAC): story of a boy who learns about the world from his blind grandfather
- Stargone John by Ellen Kindt McKenzie (FIC/McKENZIE): story of a sister and her brother who thinks differently.
- Rules by Cynthia Lord (FIC/LORD): story of a sister whose autistic brother prevents her from having a normal life but leads to an unusual frienship with a paraplegic boy.
- The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd (FIC/DOWD): a boy who thinks differently solves a mystery
- Freak the Mighty by Rod Philbrick (FIC/PHILBRICK): the friendship between two boys, one a small genius and the other a bumbling giant, leads to new understanding, adventure, and some sadness
Fun Activities
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