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. Click on "Play the Movie."
- 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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March 2010
[ Dr. Seuss ] [  Science Fair ][ Science Books ]
[ Web portal -- Smedcenter.com]
[ Author of the month ] [ All things Irish ]
[ Women's History Month ][ Heroes ]
Enjoy Seussville -- for the birthday of Dr. Seuss, March 2
San Mateo Web Portal: click to login
Provides access to educational resources including World Book, EBSCO, Maps, EducationCity.com, Starfall, Learn360, Documents, and more.
Science Fair
Science Fair Website with forms
Check the Washington School Special Events
Click here for books and experiment help
Fun with Singing Science
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 Story Tubes
Video story 2009 winner examples and Contest
information
Author of the Month:
Patricia McKissack
- Flossie & the Fox
- A Million Fish -- More or Less
- Goin' Someplace Special
- The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
- Madam C.J. Walker
- Mary McLeod Bethune
- Mirandy and Brother Wind
- Stitchin' and Pullin' : A Gee's Bend Quilt
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 Poetry
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All things Irish
Books about Ireland:
- The Last Snake in Ireland by Sheila MacGill-Callahan (270/MAC)
- United Kingdom : Countries of the World by Rachel Bean (941/BEA)
- Black Potatoes: the story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (941.5/BAR)
- A Family in Ireland by Tom Moran (941.5/MOR)
- Looking at Ireland by Kathleen Pohl (941.7/POH)
Irish Fairy Tales
- A Treasury of Mermaids by Shirley Climo (398.2/CLI)
- The Irish Cinderlad by Shirley Climo (398.2/CLIMO)
- Fin M'Coul by Tomie DePaola (398.2/DEP)
- Jamie O'Rourk and the Big Potato by Tomie DePaola (398.2/DEP)
- Leprechaun Tales by Kathleen Green (398.2/GRE)
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Fiction set in Ireland or with Irish characters
- Leprechaun Gold by Teresa Bateman (E/BAT)
- Brothers by Yin (E/YIN)
- The Leprechaun in the Basement by Kathy Tucker (E/TUC)
- Leprechauns Don't Play Basketball by Debbie Dadey (FIC/DADEY)
- So Far From Home by Barry Denenberg (FIC /DENENBERG)
- The Game by Diana Wynne Jones (FIC/ JONES)
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Books for St. Patrick's Day
- St. Patrick's Day by Mary Cantwell (394.2/CAN)
- St. Patrick's Day by Dorothy Rhodes Freeman (394.2/FRE)
- St. Patrick's Day in the Morning by Eve Bunting (E/BUN)
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March is Women's History Month
History of Women's History Month
Explore the Women's History resources in the Smedcenter Portal
Books about Women
- The Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention by Ruth Warren (301/WAR)
- The Ballot Box Battle by Emily Arnold McCully (324/MCC)
- Heroines: Great Women Through the Ages by Rebecca Hazell (920/HAZ)
- Girls: a History of Growing up Female in America by Penny Colman (305.2/COLMAN)
- Players in Pigtails by Shana Corey (E/COR)
- A Woman for President by Kathleen Krull(B/WOODHULL)
My Hero Project:
Celebrates Peace, Love and tolerance with art from around the globe
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Discover Stories at Story Bee
Enjoy Seussville
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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
- 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
Fun Activities
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