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March 3, 2010 @ 10:17 AM 0 Comments      

These are resources I suggest students use to enhance and enrich their learning. Remember your child needs to be monitored and supervised while using the internet.

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Basic Interactive Learning/Games

  1. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/thats_a_fact/english_K_3.html

  2. http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/math2002/na/gr2.html

  3. http://www.joelson.addr.com/math.htm

  4. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/family_involvement/grade_2.html

  5. http://www.joelson.addr.com/izmath.htm

  6. * http://www.allentownsd.org/EETT/secondgrade.htm (covers all math topics)

  7. http://www.eduplace.com/math/mw/models/tm_2.html (tutorial)

  8. http://www.eduplace.com/math/mw/g_2.html

  9. http://www.eduplace.com/math/mw/practice/lp_2.html (worksheets)

  10. http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/g_2.html

  11. http://school.discoveryeducation.com/homeworkhelp/homework_help_home.html (video)

  12. http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html (virtual manipulatives)

  13. *http://www.allentownsd.org/EETT/ppt/ProgressAssessment3Review.ppt (jeopardy game)

  14. http://www.teachers.cr.k12.de.us/~galgano/2ela.htm

  15. http://faculty.usiouxfalls.edu/arpeterson/computer_lab.htm#second

  16. http://www.abcya.com/second_grade_computers.htm

  17. http://www.uen.org/k-2interactives/math.shtml

  18. http://icc.k12.ar.us/Izard%20County%20Elementary%20Library/I%20Games%20G2.htm

  19. http://www.uen.org/k-2interactives/math.shtml

  20. http://www.uen.org/k-2interactives/index.shtml

  21. http://www.toonuniversity.com/free/math-games-1st-3rd.asp

  22. http://www1.center.k12.mo.us/edtech/edm/2.htm

  23. http://www.gpbkids.org/countonit/2ndgrade/index.html

  24. http://www.pasadenaisd.org/sailon/grade2.htm

  25. http://www.redmilles.vbschools.com/2NDGR.HTM

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Time Interactive Games

  1. *http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/timetables/index.htm

  2. http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/books/ (audio books)

  3. http://www.mrnussbaum.com/bedtime/index.html

  4. http://www.mrnussbaum.com/ elapse10.htm

  5.  http://www.mrnussbaum.com/clocksall10.htm

  6.  http://www.mrnussbaum.com/clockq10.htm

  7.  http://www.mrnussbaum.com/clock30.htm

  8.  http://www.mrnussbaum.com/clock30f.htm (flash cards)

  9. http://www.mrnussbaum.com/clockqf.htm (flash cards)

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Literacy Interactive Learning/Games

  1. http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/books/

  2. http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/WebLessons/ (math literacy)

  3. http://faculty.usiouxfalls.edu/arpeterson/computer_lab.htm#second

  4. http://icc.k12.ar.us/Izard%20County%20Elementary%20Library/I%20Games%20G2.htm


March 2, 2010 @ 7:47 PM 0 Comments      

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March 2, 2010 @ 10:26 AM 0 Comments      

Women of Accomplishment: An Internet Scavenger Hunt

Womens History

  1. Rosa Parks
    How many days did the Montgomery bus boycott last?

  2. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
    How many Olympic medals did she earn?

  3. Sacajawea
    What famous team of explorers did she travel with?

  4. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
    What prominent organization was led by these two women?

  5. Janet Reno and Madeleine Albright
    What jobs did these women hold during Bill Clinton’s presidency?

  6. Betsy Ross
    Who asked her to make the first American flag?

  7. Harriet Tubman
    By what nickname did slaves call her?

  8. Sally Ride
    What sport did this famous astronaut play as a young woman?

  9. Helen Keller
    What is the title of her autobiography?

  10. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
    Which president nominated her to the Supreme Court?

  11. Amelia Earhart
    What was Earhart’s role on her first transatlantic flight?

  12. Georgia O’Keeffe
    Which museum presented the first retrospective exhibit of a woman artist?

  13. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
    What job did Jackie have before she married John F. Kennedy?

  14. Hillary Clinton
    To what official role did President Bill Clinton appoint her?

  15. Equal Rights Amendment
    Who wrote the ERA, passed by the Senate in March 1972?

  16. Molly Pitcher
    What heroic acts did she perform during the Battle of Monmouth, in June 1778?

  17. Clara Barton
    Why wasn’t she permitted to work with the International Red Cross?

  18. Gloria Steinem
    Which two magazines did she help found?

  19. Sandra Day O’Connor
    What “first” did she accomplish in the Arizona Senate?

  20. Eleanor Roosevelt
    What was the title of the newspaper column she wrote?

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Reference

http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/TM/WS_  womens_questions_TM.shtml


March 1, 2010 @ 12:45 PM 0 Comments      

  

Notable Quotes by Women Quiz

Directions: Read each quotation below, and choose the woman who said each statement.

Use http://womenshistory.about.com/library/qu/blqulist.htm to determine your answer.

 1. “I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”

a. Jane Austen

b. Diane Ackerman

c. Abigail Adams

d. Simone de Beauvoir

e. Susan B. Anthony

 

2.  “Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers, and husbands.

a. Carrie Chapman Catt

b.  Charlotte Bronte

c.  Abigail Adams

d.  Betty Friedan

e.  Marian Wright Edelman

 

3. ” She had been forced in to prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning  

 a. Jane Austen

 b. Simone de Beauvoir

 c. Nadia Boulanger

 d. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

 e. Muriel Sparks

 

4.  “One is not born a woman, one becomes one.”

a. Jane Austen

b. Betty Friedan

c. Nadia Boulanger

d. Charlotte Bronte

e. Simone de Beauvoir

 

5.  “I am neither a man nor a woman, but an author.”

a. Barbara Bush

b. Betty Friedan

c. Nadia Boulanger

d. Charlotte Bronte

e. Jane Austen

Links for Research:

http://www.biography.com/womens-history/notables.jsp

http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php

http://www.history.com/minisites/womenhist

http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/articles/0,6709,101044,00.html 

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/cc_herstory.php

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


February 18, 2010 @ 2:35 PM 8 Comments      

Forks River School

Forks River Elementary School
611 Cookeville Highway Elmwood, TN 38560
Phone: 615-897-2676 *Fax 615-897-2222
Melinda Spivey, Principal

Mrs. Holland

Mrs. Holland is the first person to respond to our Great American Mail Race!

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  1.     1.  Tennessee  

Mrs. Holland from Forks River Elementary School

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2. Arizona

Ms. Leah Dockstader from Masada Charter School
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