Whiting Lane Library – Where we wonder and grow!

Pebble Go – until Dec. 13, 2011

http://www.pebblego.com/content/choose_product.php

Reference Linkshttp://www.whps.org/school/bugbee/Research%20Guide%20k-2/lmc%20common%20pages/west_hartford_library_media_link.htm

Their vision is to be the source for childhood learning on the Internet – available from anywhere and without charge. Established in late 2004, e-Learning for Kids is a global, nonprofit foundation dedicated to fun and free learning on the Internet for children ages 5 – 12. We offer free, best-in-class courseware in math, science, reading and keyboarding; and we’re building a community for parents and educators to share innovations and insights in childhood.

http://e-learningforkids.org/index.html

Picture Links

www.picsearch.com

Dictionary

www.m-w.com

 Dr. Seuss

ww.seussville.com/main.php?section=home&isbn=&catalogID=&eventID=

Brain Pop

www.brainpop.com Grades 2 – 6

http://www.brainpopjr.com/ Grades K – 2

 Tapping Maple Trees

http://biology.clc.uc.edu/fankhauser/Buds_and_Bark/tapping_sugar_maple_index.html

http://www.theheartofnewengland.com/LifeInNewEngland-BackyardSugaring.html

http://www.tapmytrees.com/

Current Events Blog

http://tweentribune.com/

A new online tool called DocsTeach recently was launched by the National Archives and provides a resource for teachers to search more than 3,000 primary-source documents. The site also includes seven tools for teachers, including one that customizes history activities to individual classroom needs

http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/neverendingsearch/2010/10/18/docsteach-rocks-primary-sources/

This is a free app, you may want to download for your children at home:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bookster/id395395617?mt=8#

Launch your kids into literacy with Bookster, the read-along storytelling app that reads to your kids, records and plays their voices, and teaches vocabulary along the way. Designed by educators to help kids of all ages develop literacy skills, Bookster makes beginning to recognize and read new words fun and easy for even the youngest of readers.

This is an article about it
http://www.ipadcurriculum.com/2010/10/bookster-storytelling-application/