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Welcome to Kordeks Korner ! This is a biweekly newsletter to share what is available within our library and on the internet for you to use to support your curriculum. The resources will also be posted on my blog, Kordeks Korner, for future reference.
A Biweekly Newsletter Issue 6 - Jan 2, 2012f

Chinatown
By: William Low Call Number: E LOW Grade: K-4
This story tells about what a boy and his grandmother experience as they walk through Chinatown during the Chinese New Year.

Lion Dancer
By: Kate Waters Call Number: 394.261 WAT Grade: K-4 Ernie Wong prepares for his rst public performance of the lion dance. It describes preparation at home and at school.

Suggestion: Both of these books would be good to use to help teach about the Chinese New Year

Manners Mash-Up
By: Multiple Authors Call Number: 395.12 Grade: K-4 Humorous pictures and suggestion for good manners like dont sleep and drool on the bus or good sportsmanship at the slimeball championship.
Suggestion: This could be used when discussing manners at the beginning of the year or a reminder in the middle. Have students decided on what some manners needed are and make silly posters to promote them.

Obvious to you, Amazing to someone Else

About a month ago, I stumbled across a video when reading one of the blogs, Free Technology for Teachers, I followed. The video is called Obvious to You, Amazing to Someone Else. This video really brought home a concept that I think many of us forget sometimes, all ideas are new and unique and need to be shared. All around us
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we see what exciting things others are doing and our ideas seem common and useless. I believed this myself, that the resources I knew and the items I did, everyone knew. Why should I share what I thought was commonplace. Since then I found out how wrong I was. What we know has to be shared because

for someone else it is extraordinary and will help them do something new themselves. Dont be afraid to share, take the time to share what you know.
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Technology Resources

FlakePad
Website: http://penakes.com/ akepad/ Curriculum: Math, 1-4

Museum of Obsolete Objects Smithsonian Panoramic

Virtual Tour

Website: http://www.youtube.com/ mooojvm Curriculum: Science, Writing Uses: Can be used during an inventions lesson and how items come, go, and change. Also could make an interesting writing prompt about what will be obsolete next. Features: -Variety of objects from morse code, hand mixer, typewriter, cassette, etc. -Short videos of each object, describing it and giving example -Shows when it was invented

Website : http://www.mnh.si.edu/ panoramas/ Curriculum: Social Studies, Science Uses: This website allows you to take a tour of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Features: - Can choose direction to move throughout museum - Can look up/down/left/right - Zoom in and out - Has areas to click for more information

Uses: Good lesson to use for teaching symmetry and mirroring. Have students create image and then print and draw lines of symmetry Features: - fun and easy to use - Click in one spot and mirrors through entire image - Four choices to use - Can make as big or small

Additional Resources
Printliminator http://css-tricks.com/examples/ ThePrintliminator/ Allows you to remove items from a webpage so you can print the page without wasting ink and paper. It works but recommend using it for small jobs, need to click every item to remove it. Virtual Keyboard http://tinyurl.com/5ybm2s A fun website that allows you to play different instruments using a keyboard. Cassiopeia Project http://www.cassiopeiaproject.com/ Variety of science videos. Some are for higher levels but the space videos may be something that you can use in your classroom.

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