On Monday 22, February, Lauren Bernstein shared her expertise on reading with the Elementary staff.

On February 2nd  we celebrated the 100th days of school

In the morning announcement, Teachers jumped 100 times to a jumping song -Students participated in some activities related to the 100 days celebration such as learning 100 new words and multiplication tables that ends in 100.

The Library Staff prepared a display with books that talks about that special day.

This week, your child will begin checking out books from the Library . Each student from Kinder to grade 5 can check out 2 books. Students records for checking out books will be monitored by the ES Library Staff and overdue reminders and charges will be sent as needed.

We want this to be an exciting step on the road to reading and learning for you and for your child.

Interesting Data Bases for Teachers

ERIC:http://www.eric.ed.gov/journals

- The Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and

ERIC Gopher Menu for  ESL Teaching Ideas -Gopher://ericir.syr.edu:70/11/Clearinghouse/Adjunts/ACLE/Digest -Contains suggestions for the teaching of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills to ESL students in grades 7-12.

National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education: http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu- Funded by the US Department of Education , collects, analyses and disseminates information related to the effective education of linguistics and cultural diverse K-12 learners in USA.

World History Sources; http://worldhistorymatters.org/i -Is an online resource center designed to help high school and college world history teachers and their students locate, analyze, and learn from online primary sources and to further their understanding of the complex nature of world history, especially the issues of cultural contact and globalization.

Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/index.html- he Library of Congress is the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections.

All teachers are invited to display their students class work and projects in the Library’s Black Wall.