Media Matters
Winter - Livingston Campus
Curriculum Correlations - Worldbook Online
Worldbook Student and Worldbook Discover have links for Curriculum Correlations. You can search by subject and grade level and results will include articles, pictures, etc that are available on Worldbook Online that meet the NJ Content Standards. Look for a link that says "educator tools"
Spotlight on Books
Some upcoming holidays....Martin Luther King Day, President's Day, Women's History Month, Black History month.
Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men who Changed America
Benjamin Banneker : Surveyor of the Sky -- Frederick Douglass : Capital Orator -- Booker T. Washington : Polished Pioneer -- W.E.B. DuBois : Erudite Educator -- A. Philip Randolph : Always Striding Ahead -- Thurgood Marshall : Mr. Civil Rights -- Jackie Robinson : Game-Changer -- Malcolm X : Spark-Light --Martin Luther King, Jr. : Nonviolent Visionary -- Barack H. Obama
Facts about the presidents : a compilation of biographical and historical information
Presents information on the personal lives and careers of each president from George Washington to Barack Obama, and includes a section of comparative data on such topics as age and physical characteristics, death and burial, elections, and conventions.
Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass [electronic resource] : the story behind an American friendship
Looks at the lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, including their friendship and their affect on Emancipation and the Civil War.
Sarah Emma Edmonds was a great pretender [electronic resource] : the true story of a Civil War spy
Looks at the life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, a Canadian-born woman who disguised herself as a man to join the army during the Civil War, working as a nurse and then a spy for the Union.
Almost astronauts : 13 women who dared to dream
Profiles thirteen women who challenged social norms and government policies to prove they could be exceptional astronauts.
Lincoln through the lens : how photography revealed and shaped an extraordinary life
Contains over one hundred images of the life of Abraham Lincoln that provide a portrait of his presidency and the events surrounding it.
February 3-7
The Scholastic book fair will be in Livingston again this year. I will arrange for a time for your class to come down to preview the books on February 3rd.
Please find time that week to create a wish list for your class. The book fair will be set up during the Health and Fitness fair, so hopefully parents will purchase books for your classroom.