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E-Pals |
Peregrine Falcons |
Playwrights |
Native Plants and Animals
Scholastic.com Activities |
Dear America Books
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Kid's Page |
Contests |
Visiting Famous
Authors Online
E-Pals and Classport
 E-Pals.com:
When you visit
http://www.epals.com you
can register and receive 35 email accounts for filtered
email for your students. If you register through
Classport at the Scholastic website, you'll discover
an outstanding variety of ideas and support for a successful classroom
"pen" pal
program.
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Peregrine Falcon Nest Monitor Interns
 Could
your kids become official Nest Monitor Interns?
Visit
Raptors in the City for tools, lessons, and a great newsletter!
Visit the FalconCam at
http://falconcam.apk.net
Visit PUSD's
Falcon Quest for t-shirt decals and additional
resources.
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Famous
Playwrights:
Writing Plays from our Favorite Books
Visit Jan
Brett's Website:
http://www.janbrett.com
To make The
Hat into a play:
http://www.janbrett.com/the_
hat_play.htm
T-Shirt
Transfers:
http://www.janbrett.com/
transfers/the_hat_transfers_main.htm
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Identifying Native Plants near Your ESS Site
 Visit
http://www.enature.com
You can type
in your zip code for regional field guides. (Plants,
animals, birds, insects, and more.)
Or visit their
Poisonous or Poisonous and Dangerous cards section and have
students use them to create safe hiking guides for your
area.
For the field
checklist of birds in San Diego county click on the image to
the left below:
For a
Birdwatching Log sheet to help students refine their
observation skills, click on the right sheet below.
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Scholastic.Com
Scholastic.com has a VAST amount of resources that
are valuable for students in after-school programs.
Visit their "Kids"
pages often to explore a fascinating array of
activities in science, math, social studies, reading,
writing and more! Be sure to check out their
Contest Page. It is full of great opportunities that
can motivate the most reluctant students.
 Scholastic
created a great club for students to join:
The Flashlight Reader's Club. Students read books
(Rainy day in a snug reading corner with flashlight
lanterns?) and then complete any of a number of online FUN
activities that build literacy skills. Here are links to
Teacher and Parent Guides for the club.
Students across this district (and the country) are
captivated by the Dear America, historical fiction book
series. Scholastic has a tremendous amount of
resources to accompany these books. You can find out how to
start a
Dear America Book Club
or you can click on the following link to find a tremendous
amount of activities to accompany the books students are
reading:
Dear America Book Series .
 At
Scholastic.com you can read about your favorite authors,
participate in discussion boards about favorite books,
interview your favorite authors, or submit questions to
bulletin board interviews. The
author calendar is a valuable resource.
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