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Teacher Resources
Welcome to Teacher Resources!
Family Spot — September 12, 2009 - 11:30am
The Menasha Public Library proudly presents a new blog for teachers! Whether you're teaching in a school or at home we have great resources for you. We'll be posting services we offer to parents and teacher and also highlighting new items found at the library. You can always check out our sidepanel to your left for more information about the library. Thanks for visiting our blog, we hope to see you soon!
Technology for You and Me
Family Spot — March 13, 2010 - 5:26pm
School Library Journal offers a page called The Buzz. It's full of new "Tools, trends and gizmos." During the month of March, they featured The Librarian in Black. She wrote an article called "13 Ways (and 147 Tools) to Help Your Library Save Money on Technology." Dive in and check it out. You'll find great leads to fantastic technology you can use in your classroom or school.
Free Technology for Teachers
Family Spot — February 24, 2010 - 3:42pm
Sites and Soundbytes offers websites, links, applications and information about technology and how we can connect. One of their February posts directed followers to a fantastic website called Free Technology for Teachers. Sites and Soundbytes highlighted the great find of free graphics for your website. Stop by to see the links, but stay around and browse! Free Technology for Teachers includes applications, videos, how-tos, websites and fantastic downloads. One really neat download they found is a digital book called How to Guide Digital Storytelling Tools for Educators by Silvia Tolisano. Thanks for sharing Sites and Soundbytes and a big thanks for creating a great resource Free Technology for Teachers!
Author Adventure Kits
Family Spot — February 2, 2010 - 11:32am
At the suggestion of PTO parents and teachers, in 2008, the Children's Dept staff developed 24 kits called Author Adventures focusing on children's book authors and illustrators...and they are ready for you to check out! Each kit contains 8-10 titles by the author, biographical info, websites and, in some kits, activities to go with some of the titles. Selected kits also include video biographies, stories on video and audio cassette stories.
Kit Authors are:
Verna Aardema ~ Alma Flor Ada ~ Aliki ~ Frank Asch ~ Jan Brett ~ Marc Brown ~ Eve Bunting ~ Virginia Burton ~ Eric Carle ~ Nancy Carlson ~ Donald Crews ~ Roald Dahl ~ Tomie De Paola ~ Kate DiCamillo ~ Lois Ehlert ~ Susan Elya ~ Denise Fleming ~ Mem Fox ~ Don Freeman ~ Gail Gibbons ~ Paul Goble ~ Eloise Greenfield ~ Kevin Henkes ~ Tana Hoban ~ Pat Hutchins ~ Ezra Jack Keats ~ Steven Kellogg ~ Arnold Lobel ~ Patricia McKissack ~ David McPhail ~ James Marshall ~ Bill Martin ~ Mercer Mayer ~ Bernard Most ~ Robert Munsch ~ Bill Peet ~ Marcus Pfister ~ Patricia Polacco ~ Cynthia Rylant ~ Maurice Sendak ~ Dr. Seuss ~ William Steig ~ Nancy Tafuri ~ Bernard Waber ~ Martin Waddell ~ Rosemary Wells ~ Vera Williams ~ Audrey and Don Wood
Just stop in to pick a kit off the shelves near the Teacher Tower or call the Children's Dept to reserve a kit with your teacher's card and we will ship out to public schools via your MJSD van. To check availability online, go to our cataloge and search under "Author Adventure Kits" in the title search.
Social Media in Education?
Family Spot — December 15, 2009 - 12:29pm
One of the Childrens_Room twitter friends, cwkids, passed along a great webpage from their twitter friend web20classroom. The webpage is 85+ Resources: Educator Guide for Integrating Social Media. The webpage gives articles, videos and links about the importance of social media along with social media tools and resources. The webpage author created the page as "a good starting point" and "by no means exhaustive." They hope to continue to update the website with additional information and resources.
You can also find resources at Menasha Public Library by going to our online catalog. Type in "Web 2.0" or "Online social networks" under subject search or even specific networks like "Twitter" or "Facebook" under keyword search.
New Parent/Teacher Materials
Family Spot — December 4, 2009 - 11:17am
Our Parent/Teacher section in the Children's Room is constantly changing. Here is a highlight of a few books we added this November...
At Daddy's on Saturdays written Linda Walvoord Girard and illustrated by Judith Friedman
Katie's daddy moves out of the house when he and her mommy get divorced. Katie is angry, sad and most of all, afraid her daddy will never come back. But on Saturdays he's there. and Katie comes to understand that even though her parents can't live together anymore, they both still love her and will always be her mommy and her daddy.
Scholastic 50 Fill-In Math Word Problems: Multiplication & Division for Grades 2-4 by Bob Krech and Joan Novelli
These interactive worksheets are instant math motivators! Each hilarious fill-in story gives students a fun way to practice solving world problems, build vocabulary, and decelop automaticity in multiplication and division facts. Perfect for partner and small-group learning, or as day starters or homework.
Scholastic The Great BIG Idea Book MATH for Grades 2-3
This learning-packed resource features teacher-tested ideas, reproducible activities, delightful games, and easy-to-make manipulatives that teach inportant concepts in addition, subtraction, multiplication, measurement, time, money, and graphing. Includes writing, art, music, and movemtn connections for kids of all learning sytles, plus assessment ideas and tips for working with English Language Learners.
Book Club Express Kits are Here!
Family Spot — December 1, 2009 - 11:15am
We have completed the project grant from unrestricted funds within the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, Inc. in the amount of $4,600.00. The project, Book Club Express, is now up and running. All Menasha School District teachers for grades three through six will be able to check out the reading packs on their teacher card and have a classroom book club for their students. There are 26 Book Club Express packs with 25 copies of a paperback book. Each pack may also contain a copy of the book in Spanish, a copy of the book on CD, author information, and study guide questions, depending on availability. The paperback books in these collections are classics, read-alouds, favorites, and award winning books. The goal of the project is to provide students with a book club atmosphere to enhance their level of literacy and give them an enjoyable group reading experience in the classroom. The Book Club Express packs can be ordered by calling us at (920) 967-3670. They cannot be reserved! You must call or e-mail us to get these packs!
Watch Picture Books Online
Family Spot — October 27, 2009 - 12:01pm
The Screen Actors Guild Foundation seeks to assist, educate and inspire actors and actresses. SAG has also committed themselves to championing children’s literacy. On their website Storyline Online, celebrities read picture books to you!
With Halloween around the corner, check out Guji Guji, by Chih Yuan Chen; read by Robert Guillaume, Sophie's Masterpiece, by Eileen Spinelli; read by CCH Pounder, Stellaluna, by Janell Cannon; read by Pamela Reed, or The Night I Followed the Dog, by Nina Laden; read by Amanda Bynes.
Besides reading books, the website offers information about the reader and activity guides you can download. Each book also gives a running time, so if you have a schedule you need to keep it's easy to work it into your school day.
Do Guys Like to Read?
Family Spot — September 21, 2009 - 7:20pm
Guys love to read! Jon Scieszka introduces a fun and creative look at what guys like to read. Jon's website is all about motivating guys to read and talk about the books they read. At the bottom of the homepage you'll find a list of books under such themes as people being transformed into animals, dragons, historical figures and so much more!
Other pages give guys a chance to see what other guys read and to suggest a book that they read. Jon also gives instructions on setting up your own Guys Read Field Office (aka your own local guys read group). You can follow your own road or get ideas from the website. For example, check out the list of authors with websites. To help your local group you can put together your own Guys Read Library. You can download bookplates, bookmarks and labels.
If you're looking for...
multiple copies of books to read, check out the library! You can place holds on items from all over the Winnefox system with your Menasha Library Card. You can also reserve some space to meet by contacting our library office at (920) 967-3662.
The Children's Room also offers Book Bibliographies. We have one binder for elementary schoolers and one binder for preschoolers. They are packed full of different themes that have been requested over the years. Stop by the Children's Information Desk and take a look.
The Best School Supply of All
Family Spot — September 14, 2009 - 9:42am
Welcome back to September! Welcome back to School!
Do you have all your school supplies? Do you have the best school supply of all?
Your library card is the best school supply! It gives you access to books, movies, music, magazines and so much more. Best of all it's free. September is library card sign-up month and we'd love to give you a library card. Stop on in to fill out your application to start browsing and taking home great books to read, movies to watch, and music to hear.
If you're a teacher...
in a school, in a childcare or in your home, you can come in and get your own teacher card. More information about owning a teacher card can be found on our Teacher Resource page.
We wish you the best during the new school year and hope to see you soon at the Menaha Public Library.
Here's another taste of what a little card can do for you...
Menasha Public Library is part of the Winnefox Library System. Winnefox serves libraries in Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Marquette, Waushara and Winnebago Counties.













