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Here's hoping your school year got off to a good start. As a retired teacher, I always get a bit nostalgic the first day, when I see the buses rolling by my house and I know I'm no longer at the school waiting for those exciting faces and names to burst into my classroom for the first time.
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The first changes for the month are in Geography. There are new worksheets, and lessons to build databases. Continents Database, Continents Worksheet, Oceans Database, Oceans Worksheet, and Country Database which can be built for your choice of country. Also new is the Hemisphere Worksheet, North America Worksheet and Virginia Map Worksheet. The Color Continents are now a single page that includes a map of the world, and maps of each continent. Click on the radio button to choose which page to print. |
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A Sitemap has been added to the site, and the link to it will soon be at the bottom of each html page on the whole site. The sitemap lists all of the web pages on Educational Synthesis. |
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The exciting new addition to Math is the new section on Numeration which starts off with three user-friendly versions of the "Draw and Count" worksheet makers in Excel. The new Draw Shape Worksheet Maker allows the user to create a worksheet where Student draws (or pastes stickers) of a choice of shapes to illustrate the numerals or number words. Count Shape Worksheet Maker provides random numbers of shapes in sets to be counted by the student who should then write the numberal or number word for the number of shapes. Shape Color Print is a page that allows you to make shape and color cards for the basic geometrical shapes and the primary colors. Choose the shape and the color, and print on cardstock, or on sheets of 1"x1" labels to use as stickers. |
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SkyHi Curriculum is the new section of Educational Synthesis where we are building a curriculum that will include links to lessons, activities, materials and more, and that is inclusive of all types of learners. We have are starting with the Language Arts objectives for Listening. |
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The Government site was originally created in 2004 for the last class I taught before retirement. Now, the site is update, with the additon of a page for Election 2008, and the start on a collection of printable pictures of the important people in the federal government: The Executive Branch, The Senate, The House of Representatives, and the Supreme Court. |
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The learning cards have been added for Find C Things. The illustrations for the book, Find A Things, have been updated in the book, the game, and the learning cards. |
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The Sight Word Cards, for groups A through E have been revised into a single page application which allows you to choose the group level, and then either print on 3"x3" cards, or onto address labels to be pasted onto index cards. |
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Affiliated Schools is a new index page that provides links to schools who have asked to be included on this list as users of this website. The first addition is St. Thomas R.C. Primary School in Moray, Scotland whose students recently learned about slavery, and read one of the My Own Books on Harriet Tubman. The teacher, Mrs. Francis, said the student especially enjoyed using the story to learn about the important work of Harriet Tubman. |
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Webstats is a area just opened to the public, which provides the statistics on usage of the Educational Synthesis website. The statistics are on excel worksheeets, and not as "user friendly" as they will be in the future. |
Long Live Lively Learning, Y'all!!!
Anne Louise Pemberton
Page created August 20, 2008. Anne Pemberton. Updated Tuesday, April 28, 2009 . AP
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