In honor of April’s appointment as National Humor Month, today’s topic is clean, funny jokes. National Humor Month was founded in 1976 by author Larry Wilde, who chose April because of its frequently bleak weather, the fact that it begins …[Continue]
Grimms’ Fairy Tales
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were nineteenth-century Germans who set out to preserve their country’s oral folk tales by writing them down. The stories were often cruel, but once the brothers saw how popular the tales were with young readers, they …[Continue]
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) is a British author, famed for short stories, poems and tales of the British Empire in India. Children may know him best for “The Jungle Book”, a collection of stories first published in magazines in …[Continue]
Poets Laureate
What, you may ask, is a poet laureate? A poet laureate is an official poet appointed by a government to promote poetry. Britain’s first semi-official Poet Laureate was Ben Johnson, appointed by King James I in 1617. Since 1937, the …[Continue]
Vocabulary Tests
This week’s round up of vocabulary sites offers a mix of pre-defined vocabulary tests and tools to create quizzes based on your own word list. Whether your goal is a good score on Friday’s vocab quiz, a perfect score on …[Continue]
Copyright for Students
Copyright, intellectual property, fair use and public domain are not subjects reserved for lawyers and corporate publishers. Every student who uses the library or the Internet to write a school report needs to understand the basics of what can and …[Continue]
Autumn Poems
With leaves falling, and the weather changing, is autumn more poetic than other seasons? Probably not, but today’s sites bring together poems and rhyming songs that celebrate this particular season for kids (and grownups) of all ages….[Continue]
Reading Activities
Although printed books will probably be center stage for reading activities with preschoolers and early elementary grades, the Internet also has a huge stash of online reading activities and ideas for offline activities such as puppet play and making bookmarks….[Continue]
Margaret Wise Brown
Although “Goodnight Moon” is her best known work (it has sold four million copies since 1947), children’s author Margaret Wise Brown (1910 – 1952) wrote more than a hundred children’s before dying suddenly at forty two, while recovering from surgery. …[Continue]
Printable Flashcards
Flashcards are a standard study tool, and are implemented on many sites as an interactive tool, but today’s focus is just on sites where you can print flashcards for old-fashioned offline use. This week’s collection includes a variety of sites …[Continue]
