Category Archives: Wise Owl Factory Links

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Two Free Snow Games

FREE 26 page PDF with two games for winter: 1.  Snowman Memory Match the pairs game 2.  10 different snowflake bingo cards for a White-Out bingo game, snowflake covers This game opens right on the Pre K + K Sharing … Continue reading

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Science Lessons Linky Party on Lesson Cloud

Lesson Cloud is having a linky party for math and science lessons.  Visit this great linky party on Lesson Cloud to see what you and other teacher curriculum writers have posted, and visit their links for many wonderful materials.  Thanks to the LESSON CLOUD for … Continue reading

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Book 218: Bats by Gail Gibbons

BATS by Gail Gibbons, author and illustrator Gail Gibbons is a master of children’s nonfiction.  She writes and illustrates her own books so they are very well done.  Children who enjoy nonfiction will want to read every one of her … Continue reading

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Book 134: Snow Science

Snow Science Create Your Own SNOW & Grow a Crystal Snowflake By Scholastic Books (no author named) This book explains the science behind snow and has a hands-on science experiment to grow a crystal snowflake.  The snow in the kit … Continue reading

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Book 106: Everyday Mathematics, Grade 1

Everyday Mathematics, Grade 1 This blog entry is connected to a Linky Party:  Kindergarten Monkey Business Promethean Board Linky Party Ideas My contribution is my free Smart Board lessons for Everyday Math. Do these covers look familiar?  If yes, your … Continue reading

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Books 96, 97, & 98: OWL AT HOME, OWL MOON, and OWLS

                OWLS by Gail Gibbons (nonfiction), OWL MOON by Jane Yolen (multigenre), and OWL AT HOME by Arnold Lobel (beginning reader, animal fiction) See list of links to many resources, below. Here are … Continue reading

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Book 63: Rock Picker’s Guide to Lake Superior’s North Shore

Rock Picker’s Guide to Lake Superior’s North Shore by Mark Sparky Stensaas This posting accompanies the recent posting for Everybody Needs a Rock by Byrd Baylor.  On that posting, links to information about how to polish rocks is provided (on … Continue reading

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Books 27 and 28: Going on a Bear Hunt and Knuffle Bunny

Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen, Helen Oxenbury (Illustrator) This is an exciting story to read to children who pretend to go on a bear hunt with actions and sounds.  The family first packs up, starts walking, and … Continue reading

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BOOK 3: 7 KEYS TO COMPREHENSION

7 KEYS TO COMPREHENSION is for the adult person who reads to children. I enjoyed wonderful memories of reading to my children as I read this book and realized how reading aloud helps teach the seven simple thinking strategies that … Continue reading

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