News from the Curriculum Resource Center

Welcome to campus!  The staff of the Curriculum Resource Center: Gaynelle, Kathy, Vicki, Jennifer, and Julie are happy to see all the new and returning students arriving for the 2009-2010 school year.  We invite to you to discover us here on the 2nd floor of the Jerome Library.  We have more than just “teacher resources.”  Come up and check out a board game, such as Apples to Apples, to play with your new dormmates.  Didn’t bring your copy of Harry Potter or Twilight along?  Borrow our copy and it will feel like home … Continue Reading

Found in the Teaching Aid Room at CURR TA  372.7 E244b, these oversized, magnetic coins and bills are perfect for classroom lessons. Plastic coins are 21/2 times actual size and molded in realistic colors. Bills are 11/2 times actual size and display full-color, up-to-date images. These richly textured coins and full-color bills can be removed easily from magnetic whiteboards and other magnetic surfaces. Includes 8-page lesson and activity guide. Includes 10 pennies, 10 nickels, 10 dimes, 5 quarters, 2 half-dollars, 5 $1 bills, 2 $5 bills, 2 $10 bills, 2 $20 … Continue Reading

From Lakeshore Learning Materials:  As kids turn the hands on our giant, easy-to-read clock, the digital display advances at exactly the same pace—so telling time is incredibly simple…even for beginners! Visible gears keep digital and analog times synchronized to the minute. Plus, an adjustable display window lets you hide the digital time for quizzing and self-checking…you can even set the time for AM or PM! Plastic clock measures 15″ tall.

Targets standards in these areas:
• Analog/digital time
• Time to the minute
• Relationships of time

You’ll find the teaching … Continue Reading

Meet Ed, Ned, Ted and Bob the dust bunnies.  Author and illustrator Jan Thomas brings four very colorful fuzzballs to life in Rhyming Dust Bunnies. Published by Simon and Schuster under the Atheneum for Young Readers imprint, a four page activity is available on pdf. Our copy is available for checkout  at JUV T4579r in the Children’s Book Center in the hallway.