You Made Me A Promise

You made me a promise when I was small.
You made me a promise, but that’s not all.
You gave me a challenge to grow and learn.
You taught me to listen, reason, and discern.

You gave me your promise, a gift from you.
I soon learned, I must give something too.
The best things in life aren’t really free.
I must learn to give back something from me.

I must invest my thoughts, my effort, my skill.
The desire to learn must be part of my will.
Without a plan, I will surely fall.
If I want success, I must give it my all.

So I give you my promise, while I am small.
I will learn all I can before I am tall.
I will give you my attention and open my mind.
I will stay on my task and not get behind.

Each day in class, I will learn to prepare,
Consuming the words of the lessons you share.
I will accept your promise day by day,
By keeping mine each step of the way.



Roger Paul Poe
October 30, 2007

Our School

We are Northglade Montessori.
The things we do will tell our story.
Each act is planned each purpose driven.
To each student gifts are given.

In love we seek to serve and teach.
Each child’s heart we strive to reach.
Preparing well the place to learn,
Watching minds that grow and yearn.

The child consumes the knowledge we give;
Learning how to grow and live.
How we teach must be the best.
What they learn will give them zest.

At Children’s House the path begins.
From there the learning never ends.
We give them gifts of courtesy and grace.
Gifts attracting their embrace.


Roger Paul Poe

Educational Links

Bookmarks

EducationalFun

FUN LEARNING WITH BING & BONG IN TINY PLANETS

GameGoo - Educational Games

Kids Dig Reed - Homepage

Long Island Children's Museum

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

PrimaryGames.com - The Fun Place to Learn!

Switch Zoo

Math

Aplusmath.com

FunBrain.com - The Internet's #1 Education Site for K-8 Kids and Teachers

Interactive Games - www.multiplication.com

LearningPlanet.com

math cats contents

PrimaryGames.com - The Fun Place to Learn!

Printable Math Fact Sheets

Reading

America's Library

BAB Books On-Line Stories for Kids

BookPALS Storyline

BookPALS - Performing Artists for Literacy in Schools

BooksBTC - Free Books Online - Free Classic Literature - Books Beginning with R

Boy's Own Stories for Youth Arthur's Classic Novels

Children's Storybooks Online - Stories for Kids of All Ages

Internet Public Library

Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center

PEEP and the Big Wide World

Starfall

Stories from the Web

Tales of Wonder

TumbleBooks - eBooks for eKids!

ReseasrchAndTesting

Grolier Online Passport

Library Information Center

Picasa, Hello, and Other Fun Stuff

This week we took some pictures in the lab and ran it as a slide show on the monitor for each class that came in. Some teachers asked about the photo edit software we are using. I use Picasa. Google provides this software as a free download (before Google bought it it cost around $100 and Google labs have improved it). How do yo get Picasa? Go to www.google.com. Click more. Scroll down to Google tools. Click on Picasa and follow the download directions. While you are at the Google tools page you might want to download Hello and the Google Toolbar. Hello is an online tool that is used to share photos or post them to a blog (and it's free). Google Toolbar blocks pop-ups.
On more tool to investigate would be Blogger. I am using Blogger to publish this information regarding technology for literacy. At Northglade Montessori, we use Blogger for the principal's newsletter, the PTO newsletter, Art Gallery, and Tech News. We link our blogs together and link them to our school website. If you are searching for a good communication tool (and it's free), try Blogger.

Links for Learning

This is the second week of Summer School. Working in the Computer Lab has been lots of fun not to mention very educational. The Summer Literacy Program places emphasis on Reading and Math. The Computer Lab offers support through technology for Reading and Math. The software we are using was written by Simon Hensby. His software is available for a lifetime membership fee of about $20. He donates the money to an ADD support group. (You are then able to download all of his software and any future software that he writes. Or you can order a CD from him for about the same price that will have all of his software programs on it but you don't get the benefit of the future programs).
We have also selected reading and math web sites that support and encourage literacy and learning. These include the following:

Starfall

Children's Storybooks Online

Book Pals

Talking Book Center

Tales of Wonder

America's Library

AAA Math

A Plus Math

Freetown Math Links

Interactive Websites

We believe learning can be fun (reading and math). Especially when you use technology.