Kyle Yamnitz

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HotChalk's LessonPlansPage.com Newsletter - Volume 10, Number 5a
May 1, 2007

This Issue Contains:
--This Month's Newsletter--
--Manage Your Gradebook Online with HotChalk--
--Mother's Day Lesson Plans--
--End of the School Year Lessons and Ideas--
--Sites For Teachers--
--Highlighted Special Feature--
--More Mother's Day Lesson Plans and Resources--
--Additional Online Resources the Last Days of School--
--Featured Educational Link--
--Coming Soon--

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--This Month's Newsletter--
Welcome to the May edition of the LessonPlansPage.com newsletter. Can you believe school is almost over for the year (okay, in the US anyway)? We've included a collection of resources for you to use around the end of the school year. We have extensive Mother's Day resources here as well. We hope you find them to be helpful in your classrooms.

--Manage Your Gradebook Online with HotChalk--
Do the math: If grading an assignment takes 5 minutes and you have 50 students in your roster, it can take over 4 hours to fill your gradebook. Imagine how much time you can save by using HotChalk to instantly distribute, collect, and grade your class assignments! Our online gradebook function allows you to have total control over your class gradebook from any computer with an internet connection while automatically calculating averages and other important statistics. Make notes, keep submitted work organized, and schedule assignments with the click of a button! HotChalk’s online gradebook is only part of a host of FREE helpful tools that help you to work better, work faster, and more organized. See for yourself!

--Mother's Day Lesson Plans--
Mother's Day is less than two weeks away (May 13th)! We have about 30 lesson plans and ideas that you can find on our site here:
Our Mother's Day Lesson Plans
You can find additional online resources further down in this newsletter.

--End of the School Year Lessons and Ideas--
With the end of the school year approaching, we've put together a helpful collection of lessons and ideas for use during these last days of school. You can find our collection at the link below:
28 Resources for the End of the School Year

--Sites For Teachers--
Visit other great sites for teachers and spread the word about HotChalk and LessonPlansPage.com at the same time simply by clicking the link below:
Sites For Teachers
You can find another collection of great teacher sites here:
Top Teacher Sites
Please consider visiting these sites each day you visit our site. Voting for us helps other teachers to find out about our websites! The more you vote, the more likely other teachers are to find out about HotChalk and LessonPlansPage.com!

--Highlighted Special Feature--
We currently have a helpful article running about Five Ways to Make Science Exciting in Your Classroom. You can read the whole article here:
Fun Science Ideas

--More Mother's Day Lesson Plans and Resources--
About.com has a small but helpful collection of Mother's Day lessons and activities for your classroom:
About.com's Mother's Day Activities

Kid's Domain has a lot of great crafts to make in your classroom for Mother's Day:
Great Mother's Day Craft Ideas

You can also find quite a few Mother's Day crafts and printables at Enchanted Learning:
More Crafts and Printables

The Songs for Teaching website has a helpful collection of songs to use in your music class for Mother's Day as well as Father's Day. You can find them all here:
Songs for Celebrating Mother's Day

--Additional Online Resources the Last Days of School--
Class awards, class records, autograph books, and end of the year poetry are some of the resources you'll find here at The Teacher's Corner.
Great Enf of the Year Resources

Here's a fun bulletin board idea for the last day from our site:
End of the Year Bulletin Board

You'll find a baker's dozen brief end of the year ideas on Education World's website:
More Ideas for the Last Day of School

A similar collection of end of the year ideas can be found here:
Ideas at The Teacher's Guide

For all you preschool through first grade teachers, this is a great resource with about 35 ideas for graduation / end of the year:
Early Childhood Resources

--Featured Educational Link--
Internet4Classrooms.com is an excellent website that we recently discovered. It's a shame it had gone undiscovered for so long. This site has such an incredible wealth of links to K-12 teaching resources on all kinds of topics that I just wouldn't know where to begin! In addition, you'll find resources to help students practice skills for assessments and on-line practice modules to help you learn how to use a number of important computer applications and webquests. This is definitely a site to explore!
Internet4Classrooms.com

--Coming Soon--
Around the middle of this month you can expect another update with more lesson plans and perhaps more inspirational teacher stories as well.

--That's All For Now!--
Thanks for being a part of HotChalk and LessonPlansPage.com! You will receive another message next time we make a major update or have other news to share. Take care,
--Kyle Yamnitz
Vice President, HotChalk Network
http://www.HotChalk.com
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