Site of the week

This week, we're looking at the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives. This is a great interactive site for teaching your student math concepts that she might be having a hard time grasping. To me and to many math teachers, this site demonstrates what computers best educational use is: teaching difficult math concepts in a way that would be difficult or impossible with physical manipulatives.
This site requires that you have Java installed. Start out with the geometry section, and try rotating the Platonic solids, try your hand at tessellations,, or pretend you've just read Mind Storms bySeymour Papert and do Turtle Geometry

Acclerated Reading Update

Last time I reported on Accelerated Reader, I said"Today, Oct. 29th, we're at 1,507 books and 32, 684,304 words." Well, today, we're at 2,167 books read, and 43,480,623 words read.
Participation in grades 2,3, and 4 is 100%. We're clearly out to break last year's record number of books read.

Free H1N1 Vaccination Clinics Nov 14th ,19th, Dec, 15th

FREE H1N1 Flu Vaccination Clinics
Saturday, November 14th from 9 am to 4 pm (while vaccine supplies last)
Marin Health and Wellness Center
3240 Kerner Boulevard in San Rafael

Wednesday, November 18th from 3 pm to 7 pm (while vaccine supplies last)
West Marin Elementary School
11550 Highway 1 in Point Reyes Station

Thursday, November 19th from 3 pm to 7 pm (while vaccine supplies last)
Manzanita Recreation Center
630 Drake Avenue in Marin City

Saturday, December 5th from 9 am to 4 pm (while vaccine supplies last)
Location to be determined ASAP
Novato

These clinics are for HIGH RISK Marin County residents ONLY:
pregnant women
those who live with or care for infants (under six months of age)
healthcare and emergency medical services personnel
children and young adults (age six months through 24 years)
adults (age 25 to 64) with medical conditions that might increase risk
(such as asthma, heart disease, diabetes, or immunosuppression)

Please Note: Adults age 65 and over do NOT qualify as high risk; public health experts have
determined that adults 65 and over—even with medical conditions--- are less likely to become
infected with the H1N1 flu. Adults 65 and over may receive the vaccine in the future.

***** Only H1N1 vaccinations will be available at these clinics; no seasonal flu shots. *****

FOR MORE INFORMATION about H1N1 flu or flu vaccinations:

Visit our website at www.marinflu.org OR call the H1N1 flu “warm line” at 473-6823
(leave a message and it will be returned as soon as possible).




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Web site of the Week

This week, I added a new gadget to the Blog- the Links for Parents side bar. I'll be adding sites here every week that your children are using at school or sites that I think are particularly noteworthy. This week I want to talk about the best Periodic Table I have seen yet, The Visual Elements Periodic Table. It requires Flash and Quicktime. For every element, it has the where, when, and who of its discovery; and a brief description of its properties. Used together with
WebElements and the chem4kids periodic table, you have all the information you need for a good webquest.