[ha-Safran] Easy money for AJL

2013-08-15 Thread Heidi Estrin
Hey everyone, I'm sure you've heard me yammering about GoodSearch, the search engine that generates donations for AJL whenever you look something up. Perhaps you are hesitant to use it because I've talked about downloading their toolbar, or because the site asks you to sign up for an account

Re: [ha-Safran] Curriculum Suggestions for 3-5 grade?

2013-08-15 Thread Amalia Warshenbrot
Janice, It will be very helpful to synagogue and school librarians if you compile a bibliography and add suggestions for discussion. If you have time to do it please mail it to the AJL Bibliography Bank. The chair person is Fran Menken her address is fmen...@jccdet.org Many thanks Amalia

[ha-Safran] The August Jewish Book Carnival has been posted!

2013-08-15 Thread Heidi Estrin
The August Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly roundup of Jewish literary links from across the blogosphere, is being hosted Leora Wenger at Sketching Out. You can read it at http://www.leoraw.com/blog/2013/08/august-jewish-book-carnival/. You'll find links to Jewish bibliographies, book reviews

Re: [ha-Safran] Curriculum Suggestions for 3-5 grade?

2013-08-15 Thread Amalia Warshenbrot
You are all right, but, Betsy still needs a curriculum for a class of three grade levels in one group to study language, Torah and other Judaic topics. Amalia Sent from my iPad On Aug 15, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Amy Schoppert amykingschopp...@gmail.com wrote: I have found this age group

Re: [ha-Safran] Curriculum Suggestions for 3-5 grade?

2013-08-15 Thread Amy Schoppert
I have found this age group particularly enjoy Chelm stories. I had several 4th grade classes that would want to hear the same stories over and over -- just like younger grades. Once I overheard an older student telling a younger one that he was really in for a treat because in 4th Grade they got

Re: [ha-Safran] Curriculum Suggestions for 3-5 grade?

2013-08-15 Thread Basya Karp
I also believe that 3rd-5th graders are apt listeners to stories read aloud. At the end of the school year, I had not yet finished reading a novel to a 5th grade class, and had the students come in for a special session so they could hear the end of the story. Other activities that work are: 1.

Re: [ha-Safran] Hasafran Digest, Vol 89, Issue 4

2013-08-15 Thread Betsy Gephart
good results! Thanks for helping to raise money for AJL! Heidi Estrin AJL President -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/pipermail/hasafran/attachments/20130815 /1527023f/attachment.html

Re: [ha-Safran] Curriculum Suggestions for 3-5 grade?

2013-08-15 Thread Rachel Kamin
I agree with Janice – the older kids love to listen to picture books, especially the more sophisticated stories, and especially on Monday and Wednesday afternoons when they are just exhausted from a long day at school. Below is a listing of some of my “tried true” favorites for 2nd grade and

Re: [ha-Safran] cataloging Using Library of Congress Classification

2013-08-15 Thread Barnum, Sally
Thanks, Donny. You are absolutely correct. I've used LCC at various special libraries over the years and it has been the correct choice in collections from 1,000 to 100,000 items. Thank you, Sally ~ Sally Justis Barnum, MALS Research Developer The Centennial

Re: [ha-Safran] Curriculum Suggestions for 3-5 grade?

2013-08-15 Thread aidonna
Short picture book biographies also work very well. There are manny that have been published in the last few years. The newer ones like those about Marcel Marceau, Hank Greenberg , and any little known offbeat people provide lots of opportunity to discuss history, language, ethics as well as