• Alphabetizing and alphabetical order - Grades K-1 - created by the MCF grant
  Alphabet Links
  • Alphabet poster
  • Magnet/chalk board & magnetic alphabet letters  
  • Alphabet shelf markers
  • Alphabet Lace-a-word set
  • Wearable alphabet (letters strung on ribbon)
  • Books
    • ABC3D by Marion Bataille
    • Alphabet under Construction by Denise Fleming  
    • Alphabatics by Suse MacDonald
    • Alison's Zinnia by Anita Lobel
    • Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin
    • Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert
    • Firefighters A-Z by Chris Demarest
    • G is for Granite: A New Hampshire Alphabet by Marie Harris
    • Irresistible A,B,C's: 50 easy, fun multisensory activities
    • Paper Cutting Stories from A-Z

• Alphabetizing and alphabetical order - Grades 2-3 - created by the MCF grant
  Alphabet Links
  • Alphabet poster
  • Magnet/chalk board & magnetic alphabet letters - upper & lower case
  • Alphabet shelf markers
  • Alphabet match me cards
  • Alphabet stamp kit
  • Alphabet sorting beads
  • Alphabet flash cards
  • Alphabet keys
  • Books
    • A is for America by Devin Scillian
    • ABC3D by Marion Bataille
    • Alphabet City by Stephen Johnson
    • Antler, Bear, Canoe: a Northwoods Alphabet by Betsy Bowen
    • Children from Australia to Zimbabwe : a photographic journey around the world by Maya Ajmera
    • G is for Granite: A New Hampshire Alphabet by Marie Harris
    • The Handmade Alphabet by Laura Rankin
    • Paper Cutting Stories from A-Z
    • Tomorrow's alphabet by George Shannon
    • The Z was zapped by Chris Van Allsburg

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• Blindness/Visual Disabilities and Reading
  Blind/Visually Handicapped/Braille Internet Links 
  • Comic book (2 copies): The story of Bonnie -- a Seeing Eye dog
  • Putting Miracles in Motion: How Seeing Eye dogs are trained
  • Tapping the Charcoal. Large print book with short stories about blind people
  • Tapping the Charcoal - Braille edition.
  • If Blindness comes - large print book
  • Oh! say, can you see... - large print book
  • Seeing Eye Brochure
  • Braille alphabet cards
  • "What is it"? bag - includes blindfold & 8 objects
  • Items from Transition Coordinator's collection
    • Braille playing cards
    • Braille dice
    • Braille dominos
    • Braille calendar
    • Braille Weekly Reader - with US raised map
    • Book "What do you say dear" with braille text
    • Vision device to show blurred vision
  • Video: "Keeping an eye on a Friend". 4 1/2 mins.
    Tells the story of Duke a Seeing Eye dog from his point of view.
  • Talking book: Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge - book & tape
  • Books
    • Apt. 3 by Ezra Jack Keats
    • Brave Norman: a true story by Andrew Clements
    • Buddy: the first seeing eye dog by Eva Moore
    • Knots on a counting rope by Bill Martin
    • A picture book of Louis Braille by David Adler
    • A picture book of Helen Keller by David Adler
    • Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young
    • That terrible awful day by Suzette Wright - a tactile/braille book

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• Caldecott Award - the work of the illustrator - created by the MCF grant
  Caldecott Award Links
  • Art Medium of the Caldecott display   
  • Caldecott book bingo game
  • Caldecott Award information card
  • Video: Randolph Caldecott, the man behind the medal (15 mins)
  • Caldecott flash cards
  • Caldecott Art Media powerpoint
  • Caldecott poster
  • Books
    • 100 Most popular picture book authors and illustrators
    • Art through children's literature: Creative art lessons for Caldecott books
    • Using Caldecotts Across the curriculum
    • Hooked on the Caldecott awards winners: 60 crossword puzzles
    • The Art Lesson by Tomie dePaola
    • Caldecott connections to language arts
    • Saint George & the dragon - illus. by NH illustrator Trina Schart Hyman
    • Talking with the Artists
    • Three Little Pigs by David Wiesner - 2002 Caldecott winner
    • Sing a song of sixpence by Randolph Caldecott
      Books for Art Medium display
      • Abraham Lincoln
      • Ashanti to Zulu
      • Jumanji
      • Mirette on the high wire
      • Rapunzel
      • Saint George & the dragon
      • Shadow
      • Snowflake Bentley
      • Song & Dance Man

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• Dewey Decimal System - created by the MCF grant 
   Dewey Decimal Internet Links
  • Dewey Draw - A card game for grades 2-5 to familiarize them with the Dewey Decimal system.
  • Dewey Match - a set of Dewey Decimal cards and instructions for 3 different games to play with them.
  • Dewey Decimal book bingo game
  • Blackline masters for teaching the Dewey Decimal system
  • Dewey Decimal system cards: 11 cards (1 for each hundred and 1 entire)
  • Dewey Posters: 2 sets (Charlie Brown & Contemporary)
  • Dewey posters: 2 large laminated posters
  • Dewey alphabet posters
  • Dewey bookmarks
  • Dewey Rap
  • Dewey shelf markers
  • Books:
    • Dewey and the Decimals: Learning games and activities
    • The Dewey Decimal system by Allan Fowler
    • Great Dewey Hunt by Toni Buzzeo (includes reproducible library lessons)
    • What Marion taught Willis

   

  • Cafe Dewey is a separate kit

• The Doorbell Rang - Math and Children's Literature - created by the MCF grant
  • Doorbell (battery operated)
  • Cooking set: oven mitts, baking sheet, trays, cookies, spatula, spoon, plates, recipe
  • Story sets: Inch by Inch, Mouse Count
  • Book & tape of The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins
  • Book: The Doorbell rang
  • book: Cookie Count: a tasty pop-up by Robert Sabuda

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• Fractured Fairy Tales - The Three little pigs
  Fractured fairy tale Internet links
  • Pig noses (3)
  • Wolf mask
  • Pig mask
  • Flowers and flower lei
  • Pocket chart for comparing & contrasting versions
  • Finger puppet stage (self-standing) and 4 finger puppets (3 pigs & wolf)
  • Video: Three little pigs (James Marshall version)  vhs
  • Video: True story of the 3 little pigs (Sciezka) dvd
  • Books:
    • Frantic Frogs and other frankly fractured folktales for reader's theatre
    • Silly Salamanders and other slightly stupid stuff for reader's theatre
    • Three little pigs by Paul Galdone
    • Three little pigs by James Marshall
    • True story of the 3 little pigs by Jon Scieszka
    • Three pigs by David Wiesner
    • Three little wolves and the big bad pig by Eugene Trivizas
    • Three little javelinas
    • Wait! No paint! by Bruce Whatley
    • Three little cajun pigs by Mike Artell
    • Three little fish and the big bad shark by Ken Geist

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• History of Books and Printing
  History of Books and printing Internet links
  • Resource notebook
  • Powerpoint on history of books & printing
  • Video: Simon's Book
    Reading Rainbow 30mins. Visit a printing plant to see a book printed & bound. Includes a small cartoon movie of the history of printing.
  • Papyrus scroll
  • Moveable type pieces
  • Reverse alphabet pieces - to practice "setting" type
  • Feather quill & glass quill
  • School-house chalk board set – slate, game sheet, chalk & small eraser
  • CD rom - Library of Congress - includes brief video tour of LC
  • Book: Johann Gutenberg and the amazing printing press by Bruce Koscielniak
  • Book: Breaking into print: before and after the invention of the printing press
  • book in galley form: Sumo Boy
  • Book: B is for Bookworm
  • Book: America the Beautiful by Robert Sabuda - pop-up book
  • Poster of timeline of the history of printing
  • Laminated pictures:
    • Gutenberg
    • Gutenberg press
    • Gutenberg bible page
    • illuminated manuscript pages
    • oldest known printed book
    • cuneiform tablets
    • Hornbook

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• Japan - created in conjunction with a Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program award
  
  • CDroms – Welcome to Japan: meet the Ninja through Japanese scrolls
    Origami & Ayatori (string games)
  • Map:
    Tokyo city map
  • Magazine: Nipponia #22, 2002 – “Young performers carry on ancient traditions”
  • Pamphlets:
    Japan Overview
    Views of Japan
    Your guide to Japan
  • Realia:
    • Chopsticks (50 pairs)
    • Fan
    • Name chop & ink pad
    • Paper kite (miniature)
      

  • Videos: Families of Japan, Master Communications, 2001. 30 minutes
    The Paper Crane (Reading Rainbow). GPN, 1987. 30 minutes
    Other: Japan: Top Secret Adventure - solve a mystery by figuring out the clues

    • Books:
      • Beatty, Theresa. Food and recipes of Japan. New York: PowerKids Press, 1999.
      • Boraas, Tracey. Japan. Mankato, MN: Bridgestone Books, 2002.
      • Carle, Eric & Kazuo Iwamura. Where are you going? To see my friend: a story of friendship in two languages. New York: Orchard Books, 2001.
      • Demi. In the eyes of the cat: Japanese poetry for all seasons. New York: Henry Holt, 1992.
      • Franco, Betsy. Japan: a literature-based multicultural unit. Evan-Moor, 1993.
      • Harvey, Miles. Look what came from Japan. New York: Watts, 1999.
      • The Japan Book. Kodansha International, 2002.
      • Kajikawa, Kimiko. Yoshi’s feast. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2000.
      • Kimmel, Eric. Three samurai cats: a story from Japan. New York: Holiday House, 2003.
      • Mannis, Celeste. One leaf rides the wind: counting in a Japanese garden. New York: Viking, 2002.
      • Miyazawa, Kenji. Crossing the snow. Tokyo, Japan: International Foundation for the Promotion of Languages and Culture, 2000.
      • Miyazawa, Kenji. Masterworks of Miyazawa Kenji: Poems and fairy tales. Tokyo, Japan: International Foundation for the Promotion of Languages and Culture, 2002.
      • Miyazawa, Kenji. The telegraph poles on a moonlit night. Tokyo, Japan: International Foundation for the Promotion of Languages and Culture, 2000.
      • Nakano, Dokuohtei. Easy origami. New York: Puffin Books, 1981.
      • Say, Allen. Under the Cherry Blossom tree: an old Japanese tale. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974.
      • Schomp, Virginia. Japan in the days of the Samurai. New York: Benchmark Books, 2002.
      • Sierra, Judy. Tasty baby belly buttons. New York: Dragonfly Books, 1999.
      • Takabayaski, Mari. I live in Tokyo. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
      • Temko, Florence. Traditional Crafts from Japan. Minneapolis: Lerner, 2001.

    • Books in Japanese:
      • Japanese folktale - Umakata (with translation)
      • 4th grade math textbook

    • Books in English & Japanese:
      • Amery, Heather & Stephen Cartwright. First thousand words in Japanese. London: Usborne Publishing, 1995.
      • Carle, Eric & Kazuo Iwamura. Where are you going? To see my friend: a story of friendship in two languages. New York: Orchard Books, 2001. .
      • Japanese Contemporary Prints: 47th CWAJ Print Show. Tokyo, Japan: The College Women’s Association of Japan, 2002.
      • Kaneko, Misuzu. Songs for Children. (includes CD) Japan: JULA, 2003.

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• Ladybug Books - NH State Picture Book Award 
  Ladybug Book Award
  Please note: The kit no longer contains the 10 books.
  • Resource notebook
  • Ladybug kaleidoscopes
  • ladybug hand puppet
  • inflatable ladybug
  • bulletin board trim & decorations

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• Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey  
  • Paperback copy of the book
  • loose pages of the whole book (display, bulletin bd, activities)
  • Teacher lesson plan booklet
  • Video: Robert McCloskey "library": includes Make Way for ducklings, Time of Wonder, Blueberries for Sal, Burt Dow, and a "Visit with Robert McCloskey.  (dvd)
  • Painted full size sheet with map of Boston & ducklings path
  • Painted full size sheet with book title & illus of duck family
  • Stuffed animals: mallard & 8 ducklings
  • 8 small ducklings
  • VHS movie - Make way for ducklings
  • Large Nest with eggs
  • Tiny nest with eggs
  • small mirror lake (8")
  • Wallpaper border (8" wide - 8' long) of Mr & Mrs Mallard picture repeated
  • Laminated color photo of female duck with ducklings
  • Face painting kit with cray-pas & mirrors
  • Folder with Postcards of Boston, Laminated photos of ducks, Boston maps with ducklings path, Duck foot relay game instructions

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• Newbery Award - the work of the author - created by the MCF grant
  Newbery Award Links
  • Newbery Poster
  • Newbery flash cards
  • Newbery book bingo game
  • Newbery books - book spine game
  • Poster of Newbery medal
  • Video: The Newbery Award (17 mins)
  • Newbery Information card
  • Books
    • 100 Most popular children's authors
    • Teaching with favorite Newbery books
    • Newbery and Caldecott Trivia and more for every day of the year
    • Hooked on the Newbery Award winners: 75 wordsearch puzzles
    • Amos Fortune, free man
    • The Newbery Companion: Booktalk and related materials

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• New Hampshire Geography & Maps
  
  • NH road map - AAA - 27 copies
  • Cheshire County Map - 23 copies
  • NH tourist map - 4 copies
  • NH Geography Bingo game
  • Old maps of Cheshire County - 1892
    55 old maps reproductions (8 1/2 x 11) laminated
  • Atlases
    • New Hampshire Atlas & Gazetteer 2005
    • National Geographic World Atlas for Young Explorers 3rd ed. 2007
  • Books
    • As the Crow flies: a first book of maps
    • Grand Monadnock: exploring the most popular mountain in America
    • The Great New Hampshire puzzle book
    • Me on the map
    • New Hampshire through many eyes: an activity book
    • Nifty New Hampshire coloring book
    • Old Man of the Mountain

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• New Hampshire primary - Mary Had A little Lamb & Tomie dePaola - created by the MCF grant
  Mary had a little lamb & Tomie dePaola links  
  • Flannelboard & Mother Goose flannelboard set
  • Video: a Visit with Tomie dePaola (25 mins)
  • Lamb puppet
  • NH map
  • Mary had a little lamb character name tags (for creative dramatics)
  • Lamb mask
  • Laminated book jacket
  • Books
    • Tomie dePaola's Mother Goose
    • Mary had a little lamb, illus. by Tomie dePaola (2 copies)
    • Mary had a little lamb, illus. by Iza Trapani
    • Mary had a little lamb, photo-illustrated by Bruce McMillan
    • Thank you, Sarah: The woman who saved Thanksgiving

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• New Hampshire intermediate - Research skills - Mills in NH History - created by the MCF grant
  New Hampshire Mills Internet links
  • Research posters (4): Library catalog, Dewey Decimal, World of Information, Searching tips
  • Keyword Searching Tips
  • NH road map
  • overhead transparencies for OPAC and visual OPAC
  • MARC records floppy
  • Research help cards: parts of a book, who is an author/illustrator, call numbers, using encyclopedias, using a dictionary, biographies, bibliographies, using almanac/atlas
  • Video - Mill Times (60 mins), based on David Macaulay's book _Mill_
  • "Mill Times" pamphlet - an activity and resource guide for use with the video "Mill Times".
  • Books
    • New Hampshire by Dottie Brown
    • The Granite State: an illustrated history by Ronald & Grace Jager
    • New Hampshire Atlas & Gazetteer
    • Lyddie by Katherine Paterson
    • The only mill in town: the story of the pail-making industry in Richmond, NH
    • Yvonne of the Amoskeag textile mill by Alice Daley Noyes
    • 57 games to play in the library or classroom: games to reinforce research skills
    • The bobbin girl by Emily Arnold McCully
    • A river ran wild by Lynne Cherry
    • Mill by David Macaulay
    • Mill Girls: from farm to factory, Cobblestone Magazine, March 2001.
    • Pardon me, but your references are showing.
    • The Mysteries of research.

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• Poetry - Primary
  Poetry Internet Links
  • Kids magnetic poetry kit
  • Magnetic strips for make-your-own magnetic poetry
  • Magnet/white board & stand
  • 6 Poetry posters (haiku, couplet, limerick, acrostic)
  • Stop sign for "poetry break"
  • Video - Poetry Day. 30 mins. An episode from the PBS series "Between the Lions" featuring poetry.
  • Books
     
    • New Kid on the Block by Jack Prelutsky
    • A Poem a day: 180 thematic poems and activities that teach and delight all year long
    • The Poetry Break by Caroline Feller Bauer
    • Instant poetry frames for primary poets by Betsy Franco
    • I invited a Dragon to Dinner and other poems to make you laugh out loud
    • A Poke in the Eye: a collection of concrete poems
    • Poetry fun by the ton with Jack Prelutsky
    • Poetry time with Dr. Seuss rhyme
    • Fun 15 minute poetry-writing activities: grades 2-4
    • The Scholastic Rhyming Dictionary
    • Eric Carle's Animals Animals
    • How to write poetry by Paul Janeczko
    • Good Books, Good Times! selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins
    • Fireflies at midnight by Marilyn Singer
    • Seasons: a book of poems by Charlotte Zolotow
    • Fly with poetry: An ABC of poetry by Avis Harley
    • Leap into poetry: more ABCs of poetry by Avis Harley  

• Poetry - Intermediate
  Poetry Internet Links
  • Kids magnetic poetry kit
  • Magnetic strips for make-your-own magnetic poetry
  • Magnet/white board & stand
  • 6 Poetry posters (haiku, limerick, narrative, cinquain, free verse, lyric)
  • Computer haiku messages
  • Shel Silverstein Poetry kit: includes CD of Shel reading 10 poems, extension activity booklet,
    "Cuttin' Kate" poetry activity book, and more.
  • Stop sign for "poetry break"
  • Video (VHS) - Zooful of Poetry. 30 mins. Live action combined with animation.
  • Video (DVD) - The Poetry Show. 30 mins. Animated, features poems by some of the world's greatest poets. Can be shown in segments.
  • Books
    • Joyful Noise: poems for 2 voices by Paul Fleischman
    • A Poem a day: 180 thematic poems and activities that teach and delight all year long
    • Poetry by heart: a child's book of poems to remember
    • Poetry for young people: Robert Frost
    • Poetry play any day with Jane Yolen
    • Poetry galore and more with Shel Silverstein
    • Teaching 10 fabulous forms of poetry: grades 4-8
    • Thirteen moons on Turtle's back: a Native American year of moons
    • Where the sidewalk ends by Shel Silverstein
    • The Scholastic Rhyming Dictionary
    • The Earth is painted green: a garden of poems about our planet
    • How to write poetry by Paul Janeczko
    • Fly with poetry: An ABC of poetry by Avis Harley
    • Leap into poetry: more ABCs of poetry by Avis Harley

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• Snowy Day - created by a grant from the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation in November 2002. 
  Snowy Day Internet links
  • Video/DVD: Ezra Jack Keats video library, 52 mins long
    includes: Snowy Day, Whistle for Willie, Peter's Chair, A letter to Amy, Apt. 3, Pet Show!, The Trip, and a 6 min interview of Keats who talks about what influenced his work as an illustrator.
  • Video: Snowflake Bentley (20 mins) dvd
  • Posters: Make tracks to your library & Snowy Day
  • Winter Resource Box: includes decorations, manipulatives, games, puppet, puzzle, experiments etc.
  • Books
    • Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
    • Snowy Day (big book)
    • Snowy Day (book and cassette tape)
    • Science Through Children's Literature
    • Snow is falling by Franklyn Branley
    • Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs
    • Crafts to make in the Winter by Kathy Ross
    • Kids Winter handbook by Jane Drake
    • Winter Day Play: activities, crafts and games by Nancy Castaldo
    • Winter Poems selected by Barbara Rogasky, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
    • Ezra Jack Keats: Artist and picture book maker by Brian Alderson
    • While the Bear sleeps: winter tales and traditions by Caitlin Matthews

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• Tall Tales
  Tall tales Internet links
  • US Map
  • Video: Paul Bunyon (Reading Rainbow)
  • Video: Pecos Bill
  • Video: Swamp angel
  • Video: America's legends: John Henry, Paul Bunyon, Johnny Appleseed, Casey Jones
  • Books:
    • Ten Tall tales: origins, activities & more
    • Teaching tall tales: reproducibiles, activities and other spin-offs
    • American Tall tales by Mary Osborne
    • Cut from the same cloth: American women of myth, legend and tall tale
    • The Bunyons by Audrey Wood
    • Granite Baby by Lynne Bertrand (NH setting)
    • Mike Fink by Steven Kellogg
    • Paul Bunyon by Steven Kellogg
    • Pecos Bill by Steven Kellogg
    • Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett by Steven Kellogg
    • Swamp Angel by Anne Isaacs

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• World Folklore - Cinderella Around the World - created by the MCF grant
  Cinderella Internet Links
  • Flannelboard story
  • Video: Yeh Shen, a Chinese Cinderella story
  • Costume pieces: wand, glass slippers, 2 crowns, pumpkin, mouse & horse masks
  • Finger puppets
  • Pumpkin Coach with finger puppets
  • World map
  • Inflatable world globe
  • "Globe Trotting" - a game based on hopscotch, that tests students knowledge of different continents
  • Parodies of Cinderella stories
  • Books
    • Mufaro's beautiful daughters (Africa)
    • The Egyptian Cinderella (Africa)
    • Cinderella Penguin (Antarctica - parody)
    • The Korean Cinderella (Asia)
    • The gift of the crocodile (Asia)
    • Angkat: The Cambodian Cinderella (Asia)
    • Yeh Shen: A Cinderella story from China (Asia)
    • James Marshall's Cinderella (Europe)
    • Cinderella (Europe)
    • The Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story (Europe)
    • Cindy Ellen: A wild western Cinderella (North America - parody)
    • The Rough-face girl: Algonquin Indian Cinderella story (North America)
    • Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella (North America)
    • Rufferella (North America - parody)
    • Little Gold Star: A Spanish American Cinderella tale (South America)
    • If the shoe fits: voices from Cinderella (story told through poems)

The Grant was to help enhance elementary library services through resource sharing accomplished in two ways:
1) by creating 8 library skills resource kits for district wide use, and 2) by using current technology to create and update library skills lesson plans and units and to establish in-depth subject web pages for the seven elementary school in the MRSD.

The links included within the Monadnock Regional School District (MRSD) web pages may let you leave the MRSD's Web site. The selection of links is limited to those that meet our educational purpose. The linked sites are not under the control of the MRSD and the MRSD is not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site, or any changes or updates to such sites. The MRSD is not responsible for Webcasting or any other form of transmission received from any linked site. The MRSD is providing these links only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by the MRSD.