April is .. April Fools Day - Arbor Day & Earth Day - Easter fun -- National Poetry Month - Morse Code

• April from a Log Cabin Librarian
• April calendar - ReadWriteThink.org - connected calendar
• April Events Calendar - interactive - Teachers Corner
• April showers - hotlist of ideas - EdTEch Center Kennesaw
• Bookish Calendar - Through the Looking Glass Book Reviews
• Calendar for April -Enchanted Learning - daily ideas - crafts, printouts, quizzes
• Monthly themes - classroom resources, ideas, activities - Eduplace (Houghton Mifflin) - Earth Day, Poetry Month
• SLMAM linked Activities Almanac (PDF file)
• Teachers' calendar of Events - Education Oasis

National Poetry Month see St. Joe's Poetry page with fun and games - and lesson plans

• Instant Poetry Forms - ETTC - wide variety of all forms of poetry
• National Poetry Month Scholastic with printable activities by grade level
• Shel Silverstein - animated poetry page
  

International Children's Book Day - April 2nd (Hans Christian Andersen's birthday)

• Hans Christian Andersen.com - read fairy tales, play games
  • Grimm Fairy Tales.com
• Hans Christian Andersen - list of fairy tales, text, and information

April Fool's Day - InfoPlease

• Tricked by the calendar - Franklin Institute calendar explanation
• Top 10 April Fool's Day hoaxes of all time

Beverly Cleary's birthday - April 12 - with online video interview from Reading Rockets

• letter about writing first book : image 1 / image 2

National Bookmobile day April 17 National Library Week April 14-20 School Library Month World Book and Copyright Day (UNESCO) April 23, 2013 - Bangkok - with video

• CNN article on Biblioburro
• Bookmobile History - LibraryHistoryBuff.org -- and on Postage Stamps
• Bookmobiles around the world
• National Library Week activities - Education World

Lauren Tarshis and interviews survivors video

Titanic sinks - April 14-15, 1912

• Discovery Channel - Titanic
  • On board the Titanic - be a passenger interactive
• Encyclopedia Britannica article
  • Britannica video
• Lost Liners - PBS

Earth Day(April 22) and Arbor Day (April 27)

• ArborDay.com
• ArborDay.org - National Arbor Day Foundation
• Celebrate Earth Day KidsDomain
• Earth Day - Environmental Protection Agency
  • Global Climate Change - EPA Students Guide - with video explanation
• Earth Day Grocery Project
• Earth Day Network
• Earth Hour 2012 - YouTube video
  • Earth Hour 2010 - video
• Earth Hour video 2009-video YouTube
• EarthPortal.org - comprehensive resource for timely, objective, science-based information about the environment
• Global warming and climate change - Grolier online (usernamer=sjoseph : password=jaguars)
  • video (2 min.)
• Greatest Earth Day Planet Pals
• The GREENS - WGBH and TED for kids on sustainability encouraging them to take action wherever they can.

Morse Code - Samuel Morse, born on April 27

• CSS Sam's Operation Dit-Dah - beginner, intermediate, advanced code decoding -NSA (FLASH)
• Morse code translator - scphillips.com
• sound of Morse Code letters

Easter fun

• Jan Brett's new book Easter Egg - printable coloring pages and interactive coloring online
  • Easter Egg - online video from Penguin Publishing - plus interview and more
• Patricia Polacco's Raenchenka's Eggs
  • Pysanky Showcase andLearn Pysanky.com and more
• What's all the EGG-citement about Education World

Easter Lesson Plans and activitiees

• Easter - ABCTeach- word searches, mazes, letter background, crafts, dot to dot and more, writing prompts
• Easter - Teachers Guide
• Easter Lesson Plans - TeAchnology - tons of printables and lessons

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