I want to thank all of you for showing up with such wonderful ideas and plans. Hopefully we can all talk with the teachers and other parents to get these...
One set of books that most teachers know about is the Magic Treehouse books. While many of them have historical themes, there are a number of these that...
Topic Discussed (not in order of preference by any means) Wireless Access for School-to get better use of resources for teachers. Technology Support-Web...
I receive announcements from the San Diego Science Alliance and thought I would pass this along. By the way, anyone can receive these e-mail announcements,...
Greetings Curie Science Community! I'm sorry I didn't include your meeting in my weekly email address to the PTA folks. I'll try to remember next time. Pia ...
RE: The robo expo, this event should be very exciting for students - this is the kind of thing that gets kids interested in science. Can the curie pta send out...
Does the library have any of the Magic School Bus/Ms. Frizzle series? Those are nice science based books for the younger kids... maybe K-2? Also for the...
The kindergarteners in Mr. Sensenbaugh's class have been feeding fish for awhile. The aquarium has been set up in his room. There is also a fish display for...
When I stopped in at the library on Tuesday Linda Sawyer gave me a catalog from Delta Education,California edition. It contains sets of science books grouped...
Karen, Most of the FOSS kits already contain a class set of the books you are referring to. Linda and I also received sets a few years ago to keep on site. Let...
Hi Michael, Yes, Linda mentioned that she had ordered books to go with the FOSS kits a couple of years ago but they have all disappeared. She thinks they may...
Michael, I realize you were at the meeting! Sorry! Karen ... -- Karen C. Arden, Ph.D. Head, Section of Molecular Cytogenetics Ludwig Institute for Cancer...
There are tons of books --- The Delta ones are pretty good and really match the FOSS kits as Delta is the publisher for both so the have made sure they...
My kids enjoy reading the magazines "Kids Discover" and "National Geographic Kids". Those are great publications, that can be laminated for circulation. Pia ...
Pia Mantovani-Sud (piamsud@...) has sent you a news article. (Email address has not been verified.) ... Personal message: I thought I wanted to share...
I went to the scholastic website for science books and found - Animals True Tales bookset GeoSafari Animals Little Encyclopedia of Science Little Encyclopedia...
Thanks, Chelsea! Our idea was to be able to have science books that could be part of the kids' regular literature reading - hence the idea of biographies...
$$$ We can ask the PTA for funds. We can use some of the $ we made selling glow bracelets. We can ask people to donate for the library cause. Any other ideas? ...
The Curie Science Committee has a budget of 200 $ to spend. If you have extra funds, those should be probably handed over to the Curie Treasurer and earmarked...
Hi Pia, Is this $200 part of the annual PTA budget or is it the $200 we made last year when we sold the glow bracelets on the night the San Diego Astronomers...
FYI: We tried to attend the Nat Hist Museum/Robo exhibit this evening and were turned away and told "Museum closed for private event". Hopefully someone from...
My two kindergarteners and I got in around 5:10pm and they had fun. They liked to "control" the LEGO robots from the First LEGO League as well as the "San...
I talked to the Lego Education rep last night. He is from San Francisco but he said if there is enough interest, he can come to give a presentation to the...
Last year we had the winner of the Lego Robotics come and talk to the science committee. He is a Curie dad and was on the EdUCate finance board. Anyone...
His name is John Brooks and his children, Andy and Katie, have participated and won several local and national competitions sponsored by the Lego company. ...
just so people know, Curie fourth and fifth graders are using Lego dacta kits to learn about simple machines in their time with Mrs. Fikes. The EdUCate! ...
Hi Pia, IF the science committee is a PTA committee, then the money really needs to go through Netanya. If it's independent (like 5th grade promotion stuff) ...