Look up to see the New Year's Eve Comet...and after

It's being called the New Year's Eve Comet, but it will continue to brighten nightly afterward.

Here's a link to USA Today's description

Enjoy your New Year!

See you next year...LITERALLY.

Love That Dog

Don't you just Love that book?

Here's all of the poems from the book - enjoy! :)


William Carlos Williams reading The Red Wheelbarrow


Robert Frost reading his own poem

The Tiger - William Blake

Valerie Worth
Other Valerie Worth poems

The Pasture SONG
Limericks for kids

You can buy BOTH books for a little over $10!


How do you think you'll do on this test?






Sharon Creech's biography (If you write to Sharon Creech and send her a S.A.S.E.-self addressed stamped envelope-she will send you a letter back) :)
Listen to Sharon Creech Read from Love That Dog


Walter Dean Myers video interview

Explore and Create Poetry

• Write a Theme Poem
• Write a Compare and Contrast Poem online!
• Poetry Corner
• Write your own Acrostic Poem
• Join Fern's Poetry Club
• Create your own poem with the Poetry Machine! :)
• Use the Rhyming Dictionary
• Magnetic Poetry: Click and Create
• Read/Write your own Concrete Poem
• Read/Write a Descriptive Poem
• Read & Write a Personification Poem
• Read/Write a Poem about a Community

• Poetry Terms
• Poetry Terms Game
• Poetry Terms and Quiz

Montgolfier Brothers, Ornithopters, & More!

• Ornithopter
• Ornithopter pt 2
• Princeton, Montgolfier
• Montgolfier YouTube video
• Lighter than Air
• Montgolfiers Space.com
• Montgolfier BrothersScholastic Wright Brothers

• Wright Brothers biography - kids
• Wright Brothers
• Wright Brothers national park
• History.com-Wright brothers
• Last survivor dies at 92 (8/2014)
• History.com -Hindenburg - 9 surprising facts
• Hindenburg - Smithsonian: The Untold Story
• Hindenburg - Britannica for kids
• The end of airships
• Hindenburg-Encyclopedia/kids
• History-Hindenburg (Air Ship)