Sunday, January 31, 2010

Winter Olympics

We will be studying the Olympics for the next few weeks as well as having our own Mini-Metric Olympics in science. Below are a few links to help with Olympic projects.
Winter Olympics for Kids (has information on the many events)
Meet Team USA (has many useful links for other countries as well)
Winter Olympic Games by Wikipedia (Wikipedia always has lots of information about history, etc.)
Vancouver Home page (will find medal counts and specific event information here)
Maps of the World (more information on events)
Olympic Project (created by students for students)
Winter Olympics First Grade project (We are participating in this one.)

Insight into Percy Jackson

Rick Riordan, author of The Lightning Thief and the rest of the Percy Jackson series has a really cool website. Check it out by clicking here.