Parents and Teachers

• Accelerated Reader - Available to students, parents, and teachers of Lexington Elementary School. To access the site, use your assigned login and password. If you are in Rodman Library and don't have your login with you, ask the staff for access.
• Assignment Alert - Let us know what your students are researching so we can help them when they come to the Library
• Classroom Collections Loan Policies - Materials for use in your classroom
• Materials Owned by Rodman Library - Search Rodman's catalog

Caldecott Connections/Newberys & the Net

For those seeking information or lesson ideas about Caldecott or Newbery award winners, this site is a honey. You'll find links to material on authors and illustrators and related books and Web sites. Here, too, is access to appropriate lesson plans and Webquests that teachers and homeschoolers and homeschooling parents will find very useful.

The Caldecott Game

Around the time that major children's book awards are announced is a great opportunity to get kids excited about reading. This PowerPoint game, appropriate for grades 1-2, will help you do just just this. Either use it as is or simply take a look to glean ideas for making your own version.

Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature

Need a source of information on just about every award-winning children's book? This exhaustive site offers searchable information about 60 children's book awards. A selection of search fields can help that match very specific criteria.

RIF Reading Planet

Getting kids excited about reading isn't always easy. That's where this great Web site, for kids in grades K-8, comes in handy. The Java-based activities and games offer plenty of fun and all are geared to stimulate interest in books and reading.

National Network for Immunizations information

This site provides parents with detailed information about why it's important to immunize their children, what the immunizations protect against and how they benefit the child. The site also allows parents to check their state's immunization requirements for school entry. It also answers many parents' frequently asked questions.

What Your Child Should Know for School

This Family Education site helps parents better prepare their children for school through numerous articles that review what children should know when they start kindergarten, how to deal with bullies and to keep safe, milestones, troubles at school and parent involvement at the school. The site covers these and other topics for all the other grades as well. There are "skill builders" that guide parents who want to help their children gain appropriate academic skill for each grade.

Rebus Rhymes

Designed for the parents and teachers of beginning readers.

Kids Craft Recipes

Looking for public domain recipes for modeling dough, finger paint, clay, or bubble stuff? This is a great place to start. Not only does this site provide simple recipes and instructions, but many also include ideas for involving kids in the process. 

Kids Domain Craft Recipes

This great site contains recipes for fun food projects, as well as crafts. There's a graham cracker turkey, that  perennial favorite, the erupting volcano, in two versions, regular and super easy and a bubbling cauldron.

Nutrition Exploration

Students are able to create their own snack recipes and print them out. "Make a Shake" is an interactive game where users place their favorite items in a blender to create the perfect smoothie. "Kids Kitchen" offers recipes geared to please kids ages K-6. "Breakfast Detective" gives clues for an entertaining matching game.

Dinosaur Jokes

This web site is full of silly (and some downright corny) dinosaur jokes that younger kids can understand.