[LM_NET] HIT: Best K-5 Resources for MLK Jr. Day and Chinese New Year

[Ronda Foust <ryfoust@COMCAST.NET>]

Here's what I've gotten so far. 




 I'll be happy to re-post another hit if more replies come in.   


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Here are some I like:
 
A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. by David Adler
I Have a Dream by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (paintings by fifteen Coretta Scott 
King Award & Honor Book Artists, published by Scholastic in 1999)
If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King by Ellen Levine
Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King by Jean Marzollo
 
Lion Dancer: Ernie Wan's Chinese New Year by Kate Waters & Madeline Sloveny-Low
Chinese New Year's Dragon by Rachel Sing
Happy, Happy Chinese New Year by Demi
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Just don't let them google!  One of the first websites that pops up is from a 
white supremacy group.  Way too much raunchy info on the first page.  I had it 
blocked on my server because I didn't want some third grader writing a report on 
MLK using that site.  Would make an excellent information literacy lesson for 
high school, though.

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Here are a couple of good sites for Chinese New Year: '

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/chinesenewyear/
http://crafts.kaboose.com/holidays/chinese_new_year.html

MLK: http://www.fno.org/poetry/standing.html

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There's a list for Chinese New Year at:  

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/chinese-new-year/kids-books/

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http://childrensbooks.about.com/od/holidays/tp/chinesenewyear.htm



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Ronda Y. Foust, Librarian
Hardin Valley Elementary School
Knoxville, TN
http://hardinvalleyes.knoxschools.org (then click on Library Media Center)
http://thebookdragon.blogspot.com/

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