A learning experience designed to expand primary students' knowledge of what is and is not magic is described. Included are activities involving language arts, math, art, class discussion, and motor skills. (MT)

Ten 10-minute activities to fill in the space between lessons or before lunch are described. Each one is designed to encourage students to think and participate. (MT)

Gives objectives and instructions for games and exercises for the second language classroom. Examples are all in French. (EKN)

This article briefly explains the use of trading cards as teaching tools. (BB)

The author describes a program, Serendipity, in which gifted elementary students designed a museum for primary age children. (SB)

Presents four brief plays which elementary children can produce: a Peter Rabbit musical and a Halloween story for primary children plus a February radio play and a situation comedy for the intermediate grades. (Editor/SJL)

Describes an activity in which students learn new words by guessing the meaning in isolation, in context, and then by looking in a dictionary. Notes that the pressure on students to be correct is removed by having different students guess the meaning at each stage of the activity. (RS)

Offers answers to questions on this issue's September calendar of events for elementary students. Items addressed include the Viking 2 spacecraft, children's poetry, Ellis Island, the space shuttle Discovery, space satellites and space junk, ice cream cones, Dr. Seuss, and the praying mantis. (SM)

Describes a class activity in which students research and then impersonate famous people (living or dead) for an interview conducted by the teacher in front of the class. (RS)

Offers several activities for celebrating Winnie-the-Pooh's birthday, including: reading Pooh stories and inventing a Pooh trivia game; creating a spot for thinking and reflecting; writing poems; using Pooh's expedition to the North Pole as inspiration for an imaginary class trip; dividing into groups and describing individual Pooh characters; and…

This article presents a brief biography of author Arnold Lobel, perhaps best known for giving the world Frog and Toad. Arnold Lobel was born in Los Angeles, California, on May 22, 1933, and was raised by his grandparents in New York. He loved checking out books from the library when he was a little boy and sharing with his classmates the stories…

This column presents a brief description of Candace Fleming's book, "Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!" (Illustrated by G. Brian Karas. Atheneum, 2002), a perfect book to share with young children about the joy and frustrations of gardening. In the book, Mr. McGreely, who has dreamed of having a garden all of his own for years, is forced to find a number of…

This brief article describes notable events in Margaret Bourke-White's life and links these events to one of her well-known prints, "The George Washington Bridge." Margaret Bourke-White is best known for her photojournalism and commercial photography. Her photograph of the George Washington Bridge published in Fortune magazine in 1933, explores…