Each month Marjan Glavac, professional speaker, teacher and author of The Busy Educator's Guide To The World Wide Web 2ND EDITION (Foreword by Dr. Harry Wong author of The First Days Of School) presents The Busy Educator's Monthly Five -- five websites for educators that are easy to read, simple to use and worthwhile to know.

Here are five sites for primary teachers:

Gareth Pitchford's Primary Resources
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/

From the United Kingdom comes this invaluable resource of free, ready to use ideas, resources, worksheets and lesson plans. Some of the worksheets are in PDF files which can be read with an Adobe's Acrobat Reader on your computer. There are a lot of wonderful resources here. Help the site grow by sending in your lesson ideas, worksheets and resources. Well worth a stop.

Kinder Korner
http://www.kinderkorner.com/

It's not hard to see why Kinder Korner for grades Pre-K to 2 is a top rated primary site. There is a Back To School Section with resources such as First Day Checklists, Month to Month Themes and Beginning of the Year Assessment; a section on Thematic Units, a bookstore with links to resources and how to use the activities with your students, a Kinder Korner mailing list (past issues of the newsletter are available online) and links to other primary resources, sites and more. This Korner should be in every teacher's classroom.

Learning Page.com
http://www.learningpage.com/index.html

K-3 worksheets available here for the alphabet (print and cursive), calendar (days of the week and months of the year), money, time, measure (in imperial and metric measurement systems) and numbers and much more.

Mrs. Hall's 1st Grade Class
http://mrshall.cjb.net/

Grade 1 was never like this! Read Mrs. Hall's lesson plans, grade 1 curriculum from previous years, projects ideas and links to other grade 1 classes.

Loogootee Elementary West
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/

K-3 school Loogootee Elementary West in Loogootee, Indiana, USA has a number of Internet projects, activities, articles and resources developed by staff and students. Visit them and see how they are integrating the Internet into the classroom curriculum. Take the time to read web editor Tammy Payton's magazine articles. You'll be glad you did!

Marjan Glavac's website: http://www.glavac.com

Email Marjan Glavac: marjan@glavac.com

Gazette Articles by Marjan Glavac:

• Literacy Volunteer Connection, Computer Science & Business Education Site, How Stuff Works, Postcards From America, Monetary Mania Social Studies Web Adventure (Nov. 08)
• www Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources, Biomedia, Schoolweb.se, Anacleta's Spanish & World Language/Culture Links, Behind The Name (Oct. 08)
• Addressing learning difficulties; Teacher resource; All things Science; Games and writing skills help; Secondary level English lesson plans (Sept. 08)
• Speaking Of Speech.Com, Flying Turtle Science And Technology Exploring, and more (Aug. 08)
• Human Space Flight, Genetic Science Learning Center, and more (July 08)
• web-based Ghost Towns, games, topical tutorials, and more (May 08)
• Writing, Genealogy, Soil, and more (April 08)
• Miscellaneous Sites (Mar. 08)
• Art Sites (Feb. 08)
• Miscellaneous Sites (Jan. 08)
• Back to School Sites (Aug. 03)
• Language Arts Sites Part 3 (July 03)
• Language Arts Sites Part 2 (June 03)
• Language Arts Sites Part 1 (May 03)
• English As a Second Language (ESL) Sites (Apr. 03)
• Art Sites (Mar. 03)
• College and University Sites (Feb. 03)
• Sites for School Principals and High School Teachers (Jan. 03)
• Sites For Grades 7 to 8 (Dec. 02)
• Sites For Grades 4 to 8 (Nov. 02)
• Primary Sites Grades Pre-K to 3 (Oct. 02)
• Primary Sites Grades Pre-K to 3 (Sept. 02)
• Back to School (Aug. 02)
• Sites For Beginning Teachers Part 2 (Jult 02)
• Sites For Beginning Teachers Part 1 (June 02)
• Theme Sites Part 2 (May 02)
• Theme Sites Part 1 (Apr. 02)
• Lesson Planning Sites Part 6 (Mar. 02)
• Lesson Planning Sites Part 5 (Feb. 02)
• Lesson Planning Sites Part 4 (Jan. 02)
• Lesson Planning Sites Part 3 (Dec. 01)
• Five For Lesson Planning (pt 2) (Nov. 01)
• Five For Lesson Planning (Sept. 01)