Letters
Author: Teaching Pre K-8

More views of Japan

I enjoyed the article "Snapshots from Japan" by Peter Barnes, which appeared in the October 2003 issue of Teaching K-8. When I was student teaching, I found two websites about Japan that I'd like to share with your readers. The site "A History of Kimono" at http://web.mit.edu/jpnet/kimono shows kimonos for men, women and children with a brief explanation. The second web page, Kids Web Japan at www.jinjapan.org/kidsweb is kid-friendly and allows students to learn about Japan on their own.

Heather Young

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Wonderful one-dollar words

I had planned for my 10 students to play our current events game one afternoon before art class. Those plans changed when I read Linda Lindroth's "How To..." column in the January 2004 issue and realized we had to play "$1.00 words" instead.

My students were able to find three $1.00 words in 30 minutes: printer (our tiny school has only six printers), pharisees (after all, we are a religious school) and Milwaukee (we're just 40 miles northwest of there).