With Califone Wireless Headphones, your students will stay connected but be free to move. There’s no more tangled cords with these popular wireless headphones, plus they are easy to collect and store after using.

Califone Wireless Headphones CLS721 create lesson flexibility and remove the cumbersome tethered feeling to media players. These student headphones are the perfect solution for simple, cordless listening centers.

Each color-coded wireless headphone operates on a specific frequency, so you can use up to four Califone Wireless Headphone systems within the same vicinity, including the same classroom. Each student headphone is powered by a rechargeable battery that allows for up to six hours of continuous use. The headphones have individual volume knobs, so students can adjust the volume level to match their individual hearing ability. The wireless student headphones also feature easy-to-clean ear cushions to help prevent the spread of germs, and are simple to replace when needed. In addition, the headband adjusts from child size to adult size with ease.

Ideal for language learning, literacy groups, ELL/ ELD applications and library uses, these wireless headphones can expand the number of listening students to include the entire classroom. And because the system frequency can operate simultaneously in the same room without any interference, you can split students into different groups, so they can enjoy wireless learning at their own paces.

Classroom Uses for the Califone Wireless Headphone

Califone’s Wireless Headphone system technology puts a premium on wireless learning, and the monaural learning system allows for an infinite number of headphones to help you meet the specialized needs of group instruction. Students can learn language, improve math, reading and speaking skills at differentiated learning rates. Just plug any multimedia source into the VHF/FM transmitter, turn on the headphones and you’re wireless!

Features of the Califone Wireless Headphones CLS721

• Individual volume controls with on/off knob
• Battery level LED
• Built-in antenna
• Adjustable headband
• Easy-to clean, foam-filled ear cushions
• Nickel metal hydride rechargeable battery, 6 hours operation
• Optional headphone rack sold separately
• One year warranty

Wireless Headphone Frequency Color Codes

• Yellow: 72.100 MHz
• Blue: 72.500 MHz
• Green: 72.900 MHz
• Red: 74.700 MHz

If you already have a Califone Wireless Transmitter, all you need to do is select the corresponding headphone frequency and you’ll be ready to start teaching!

Just Google “Reading Levels”!

If you take a few minutes and browse through the list of age-appropriate and guided-leveled books, I’m sure you will find just the right one to hold your child’s interest, as well as involve them in the joy of reading.

Because grade level divisions vary in so many different ways, it is important to consider what is appropriate for the reader. Children are exposed to many different experiences and you should focus on what is developmentally appropriate for your child, rather than what others think is above or below a child’s grade level.

Leveled reading removes the “one size fits all” approach to reading, and gives each child the opportunity to develop essential skills at his own pace.

Leveled reading book lists have been developed for two reasons.

• For parents, who have requested help in finding books in their child’s reading level.
• For teachers, who have requested a leveled book list or have asked for help in building a leveled reading library in their classrooms.

How wonderful that these list exist! There is a book on virtually every topic, so find out what interests your child, and then make your selection - maybe even together.

One way to find the reading level of a children’s paperback book is to turn it over. Many books include the reading level in various forms. However, publisher designations can be confusing, particularly when you pick up one copy of a book and it is designated as 0812 in a bookstore. Then, you pick up another version of the very same book and see it designated as 0712.

(Note: Reading levels are generally only printed on the paperback versions of books.)

The most fundamental aspect of teaching guided reading is that the children should have plenty of help.

• Encourage working in groups.
• Encourage reading out loud, as well as silent reading.
• Consistently test comprehension and retention. (At home, you might do this with your child by talking about the story later in the day, and asking each other questions.)
• Better yet, spend an afternoon with your child at the local library. Introducing new topics broadens your child’s small world. Plus, paying attention to your child’s interest level is a good way to get to know your child even better!

If you are looking for other innovative products to give your child an extra edge in school, visit Tomorrow’s Classroom. Here you will find the Royal Inspiration Station, as well as other Reading and Writing Centers.

Tomorrow’s Classroom also promotes the Carpets For Kids learning rugs, which can help your children learn. With these colorful classroom rugs, you can transform an ordinary bedroom, classroom or play area into an educational haven. What a unique place for them to enjoy reading!

Now Available!

When trying to keep students interested in your classroom, it helps to have attention-grabbing visual aids. Well… Copernicus Educational has done it again! They have transformed the already popular Copernicus Reading and Writing Center into an up-to-date teaching tool.

The new Copernicus Inspiration Station, designed in collaboration with educators, incorporates many innovative features to make teaching easier and more efficient. For various budgets, they provide the option to upgrade later to the Premium Royal Inspirational Station model for maximum classroom storage. Unique features include:

• Slide out board enlarges work area by 15″W
• Foot activated braking system
• Height adjustable magnetic dry erase surface on front
• Ultra-Safe Big Book Ledge locks into various positions
• Top shelf for teacher
• One Really Big Tub slides out from the front
• Three Open Tubs
• One Large Divided Book Tub
• Two Tiny Tubs for markers etc.
• Tub stop safety feature
• Big Book Rack
• Telescoping accessory rod for wide pocket charts
• Two magnetic Page Paws for keeping pages in place
• Top shelf chart paper guides
• Lifetime frame and tub warranty
• Two Chart Paper Loop hooks
• Four 3″ casters

Win Your Own Royal Inspirational Station!

As part of a promotional campaign, Royal Inspirational Stations will be given away at these specified dates (April 1, 2008, July 2, 2008, October 1, 2008 and January 5, 2008).

How to Enter: Entrants must register on line at www.royainsp.com, click on contest link and enter a valid promo code to access the entry form and for more details.

If you like the Inspirational Station and want to buy now… Tomorrows Classroom offers the Copernicus Inspirational Station at a great value. Either way, you and your students will enjoy and benefit from this innovative teaching tool. Good luck!

Somewhere out there lurks a teacher trying to grab the attention of a student… a teacher trying to stimulate the imagination and nurture the minds of our future leaders. Whether these children will become political leaders, CEO’s, doctors, nurses, teachers, astronauts or productive citizens is not yet known. What we do know is that they will become the future parents and grandparents for yet another group of eager-to-learn children. Copernicus Educational Products wants to assist teachers with this goal.

Today Copernicus offers 15 major product lines. They are chiefly forms of easels and storage cabinets on wheels, specifically designed for grade school classrooms. These products were created by teachers for teachers - and made to be functional and durable. They generally sell for about $150 to $600, with the best-selling model going for about $350. Below is a list of Copernicus’ most popular product line - The Reading Writing Centers.

Copernicus Products are shipped “knock-down”, ready to assemble using only a screwdriver or an adjustable wrench. Comprehensive instructions ensure that assembly is easy and safe. Warranty details are provided in the instruction sheets and registration is available on the website. The company does not sell direct. It has 50 distributors across Canada and the United States, one in Australia, added in 1998, and one in the United Kingdom, added in 2000.

Copernicus Reading Writing Centers

The Royal Reading Writing Center (RC005) is the most popular reading writing center for grades K-5. (Watch the video) However, there are several different styles, sizes and options of Reading Writing Centers to choose from. Use the guide below to determine which Reading Writing Center best suits your needs.

Expanded Storage Reading Writing Centers

• Standard Royal Reading Writing Center
• Queen Royal Reading Writing Center
• King Royal Reading Writing Center

Standard Reading Writing Centers

• Standard Reading Writing Center
• Queen Standard Reading Writing Center

Regal Reading Writing Centers

• Regal Reading Writing Center

This Web site made me wish I once again had a child in my house, so I could be playing with LeapFrog products, too.

LeapFrog School House provides stand alone learning technologies that appeal to all the ways students learn: through the use of touch, sight and sound. Providing self-directed learning experiences avoids a child’s frustration and strengthens their ability to learn. This builds confidence in themselves, because it requires their active involvement.

When you are out shopping, why not point these products out to your children, and get their opinion, too!

While exploring the site a little further, I found that there is a demo site to help the teachers make the most of this teaching aid. If you are teaching children, take a minute or two and check out this site. The demo provides an introduction to the products and offers opportunities for hands-on interaction to better explore the product features. In addition, LeapFrog School House learning aids appeal to a wide variety of age levels.