• Current Tulsa Time and Temperature is .
• Carver Calendar - coming soon.
• Map to Carver
• Faculty and Staff e-mail addresses and SchoolNotes pages (Teacher Web Pages)
• Students may come in before school (8:10 a.m.) on Wednesdays and Thursdays for individual tutoring from any Carver teacher. Students must first make an appointment with the teacher, and be issued a pass.

Trip to China - Notes from Mrs. Jorgenson

• Carver Library
• Carver OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog)
• TPS District Library Resources - Click on the Purple Big6 button. 
  • BEFORE BEGINNING: Be sure to get the password information bookmark from the library!
  • Students should usually start with these resources when researching. Students should be able to tell you the login word and password.  They will write this information in their TM's early in the year.
  • These are subscription resources that include online encyclopedias, almanacs, magazines, and journals, etc.  This is FREE to you AND you can use it from any computer with Internet.
• Tulsa Public Schools' Home Page
• Tulsa Public Schools' Calendars - We follow the "Traditional- Calendar-at-a-Glance."
• Be sure to investigate all of the Carver web pages.

• The Nation's Report Card for 2005 - This was still the most current report as of 11/4/06.
• Kids' Top 100 Books - This is a list posted at the NEA site. There are lots of great books out there that could/should be on this list.  I think they may not have been discovered yet.

Reading information you need.

• Research indicates that it is the norm for middle school students to stop reading independently.  (Even students who have been avid readers.) They begin reading independently again in about 11th grade.  Our students cannot afford to go 5 years without reading independently!  Since we know this information, we can intervene and make sure that this doesn't happen to our students. We all have so many choices of how to spend our limited  free time!  Students may need encouragement from parents to make reading a free time activity.
• Many students have not discovered the the joy of reading by this age. Their reading experience may have been limited to textbooks and assigned reading. ("Assigned reading" is reading material that was chosen for them to read.  How many people would like television if someone else always chose the channel to watch?)  The research says that CHOICE is important in developing independent readers.
• Parents can create an interruption free period of time for students to read.  A time without phones, computers, games, friends, television, etc.
• Here are some other ideas to promote reading:
  • Make sure that students have books available to them. 
  • Encourage your students to have a book with them whenever possible --doctor, dentist, orthodontist appointments; any place they might possibly have to wait.
  • Read with your children.  They are not too old to read aloud to you or for you to read aloud to them.  You can also choose to both read the  same title independently but then discuss it together.  These discussions can be very enlightening.
  • Give books as presents.  (Pick books that your child would find interesting.  The goal is for students to discover that reading can be entertainment.)
  • Read books on your own so that you can recommend books you have read.
  • Use the following Readers' Resources along with your child:
    • NoveList. (Click on NoveList once you get to the N section.  You will need your Tulsa City County library card number to access NoveList.  Anyone who works, lives, or owns property in Tulsa County can get a library card.)
    • TeachingBooks.net. (You will need the login and password.  Ask your student to get a bookmark about TeachingBooks.net from the library.  It will have that information.)
    • A to Z Page for Students - Look under Authors (individual and group sites), Book, Book Activities, Book Awards, Book Cites, Book Themes, Booklists, Genres, etc. (I will continue to add to and update this site.  If you find sites that you would like to include on this page, please e-mail me the information at edwarmo@tulsaschools.org.  Thanks!  Mona Edwards, Carver Library Media Specialist)