Isn’t it funny how things sometimes just happen. My friend, Lisa, asked me this week if I knew of any interactive plagiarism sites that she could use with her middle school students and off the top of my head I didn’t have any answers. Fast forward to tonight…. I’m on [...]
A friend of mine, Marie, sent me a link to e-Learning for Kids and I’m glad she did! It is filled with wonderful free resources…
“Established in late 2004, e-Learning for Kids is a global, nonprofit foundation dedicated to fun and free learning on the Internet for children ages [...]
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Wishing everyone celebrating Thanksgiving today a day filled with family and friends, fun and laughter, health and peace, rest and relaxation, football games and pumpkin pie! ENJOY!
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 Tom Barrett is the creative mind behind the Interesting Ways to Use Series. If you have not yet checked out his blog and specifically this series I highly recommend that you do! He has created presentations for Intersting Ways to…. “Use Audio, Use a Wiki, Use Wordle, etc. The really [...]
Triptico is a site that every teacher who uses a SMARTBoard should take the time to check out since it offers several free interactive activities that are simply wonderful! I love them all! ENJOY!
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Many of the options work very well with the SMARTBoard -Â I love the [...]
Magic Studio is a Network of Interactive Learning that has been on my “need to explore closer” list since this summer. I started to explore it this week and have really found some of the features to be versatile for the SMARTBoards, classroom use (laptops) and on wikis [...]
Harcourt Publishing has an ABC Adventure interactive game that teaches/reinforces the letters of the alphabet. A keyboard appears on the screen and the player uses their computer keyboard to fill in the missing letters. It has nice voice output and I like that the letters are highlighted. [...]
Steve Anderson over on the Blogging About the We 2.0 Connection in the Classroom Blog announced a contest that I wanted to pass along.  The SMART folks have given him one copy (1 License, up to 40 Machines) of their SMART Classroom Suite Software to give [...]
With Thanksgiving shining bright on my radar screen I wanted to remind everyone of the resources on my Thanksgiving page. I would also recommend that you visit the Thanksgiving Resources posted by Jim Hollis over on Teachers Love SMARTBoards and Larry Ferlazzo’s Thanksgiving Resources [...]
Fractions can be a difficult concept for some students to master and so I was asked by some teachers if I knew of any websites that were interactive and would help students reinforce and practice fraction skills. Below is the list I developed- ENJOY!
Elearning for Kids- this is a [...]
During a Google search for Thanksgiving activities/lessons I came across this awesome website called EL Civics for ESL Students. It is filled with many mini lessons on civics, US Holidays, Famous Americans, Life Skills, US Geography, etc. The site also provides worksheets and activities to accompany the lessons. All of the [...]
I came across the website, ReadWriteThink Calendar, and wanted to share. What I like about this resource is that it not only presents daily historical information using text and visual supports, but it also gives you links to lesson plans and other resources to give you ideas [...]
The fall always seems like the optimal time for lessons on trees and so once again as the leaves are changing colors and quickly falling to the ground in Massachusetts I’m thinking trees! There are two sites from the University of Illinois Extension that I find to [...]
English Alphabet from NGfL,  is a good activity for alphabet/letter review that works well with the SMARTBoard. The initial screen reviews the letters with visual and audio cues. You can then either touch each letter in the alphabet on the top of the screen or click on the arrow in [...]
I have discovered some very cool, and new to me, sites that help assist with reinforcing and reviewing rhyming that I wanted to share. The first is by Golden Books called Cat at Bat. This activity simulates a baseball game- every correct answer scores a run and every [...]
Sharing an interesting site that has been talked about by several people called-Â Tar Heel Reader . I think I first learned of this site from the amazing Paul Hamilton over on his blog Free Resources from the NET for Every Learner. Tar Heal Reader offers [...]
Want to share another great site from the BBC– KS1 Bitesize Games. This addresses two areas: Literacy and Numeracy. Both present with several subcategories including addition, multiplication, money skills under numeracy and spelling, alphabetical order, phonics under literacy. Each category has three skill level options, presents [...]
I have been busy helping some of the math coaches in the district create resource wikis for their teachers and as I was searching for interactive sites I stumbled across Rader’s Number Nut.com. This is a very comprehensive site filled with a plethora of math information and activities for review [...]
Here are a few sites that I have used to discuss Veterans Day. ENJOY!
The first is a website that offers various Powerpoints on Veteran’s Day.
VA Kids has a nice word jumble game. This works well on the SMARTBoard since you click and drag the letters to complete the [...]
Train Timeis a site that reinforces time telling skills (elapsed time) in a very fun, semi real life situation. Students read the statements on the left of the screen and then have to click on the train with the correct answer. If your answer is right the train will move [...]
I am finally reading the Tweets from the NECC this year- there were so many great resources shared.  Five Card Flickr is one site that I found to be quite interesting. It reminds me somewhat of PicLits, which I wrote about in January, since both incorporate pictures to inspire creative [...]
