Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

Tuesday is Dr. Seuss's birthday. Here is a fun site for you to check out with your students:
www.seussville.com

Show Me the Money!

Teaching money? Here is an interactive game for your students to play. Skill levels range from easy (under $1.00) to Super Brain (for big spenders). www.funbrain.com/cashreg/

Delicious!

Do you all know about www.delicious.com? It is an internet bookmarking site. You save your bookmarks on the internet, so you can access them from any computer. You can also see what other people bookmarked. Looking for a lesson idea on a specific topic? You can do a search and see what other users thought was useful to them.

Spelling

One of the women in my grad class told me about this site: www.spellingcity.com
It is a great way for your students to practice their spelling words. I tried it out on my own children, first and fourth grades, and they loved it!

Telling Time

My class is working on telling time to 15 minutes in math. Here are a few good telling time sites. The first one contains online math games: http://msjacoby.com/time.html The second one includes lesson plans, activities, and worksheets: http://www.fi.edu/time/Journey/JustInTime/contents.html

Technology Integration

Wow! What a great collection of technology resources! Check out this site: http://its.leesummit.k12.mo.us/studentsites.htm

Cool Pictures!

My class read "Cool Ali" in class this week. The girl in the story drew pictures on the sidewalk to take her mind off the heat. Then we looked at some amazing pictures that an artist name Julian Beever made on pavement. Check it out! http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/index.html

Let It Snow

The threat of the storm tonight has me thinking about snow. Here are some interesting sites I found related to snow. The first one allows you to virtually cut your own snowflakes. It is a cute idea, but it takes a little getting used to the scissors. http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com/
The other two sites have very cool pictures of snowflake, as well as information about them. http://www.itscaltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/
http://snowflakebentley.com/snowflakes.htm

Blogging It

I found an interesting new site called KidBlog: http://www.kidblog.org/ It is for teachers and their students. This site gives the teacher control over all of the activity on the blog. As a teacher, you can limit the visitors to the blog to only members of your class or guests that you allow to access the blog. I was thinking that this could be an interesting way to motivate kids to write.

We have been reading about online learning communities in my grad class. I did a search for online learning communities and found an interesting one that could be used in the classroom. The address is: http://www.myschoolhouse.com/ I especially liked the link I found there called "My Writing Circle". Students have a chance to add to an online story. After submitting it, it is checked for mistakes and to make sure it is appropriate. If so, it is then published on the website for the world to see. Students are not required to use their real names. I think this is a great way to motivate students to write and for students to learn from each other!