If you are looking for a way to reinforce or review common core math standards, Khan Academy is a great resource! The site is divided into grade levels, and you can choose different strands and skills to work on!
Click below:
This is one of the resource pages on Ask a Tech Teacher (which has lots of resources for all subjects).
http://askatechteacher.wordpress.com/great-websites-for-kids/math-websites/
An ELL teacher, Rebekah Lentz, shared these tips and websites with the teachers at our school.
I know I am going to use them with my students! THANKS REBEKAH!
Image courtesy of [patpitchaya] / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
ABC Ya! has updated their site to include upper elementary. You can click on the appropriate grade level for the menu available. The new games and activities are a good way to supplement academic skills–especially for English Language Learners!
This site from Jeffreys Grove Elementary has several useful apps categorized by subject (Reading, Writing, Math Social Studies, and Science). These can be used as practice and reinforcement of concepts and skills.
Today I was asked to cover one of my colleague’ grade 1 classes during music period. Luckily she has a Smart Board! I wanted to make sure I have plenty to do during the 45-minutes, so found a few interactive music websites:
Greta’s Game Station: Let’s Make Music!
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Some fun videos:
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. . . and of course, there is always GARAGEBAND!!!!!
I saw this post on one of my favorite sites, http://edtechteachers.org .
Using an iPad can be an outstanding tool for teaching and learning. These two sites called “iPad As” and “EdTechTeacher Recommended iPad Apps, Links, & Ideas” are organized around learning objectives and provides web resources and ideas for making the best use of your iPad!
More great resources from edtechteachers.org!!!!
I stumbled upon this wonderful site with great resources and ideas for using technology in the early years.
Resources for the social studies unit:
http://www.brainpopjr.com/socialstudies/economics/needsandwants/
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For more activities about needs and wants, click here:
Students are studying about germs. Here are some activities to enrich their unit:
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When finished, you can go to this website:
Make your Mother’s Day Wordle from the words you have come up with about your Mother.
http://www.wordle.net/create
Make your mother some coupons she can cash in for special treats or help from you!
Use this PowerPoint template (or the one in your student folder) to make your coupons. Put one item on each slide. Find a picture to fit the gift. Print 6 slides to a page, cut, and staple into a small booklet of coupons.
Mr. Dragonetti is teaching the “Elements of Art” and students have been looking for examples of these elements throughout the school. They have taken pictures that represent them. They will put the pictures into a PowerPoint and record their voices telling why they chose each picture to represent the element.
Here is the template for this projects:
Here is a fun site to decorate eggs and then send them to someone!
http://www.care2.com/send/card/5111
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http://www.care2.com/send/card/5112
Mrs. Johnson and her grades 1 and 2 students created a beautiful video for Earth Day which they shared at our Community time!
They took pictures in the school yard and surrounding rain forest. They learned about haiku poems and wrote poems to go with the pictures they took. All this was put into a video where they each read their poem. Take a look at the final result. Great job Mrs. Johnson and students!
This site is great for early elementary school students to learn a little about the environment and some tips to help make it better:
http://www.childrenoftheearth.org/earthday/earth-day-every-day.html
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Auntie Pollution Coloring Pages:
http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/colauntie.htm
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Recycle Roundup (National Geographic Kids)
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Funschool Earth Day Activities
Today we will use the program COMIC LIFE.
Look through Mrs. Johnson’s pictures that she took of your Pirate Play and chose at least five you want to include in your comic. Write talk or thought bubbles for each picture!
Mr. Van Staden has been using his new iPod Touches in his grade two math class. They have taken pictures of their projects, recorded movies (videotaped each other talking about their “Fraction and Shape Museum,” and use aps for math practice:
FROM THE APPLE iTUNES STORE
Some aps Mr. Van Staden has downloaded and used include:
For the spring play bulletin board, Mrs. Hill and Mr. Dragonetti would like each student to portray themselves as a pirate. We will do this by:
CREATIVE WRITING: Elaborate on your character and write creatively about who they are, what they’ve done, what they’re known for.
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WANTED POSTER: Create a “Wanted Poster” for your pirate.
EXAMPLE: 
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When finished, you can go to these other fun sites:
Pirates Mr. Dragonetti and Mrs. Hill
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The students have been studying about natural disasters. They will create posters to display around the school giving safety tips for the various types of disasters. To do this they will use the NEO K12 site and also search for appropriate pictures from other search engines.
The poster will be made using Printshop 2:
The students are studying about “natural disasters” in their classroom. They will use the information they learn to:
Natural Disasters–Kids Science (games, movies, and pictures)
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Use Skitch to draw on your picture. Make yourself look like a leprechaun. (Skitch is a program you can download free to your computer! It is a great little graphic editor.)
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When finished, you can practice using Skitch by taking a picture of yourself with the Skitch camera and drawing on it.
OR
Go to some of these St. Patrick’s Day websites:
CONCENTRATION GAME: http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/st-patricks-day/games/concentration/
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ST. PATRICK’S DAY QUIZ: See how much you really know about St. Patrick’s Day from this National Geographic site!
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CLOVER PUZZLER: See if you can put this puzzle together (from National Geographic):
In Mrs. Johnson’s room, the grades 1 and 2 students have already made three different types of charts at CREATE A GRAPH
Now they will extend their knowledge to entering data in EXCEL and making a graph to represent their recent survey about what are the most popular Dr. Seuss books at ISR!
The grades 1 and 2 finished their Power Points. Mrs. Johnson is having a “Planet Power Point Poetry & Punch Party” so the students can present their planets to the parents.
These presentations are posted on our SlideBoom site:
“Marvelous Mercury,” by Caitlyn
“The Rings of Saturn,” by Hudson
“Facts about Uranus,” by Larry
Today is “World Math Day” so the students will be competing with other students around the world to complete math problems on the World Maths Day site.
This is a great site to see pictures from the Hubble Space Craft. The site is sponsored by the ESO (European Southern Observatory). There are more pictures than you will ever be able to look at and the pictues can be used for educational use.
Here are some SMARTBOARD Notebook lessons and interactive activities from the Smart Exchange. Please note that you must have Notebook software (that comes with the purchase of a SmartBoard) to open them. These lessons are created by other teachers who are kind enough to share them on the Exchange. The links to the lessons follow:
STARS AND GALAXIES (by Wendi Rutz)
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STAR PATTERNS (by an educator at Smart)
Dr. Seuss Day is March 2nd! Let’s celebrate!
Make your own Dr. Seuss character to go with the limerick you made up in class. Choose one of the “Seuss-y” looking story backgrounds at Kerpoof that adds to your limerick!
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When finished, play some of these Dr. Seuss games:
http://www.gamequarium.com/seuss.html
Use Google Sky to find one interesting constellation to share with the class. GRAB it put it into a Word document.
Type one interesting fact about the constellation (for example, how many “light years” away is it from Earth?
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Create your own constellation using Kerpoof and the Doodle feature.
Mr. Van Staden has been using the new iPod Touches during his grade 2 math classes. Here is what he has to say:
“Grade 2 math students have been learning to use the iPOD– identify the screen qualities, use the calculator (length conversions), and access TUTPUP“ (to compete in math problems with other kids around the world).
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This is a great site to see all the planets in action moving around the sun:
ForgeFX – 3D Solar System Simulation
Today students will look for some pictures to put in their planet PowerPoint presentations:
Here is a NASA site with some great pictures!
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome.htm
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To find more good pictures you can try the Smithsonian’s “Exploring the Planets Gallery”
Here are some sites for Valentine math games:
http://www.akidsheart.com/holidays/valntine/valgms.htm
We will extract our face from our school picture and upload it to Fun Photo Box to put it into an astronaut suit. We’ll use this picture in our planet presentation.
Here is a good website on http://apple4theteacher.com.
NOTE: You need the Flash Player 10 Plugin to use this site.
Lunapic: Make an animated or still Valentine
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Make a cookie:
http://www.theoworlds.com/valentine/
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For more exploration about planets and space games, visit the NASA Space Place:
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/games.shtml
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NASA Kids Club has lots to do!
Make yourself look 100 years old!
Here is a place to start to get an idea for your final drawing:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/BuildMissionGame.cfm
This is a great site for young students to search for information. It includes 37,000 carefully reviewed resources and has a search bar for easy searching.
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
Here is a good timeline site to visually look at Martin Luther King’s life:
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The King Center (for lots of resources including speeches and videos:
http://thekingcenter.org/PhotoVideo/Default.aspx
FLAT STANLEY PROJECT: https://flatstanleyexchange.wikispaces.com/
Put all your photos of Flat Stanley in an iMovie that we will share with our friends in Massachusetts, U.S.A.
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When finished, add music from the selection in iMovie.
Students will draw their own dragon using TUX PAINT. Download Tux Paint (it’s free)!
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD TUX PAINT (don’t forget to download the stamps, too!)
Here’s an example of a dragon drawn with Tux Paint:
Here is a cute Chinese New Year video:
It is time for Chinese New Year! Students made lanterns and have been learning about this big Chinese holiday.
Here are some activities and games to try out:
Students will plan and take photos of their Flat Stanleys at various locations around the school. These pictures will then be posted on the Flat Stanley site to share with our partner school.
Grades 1 and 2 are getting to know their friends in Massachusetts so will ask them some questions using stickies on our Wall Wisher site. We will then embed the wall in our Flat Stanley blog.
SOLAR SYSTEM UNIT:
One more resource: http://www.apples4theteacher.com/starwarp2.html
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Planet Study: Begin collecting your information about the planet you will be presenting in your PowerPoint.
Games and other activities related to Stars and Space:
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/mars_rocket2.shtml
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To see the students’ finished planet slideshows from 2009, go to this website:
http://www.slideshare.net/caltexschool/slideshows
Tangrams:
Students are studying tangrams and will manipulate some on these interactive sites:
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http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/area/tangram.html
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http://www.abcya.com/tangrams.htm
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http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/area/tangram.html
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PROJECT: Students will also make their own tangrams using TuxPaint (Shapes).
Grade 2 students are studying symmetry. Here are some links to have some fun with it!
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Try making some symmetrical designs:
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Use TUX PAINT to create another symmetrical design of your own. (Tux Paint is a free software download. Remember to download the extra graphics, too.)
The students’ percussion (GarageBand) podcasts and album covers at now on our podcast site:
http://isrtigers.podomatic.com/
Students are studying percussion instruments. Here is a good website with some examples:
http://www.musictechteacher.com/quiz_help_instrument.htm
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Mrs. Johnson showed a great claymation of the life cycle of frogs. Students then made clay images of each life cycle. They will photograph them and use Kidpix to make a slideshow of their photos. They will record their voices describing each cycle, and then export it to iMovie.
There are many types of frogs (and toads)! We will look and listen to some different types. Next, we will use a PowerPoint template to make trading cards with our favorite frogs. FavoriteFrogsTemp
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When finished with your frog trading cards, you can go to this site:
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As a final assessment, students will match the picture with the landform by typing the correct name under the picture. They will also organize them under “Land” or “Water.”
Here is the Inspiration template: LANDFORMS_match
Students have been studying continents, maps, and landforms. Today they will find an animal found in each continent and put them into an Inspiraton mind map. animalsoncontinents (Here is the Inspiration template. Thanks to Rockingham Schools.)
Use this Enchanted Learning site to find your animals. Copy and save the animal picture. Import it into your mind map for the correct continent:
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OTHER RESOURCE: BrainPOP Jr. (Continents and Oceans)
Students are practicing using and counting money. We will use some math sites to reinforce their learning.
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Use the Kidspiration template in your folder to solve the money problem.
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TUTPUP: Compete with kids your age around the world!
Students will be doing a map unit. They will be working closely with the librarian as well as the classroom teacher and tech teacher.
Students will learn Neighborhood Map Machine in preparation to create a map of our local community (on Thursday).
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PANWAPA KIDS:
Students will create an avatar in Panwapa World. They will visit children around the world and leave messages (pre-recorded) as well as receive messages. As they visit different continents, they receive “world cards” and learn about different countries.
This is a project that will be revisited throughout the month.
Students will use Word and the Internet (to search for a picture) to make a poster which will be printed on A3 paper. These will be used as props as they talk about how they have helped meet one of the “Millennium goals.”
Today will be a reading day for the 1st & 2nd graders using the on-line program, Raz-Kids. Students can work on their “Raz Rockets” when they are done reading.
Grades 1 and 2 are studying bats. The fruit bats have been “hanging” around here for about a month so it is very timely! Here are a few pictures to show as an introduction:
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Megabats and Microbats (Pictures from Bat Conservation International)
(under the “Species” link, you can chose Micro or Macro and the location)
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There is a lot of information and resources on the A to Z Kids Stuff/Bats site including a cute little one-minute video about ecolocation:
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Students will use Inspiration to sort animals into “birds” or “bats.”
The activities for the first day are:
Computers – Day 1
Meet in one of their rooms first.
Go over expectations before coming:
Walk quietly through the hallways –line leader from each grade.
Walk into computer room and sit down at your computer without touching the mouse or keyboard and without swiveling in your chair.
Do not touch the computer until you are told you can.
Listen to all instructions.
Ask before printing anything.
Go through “Is this Yours” (handout)
Go to computer room and explain different parts of the computer- input output devices
Take a picture and print it.
Here are some computer lab guidelines to follow during the year!!!
DAY 2:
August 18, 2009 WELCOME BACK!
NETWORK NAVIGATION:
We like to start out the year by making sure all the students can navigate the network; i.e., log on, change their passwords, access their network folder, make new folders for each class, and save files.
SAFETY ON THE INTERNET:
We also will begin our “Cyber Smart” program to review and/or introduce safety tips for the students.
Cyber Smart Curriculum Grade 1
What is Private? (Discussion)
Interactive Internet Safety Sites
MISCELLANEOUS:
Assignments and Projects
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SCIENCE STUDIES–Here are some resources for the Balance & Motion Unit:
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Try a Rube Goldman machine! The machine isn’t working properly. Discover which parts need tweaking!
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Put a Rube Goldman machine together from scratch!
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May 11, 2010
Social Studies: Students are studying about “Producers and Consumers” & “Needs and Wants.” As an end to the unit and another assessment, they will use the templates in Kidspiration:
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May 6, 2010
RAZ-Kids: (listen to, read outloud, take quiz)
When finished you can go to RAZ Rockets.
May 4, 2010
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May 6, 2010
RAZ-Kids: (listen to, read outloud, take quiz)
When finished you can go to RAZ Rockets.
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April 26, 2010
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April 22, 2010
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April 20, 2010
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April 15, 2010
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March 2010
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MATH:
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March 8 – 12, 2010
Native American Studies continues . . .
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. . . or beaded a native design: NativeTech: Native American Beading
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DR. SEUSS DAY:
Other Dr. Seuss Activities:
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March 2010
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February 25, 2010
MATH:
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February 18 – 25, 2010
February 16, 2010
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February 12, 2010
Make a Valentine word list in the shape of a heart:
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February 2010
January 28, 2010
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January 25, 2010
insect_CARDS (PowerPoint Template)
Mr. Nussbaum’s INSECT site. Lots of links to learn more about insects.
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January 21, 2010
BEES:
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January 18, 2010
January 14, 2010
January 12, 2010
INSECT UNIT:
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Insect Generator (Make your own insect, give it a name, and describe it.
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Check out the BUGSCOPE!
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Mr. Nussbaum’s INSECT site. Lots of links to learn more about insects.
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December 12, 2010
Go to these Christmas sites for fun!
A Kids Heart (lots of Christmas games)
Christmas Story and Poem Starters (STORY_IT!)
Holiday Cookie Shapes (decorate)
December 2
When finished, print it. You can also listen to some Christmas stories if there is extra time left:
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December 1
Samira’s Present List!
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November 24, 2009
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HERE IS A SITE WITH LOTS OF RESOURCES FOR GRADE 2 (Rippon School District)
Reading the Thermometer (a review online for the skills they have been studying)
November 19, 2009
DLTK’s Thanksgiving Activities
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November 14, 2009
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November 9 – 12, 2009
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October 26 – 29, 2009
Make a lightning safety poster using a PowerPoint slide. Get resources from these sites and a picture from the Internet:
EXAMPLE by Kayleigh:
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FEMA FOR KIDS (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
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WHEN FINISHED YOU CAN LOOK AT THESE WEATHER GAME SITES:
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Lightning Safety Game
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October 20, 2009
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October 15, 2009
RAZ-Kids: (listen to, read outloud, take quiz)
When finished you can go to RAZ Rockets.
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October 12, 2009
Students are studying about nutrition and food groups.
October 8, 2009
Example:
When finished, you can go to this website:
October 6, 2009
Students are studying the seasons. They will create a PowerPoint from scratch and add one slide and picture (which they find on the Internet) to represent each season.
If finished, go to these websites:
What Causes the Four Seasons (from Teacher’s Domain)
October 5, 2009
Students are studying the seasons. They will create a PowerPoint from scratch and add one slide and picture (which they find on the Internet) to represent each season.
If finished, go to these websites:
What Causes the Four Seasons (from Teacher’s Domain)
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September 14, 2009
Easy Web Tips to teach children
When finished, students can go to these websites:
Math:
September 9, 2009
We didn’t get the poster project finished in the last class, so we will finish it up today.
September 7, 2009
As part of the “Communities” unit in social studies, students are learning about what a mayor does. In tech, they will create a campaign poster (to promote themselves) as mayor. (New skills include inserting WordArt, copying/pasting a picture from PhotoBooth, using a textbox to type the slogan, and adding a page border.)
For fun, look at this campaign poster creator:
August 24, 2009
Students are studying about maps and our community. We will use the program “Neighborhood Map Machine” to learn about the parts of a map and how symbols represent things on a map. Students will create a community and include the necessary components.
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August 18, 2009 WELCOME BACK!
NETWORK NAVIGATION:
We like to start out the year by making sure all the students can navigate the network; i.e., log on, change their passwords, access their network folder, make new folders for each class, and save files.
MAC BASICS:
Students will go through a checklist of items about using the Mac in our lab.
SAFETY ON THE INTERNET:
We also will begin our “Cyber Smart” program to review and/or introduce safety tips for the students.
Cyber Smart Curriculum Grade 1
What is Private? (Discussion)
Interactive Internet Safety Sites
MISCELLANEOUS:
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2008 – 2009 ARCHIVES
WEEK OF MAY 25 – 29
WEEK OF MAY 18 – 22
Kids are presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative.
DOWNLOAD THIS FREE PROGRAM AT: http://www.tuxpaint.org
WEEK OF MAY 11-15
Diamonte Poems for Mother’s Day
WEEK OF MAY 4-May 8
WEEK OF APRIL 27 -May 1
Make your own online game to teach someone about butterflies using your 10 questions and answers. You will copy and paste them from the file in your student folder:
Here are the games the students made:
Cameron’s Game: http://classtools.net/my/quiz92823.htm
Sebastian’s Game: http://classtools.net/my/quiz72770.htm
Christine’s Game: http://classtools.net/my/quiz86190.htm
Ella’s Game: http://classtools.net/my/quiz2746.htm
Akmal’s Game: http://classtools.net/my/quiz9096.htm
WEEK OF APRIL 20 – 24
EARTH WEEK: No classes
WEEK OF APRIL 13 – 17
Wednesday: Practice using the Zilladog email and send some messages to people on your buddy list
WEEK OF APRIL 6 – 9
BUTTERFLIES:
Visit some of the following websites to check what you knew and to find out some new information about the life cycle of butterflies. Create 10 questions and answers. You will use these to make your own online game on the “Classroom Tools” site.
WEEKS OF MARCH 16 – 20
Set up your email account on Zilladog:
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Finish research and start putting the pictures you saved and the information you gathered into your Power Point.
One more resources: http://www.apples4theteacher.com/starwarp2.html
WEEKS OF MARCH 2 -13
To see the students’ finished planet slideshows go to this website:
http://www.slideshare.net/caltexschool/slideshows
WEEK OF FEBRUARY 23 – 27
Planet Study: Begin collecting your information about the planet you will be presenting in your PowerPoint.
Games and other activities related to Stars and Space:
http://www.nasa.gov/mov/194269main_038_a_day_aboard_space_shuttle.mov
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/mars_rocket2.shtml
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WEEK OF FEBRUARY 16 – 20
Creative Writing:
Dr. Seuss Games