Looking for some math manipulatives for your Smartboard, or for your students to use on the computers? Check out this collection of math activities for demonstrating everything from counting to 10 to fractions. You'll find tools to practice number sense, determining area and perimeter, tilling time, illustrating and solving word problems, geometry, and creating graphs. You can use these sites for whole class demonstrations, or as assessment tools (have students demonstrate/illustrate what they know and use the snipping tool or print screen to paste it into a word document). You can find these links here or on the Parkview & Fairview Library page under Teacher Resources. |
Ready to get students excited about writing? Scholastic's Story Starters serves up hundreds of creative combinations that take the writer’s block out of creative writing for students. Plus, it is now available for iPad! Set young writers loose with prompts that explore the themes of Adventure, Fantasy, or Sci-Fi. Or choose Scrambler, for random word combinations. Story Starters gives ideas for character, plot, and setting. If you want to change your writing prompt, pull the lever and it will serve up a new prompt, either piece-by-piece or all at once. For a step-by-step view of how Scholastic Story Starters works, click the help button on the activity home page. Scholastic's Story Starters can be accessed by the link above or you can find it on the PV & FV Library Page on the Read Everyday link. Is a wonderful free, differentiation app that will transcribe your spoken words with lightening speed into text. Use this app in your classroom for students
Dragon Dictation from Edel Logan on Vimeo. Weebly is an easy to use website creator, but it can also be used to post to a blog quickly and conveniently from your iPhone. This app could be used by the teacher or students to report on happenings in your classroom on a daily basis. Easily add pictures, videos (pro account) and captions to your website's blog without ever having to sit at your computer! This would be great as a Job for a student to be the "class reporter", posting events, projects, and activities to the blog. It also is a quick and easy way to have a class website (without a lot of work for you), to give parents a view of the learning happening in your room. Weebly is working on adding this feature to the ipad app. |
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