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Question of the day for Language Arts "Quick Write" moments: Got a few spare minutes before lunch? Try asking your kids these fun questions: At what age is a person an adult? Why do you think so? If could change one rule that your family has, what would you change? What is something that makes your family special?

I'm going to use a part of this lesson for my "Question of the Day" tomorrow: Act 1: Take a look at the promo at Moe's. What is the first question that comes to mind? How much does a 42-gallon jug of Chili Con Queso cost? How many cups or bowls of Chili Con Queso is that?

I added this to my list of favorites.

Title - Tissue Paper Flowers By - Paula Hrbacek Primary Subject - Art Grade Level - 1-3 Day Camp in Hawaii Theme Tie-in: Hawaiian women wear flowers behind their ears. Which ear they wear it behind tells gentlemen if they are married or single. Unmarried women wear their flower behind their left ear.

My students have been using Spelling City for 3 years. I highly recommend an account to help them study on their own.

This is a cute Claude Monet art project for 4th or 5th grade but would probably use watercolors instead of fingerpaint! Good for any 4th, th or 6th grade teacher.

or better yet, have students use it to make one for their friends!

See our life-skills checklists for each age and stage of your child's development. Very informative and a favorite topic of mine..

This is the link to an interesting "Word Problem a Day" book. I have created a spin-off of this to use each day in my classroom.

Free, printable 5th grade ELA Common Core Worksheets. Includes language, informational, foundational skills and more. Use in class or home. Visit Today!

This worksheet provides extra practice on identifying nouns. As I make our Grade 6 Final Exam, I am going to use some of the examples on these worksheets.

This is the math place to go when teaching Geometry to the younger grades. Draw an angle,measure it. All on the screen.

Diigolet Diigolet is not as feature-rich as the Diigo toolbar, but it can be set-up by simple drag-and-drop - no download or installation needed, and it works for all major browsers. Much more powerful than bookmarklets offered by other social bookmarking sites, Diigolet is a "super bookmarklet" that allows you to highlight and add sticky-notes, in addition to simple bookmarking. You can get started by watching a tutorial video.

Google's core search technology has been widely proven and accepted to be the finest in the industry with Google now handling 70+% of all web searches. Utilizing the same exact underlying search technology and code base as used on Google.com, the Search Appliance "crawler" not only has proven to discover a greater percentage of content than any competing product, but Google's patented search algorithms deliver end users unrivalled ranking and relevancy of the search results

How do I use Google Scholar to find scholarly articles that I canaccess for free? New! Learn how to find free, full-text articles with Google Scholar in a simple video tutorial! Google Scholar is a specialized search engine which looks much like Google web search, but searches only for scholarly articles and books. The search results list from a Google Scholar search will list citations for articles, and may provide links to free or fee-based full-text articles. Sometimes, a link to find the full-text article using D'Amour Library subscriptions will appear in a citation as well; this feature is only available when searching Google Scholar from the campus network of Western New England University.

I just recently learned about this search and shared it with family members. I am surprised I haven't heard of others talking about it, as I would think this search would cut down on wasted search-time.

Often students need to know that what we are teaching them has real-life purpose. Here is a list of sites which provide good ideas on how we can make math lessons more relevant in the life of a student.

Very Interesting .. Why some have a hard time getting started?

This is a great tool to help students learn about civic processes in the United States.