This is the tool that people have asked about. Really useful if the documents have been created in word and saved as a PD not cool if they have bee scanned in and saved as PDFs
A great maths site with excellent games. Really good for older kids too with some great games on Algebra, trigonometry, logic puzzles, worded problems, area perimeter etc
A Maths Dictionary for Kids is an animated, interactive online math dictionary for students which explains over 600 common mathematical terms and math words in simple language.
You will probably need virtual box or parrallels installed for this one to be effective on a Mac. If you have a PC then you will need Word 07 to take advantage of all the features. Not a big fan of maths worksheets but a generator can be handy for that spontaneous diagnostic test.
For your weekly spelling test use simple 1-10 or 1-20 numbered form (with a name question too of course) and ask the children to type in their answers as you read out the list of words. Once these are submitted apply formula to judge if they are correct or not and it becomes self marking.
Another useful post by one of my favourite Edubloggers. This guy just keeps on keeping on! This post is about google forms and how they can be used in the classroom. I used Google forms to create the staff survey on the 1:1 program. Imagine the students using this for the end of the week spelling test or maths diagnostics or any of these data collecting excersises completed using google forms and then instantly sent to a spread sheet.
This is a great tool if you want a free pdf converter. Often you get resources from the internet that are in PDF format and you cant manipulate them for your class. Well here is your solution.