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Authors who will skype a visit for free with your class

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Huge list of free Online math games for 2nd grade, 3rd grade and 4th grade kids. Includes: addition, place value, rounding numbers, comparing numbers, times tables etc.

Fun web based math games

Excellent web based graphing website! Thanks C! This site uses Macromedia Flash Player to provide a more rich web experience. Download a free copy now.

This organization focuses on educating about anti-bias. The magazine is great. Here you can sign up for a weekly e-newsletter

JOG THE WEB is a web-based tool that allows anyone to create a synchronous guide to a series of web sites.Its step by step approach of taking viewers through web sites allowing the author to annotate and ask guiding questions for each page is unique.Give it a try and start creating your own Jogs.New : We have finally found a fix for the Framebuster issue (you know, those pages which systematically made the jog disappear...). I think Cindy posted something similar before but this is a great way to organize a webquest

Free book read alouds - great literacy station for kiddos who need help with fluency

Great App -stories brought to life with interactive illustrations and narrations by authors. Costs $$ but there is a free trial

this might be a useful resource for k's lsf grant for audiobooks.

the title says it all. blogs are broken down by categories: teacher bloggers, technology, subject areas, etc.

looks like a very easy way to create a screencast.

A great resource for character education. Mary Keane brought this to my attention. The site offers practical ideas for classroom use.

Excellent resource! For over 25 years The Efficacy Institute has been dedicated to the Mission of getting all children to proficiency or higher. Our work is grounded in the constructive belief that intellectual capacity is neither fixed nor given; rather, it can be built - to high levels - through the sustained application of effective effort at challenging tasks.

Improve your idiom skills. Fun game teaches idioms and their meanings. For kids and children of all ages and grades.

Another Cathlin find! While we work hard to ensure that we are providing students with the best academic instruction on a daily basis, we can also take time to teach the students in our classrooms to be good citizens who care for and respect each other.

Cathlin O'Reilly brought this page to the Grade Three team's attention several years ago. It is a great resource for getting started with math differentiation. Thanks Cathlin!

Quotations about effort and hard work, from The Quote Garden.

This looks to have great potential!

This cool app helps students learn facts about states and get practice recognizing state's shapes, all in the guise of a fun game!

welcome to diigo, scot! this app is already installed on the cart ipads.we've got "stack the countries," too. full list at: www.lincnet.org/lincolnschoolapps

Thanks for the list link Mark. I was wondering about that.