SW Elementary

"12 principles necessary to successfully teaching math facts"

Virtual world Make-a-Flake teaches real-world scissoring skills by letting players create snowflakes from folded sheets of paper. Can also print a flake from a gallery to start making snowflakes in real life.

"Into the Book is a multimedia package designed to improve students' reading comprehension, as well as their ability to think and learn across the curriculum. Based on current research, the project focuses on eight learning strategies: * Using prior knowledge * Making connections * Questioning * Visualizing * Inferring * Summarizing * Evaluating * Synthesizing Into the Book includes: * student Web site featuring interactive reading comprehension activities * teacher Web site featuring music, video clips, classroom design ideas, posters, teacher guides, lesson plans and lots more * Into the Book video series: nine 15-minute classroom videos teaching children how to be strategic readers"

Links and strategies for teaching math facts.

"Students will learn about supply, demand, price, competition, and entrepreneurial skills in this lesson. They will put what they learned into action by creating an ice cream stand, to complete with other stands in the classroom."

Hotlist of resources for Dr. Seuss

"At cookie, child experts and educators design interactive online games for kids. Our learning games for kids help in building skills needed for success in school. While playing our fun educational games, kids learn to read with phonics, build skills in math, language, social studies, science and much more. Our educational videos encourage children to keep learning, even after school hours."

Membership based site for math, language arts, etc...

Easy to read: TTJunior.com offers easy-to-read news stories for 2nd Graders, 3rd Graders and advanced 1st Graders, as well as remediation and ESL for all grades. Easy to write: Students can post blog comments that teachers review before publication. Click below to sign up. It's fast, easy and free!

convert text to spoken language. great for LS, Title I and other types of struggling students

"CarrotSticks is an online multiplayer game that improves math skills for 1st - 5th graders as they practice and compete with peers around the world!"

This site has TONS of free educational, instructional videos for K-12!

" The K-5 Student Center Activities (SCA) and K-3 Instructional Routines search page is designed to provide teacher's access to the 522 individual SCA and the instructional routines from Empowering Teachers. "

Here is a sight that you can look at for the EveryDay Math technology overview for the new series. www.everydaymath.com username: Sampleview@mcgraw-hill.com password: techdemo Be sure to visit the Professional Development section of the eSuite. Contained in the section you will find videos of Everyday Mathematics classrooms in action. You will also find tutorials on how to use the eSuite.

A lot of information on the elementary level.

"Having a well managed and organized classroom is the key to a successful learning environment. "

"EveryDay Math Grade 2 Activities All activities/games are organized by lesson for your convenience."

"Look directly below this blog post to see my blog roll consisting of fifth-grade focused blogs - all in one place! The list below will update several times a day, so please check back regularly to see all the newest teaching ideas just for you! "