Keyboard Climber

Students always need to practice their keyboarding skills. Check out this neat game for help with those typing skills! The goal is to have the monkey climb higher and higher. If a student types the wrong letter, a cocnut drops on the monkey's head and he falls down. This would be a great site for students to practice at home! Share the address with the students. Just click on the title to go to the site.

Thinkfinity-Back to School

Mark Moore, WVDE, sent a link to some great back to school activities. Click on the title of this post to check them out. You'll find interactive games, podcasts and activities for Math, Science, History, Reading & Language Arts!

Phonevite

We made AYP!!! Yipee!!! And you found out about it via an on-line phone service. You can sign up for a free account and send land line messages to up to 25 people...for free! Think about letting parents know about the upcoming parent/teacher conferences, classroom parties,or any number of messages and/or reminders. It's simple to use. First you need to put in the numbers and then you record the message. Phonevite sends the recorded message to the numbers you registered. Simple and free...what could be better than that??

Mini Movies

I found this great site with mini movies on varous subjects and was so excited! Most of the movies are quite short but would be great to use to add a bit more excitement to your lesson. The site looks somewhat new and still has room for growth but I think you'll find some things to use.

Check out this video on The World's Largest Glacier. It's less that 2 minutes but has some great footage!

Watch more Planet Earth videos on AOL Video

ABC Teach

I have subscribed to ABC Teach for years and have found it to be one of the sites I can count on for printable resources. They are having a back to school special this year and are reducing the membership fee by $5. You can buy a year's membership for $35! Keep in mind that there are free resources also. Check out this link for some back to school resources. http://www.abcteach.com/directory/theme_units/back_to_school/

Back to School Collections

Check out the Microsoft Back to School Collection. You'll find downloads for forms, bookmarks, lesson plans, certificates, etc for students, teachers and administrators. Before you start to build your own form, make sure you look at this site first. Take a few minutes to look at the entire collection. I found some neat multiplication tables in the student section! If you don't find what you like, go to templates and browse the downloads. You might just find what you need and save yourself some time!

kidsnumbers.com

Direct from the site..."KidsNumbers.com is the absolutely free math resource designed by teachers, specifically for students and children of all ages. A place where students can practice all aspects of math, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, in a fun and pressure free way."