Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Matching for Kids ABCya is the leader in free educational computer games and mobile apps for kids. The innovation of a grade school teacher, ABCya is an award-winning destination for elementary students that offers hundreds of fun, engaging learning activities. Millions of kids, parents, and teachers visit ABCya.com each month, playing over 1 billion games last year. Apple, The New York Times, USA Today, Parents Magazine and Scholastic, to name just a few, have featured ABCya’s popular educational games. ABCya’s award-winning Preschool computer games and apps are conceived and realized under the direction of a certified technology education teacher, and have been trusted by parents and teachers for ten years. Our educational games are easy to use and classroom friendly, with a focus on the alphabet, numbers, shapes, storybooks, art, music, holidays and much more!
Last Week in Lab: Week Ending 12/09/11 This post is part of my continuing series of weekly lesson summaries. My goal is to give parents & caregivers in our school community the resources needed to extend student learning at home, and to share my professional practice with teacher colleagues around the world in the interest of improving my craft. Week ending 12/09/11 Kindergarten What we covered / did / explored: What I learned / observed / inferred: The beauty of a child’s artwork can’t be fully appreciated unless they tell you about their creation. What students can do at home: If you haven’t already, download TuxPaint and install it on your computer. First Grade I have decided to start having first graders begin each lesson with a very short (but fun) keyboarding exercise of some kind. Some of the images used in the lesson were not intuitively obvious to the average first grader. Second Grade Third Grade We warmed up with NitroType. Kids LOVE this activity and many parents do too. Fourth Grade We warmed up with NitroType.
Learn to Count Money ABCya is the leader in free educational computer games and mobile apps for kids. The innovation of a grade school teacher, ABCya is an award-winning destination for elementary students that offers hundreds of fun, engaging learning activities. Millions of kids, parents, and teachers visit ABCya.com each month, playing over 1 billion games last year. Apple, The New York Times, USA Today, Parents Magazine and Scholastic, to name just a few, have featured ABCya’s popular educational games. ABCya’s award-winning Preschool computer games and apps are conceived and realized under the direction of a certified technology education teacher, and have been trusted by parents and teachers for ten years. Our educational games are easy to use and classroom friendly, with a focus on the alphabet, numbers, shapes, storybooks, art, music, holidays and much more!
Last Week in Lab: Week Ending 10/28/11 This post is part of my continuing series of weekly lesson summaries. My goal is to give parents & caregivers in our school community the resources needed to extend student learning at home, and to share my professional practice with teacher colleagues around the world in the interest of improving my craft. Week ending 10/28/11 Kindergarten What we covered / did / explored: Practiced logging on all by ourselves with Control-Alt-Delete and the Kindergarten user ID. What I learned / observed / inferred: This lesson was beneficial more as instruction on the use of SMART Notebook than anything else. What students can do at home: Practice (on a PC) identifying and pressing Control-Alt-Delete; also, locating the letters K,D and G on any keyboard will help.Explore the great Kindergarten activities on ABCya!. First Grade Students logged in using Control-Alt-Delete and their personal network ID numbers. Kids are capable of traversing network folders early in first grade! Second Grade Third Grade
smsteacher - seasonpuzzle I have a puzzle piece outline that I've used for two projects already. I have four groups of first graders, but it would work to just divide one class into four groups. We had a discussion about the seasons. The entire collage was created with a theme of peace. A close-up of a portion of the wall: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Speakaboos.com: stories, games, interactives and MORE! Good morning all, Heard about this great resource yesterday on Twitter from Patrick Higgins. It’s called and it’s a free literacy site with fantastic interactive stories, songs, games, printables and more. I love the intuitive UI (user interface to all you non-geeks), which makes the site suitable for individual use by even the youngest students in a center or at home. Here’s the basic movie interface (the mainstay of the site): Simple. If you have an interactive white board (IWB), the flash activities are great to get the kids out of their seats and get their squeaky fingers* onto the board: The “You might also like” feature is a handy addition that makes it easy to locate similar / related activities. The service is free, but they do offer a “plus” version ($4.99/month or $49.99/year) that offers among other things the ability to access the site’s content across a variety of mobile devices including iPads, iPods and smart phones. Hope this helps, -kj-
BBC Bitesize: quality, all-you-can-eat interactives for K-12 & beyond! Good morning all, I first blogged about BBC Bitesize way back in May of 2009. Since then, BBC Learning‘s commitment to education as only increased, and it is evident by the substantial growth and development of this site. As I mention in my blog post above, if you are outside the UK, you’ll want to familiarize yourself with Key Stage terminology, the system used by the UK’s state educational administration to classify students (like K-12 here in the USA). Since my last visit, this site has added significant depth and breadth, while maintaining the quality of its graphics and the simplicity of its interface. Simple, intuitive, clean, no ads – what more could you ask for? Remember, this is the Key Stage 1 (KS1) section, for learners aged 5 to 7. I like the that the selectable levels of difficulty start with “Medium”. Granted, this is a simple point and click affair, but at the “Really hard” level, things get a little more interesting: Hope this helps, -kj-
Teacher Age Restrictions. You may only use the Site and Services if you are: (i) at least 13 years of age; or (ii) if you are under 13 years of age, with the consent of your teacher or a legal parent or guardian. By using the Site and Services, you hereby represent and warrant that you are at least 13 years of age or, if you are under 13 years of age, that you have the consent of your teacher, legal parent, or guardian to use the Site and Services. Verification of Identity. You acknowledge that we may choose, but are not obligated, to make any inquiries, either directly or through third parties, that we deem necessary to validate any user’s registration information, including without limitation engaging third parties to provide identity or other verification services. Teachers and Educators. If you are a teacher or educator, and will use the Socrative Services as an education tool, please read this section carefully. Changes. General Use. Mobile Applications. Registering to Use the Site and Services.
Toolkit – Additional Resources and Workbooks “ Congratulations! Here Are Workbooks and Resources for Your Ultimate Toolkit Bundle ” Introducing Online Searches Integrating Online Searches in the Classroom Searching with Google Introducing Interactive WhiteboardsIntegrating Interactive Whiteboards in the ClassroomCombining Interactive Whiteboards with other Technology Introducing PodcastsIntegrating Podcasts in the ClassroomCreating Podcasts Using AudacityIntroducing BlogsIntegrating Blogs in the Classroom Creating BlogsUsing WordPressUsing Blogger Using TwitterIntroducing WikisIntegrating Wikis in the Classroom Creating WikisUsing PBwikiUsing Wikipedia Workbooks Introducing Online Video SharingIntegrating Online Videos in the Classroom Using YouTubeUsing TeacherTube eBook – Google Plus Resources NEW! Copyright © SimpleK12 - 2014