Award Maker

Award maker is a fun, easy way to recognize your students for all their hard work! There are tons of educational templates that simply require typing in a student's name and printing! http://www.myawardmaker.com/templates/education.html

Website Links for Kids

Today's tip is coming from Valley View Elementary! There are several great resources that can be found on this website. The site is organized by grade level and covers many different content areas.

http://vves.rocklin.k12.ca.us/kidlinks.htm

Write Rhymes

Write rhymes is a great site to use for the creation of poetry. Need ideas for words that rhyme with your sentence? Simply click on the word and a list of rhyming words is provided! Creating poetry has never been so easy!

http://www.writerhymes.com/

Word Sift

If you like Wordle, you are going to love WordSift! WordSift works the same way as Wordle and creates a word cloud displaying relative frequency by text size. The difference with WordSift is it also offers a Thesaurus and Dictionary feature! When you click on a word in the cloud, a word web is displayed with antonyms and synonyms. WordSift also includes a read aloud and multiple language feature! Check out more at www. wordsift.com

Skillswise

BBC offers many great educational sites! http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/wholenumbers/ will take you to a compilation of elementary math sites to use in the classroom!

Math-a-Rama

Houghton Mifflin offers a wonderful site with math activities for each SOL strand. The activities also provide instant feedback to the students and a score upon completion. Check it out at http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/

PowerPoint Games

Are you smarter than a 5th grader? I bet your students would love to play! Visit this site to find lots of fun games created in PowerPoint. Choose from Wheel of Fortune, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, 20 Questions, and more! Download the games and modify the templates to fit your curriculum needs. http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/PPT-games/

Do you have other games to share? Please let us know by posting to the blog!