Today is this blog's first anniversary and I want to thank all of my readers for the wonderful support. Since the blogs inception a year ago I have had over 52,000 views (more than 1000. A week), I've moved to the austeacher.tk domain and been nominated for a teaching blog award. There have been over 150 posts and free resources, with over 5,000 downloads from my Dropbox.
Thankyou everyone and here is to the second year!
Monday 7 January 2013
Tuesday 1 January 2013
75 Fun Ways to Practice and Learn Spelling Words
Letter of the Week Crafts
Free Online Book Reading
Friday 14 December 2012
Math Work Stations Professional Reading
The whole Math Work Stations book is available to read online for free. I have started to read it and it's great because it gives information on allowing students to work independently during Maths rotations, check it out here.
Thursday 13 December 2012
Christmas Resources
Sunday 9 December 2012
Task Cards
I've been using spelling task cards quite frequently in my classroom lately and thought i'd upload the ones I've been using. Task cards are a great way to engage students, personalise learning and give students open ended questions.
They can be downloaded on the following links;
Tuesday 4 December 2012
Sumdog
Sumdog is a free website which allows students to create a login and learn at home. It can be found at www.sumdog.com
Scootpad
Wednesday 28 November 2012
Halloween Fun
It's Halloween is an interactive Halloween story complete with audio and music.
Below are several fun virtual pumpkin carving sites.
Here is a fun Halloween dress up site.
Below are a bunch of Halloween Matching Games.
This site is in French, so just turn your sound down!
This site has sound that might drive you crazy so you might want to turn it off!
Ghost Blasters is a fun math game for students who need to work on multiples.
There are lots of other versions of the Ghost Blasters game:
evens, odds, sequence by one, sequence by two, sequence by three, sequence by five, sequence by ten, sequence backwards by 1's, sequence backwards by 2's, sequence backwards by 5's, and sequence backwards by 10's.
Garfield's Scavenger Hunt is another fun game for students to play.
Here is a fun interactive Halloween story.
This Pumpkin Patch is great for counting and sorting different kinds and colors of pumpkins.
This Pick a Pumpkin activity from Star Fall is fabulous for little ones.
Max's Math Adventure- The Tooth- is a fun math Halloween activity.
Be sure to check out the activity page at the bottom as well as they extra challenges.
Spelloween is a fun site for practicing spelling words in a timed game.
Be prepared though, some of the graphics and sounds are a bit creepy!
Candy Corn Math is a fun site where students must match addition problems.
Trick or Treat Route is a fun game where you click the houses
in sequence to choose the shortest route.
Spookathon has another cute online pumpkin carving site.
And here is one more online pumpkin carving site,
but this one allows you to animate your pumpkin!
Christmas Resources
Christmas Games:
Holiday Logic Game
Factory Balls- Christmas Edition is a fun where you try to
create the patterns and colors of the ball on the tree!
The Christmas Tree Puzzle is a fabulous online site for problem solving
and critical thinking. The goal is to light up the Christmas tree by connecting
all the wires to the light source. It's lots of fun but it is definitely a challenge
that requires lots of problem solving.
These following bunch of sites are all from TESiboard and they are FABULOUS!
Christmas Bell Ringing (sequencing)
Elf Finger Game (angles)
Rudolph Rescue (subtraction)
Factory Balls- Christmas Edition is a fun where you try to
create the patterns and colors of the ball on the tree!
The Christmas Tree Puzzle is a fabulous online site for problem solving
and critical thinking. The goal is to light up the Christmas tree by connecting
all the wires to the light source. It's lots of fun but it is definitely a challenge
that requires lots of problem solving.
The Christmas Tree Maze is another fun tree puzzle. To complete this task, you must drag the bar of lights at the bottom of the tree along the maze of white wires until one of the end bulbs lights up the star at the top. Any move is legal, as long as all three bulbs stay in contact with the white wires at all times.
Santa's Sleigh is a fun and challenging game. The object is to put sleighs so that each Santa has one sleigh & each sleigh only belongs to one Santa. It's fun & much harder than it sounds!
Christmas Memory is a game is a basic concentration game with a twist.
If you aren't fast enough, the rows move and you are timed.
It has levels that range from EASY to VERY HARD.
If you aren't fast enough, the rows move and you are timed.
It has levels that range from EASY to VERY HARD.
On the site Santa Claus's Trip, students view a map of the world, are shown the route that Santa will take to deliver toys, and then they have to touch the countries to recreate his route. When the correct country is touched students even magically travel to that country to see the gifts delivered. What a great way to review the world map and have fun all at the same time!
Holiday Practice is a fun game of multiplication practice. For each multiplication question you answer correctly, your gingerbread house gets a new decoration. There are three levels of multiplication to practice: 0-3, 0-6, or 0-9. At the end of the game, if you've done well, you get to decorate your very own gingerbread house. What a fun way to practice multiplication facts during the holiday season!
Christmas Lights: Math Fact Fun is a a fun fact game that allows students to put up Christmas lights after practicing math facts (addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division facts) for one minute. Students will want to work quickly because the more math problems you solve correctly, the more lights you will be given to decorate your house!
Christmas Lights: This game is the same as the Christmas Lights: Math Fun Facts game but without the math facts. A great and fun game for younger students who need to practice their mouse skills! The lights in both games are animated and look beautiful with the overhead lights turned off. Both of these games would be wonderful to use as a whole class on your Smart Board or individually with students at their own computers.
Virtual Tree Decorating:
This Tree Decorating page from SantaClaus.net has lots of options and
even garland that you can move around and stretch!
This one is fun because it gives you many choices, allows you to
stretch and rotate items, as well as the ability to print your finished tree!
The National Christmas Tree allows students to decorate a real looking
tree with garland, ornaments, lights and toppers.
Christmas Calendar Countdown:
This Around the World calendar features a question about how
Christmas is celebrated in different countries each day.
This fabulous one is based on the book "The Polar Express"
This calendar is purely for fun. Each day a new
animation is added to the Christmas tree as you click on the number.
This calendar has an activity for each day until Christmas.
Christmas History:
The History Channel has a fabulous website full of information on Christmas.
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