PD+11-24-08

== = = = = =Hello fellow Fayetteville teachers! I am very excited about working with you today!=

Introduction: Watch [|Bombay video].

My goal is to give you information that you can take back to your classroom to enhance your instruction. As all of you know, I am not an expert, just an excited teacher who has found something great to share!

One of our problems at Fayetteville is the lack of computers in the classroom. We have a wonderful lab, but it stays full most days. I guess this is a good problem to have! So if we can't get to the lab, how can we use what computers we do have?

(This file was adapted from an [|article] I found. I want to give her credit!!!)

I thought I would share some websites we could use with our students. I am going to focus on math and reading today.



Reading and Writing
K-6 - [|Writer's Window] - Submit your own original writing to be published. Short stories, chapter stories, poems, book reviews, general reviews, reports/essays, and plays. Categorized by genres and age. Check out the Writer's Workshop link for great tips on writing various genres. K-6 - [|Kid's Space] - Click on Storybook to create and publish stories. Several icons are available to write your story around. You can also draw a picture to go with your story. Students in your class can write and submit a story together. You can go to Class Pages and have it published there. K-1 [|Between the Lions] - games, video clips, stories K-1 [|ABC: Magic Letters] - Move the upper and lower case letters around on the "fridge door" to make words. Great on an interactive white board. K-2 [|Gamequaruim] - Lots of games - beginning and ending sounds, blends, chunks and word families, letter recognition, long vowels, rhymes (This is only one reading section for younger grades. Everybody needs to check out the [|main site]!) K-2 [|Sight Words with Samson] - One of the best web sites to learn sight words. Audio, text, and lots of interactive fun exercise. Shows eight words in sentence context. 1-6 [|Spelling City] - An interactive site that uses your own spelling words. Register for free to upload spelling lists and test your students. Students can also play games with your word lists. Save them to use every year. Then just link them to your wiki! 2-4 [|Stories to Grow By with Hootie Owl] - A goldmine of written folktales and fairytales from all over the world. Also available - free reader's theater scripts. 3-6 [|Funbrain Reading] - Web books such as //Diary of a Wimpy Kid// and //Amelia Writes Again//. These would be great for examples of journal writing each day. Also has Mad Libs Junior online. 3-6 [|Story Mapping] - Helps with prewriting. Focuses on key elements of a story: character, setting, conflict, and resolution. Could be used whole group with K-2. 4-6 [|Instant Poetry Forms] - Tons of poetry templates to fill in. ==

Math
K [|eManipulatives] - Counters, coins and bills, connecting cubes, number line, and hundred chart - all set up as virtual manipulatives K [|Number Time] - Games, printable worksheets, animated videos, and songs K-6 [|WebMath] - Shows how to do math problems. Put on your wiki for homework help. 1-6 [|Splat Squares] - interactive 100 number chart 1-3 [|Coin Combo] - A money counting version of Tetris. Other math games are available too. 1-3 [|Max's Math Adventure] - Max and Ruthie challenge you students to solve real-world problems by using clues embedded in a fun, rhyming poem. Max gives immediate feedback. K-3 [|KS1 Numeracy] - Choose a math topic and a level of difficulty. Printable worksheets too! 3-4 [|Multiflyer] - Save the universe by multiplying numbers to get enough energy to warp to the next mission target. Multiplication chart can help with facts if needed. 3-4 [|Multiplication Rock] - School House Rock audios and lyrics. Grammar Rock, America Rock, and Science Rock included too. 3-6 [|Create a Graph] - Make different kinds of graphs. Take a quiz and see how your answers compare nationally and internationally. Chances illustrates probability and statistics. 4-6 [|Visual Fractions] - A tutorial for identifying, renaming, and operating on fractions. Games and worksheets too. 5-6 [|Math Hunt] - Combine math with science and social studies. Read information to help you solve the problem.

Next we will look at the new [|Technology Course of Study]. [|Timer]

Don't forget that we also have typing and multiplication CDs in the computer lab. There are class sets of both.

To book the lab, go to [|fhscomputerlabs.wikispaces.com]