Monthly Archives: February 2009

ReadAcross America Monday,March 2 Cook County School District 130 does not have school. Inaddition, it is Read Across America Day and it is also Dr. Seuss’sbirthday. Next week,our principal, Mr.Talluto, will be reading Green Eggs and Ham to the class … Continue reading →

This is just a few of the websites I have seen used at Whittier School. The students and teachers seem to enjoy them. For Balanced Literacy http://reading.ecb.org For Math:   http://www.aaamath.com Get Smarter Math Website http://www.getsmarter.org/index.cfm Lessons: http://www.isbe.net/ils/math/capd.htm http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/m2t2 http://standards.nctm.org/document/eexamples/index.htm http://www.mattimath.com/ … Continue reading →

Sleep Sleep Sleep Students need the proper amount of sleep when facing the challenges of daily school activities. This means that they need over 8-10 hours of good restful sleep daily. Their minds cannot function clearly when they have not … Continue reading →

Adding visual elements to your presentations or conversations! Here is a short movie clip explaining Jing. Technorati Tags JingScreencasts

http://www.screencast-o-matic.com During the last school year, I was able to use Screencast.com to make a presentation on “how to add blog posts to my students’ blogmeister blogs.” Since the Class Blogmeister website was blocked at school and we could not … Continue reading →

ISAT Practice Websites: http://metacat2.com/iltestlinks.html http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_5th_original.htm#math http://www.boiseschools.org/schools/north/mrznorth/ISATSamplequestions.htm http://metacat2.com/iltestlinks.html 2008 ISAT Reading Sample Questions – 5 2009 ISAT Reading Sample Questions – 5 2009 ISAT Mathematics Sample Questions – 5 http://www.isbe.net/assessment/isat.htm http://www.isbe.net/assessment/htmls/sample_books_2008.htm Select your grade level Select your subject and begin working … Continue reading →

Additional information about Google Docs: Below you will find information called “In a Nutshell” taken from the following link. http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=37603 In a nutshell Docs: Each doc can have a maximum size of 500K, plus up to 2MB per embedded image. … Continue reading →