St. Patrick's Day Activities

Hi All,

I wanted to post some St. Patrick's Day activities for you to use in your classroom. Some of my favorites are below, but if you are feelin' lucky you can find some more here.

• Lucky clovers - Find all 10 four leaf lucky clovers as quickly as possible.
• Row Swapping Puzzle: Solve the puzzle by swapping the rows and the columns of the scrambled picture.
• Spot the Differences Game: Find seven differences between the two pictures before time runs out.
• St. Patrick Day Bears Dress-up Game: Help the little bears get ready for the St. Patrick's Day Celebration. Use your mouse to dress the bears. 

Fantastic flag day activities

Below are some fantastic flag day activities to do with your kids!

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• Flag coloring pages- An interactive flag day coloring pages.

• Flag day webquest - What does our flag mean to you? How do you feel when you see our American flag displayed? 

• Flag day puzzle 1 - Flag day six piece puzzle.

• Find The Flags is an excellent multimedia interactive from the National Center For Family Literacy. Found on Larry Feralazzo's website

• Flag day puzzle 2 - Flag day puzzle.

• Flag day scrambler puzzle - Flag day scrambler puzzle.

More fantastic flag day resources can be found on Wednesdays with Sam - Flag day

Memorable memorial day sites

Looking for some interactive ways to celebrate memorial day with your students? Check out some of these sites. 

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Memorial Day Coloring Pages interactive crayons and coloring pages that salute our men and women in the Armed Services.

US Memorial Day Holiday website has many links that would be useful for teachers and students to learn about Memorial Day. This site has information on the history and causalities, along with the ability to create and read e-cards and poems. Found on Free Teacher Resources | Special Education

online activities page includes puzzles, quizzes, and other sites with activities. This is a great one-stop resource to put together a lesson or short unit about Memorial Day. Found on Free Teacher Resources | Special Education

Memorial day word jumble - memorial day word jumble

Patriotic pairs - Match these patriotic symbols! This game is divided into 3 levels, good luck!

For more memorial day sites to use in your class check out Wednesdays with Sam 

VI apps

Here are some more fun apps for students who are visually impaired 

Name	Description
MusicDrawFree	MusicDrawFree is a great tool for practicing music and cause and effect.
Draw Music Monadpad	Draw pictures and create sounds on this unique musical instrument.
Easy Calc Talking free	A talking calculator, with large buttons
Talking Clock	Speaks out the time to you depending on the mode you set
Anny eReader	Just download your book from your computer or internet and enjoy.

Magnificent mothers day sites

Looking for some marvelous mother's day sites and activities to do with your students? Here are some magnificent mother's day websites! Happy mother's day to all of you magnificent moms out there! 

• Mother's day audio -  A fun audio book about mother's day by heads up english
• Mother's day interactive quiz - Here is an interactive quiz all about mother's day
• Happy Mother’s Day, Dear Dragon is a “talking story” from Starfall.
• Mother's day online coloring pages - Fun interactive printable Mother's Day coloring pages for kids to color online.
• Mother's day online card - Fun interactive printable Mother's Day card for kids to color online.
• Mother's day word search - Mother's Day online wordsearch 
• Greatest mom award - Print this award for the greatest mom!
• Mother's day word search - Mother's Day online wordsearch 
• Greatest mom award - Print this award for the greatest mom!
• Mother's day word search - Mother's Day online wordsearch 
• Greatest mom award - Print this award for the greatest mom!
• Greatest mom award - Print this award for the greatest mom!
• Mother's day word search - Mother's Day online wordsearch 
• Mother's day word search - Mother's Day online wordsearch 
• Greatest mom award - Print this award for the greatest mom!
• Greatest mom award - Print this award for the greatest mom!

Looking for more sites about mother's day? Check out Sam's Mother's Day sites 

Terrific Timeline tools

This blog post is focusing upon some fun, interactive, and creative online timeline tools.

• Read write think - This online site is an interactive timeline creation tool.
• Our timelines - Create a personalized timeline
• Interactive websites - Houses a list of many interactive timeline resources.
• Class Tools - Interactive timeline brought to you by class tools! 
• Powerpoint timeline - Find these fun timeline downloadable PowerPoint presentations. 

Have some to share? Comment below! To check out more timeline interactive tools click here
 

Happy 2012!

Happy New Year blog readers! 

Here are some great activities, interactives, games, and resources all about the new year!  New Year's is all about new beginnings and making resolutions. Don't have a resolution yet? Well try out this resolution generator!

• New Year's Resolution Generator and you'll be given a resolution idea.  My resolution is to make something new everyday!

 

Kit Kat's resolution is to annoy her owners! This picture was created using Pizap.com

Here are some other fun and interactive games, printables and resources to use in your classroom or with your kids at home! 

• New Year printables - Some New Years printables, including resolutions  
• New Year listening activity - Read and listen to the traditions about New Year in USA 
• New Year Traditions in America - Multiple Choice Quiz - A multiple choice quiz on traditions  
• New Year's Resolutions - Read and listen (US English) - Read and listen about resolutions for New Years
• color and print New Year's coloring pages 
• New Year fill in the blank - A new year comprehension question and paragraph form 
• New Year around the world - New year around the world. Passages about how New Year's is celebrated throughout the world.
• New Years around the world 2 - Complete this interactive online quiz about New Year's around the world  
• New Year interactive coloring page - Interactive coloring pages with a New Year theme 
• New Year's word search - an interactive online word search 
• Word search 2 - Word search all about New Years
• New Year around the world - Learn to say Happy New Year in several different languages.
• Coloring Pages - Use your interactive crayon to paint these fun coloring pages of New Year symbols - father time, baby father time, happy New Year snowman, clock set at midnight, noisemakers, and a party man waiting for the New Year. 
• Jigsaw Puzzles - Ring in the New Year with these fun interactive jigsaw puzzles! 
• Scrambler Puzzles - Fun New Year picture puzzles to unscramble. Can you fix confetti and noisemakers? You have to go fast...you only have 4 minutes to complete each. 
• New Year's Eve Drag & Drop - New Year's eve drag and drop puzzle

Have a safe and happy New Year! If you would like to be a guest blogger for Sam's cool tools for classroom in 2012 please let me know! 

 

3 days of Christmas - random Christmas games

For this post I decided to post a link to all the other games I have tagged in my Diigo library that are related to Christmas. So here is the Christmas buffet..pick what you like!

• Email Santa - Email the big guy in red
• Cute Christmas ecards from Holiday Ecard - Here are some very cute ecards with a christmas theme
• Design your own Gingerbread house- Decorate a gingerbread house virtually.
• Snowflake workshop- Create a beautiful snowflake in the snowflake workshop
• Christmas themed switch games - switch games with a Christmas theme
• More Christmas switch games  - switch games with a Christmas theme 
• 12 days of Christmas game - Click on the ornaments to play 12 different Christmas games
• Norad track Santa - Track Santa around the world as he delivers packages to all the boys and girls.
• Cute ecard to learn about cause and effect while building an adorable snowman- Snowman e card
• Santa solitare - Play solitaire with cards that have a Santa theme
• Send a personalized call from Santa - Use gmail to send a call from Santa to your little one.

1st night of Hanukkah - ebooks and coloring books

Here are some interactive books and coloring pages all about Hanukkah. 

Hanukkah coloring pages- Most Hanukkah coloring pages come with a selection of sentences. 

Hanukkah for kids - A great website all for kids all about Hanukkah  - games, activities, interactives, and more!

Hanukkah coloring pages from lil fingers - Hanukkah coloring pages

Hanukkah coloring book - interactive Hanukkah coloring book

Interactive Hanukkah coloring pages - Interactive Hanukkah coloring pages found online

Lessons learned at Hanukkah - E-book about Hanukkah from story home
Hanukkah gifts - interactive book about Hanukkah
Life of Hanukkah - interactive book geared towards older students.

6 days of Christmas - polar express..All aboard!

Here are some perfect polar express sites...

Storyline online- search through for polar express - its the 4th page of stories

Polar Express/ - count down to Christmas

Crossword - Polar express crossword puzzle

Theatre play - Polar Express readers theater play

Ticket chase - play the polar express ticket chase 

Similarities - check out the two pictures and find what is similar in both

 

14 days of Christmas - gingerbread

Mmm...nothing says Christmas more than the smell of Gingerbread coming from the oven! Here are some great gingerbread based games and stories to use in your class or  home!

gingerbread man - decorate a gingerbread man 

Gingerbread house - Gingerbread house recipe

Gingerbread Cookie Card - send a gingerbread man that you created as a christmas e card.

The Gingerbread Man With Everything lets you create your own virtual…gingerbread man and send or post the link.
  

Gingerbread man story - An interactive gingerbread man story. 

Gingerbread man on Starfall - Here is a fun gingerbread man story and activity from Star fall!  

Gingerbread house - Design and print your own Gingerbread house 

Gingerbread house 2.0 - Click and drag to create your own gingerbread house!  

Gingerbread house 2.2 - Create a cute and  interactive gingerbread house, found this on my Diigo list!

Great Gingerbread resources: 

Gingerbread man themed activities  Web Resources for Educators by Midge Frazel

Gingerbread websites

More gingerbread man fun

15 days of Christmas - frosty the snowman!

Frosty the snowman...here are some fun games with a fun Frosty theme! If it is too cold outsie, have a good time playing inside with these super fun snowman games!


Dress up these funny snowmen - match the items on the two snowmen.

Build a Snowman - click and drag the items to build and dress the snowman

Make a snowman - Create a fun snowman by adding in buttons, scarves, hats, mittens, and a face!

Snowman Drag the pieces to build a snowman in this fun kindergarten and preschool game.   

Snowy Fun! Whether you live near snow or not, everyone can join in the fun of decorating their own snowman in Snowy Fun. Come work on your math facts and earn decorations to customize your snowman. Hurry! Don't delay for soon the snow may melt away. 

Coloring Pages - Use your interactive crayon to paint these fun coloring pages of New Year symbols - father time, baby father time, happy New Year snowman, clock set at midnight, noisemakers, and a party man waiting for the New Year.


 Holiday Fun Preschool Activity Center Play all day at the Holiday Fun Preschool Center! Build a snowman, print a snowflake or play the holiday coloring game - it's a barrel of fun!
  

16 days of christmas - reindeer games

You know Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, and Vixen, Comet, and Cupid, Donner and Blitzen but do you recall...the most famous reindeer of all???

...It's that time of year, time for the reindeer games to begin! Check out these fun games all starring Rudolph and his friends! 

• Tootin' Reindeer - Cause and effect - click on the reindeer and hear them...toot
• Reindeer orchestra - Click on the reindeer to play a song.
• Santa's Gift Sling:  Have Santa use the sling on the reindeer to shoot the Christmas gifts into the chimney.
• Reindeer Coloring Page (color online) - An online coloring page all about reindeer.
• Where's Raymond the Reindeer? - Find an interactive reindeer barn and learn about Raymond and his reindeer friends.
• Rooney Reindeer's Match up - Match the pictures in this fun concentration game.  
•   Rooney says Follow Me! – A fun Simon says interactive game.
•  Reindeer Team e-card - Send this cute reindeer e card to a friend.

17 days of Christmas - let it snow!

A few days ago we got a bit of snow, and so I wanted to share some super snowy resources with you. Cuddle up with a cup of hot chocolate and play some of these fun games on your computer!  

Stickers for all seasons Choose the winter season and have fun placing stickers on the winter scene

Snowflake workshop - Create a cute snowflake in the snowflake workshop!

Make a flake - Make your own snowflake with the scissors and paper.

Build your own snowman Dress up the snowman

Winter resources - many great winter resources

Winter madlibs - printable witner mad libs 

100 snowballs - 100 snowballs count the snowballs to 100

Make a snowman - Create a fun snowman by adding in buttons, scarves, hats, mittens, and a face!

Alfy’s Snow Day.Here’s a “talking book” about Alfy during the winter months.  

Snowman Drag the pieces to build a snowman in this fun kindergarten and preschool game.  

Text snowflake creator - Just like wordle, puts your text, words, and phrases into a snowflake design!

For more Christmas fun please visit here

 

19 days of Chrismas - ecards

This is the time of year where we send out oodles of cards and notes full of warm thoughts to our family and friends. This year, why not have your class send an e-card to a loved one or friend. This is a great way to spread holiday cheer! These e cards are also very cute, interactive, and motivating for students to create! I highly recommend the elf yourself!

Here are some cheery Christmas e-card creation sites:

• Elf yourself- Create an elf inspired e card that you star in!  
• Gingerbread Cookie Card - send a gingerbread man that you created as a Christmas e card.  
• Northpole mailbox - send an animated postcard from the North Pole  
• Holiday sweater - create your own holiday sweater! Take tacky to a new level!  
• Christmas Activity Center - Play Christmas games, get gift ideas, and send e-cards to friends and family at the Christmas Activity Center! Plus, laugh it up with Christmas riddles and solve holiday Sudoku puzzles!
• jib jab- who can forget jib jab! Make a Christmas e-card starring yourself! **some adult content** Hallmark - Hallmark has some free e cards to send a family member of friend.  
• Blue Mountain - A great place to find cute Christmas e-cards 
• Ecardia - Found this one on my diigo finds! Great ecard maker.
• Christmas card maker - Just as it says - very interactive card maker.

For more Christmas fun and games please visit: Wednesdays with Sam

20 days of Christmas - switch games

For this post I am going to show you some great Christmas themed switch games to play on the computer. 

• Switchabilities - Here is a list of eight great Christmas games to play on the computer.  
• Christmas presents - Guess what is hiding inside the present, click on it to find out!
• Card Maker Card types - presently include Birthdays, Easter, Halloween and Christmas.
• Christmas singing sheep - click on the sheep to hear them sing  
• Press to Reveal! - Christmas - Press the switch the reveal the Christmas character

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Check out this blog post to learn about a document you can download with many great sites and tools for students with special needs!

Literacy Tools and Resources avalaible 24/7

I reviewed an online archived webinar about Literacy tools that are available online 24/7. This webinar was presented by the Florida Virtual School.  Below are some cool online tools that were shared:

• Prezi
• readplease
• Virtual school library - Great list of resources for librarians, ESL teachers, speech teachers, and English / Language arts teachers!
• FLVS SRC - Florida virtual school student resource center (will be available soon)
• Literacy Instructional support center (will be available soon)

Enabling Devices Freebies!

Special thanks goes out to Enabling Devices @EnablingDevices for tweeting out a link to some great freebies!

Enabling devices has a free downloadable resource that gives some great ideas about using the following types of communicators:

- Single Message
- Two Message
- Multiple Message
- Sequencing

Here is the link for this great and handy resource! The resource can be found in the website's scrolling updates. Be sure to click download now. You will be linked to a site with 4 pdfs, then pick which type of communicator you would like to review. Each pdf is jam packed full of great ideas for inside and outside the classroom.

Have some great ideas for single, double, multiple, or sequencing communicators? Share!