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

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
 

Jigsaw Planet

What's better than cuddling up with a blanket, hot chocolate, and a good puzzle? This post will discuss how to make this cozy and fun experience an interactive and virtual one!

•  Jigzone - The puzzle on the side of this blog was created using Jigzone.  Jigzone offers a puzzle of the day, ability to embed your own photos into a puzzle and then put onto your blog or website, upload your own photos as puzzles, send a puzzle postcard, and a competition option. 

• Dotty's virtual jigsaw - offers many different online puzzles to play on the computer or offline with the use of a CD. This site has many jigsaw review, daily and weekly jigsaw puzzles, online jigsaw puzzles, and puzzle downloads. 
• Apples for the teacher -  This link will take you to the winter jigsaw puzzles - snowman, snowballs, and a surprised snowman. 
• Art puzzles - Here are some great art related puzzles. 
• Jigsaw planet - Has many different online interactive jigsaw puzzles to complete. You can also create your own puzzle! 
• Atlas puzzles - Offers many fun National Geographic Atlas puzzles to complete. Simply choose a puzzle and complete it! Good luck! 
• Weather channel puzzles - Here are fun jigsaw all related to weather and weather preparedness. 
• Little Cesar fun times - Little Cesar offers four puzzles to play.  

Sit back, relax and enjoy a day building puzzles! 

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! 

 

2nd night of Hanukkah

Send a Hanukkah E-Card to a friend or family member this holiday season.....

123 greetings

blue mountain

Greeting cards

Care 2 send

American greetings animated cards

E-Greetings

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