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 

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! 

 

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.

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

 

10 days of Christmas - music

Want to jam to some Christmas music or make your own Christmas melodies? Try out some of these music sites!

Jingle bells - animated jingle bells

kids songs - Listen to a song about Santa and the busy elf. There is a game you can play while the song is loading, or you can do it before you listen to the song.

3ws radio - jam out to Christmas music just click listen live and you can listen to 3ws on your computer! Great to have on as background noise during the holiday season!

Northpole radio- Listen to your holiday favorites all year round!

Christmas Song List - A list of songs and lyrics! Also here is a list of traditional songs and lyrics

Reindeer orchestra  - Play Santa's reindeer by pressing their noses. Learn to play a Christmas song or free play! 

Christmas Bells:  Make music with the Christmas bells. 

Christmas music resources:

Science or NASA related Twas the night before Christmas poem 

Christmas music power point presentations 

12 Days of christmas - perfect presents!

Here are some fun perfectly pleasant present games to play on your own computer or on an interactive whiteboard:

Letter to Santa Tell Santa what presents you would like. 

Present sorting Choose to sort the presents in different ways as they come off the conveyor belt. You can sort my size, color, or shape! Best of luck!

Stack the sleigh Help Santa stack the the presents into size order before delivering them down the correct chimneys. Start with the longest present.

Stop the Grinch From Stealing Mouse clicking game to save Christmas! There are 13 gifts under the tree and the Grinch wants them all! Save Christmas by clicking on Grinch before he grabs the presents. You have to move fast - he's quick!  

 

Christmas Presents Guess what is hiding inside the present, click on it to find out!

Gift stack - see if you can stack the presents high!

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