Remind 101 --App

Remind 101 is a free app that allows you to safely text parents and/or students with reminders of homeowrk, assignments and forms that are due.  Check out the post here about how to use Remind 101:
kleinspiration

Sushi Monster

Scholastic's Free App for math fact fluency:
Sushi Monster

Math Evolve--App

This app is good for building fact fluency.  Looks engaging.
Math Evolve

The Best Part of Me

Another great beginning (or end) of year activity for writing, photography and art.
Here is the post from blogger: Fabulous in Fourth
The Best Part of Me Lesson

Internet Respect

Here is a poster I got off of edmodo.  Great talking points for safety on the internet.
Digital Citizenship Poster

Virtual Manipulatives

Free app with manipulatives for math.  Featured are the arrangements for fractions decimals and percents.
Virtual Manipulatives

List Poem/Shape Poem

I found a cool website thanks to teacher blogger at 4th Grade Frolics.  She made word clouds for Earth Day on http://www.tagxedo.com/  Check out her post here:
http://4thgradefrolics.blogspot.com/2012/04/earth-day-follow-up.html

I thought this would be a great beginning of the year activity for students to do a list poem about themselves and then customize the shape and colors to fit their personality.  Here are 2 samples I did for Sophi and Colin;

Another great tool to transform student writing into a shape is http://www.festisite.com/text-layout/#2,0.  They have a few options to turn your text into shapes.  It works best with a paragraph or two.  Read the post here at Easy Ed Tech Blog about how they wrote a paragraph about a mom and put it in the shape of a heart.  Festisite also has spiral shpaes, banners, mazes and a rebus creater!!  Very cool for your kids you want to write in code!

abcya--website

http://www.abcya.com/ is a great website for K-5.  Includes games for reading, spelling, math and keyboarding.

Everything in its Place

I am excited to be getting my hands on an IPad very soon.  My principal has asked a group of teachers to take an Ipad home over th summer and blog about ways it can be used by students and teachers at our school.  I have encountered ideas all over the web, but I can't seem to always find what I need when I am searching at home, or at school.  So I am creating this place to categorize and collect all that good teaching, resources and ideas that are out there.