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 multiplication
a.    This is a great site to teach kids their multiplication facts in a fun, interesting manner that makes kids want to learn their multiplication facts. There are many different games to teach the facts. It helps, because many kids love playing games on the computer.

 OSPI
a.    This site can give a teacher the updated GLE’s to work with when creating a lesson. There are many added facts from other educators that can help inspire a teacher to create a fun lesson.For example, the Food Pyramid is on the site to teach students nutrition, a very important topic for the obesity problem today.

 Art in the Classroom fun
a.    This site is great for showing kids the different lines and shapes and helping them identify the differences. It can also give a teacher some ideas on projects to teach art to kids. The kids are able to create their own images using only one media at this site. It is great for teachers, parents, and kids.

  Reading help for Teachers
a.    This site is great for teaching reading comprehension that includes text to text/self/world connections. With the WASL based on reading comprehension, this site can teach it to kids in a game form. The students advance on to the areas of the game using connections. There are also different forms of reading strategies to work from.

Teacher lesson Plan ideas
a.    This is a great site to find lesson plans, penmanship worksheets, and other subject worksheets for teachers to work from. There is also a section that gives ideas to work with when a holiday comes or a section the talks about classroom management techniques for new teachers.

Holiday ideas
a.    Seasons are great to teach to children. This site gives a lot of ideas for celebrating the holidays, such as Halloween or Christmas.

 Social Studies
a.    Social studies is a hard topic to teach without boring kids. This site gives great activities to engage children while giving good information. It also has techniques for classroom discipline.

Writing prompts
a.    Writing prompts are not easy to come up with. This site gives some good ideas that range for right brained techniques and left brained techniques. It also has ways of teaching the 6 trait writing system. It is a great site for teachers to get lesson plan ideas for writer's workshop.

Poetry fun
a.    Poetry is great for teaching children to read. It also teaches children the parts of speech. Poetry is hard for some, but is a great phonics lesson to work with. It helps with teaching children vocabulary.

Teaching poetry
a.     Poetry is a hard topic to teach to children. This site gives great ideas on how to teach the concept of understanding poetry. There are step by step ideas on what to do to engage children in reading poetry.

 Science fun for parents and Pre-School teachers
a.    Science is always fun for kids to learn when it is engaging. Parent can get their children engaged in science with simple projects that are done around the house. This can also be something that pre-school teachers can use in the classroom.
Conversions
  a. This site is great for teachers when they want to convert weights, temperatures, lengths, area, and volume using an on line calculator. A lot of people have difficulty with the metric system, so this is a great site to convert quickly or check answers. Parents can also use this site for cooking when needing to convert for cooking times or measuring needs.

 Science activities for the classroom
a.    This site gives children activities to work with in school or at home. It involves facts about computers, matter, earth, measurement, electricity, and much more. It teaches kids the boring stuff in an interesting way or in their kind of thinking. The measurement can also be seen as teaching math concepts. This is prefered for a kindergarten classroom. 


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