Study Jams! Science and Math

This post is geared more toward the upper elementary teachers (3-6 ish)...

Scholastic has an awesome website called Study Jams.  It has science and math based learning activities for upper elementary.

When you go to the main screen you will see a bunch of billboards with topics on them. When you click on it a list will show up of skills that are related to the main topic. All you have to do is click on the topic and skill. I have used it in the past to introduce a skill.

Each section/lesson has a video and real life problem to help the kids understand the topic. There is a list of vocabulary words that will also be listed at the bottom of each lesson to review. I do not use it in my kindergarten class but I used it a lot with my third graders. They absolutely loved it!

Visit the website by clicking on the picture below: 

Kahoot!!

Kahoot!! 

I may be a little behind on this but I recently discovered a website that can be used as and replace a poll response system in your classroom. 

Visit getkahoot.com to create your FREE account and then you can create quizzes or surveys for your students (or potentially parents) to do. I'd stick to 8-10 questions because beyond that it can get kind if boring. After you make a Kahoot you will get a code to share with your audience. 

Next they visit Kahoot.it and enter the code. This works for any device that has internet.... iPad, iPhone, android, laptop, anything really. Once people have entered the code you can start by projecting it on your smart board and having them enter their choices. 

It is pretty awesome and hope this helps you in your classroom. You can use it in any grade level really. In kindergarten I would use it for --

Review, word recognition, number recognition, colors, shapes, sight words. 

On Fridays a teacher friend of mine allowed her kids to bring their tablets or devices to school and she used them in her classroom and then let them have free time to use them as a reward if they had good behavior or completed work and the like. Shout out to Courtney Ewing, a fabulous teacher!! Anywho, I will probably do that this year, with my kids. There are so many kids that have tablets and I really want to find ways to incorporate those in my classroom the best I can. The possibilities are endless and I am so excited to try it out this year.