Topic 18 Great Websites

It's amazing how much a website can enhance my student's learning. I'm continuously amazed by the new websites I am constantly hearing about that my students just love. Some of the ones I have learned about from Roblyer have been great. I think websites are fun to my students and they often times view them as a game rather than work or drill & practice.

My student are studying multiplication right now as I've previously mentioned. Their current favorite website is multiplication.com. They ask me to go on it whenever they have completed all of their walk. It is very kid friendly and I can see a difference in their multiplication facts. Getting them to study their facts is often like pulling teeth, but this has been working very well.

Our CIT does a nice job of telling us about new websites she is learning about. My students also love funbrain.com, mathblaster.com, enchantedlearning.com, and many many more. Our CIT recently exposed me to brainpopjr.com. Now, this is something we subscribe to, but I have found it quite useful.

Recently, I showed a clip from brainpopjr.com about adjectives and nouns. It was amazing to see how much more engaged they were by watching this video and they truly seemed to understand the difference between the two.

I love the way teachers are always sharing websites and helpful hints with each other. One girl on my team is always finding wonderful things on scholastic.com. It is amazing how easy google makes it for teachers. If anyone has any favorite websites, please send them my way.