Thanksgiving activities for the little ones (or the little ones at heart)

Here at GCCISD the kids have the entire week of Thanksgiving off. So what are they to do? Well at Funschool.com they have some cute activities that may help keep the kids entertained. My personal favorite is the online coloring book. Gobble Gobble

To all my teacher friends who are trying to get through the next two days...

Spelling City

Spelling City has been around apparently since 2008, and I just learned about it today from Highlands Elementary's Family Involvement Coordinator, Mrs. Lovett! This site will allow your students (or hey - you) to practice your vocabulary list. It will spell the words out, say them to you so that you pronounce them correctly, and use them in a sentence! SpellingCity also will take the terms you type in and allow your student(s) to play games with just those words! It allows you to play matching games with sentences, Hang Mouse (uber cute), and many more activities. The best part is that it is FREE! You can pay for Premium Activities if you would like but there are lots of great free features on this site!

Vocabulary

I am trying to come up with ways to help our teachers with our students vocabulary when it comes to testing. So I made a video using goanimate.com to try out a way to help our kids. Our students tend to do well on the terminology that the teacher is enforcing in that class but they get lost when it is a term they are unfamiliar with or they normally see in another content area.

GoAnimate.com: Vertical Vocabulary by megill

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!