Treasure Hunt!

This website has a neat little treasure hunt where you need to follow the clues to find the treasure!

Treasure Hunt

Character Trading Cards

Read Write Think has a great Character Trading Card creator that allows you to create 2-sided trading cards that print nicely.  You move through several questions to fully develop your character as you create the card.

Study Island High Score!

GCMS 5th grader Bailey Long made the Study Island state high score table today!  She scored 13 in Sodoku for Information/Text Features, placing her 3nd on the high score table.  Great job!

Study Island is an ISAT prep website used by students all over Illinois. Visit their websiteto learn more.

Study Island High Score

GCMS 4th grader Danielle Eckerty made the Study Island state high score table today!  She scored 483 in the Swat game for ordering fractions, placing her 2nd on the high score table.  Great job!

Study Island is an ISAT prep website used by students all over Illinois. Visit their websiteto learn more.

 

ABC Ya

ABC Ya has a great collection of online games in multiple subjects.  The games are divided into grade levels.  I haven't had a chance to explore a lot of the games yet so feel free to share any particular activities that you really enjoy!

A Google a Day

What if there were a trivia game that actually allowed and encouraged you to use Google?  A Google a Day is just that.  Each day a new question is posted.  Once the answer for the day is revealed it also provides search tips for finding that answer.  This could be a great way to generate warm-up or bellringer questions and teach search techniques at the same time!

Free Music Archive

Free Music Archive offers music tracks that are safe to use in podcasts and other productions.  You can search songs or browse by artist and genre.

MorgueFile

MorgueFile is an online collection of royalty free photos.  They do not require attribution, or crediting their site for the photo, but they do provide url's for the image that I would use to cite the source just to be safe.

Pics4Learning

Pics4Learning.com is an image library specifically made with teachers and students in mind.  The images are free and safe to use and each image is accompanied with a short bibliography for proper citation.  You can also join the community by submitting your own pictures to share.

FreePhotos.com

FreePhotos.com provides royalty free stock photos for online use.  You can download high-resolution images and use  them in a project that is shared online.  Their one requirement is that you link back and give credit to their site whenever you use one of their pictures.

Fuel the Brain

Looking for some educational games?  Fuel the Brain has a great selection of math related interactive online games.  These are excellent for practicing many elementary level math skills!

Free Rice

This website has become well known for some time now but it is one I still love to revisit!  Free Rice is a vocabulary game that instinctively adjusts its difficulty level based on how well you are answering each question.  Don't forget that by playing the game you are also donating 10 grains of rice with each correct answer.  It offers a great challenge to almost any user and offers a chance to facilitate conversations about social awareness.  Win Win!

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

March 2 is the birthday of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known to the world as Dr. Seuss.  Seussville is a website full of information about the author and his books.  You can also find videos, educational games and even special pages for parents and teachers.  Have fun remembering one of our culture's most beloved authors!

Study Island High Score

GCMS 4th grader Seth Breeden made the Study Island state high score table today!  He scored 1050 in the Fishing game for factors and multiples, placing him 3rd on the high score table.  Great job!

Study Island is an ISAT prep website used by students all over Illinois. Visit their websiteto learn more.

Vocab Genii

Vocab Genii is a great vocabulary activity that offers an excellent challenge and allows you to track and share your progress with other people.  Both your overall score (based on the number of words you correctly identified) and your word strength (based on the difficulty of the words) are judged.

I would not recommend this site for anyone needing an extra challenge, and the difficulty level can become pretty significant.

4A Study Island High Scores

A whole slew of students from 4A made the State high score table today.  Gabby Dammkoelher hit 4th place on the Banana Toss game for Heat Energy with a score of 3660.  Andrew Eisenhardt scored 250 on the Penalty Kick game for Heat Energy earning 2nd place.  Josh Astronomo also hit a high score of 220 in Penalty Kick placing him 5th.  Andrew Laughery took 3rd place in Island Hopping for Classifying Animals with a score of 1068.  Great job everyone!

Study Island is an ISAT prep website used by students all over Illinois. Visit their websiteto learn more.

 

3C Ecosystem Glogs

Ms. Kerber's 3C class recently created some great Glogs about ecosystems.  Check them out!

3C Ecosystem Glog

A “Glog” is an online poster using the Web 2.0 tool Glogster.

 

5A Measurement Glogs

Mrs. Seneca's 5A class recently created some great Glogs about measurement.  Check them out!

5A Measurement Glog

A "Glog" is an online poster using the Web 2.0 tool Glogster.

Study Island High Scores

Two GCMS students made the Study Island state high score table today!  5th grader Jacey Goin scored 7 in the Sodoku game for homonyms, placing her 2nd on the high score table.  5th grader Bailey Long scored 61 in the Sodoku game for prefixes, suffixes and word roots, placing her 5th on the state high score table.  Great job!

Study Island is an ISAT prep website used by students all over Illinois. Visit their websiteto learn more.