JACKPOT! My FAVE collection of online brain breaks & educational, ad-free games! Just had to share!

Thanks for checking out my teacher blog!  But wait!  There's MORE!  If you visit www.HOWYWOOD.com, you'll find my collection of online treasures to use in your classroom with your students!   Under the "Math" and "Language Arts" tabs I've picked my favorite, high quality, AD-FREE educational games for ~K-1.  All kid-tested and approved!  They love it!
"Just for fun" is full of popular kid's sites... not necessarily ad-free, but they're familiar places like Nat Geo, Disney, Nick Jr, PBS Kids, LEGO, American Girl, and much more!  Be sure to look at 1HappyBirthday.com... they have free personalized birthday songs thousands and thousands of names! My class loves finding and playing the song for the birthday kid!

And now for my personal FAVORITE... the place I visit every school day- Brain Breaks!  There are so many good ones out there, right?!  I got tired of saving a few to my favorites and having to look them up- or googling what I wanted...  So I put them all in one place!  

I've also got a few iPad app ideas and  links to digital story books.  

I can't keep a good thing to myself- so I'm sharing and hoping you and your students can benefit from it!  Have fun! 

App Review: TOCA BOCA!

 

TOCA BOCA apps are "a new way to play!"  They range in price from FREE - $2.99 and they're so FUN for toddlers to elementary kids.  Want to see a taste of what I'm talking about?  Check out my new app review HERE!

Some Favorite Math Apps for the iPad!

I thought it'd be fun to share some of my fave math apps for PK-1!  These are tried and true ones I have used with my preschooler and 1st grader at home as well as my Kindergarten school kids.  I tried to talk as fast as I could and I got to 4 apps in 5 minutes (and then also quick just named a few others I like).  So hopefully this video clip will show you something that might catch your eye and be helpful to parents and teachers or anyone out there who knows a little one who'd like to use the iPad to work with numbers!  I have heaps of other apps I recommend for other subjects or skills and I'll try to post some of those another day!  Have fun!
Sorry I wasn't able to embed it with this software, but just click this link to see the video: http://screencast.com/t/76Qqo1oWyLuD

 
ps... just fyi, I'm not associated with any of these apps or creators in any way... just trying to spread the word about what I think are good, quality, beautiful apps!