Interactive Activities

Site Name: coolmathforkids.com

Age Level: 3-12

Subject Area: Math

Platform: Mac or PC

Purpose: To help students learn math by having fun.
This site has a lot of fun activities students can do to learn math. One explanation on the site says that it is, "An amusement park of math designed for fun." This site has everything from math games to brain benders. The site also says that teachers and parents are using it to enhance their children and students math skills. One thing parents and teachers can do is to put this site and many others on their bookmark so students can go to the website without help at all.



Site Name: starfall.com

Grade Level: K-2nd

Subject Area: Reading and Writing

Platform: Mac or PC

Purpose: To help students learn to read and write and to enhance their reading skills.
This site looks like a fun way to help children learn to read. There are so many activities students can do on this site including ABC's, fun tales, art gallery, and more. When I was doing classroom observations in the Kindergarten and second grade classrooms at the local school, both teachers were using this for when their students were finished with their work early. I could tell these students were getting a lot out of this because students were reading material on the site and sounding out letters as well.



Site Name: Literacycenter.net

Grade/Age Level: Preschool up to the third grade

Subject Area: Reading

Platform: Mac and PC

Purpose: To help students learn to read.
This site is pretty interesting. There are so many activities to help students learn to read. This site was created to help students succeed in reading. Literacy center also teaches the native tongue of four languages, which is neat. There's everything from learning the lowercases to upper cases, and to writing and keyboarding. The only thing that needs to be downloaded to your computer is the flash player plug-in. If you do not have the flash player, there is a place on the site where you can automatically download this software. There is a place where teachers and parents can go to too for different subject areas and specific purposes. My aunt and her husband uses this for their daughter who is in the third grade. She is the top student in her class. They are also using this for their other daughter who is in the first grade and their son who is in Preschool.

1to1 Reflection

If I do become a teacher, I think I would love to have laptops in my classroom. Throughout the video, I learned that having laptops in the classroom can help the school district save money by having up to date information. I thought of this because the school district that the local school here in New Stuyahok is in does not have enough funds to support extra-curricular activities. Students and parents that are in extra curricular activities have to raise their own money to travel to other activities that are not in the district, which I think is wrong; but I do understand that. Having laptops in the classroom may help with better classroom management by having students close their laptops and they cannot use their laptops further throughout the class period. And by doing so, students will work hard on the assignment they are given to do.
Having laptops in the classroom may not meet some standards that students should have as they go through each class level. An example from the video is: students who are in the fifth grade have neater handwriting than the seniors. Computers may also be the sole source for students with personal laptops. Students will not be able to look up how words are spelled from the dictionary because microsoft word or excel will hint them that the word is mispelled.

Me.

My name is Crystal Blunka. I just recently got married and I still have yet to change my last name. I grew up here in New Stuyahok my entire life. New Stuyahok is in the Bristol Bay region. I absolutely love it and the great outdoors as well.
When I was little I always wanted to become a teacher. We'll see if that dream comes true because I have a lot of interests.
My husband and I also have a seven month old son who is a handful, but worth everything. We are still learning how to raise and take care of a child, but we both love it![=