Favorite Teacher Links

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    http://etc.usf.edu/presentations/index.html
    Free presentation resources for students and teachers. Choose from over 30,000 extra's in your next presentation! Awesome site.
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    http://creativity.denverartmuseum.org
    If you're looking for art images, lesson plans, teacher tips, teacher resources, virtual classroom courses, and a list of useful websites, this is the place to click on! Colorful, organized and easy to navigate!
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    http://www.playdoughrecipe.org/category/playdough-recipes/
    Need a play-dough recipe? This is the website to go to. A large variety of recipes in a print-friendly version.
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    http://www.childfun.com/index.php/home-mainmenu-71.html
    A lot of great ideas for early childhood: holidays, crafts, themes, games and recipes!
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    MPM School Supplies

    If you're looking for school or office supplies, take a look at this site.  They have over 2,000 arts & craft supplies, with an easy to use website.  Nice selection and competitive price points, with sales promotions of as much as 70% off clearance items.

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    http://www.aaamath.com/kinder.htm
    Outstanding math site. K-8th All areas of math covered. Includes lessons, tips, games. One of my favorites is TIME. Students practice and their scores can be recorded with a percent given for amount of questions answered!
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    http://skippersjungle.blogspot.com/2012/07/lots-of-classroom-theme-ideas.html?spref=fb#
    Marie posted some wonderful photographs of teachers' classrooms that are themed. Everything from jungles to pirates. If you're looking for an idea check out this super blog post.
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    http://etc.usf.edu/maps/index.htm
    Over 5,000 maps that teachers and students may use for school-related projects (up to 25 royalty free.) Outstanding quality. Very organized and easy-to-use site.
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    Meddybemps-Vocabulary Building
    Puppy-themed idea. Great idea to help increase your students' vocabulary and site word recognition.
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    http://www.edupic.net/index.html
    Free photographs and graphics for students and teachers to use. Well organized site with a huge variety + great quality. The search box, tabs, & alphabetical listing, make it easy to find things.
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    Easy Essays
    Easy Essays is a great site to help older students learn how to write an essay. I refer my college students to this site as this is the format I use. Great tips, easy to understand, helpful information + you can store your work.
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    mathwire.com
    If you need a math GAME or GLYPH this is THE place to go. A breeze to navigate; alphabetical listing, including a standards based list for older concepts, but lots of fun things for Pre-k and Kindergarten! Great BLOG too!
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    IXL
    PreK-8th Wonderful Math site that will help your students practice state standards. Pre-K 41 skills Kindergarten 104 skills 1st 151 skills. Each state's standards are listed and you can actually track your students' progress. Membership is required, but you can find out valuable information about standards and there are sample test questions on the site even if you don't subscribe. Students can practice for free so this is a great independent computer center.
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    http://www.brainybetty.com/MENUEducators.htm
    Brainy Betty's site is a potpourri of fun educational "stuff". Everything from "Tutorials, tips and tricks" to Power Points. She has lots of freebies too: fonts, bookmarks, templates, eBooks + links. Unique!
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    Literacy Center
    Great site to use as an independent computer center. Children can review letters, numbers, words and colors! The simple exercises are perfect for Y5's and early K's. Teachers will also enjoy the free printables for letters, shapes and colors. They take up alot of paper tho', but could be used as big flashcards or posters.
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    Jan Brett
    One of my favorite authors. She has lesson plans and freebies to go with lots of her books. There's videos and lots of cool stuff on her site!
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    Matific

    Lots of FREE activities and worksheets to make math interesting and fun.  Grades K-6   "We LOVE math + We LOVE kids + we think learning should be fun = Matific to solve the equation."

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    Puzzle Maker
    Free site. Design a word search, maze, letter tiles, cryptograms, number tiles, hidden messages and more!
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    Online Stopwatch
    This site has a variety of devices that will help you keep track of time via the Internet. These are perfect for Smart Boards and IPads. Fun graphics for students; something different than using the "same old" timer. My favorite: the bomb! Also has a calculator.
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    The Busy Educator
    The Busy Educator by teacher Marjan Glavac offers a nice monthly newsletter with tips and sites. My favorite section on his site is his library. It's a good resource for a nice selection of articles on a huge variety of topics.