John Eaton Elementary School Resources

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From Susan Eastman--

For Reinforcing Typing/Keyboarding Skills --Grades 3,4,5, and 6

www.typingsoft.com/all_typing_tutors.htm

This website offers both freeware and shareware. Under the freeware category are free online sites for practicing keyboarding skills--including tying games-- and free online typing tests which give speed --words per minute and accuracy.

Recommended Math Websites for Children:

Shodor Interactive Math Activities

National Council of Mathematics (NCTM) Illuminations

The following website allows the students to explore tangram puzzle designs. Then, it challenges them to analyse how the puzzle was constructed with the 7 non-overlapping puzzle pieces. These kind of "right-brain" math problems teach all students, as young as second grade, to break a problem down into its smallest parts in order to find a solution.

http://www.enchantedmind.com/puzzles/tangram/tangram.html

From the Grade 4 Teachers: State Fair Projects

Fourth grade students are embarking on a US state project. We are in need of some supplies to complete this and I have posted a proposal on:

http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=166231&zone=0

All of the supplies requested are re-usable for future fourth grade classes. I've never done this before - but it would be a superb way to do something wonderful that could give back for years to come!

Thank you