SMART Board Goodies A Resource Blog by Amber Coggin 

I couldn’t let this momentous time pass without giving a “shout out” to my favorite football team and National Champions, the Alabama Crimson Tide! Congrats on your win, guys. I felt terrible for Colt McCoy, and Gilbert did a heck of a job, but I’m glad we won. Rolllllll Tide!

Photo by Bill Starling/al.com

Big BrownBear.co.uk offers a nice range of literacy interactives that can be used on the SMART Board or any other interactive whiteboard.  Topics include prefixes, suffixes, phonemes, as well as a few others. I’d like to share with you the Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives activity. The object is to find five words to launch the rocket. From the site: “Drag the correct type of word into the box to countdown the launch. Find five words out of a mixture of fifteen. The words are randomly selected from a list 90 words.” The only downside is that there appears to be no sounds on any of the activities. Still a great selection!

Happy New Year! It’s great to be back in action after a well-needed break. Today I’d like to share the resources from LearningToday.com. This site is subscription-based, but there are many free resources available, such as math and reading games and interactive resources sorted by grade level. Here is a preview of a money activity where students must count money and choose the item that can be bought at a pet store.

This is my last work day of 2009! I won’t be posting much over the holidays as I will be spending them with my family; however, here is a great way to cap off the week. Create a funny Christmas greeting for your family using Elf Yourself from Office Max. Just upload your picture (up to 5) and sit back and enjoy a hilarious video of yourself as a dancing elf! You can view my family video by clicking the picture below. The link to my video will expire 1/15/01. The alternative is to download the video for $4.99.

Also, have you seen Carol of the Chins? Just type in the name of a Christmas carol and let the chins serenade you!