I was inspired by something I saw today using the old “drag and drop” trick at our District SMART Board Workshop. I put on my thinking cap and created a piggy bank drop file for your students to use to count out coins. Make sure you turn up the volume to hear the coins actually fall into the piggy bank! Click here to download it. Enjoy!

MathNook.com has some great interactive activities that you should check out. Be aware of the ads on the sides and  bottom of the site. You could always use the spotlight tool to only show the game and block out the ads or use the Flash Game Maximizer add-on for Firefox! Below is the Counting Money game.

The Le@rning Federation out of Australia provides digital resources aligned with Australian standards.There are several categories in the sample curriculum content section that you should definitely check out! Number Trains, from the Early Years category, is a wonderful interactive for learning to count numbers 1-10 represented as words, numerals, and dots! Place the carriages in the correct order in groups of four to make the train move along the track. Enjoy, and don’t forget to check out the rest of the free activities.

This is a nice little counting activity from HarcourtSchool.com for young students that can be used as a 100th Day activity. It is narrated as well! Click the carrot to start counting. You will be asked to type in the next letter. Use your regular keyboard, or use this as a way to teach the students about the SMART Board on-screen keyboard!

Here is a great “Counter Square” from AmblesidePrimary.com. You can use a square, circle, or triangle in order to make patterns, highlight prime numbers, and label odd/even numbers, etc. Just click on the Ideas for more ways to use the chart.

While browsing Delicious, I ran across Tina Coffey’s Teaching with Technology blog where she shared the YouTube video People in Order (1-100). This is a neat video that shows people from ages 1-100 calling out their ages and beating a drum. Have the students count along!

100 Snowballs is a fun interactive from ABCya.com. Simply touch and drag the snowballs to create your own image, as long as you use 100 snowballs. If your class is reading 100 books, add a snowball as a way keep up with how many books the class has read.

Since the 100th Day of School is quickly approaching, I will dedicate the next few days to interactives related to this special day. The first interactive is from Oswego.org and is called Give the Dog a Bone. This game works great on the SMART Board! The object is to find 10 hidden bones on the 1-100 number square in less than a minute. Enjoy!