Everyone loves a good wordsearch puzzle and CapstoneKids.com offers a slew of them! Topics include volcanoes, electricity, folk tales, and much more. These puzzles work great on the SMART Board. Just drag your finger over the letters to highlight the word. Have fun!

Road to Grammar is a very helpful grammar and vocabulary website for ALL language learners (including ESL). Road to Grammar offers over 300 grammar quizzes, as well as lessons, games, and teacher/student downloads. The quizzes are in multiple choice format, and they all work great on the SMART Board! There is also a separate section for younger learners- Road to Grammar Junior. Check it out!

Tomorrow some of our 5th grade classes will be participating in a virtual field trip called “Exploring Mount Vernon” provided by Alabama Public Television. While trying to find companion sites, I ran across George Washington’s World for Kids. This is a neat site that offers three interactive games, as well as a memory and puzzle activity. Just in time for President’s Day, too!

This is a fun game to play on the SMART Board for Thanksgiving! The object is to find Pete, the turkey with the red bow tie. Have students compete against each other to see who has the best time. Have fun!

Farmer Fred’s Pumpkin Patch is a nice interactive game from Multiplication.com. I saw one of my students playing it this morning and thought it would be perfect to share with you on this beautiful October Friday. Simply click on the plot to plant your seed, water it, then harvest it- all while practicing your multiplication tables (1 to 12). Have fun!

Grammaropolis.com has a cool word sort game that works well on the SMART Board. Drag the words to the appropriate barrel (Noun, Adjective, Linking Verb, etc.) as they fall from the sky. Check it out!

The Bug Investigators is teaching resource for young students. There are online games, printable projects and links- all about bugs! Check out their new and improved site The e-Bug Platform for more, including the e-Bug Junior Game.

I’ve blogged about Spark Island before, but I wanted to share with you again the free interactives available. Spin to Win is my favorite! This game helps students learn prefixes and suffixes while also having fun! This game works great on the SMART Board. Check it out!

The Lawrence Hall of Science kids site is just amazing! There are projects, quizzes, research information, photos, and games on many science topics such as animals, oil spills, and plants, to name a few. The arcade currently has 14 games, and many of them work great on the SMART Board. Check it out!

Here is a fun and addicting game called Circle the Cat that I found while browsing the Tequipment blog. Click on the light green dots and try to trap the cat within the dark green dots. This game works best in  full screen mode using the Flash Game Maximizer add-on in Firefox. Give it a try!