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Spelling Test Idea plus Fun Spelling Web Sites

Are your children frustrated with trying to memorize their spelling words each and every week?

1. Write down each spelling word on an index card.
2. In a different color (colored pencils work well), trace over the letters in each word that are “the hard part to memorize”.
3. Place a rubber band around the index cards and keep them in order from the hardest to the easiest.
4. Practice the words every day, focusing on the “hardest words” first.
5. Keep these spelling words wrapped in a rubber band after the spelling test is over. Your children may be surprised if their teacher tests them on these words again on a “review” test!
6. Good luck!!!!

Here is a sample 4th-grade spelling list:

• each
• gray
• field
• break
• shape
• steep
• prey
• glass
• steak
• cheap
• chief
• champion
• mascot
• fraction

Great Web sites to help children practice their spelling words:

• Funbrain.com: Spelling
• Houghton Mifflin: Spelling Match Game
• Woodlands Junior School Kent: English Spelling Games and Activities

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My Favorite “Math Games” Sites

In the last few days a number of people have asked me how I teach 4th- and 5th-grade math. Since there is a lot of material to cover with these questions, I’ll start by listing some of my favorite “math games” Web sites, which cover a variety of math skills and games. My son has enjoyed them, and other children that I have referred these sites to say that they are “Major cool”.

1. Cool math 4 kids
2. FunBrain.com
3. Gamequarium: Math Games
4. Math Games at Play Kids Games
5. Funschool – Arcade – Math Games

It makes me simply giddy when children are learning and having fun. Hope the sites help. More math info will be coming soon!

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