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FREE ACTIVITIES ALL SUMMER LONG!
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Greetings!
Hello! Thanks so much for using Internet4Classrooms with your students and children. Our mission is to help you find the best educational online resources available to meet your individual needs. Our monthly newsletter focuses on sharing information, tips, and ideas on everything related to schooling inside the classroom and at home. Each month we'll be featuring resources and information on a variety of topics. We are constantly upating information on our site, and urge you to visit often!
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If you need help, please email us. We answer questions about almost any subject matter/grade level. We feel that this is a very important part of Internet4Classrooms. Internet4Classrooms is maintained and built for educators, parents, and students and this site is yours. Comments and suggestions are appreciated and welcomed. Don't be afraid to email and ask!
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What's Happening This Month? |
We're at the halfway mark of summer! We hope everyone is having a great summer break relaxing and learning all at the same time. Celebrate Independence Day. Explore the history of sunglasses, the Susan B. Anthony coin, our first U.S. zoo, and how zip codes came to be. Keep expanding that learning potential. Let's get started!
Sunglasses Were Invented (China 7-1-1200)
The First U.S. Zoo Opened (Philadelphia 7-1-1864)
The U.S. Post Office Introduced 5 Digit Zip Codes (7-1-1963)
Susan B. Anthony Coin Was Issued (7-1-1979)
Independence Day (7-4-1776) JULY FOURTH
Hotmail - The Free Internet Service Began (7-4-1996)
Hotmail began development in 1995 by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bahtia. Once introduced in 1996, more electronic mail was sent than U.S. Postal mail for the first time in history. Microsoft aquired Hotmail in 1997 and it remains one of the most popular email services. Fun fact: Who decided we should put @ in our email addresses? Did you know the first "laptop" weighed 55 lbs! Learn about how computers came to be. Explore the history of the Internet. |
Focus On: Teacher Resources |
Internet4Classrooms offers a wide variety of informative online resources, tips, tools, and tutorials regarding your classroom needs. There is always something you can utilize with your students. Each month we'll feature a few links to useful topics.
Recycle your books with a Book Club Exchange. We all have books we could get rid of. Bag up a handful, and have your friends do the same. Have a book exchange get together, making a list of who's reading what. By the end of a month or two, you'll have discovered a whole new book collection for free and made friends along the way.
Game night. Stay in and have just as much fun as going out and spending money. Here's a page of game night ideas to keep everyone involved and happy from family to friends.
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Don't Forget: Free Online Practice for ACT Test and SAT Test Resources. I4C now offers free SAT and ACT vocabulary and math quizzes. Become a free member and log in as much as you'd like. Students can take practice tests on 5000 vocabulary words.Take daily practice math quizzes on over 1000 questions. Log in to monitor your students' scores - including seeing which vocabulary words or math questions they missed. Interactive quizzes allow the test taker to retake and study as much as they want.
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Focus On: Parent Resources |
In addition to our teachers, parents can take advantage of our online resources as well.
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Tech Tip #1: Send an email by clicking on a shortcut on your desktop. Right click on your desktop. Click New - Shortcut. In the domain box type: mailto: (the email address here) with NO spaces. Click Next. Type in what you want to call the link. Click Finish. The next time you want to send an email, click the shortcut on your desktop, and it will automatically open a new email in your Outlook. Click for more PC and Mac shortcuts.
Tech Tip #2: Make a "shutdown" shortcut on your desktop. Following Tech Tip #1 - Right click on your desktop. Select New and then click on Shortcut. Type in the domain box the following line:
%windir%\system32\shutdown.exe -s -t 0 as you see it. Click Next. Rename it. Click Finish. You should see the shortcut on your desktop to click on next time you want to shutdown. Find more keyboard shortcuts.
Tech Tip #3: Have you ever pushed the PrintScreen button and nothing happens? You need to go one step farther. Open a program like Paint or Word, and right click to PASTE or hit CTRL+V. The image will appear and you can alter, resize, and print to your liking. Find Print Screen Tutorials here. |
Did you know there are other reading disorders besides Dyslexia? This month we're talking about Irlen Syndrome, a visual processing disorder that involves distorted reading. Read the article by our guest writer, Rich Mintzer. |
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Internet4classrooms.com is a free educational portal for teachers, parents, homeschoolers and students. Visitors come from around the world to find Internet resources for their educational needs. One can find resources ranging from lesson plans to worksheets, individual grade level resources to templates, and even interactive learning games. We were very honored when one teacher called the site a "Walmart for Teachers". If you cannot find what you need for instruction on any topic, please feel free to email us and we will help you find resources to fit your needs.
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![](http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs003/1102470512258/img/3.gif?a=1105984086308) Susan BrooksInternet4classrooms.com |
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