Internet4Classrooms Newsletter: September 2011

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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Things To Celebrate This Month

School is in session and so is I4C. We are busy making sure you can find all the tools you need to make the year successful. We encourage you to take some time to click through our site. You never know what wonderful resources you can find to enrich your classroom experience. Happy September!

Labor Day - Sept. 5th
In the 1800's the average worker labored 12 hour days, 7 days a week, to make a living . Some things never change, eh! Read about why we all deserve this day off.

Grandparent's Day - Sunday after Labor Day - Sept. 11th
Celebrate the grandparents in your life with great ideas for cards, printables, homemade puzzles, and writing prompts to create heartfelt gifts .

Make A Hat Day - Sept. 15th

Ditch the old construction paper way, and make a silly hat out of tissue paper ! Integrate Kindergarten math skills with this online game putting hats in order (number 10) . Practice 1st Grade Social Studies Economics with this interactive game matching the hat with the career (number 6) . Find 5th Grade Language Arts games for following instructions with number 5's how to make paper hats .

National Hispanic Heritage Month - Sept. 16 - Oct. 16th

CelebrateHispanic Heritage month using this comprehensive site from the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institute, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and others .

National Play-Doh Day - Sept. 16th

Did you know the first play-doh was actually designed to function as a wallpaper cleaner ? To date over 700 million pounds of play-doh has been sold. I4C has a few Play-Doh recipes in our Fall crafts section.

Ice Cream Cone Was Invented - Sept. 22, 1903

Did you know street vendors used to sell ice cream in glass containers before the cone was invented ? Use ice cream to practice 4th grade online multiplication games in number 6 . Number 3 - Let's Make Ice Cream - gives 3rd-6th graders an online geometry and fractions game using liquid measurements .

First Day of Fall - Sept 23rd

Autumn is on it's way! Find Fall crafts, Fall recipes, and Fall lesson plans .

** We Want Your Input! **

I4C already has Free Vocabulary Quizzes and Free Math Quizzes in our ACT/SAT Test Preparation Guide.

We're looking for new ideas for quizzes and informational resources that you'd feel are useful to you and your students. Please email us and let us know what you could use to make your teaching experience better.

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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.

We're highlighting High School Standards Resources:

High School Math Standards

Algebra I

Algebra II

Geometry

High School English Standards

High School Science Standards

Environmental Science

I4C has a Skill Builders section that is strictly online math games and online language arts games . Each skill is organized by grade level . Take advantage of these online tools today!

Get school subject help like Kindergarten lesson plans , Elementary Math teacher resources , Middle and High School Social Studies tools , and Project Based Learning resources to name just a few.

Do you need free clip art for a project or lesson plan ? How about free online photos and images for school topics like earth science or animals ? Find graphics and multimedia resources ranging from art, video clips to sound clips.

Stay informed with education news . We have links to different newsletters and media sites that contain news on Education and Technology in the classroom . Of course don't forget to follow Internet4Classrooms on Twitter for the latest trends (Internet4classr).

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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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Remember: One of our most clicked resources is the teacher tools page. You can access everything teachers need for the school year, including forms, planning, bulletin boards, and worksheets.

Another popular section is our Grade Level Help. Click here for Pre-K - 8th grade level help and here for 7th - 12th grade resources. Find Skill Builders interactive sites for Language Arts and Math.

Focus On: Parent Resources

In addition to our teachers, parents can take advantage of our online resources as well.

Don't forget about Internet Safety now that students will be doing more online school work.

Kids can work on challenging areas at home with our school subject help . Parents can print out subject worksheets and math worksheets for extra practice. Make studying more enjoyable with these online educational games .

Find reading help so you can encourage your children to read, identify potential reading disabilities, and open a dialogue about the joys of reading. Our online stories page offers a wide variety of genres to get them interested.

Are you seeing social stresses taking a toll on the kids? Peer pressures, making new friends, and fitting in can be difficult. Visit our character education section to get resources on anger management , and conflict resolution .

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Find ACT Test and SAT Test Resources to get your children ready for the ACT and SATs ! 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 and practice tests in math with over 1000 questions. As a parent, you can log in to monitor your children's scores - including seeing which words or math problems they missed. Interactive quizzes allow the test taker to retake and study as much as they want.

As always, if you don't see something of interest highlighted this month, we have the Parent Zone which is full of resources. You can find homework help, special needs resources, language tools, reading help, educational games and activities sorted by grade.

Technology Tips

Tech Tip #1: Find and Replace. Don't forget about this quick way to fix your document. CTRL+F will get you the Find/Replace domain box. Type in the error you are looking for, and the correction you need. You can select "replace all" and it will fix everything with one click! Go here for a list of Microsoft help tools.

Tech Tip #2: Excel Workbooks. Find games like Jeopardy, puzzles, and stories with different endings in these Excel Workbooks.

Tech Tip #3: Review 2 Documents At Once. You can compare multiple documents in Microsoft Word. Go to the Review section, click on Compare. Using the Compare Documents Box, select the files you want. You have the ability to highlight the comparison settings and to which documents you want the changes shown. You customize all of it. Click for more online Word tutorials.

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This Month's Blog

This month's blog is titled Internet Restrictions At Work. Do you find you are experiencing more restrictions now that technology is so widely used in our classrooms?

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.

Sincerely,

Susan Brooks

Bill Byles

Internet4classrooms.com