There are four educational blogs that I would like to recommend. I chose these blogs because I have a son who has been tested for gifted and who will be entering third grade. I really like the two gifted blogs because they gave me insight into what gifted children are expose to in the classroom. As well as they gave me some creative ideas that I can do at home with my son. The two gifted blogs are: Get a CLUE and Fultondale Elementary School RLC-gifted. These two blogs also had additional websites for parents, teachers, and students, which I really liked. For example, they gave a website for students called visuwords. It is a free dictionary and thesaurus online. You type in a word and it gives you the meaning and synonyms in a synapes. My son is always asking what a word means and I am always saying look it up in the dictionary. I think this would be a really cool way for him to want to look up words without me telling him to use the dictionary.
The third blog was Mrs. Lewis's Third Grade Flybabies Blog site. This blog also had several educational websites for parens and teachers, but what I liked mostly about it was that it had the classroom curriculum on it. So, if you wanted to know what assignments that your child had to do in advance you could look on blog. How NEAT!!
The last blog is The Great Fourth Grade Adventure. I chose this blog because I wanted to see what things to expect for next year. This site too, had links for teachers and parents, but it mostly had links to other blogs. It also had different catergorizes to blog. I really didn't like this one as much as the others.
So if you get a chance to check these blogs out, Let me know what you think!
http://theedublogger.com/check-out-these-class-blogs/
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I did check out the Fultondale Gifted blog. It caught my attention because I am familiar with that area. Just last week we were talking about gifted programs and how ineffective they are. It is great to see that some schools are enhancing our youth..Thanks Fultondale.
ReplyDeleteI checked out Get a Clue. I enjoyed this site. I too have a step daughter who is a gifted child. She's entering the fourth grade and this summer I let her spend alot of time on the computer playing educational games such as firstinmath.com. I was glad to read some new ideas to use with her.
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