Technology
Shelton View has many mobile carts available for student use. This includes an iPad cart, Macbook carts, and Chromebook carts. Teachers sign up for carts as needed. Some classrooms also have iMacs available. Students are assigned a unique username and password by the district.
Websites
Typing Club
Math Websites
Telling time - matching digital to analog clocks
Khan Academy - practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard
Literacy
WordArt - online word cloud art creator
Raz-Kids - subscription database of leveled books
Starfall - teaching children to read with phonics
Storyline - celebrated actors reading children’s books
Grammar Blast - short quizzes on parts of speech
Wacky Web Tales - fill in the blanks to create a wacky story
Wordle - generate “word clouds” from text that you provide
Tagxedo - turns words into a visually stunning word cloud
Puzzlemaker - create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more
Magnetic Poetry - create poems
Educational Games
Preschool and Kindergarten games
Make a Flake (needs Flash)
Mr. Nussbaum - fun interactive games that hone math, science, language arts, and social studies skills
Sheppard - hundreds of games, articles, activities and articles
Research
Kiddle - Search engine for kids
FactMonster - Tons of fun info on topics from math to history to sports
King County Library - Various databases, encyclopedias and dictionaries available with active library account
Social Studies
Culturegrams - reliable and up-to-date cultural content