Ms. De Santis’ Blog

It’s snowing men!If you stroll down the third floor of the SUES, you will see these awesome snow creatures.  They were produced by the preschoolers and their families.  And no one had cold hands! My thanks to Judy Perone for sharing her Animoto.

With a video introduction by Judge Sandra Day O’Connor, Our Courts offers teacher’s plans, interactive games, and other tools to provide information to help students become informed citizens and encourages them to take an active role in our democracy. Our Courts is geared to middle and high school students. Use this resource to teach civics to the 21st century classroom.

This interactive Constitutional timeline provides images, text, and other resources.  Use the scroll bar at the bottom to examine various time periods and events. I think this would be a great resource to help students see events and explore cause and effect relationships.

This hungry monkey wants to eat- can you help him attain the bananas?  Arrange the words in the correct order and build a bridge to reach the food.  Monkey Business would work well on the Smartboard for preK-through second grade students.