I found a site that gives 40 creative ways to study spelling words. This site is from a school in Bartlesville, OK.
Here’s the list =)
ABC order- Write your words in alphabetical order.
Rainbow Words – Write your words in three colors
Backwards Words- Write your words forwards, then backwards.
Silly sentences -Use all your words in ten sentences
Picture words – Draw a picture and write your words in the picture.

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This song has a similar sound to That’s What I Like About You. It was the first song I heard by The Cars. It was on The American Top 40 Countdown with Kasey Kasem in the ’80’s.

Here’s a fun fast song

When the Twin Towers were destroyed on 9.11.01, the air traffic controllers all over America had to as quickly and as safely as possible land all in-air flights. It was an amazing feat. There could have been crashes and accidents but they did their job well and there were none. An air traffic controller’s job is a stressful one. Here is a ATC similator program from the website called ATC-SIM.com

Here’s a site called Instructables.com that gives you a recipe for making Alka-seltzer for a small amount of change.

@ AAASpell.com you have access to 30 spelling and vocabulary lessons for grades 1 through 8. The lessons are set up as
1. learn
2. practice
3. play

Activities and Lesson Plans
Making Measurement Simple: The Metric System~found at Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
~this site contains basic info and simple lesson plans to apply metric system to real life.
Encyclopedia.com~gives an overall definition of the metric system
Infoplease.com~defines the units of measurement
National Institute Of Standards and Technology~This site has 3 good sources for ideas and info
Capsule History
Metric Chocolate Chip Cookies
Metric for Everyday Life
Metric Mania Lesson Plans~Taken from ScienceSpot.net *Be sure to return to this site for other science topics that are taught in the classroom.
Gamequarium Metric System Games~has 11 fun online games to reinforce metric system concepts (these games can be turned into handheld classrooms games
LessonPlanet.com~teacher proven lesson plans, *offers a 10 day free trial
Teachers.net~provides teacher-proven lesson plans, gives basic info about metric system, provides basic questions for class
EdHelper.com~several worksheets including number crossword puzzles that can be printed out, *You may need to sign up with EdHelper to get access to the worksheets
EduRef.org~has a lesson plan in which you use a recipe and a newspaper to convert from the English measurement system to metric.
AAAMath.com~student can learn, practice and then play a game over a large variety of math topics (This is a good website for a refresher course)
Metric Conversions Sites
Metric-conversions.org
ScienceMadeSimple.com
OnlineConversion.com~convert anything on this site
WorldWideMetric.com~simple site, just type in measurement you want converted
History
A Chronology of the Metric System~timeline of the metric system, important dates highlighted

This site Rubikssolver.com yields the secret, step by step, to solve the Rubik’s cube.

Taken from the HolidayZone.com.
The Christmas Guest
~Helen Steiner Rice
It happened one day at the year’s white end,
Two neighbors called on an old-time friend.
And they found his shop so meager and mean,
Made gay with a thousand boughs of green.

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