If you are lucky enough to have PowerPoint on your classroom computer and you have access to funds for computer apps, you might want to take a look at YawnBuster.  It is designed to enhance business presentations and corporate training by adding interactive activities and game show type competitions to PowerPoint presentations.   The activities [...]

Everyone’s pressed for time, and teachers more than anyone.  Which is why I love finding sites that include resources that are easy to create instantly, especially around holiday time when you might want to have extra fillers.  Check out the site Tools for Educators, where they have free word search creators, printable dice, a board [...]

Remember the hand turkey?  How about the apple turkey made with apples, toothpicks and gumdrops?  If you still need an idea for a Thanksgiving project, check out these fun ideas from Amazing Moms.  There are projects that can be done with materials you already have and don’t require a degree in fine arts, like the framed [...]

I  was just searching through a drawer and found a Trainer’s Warehouse catalog from 2003!  Now I have purged my catalogs more recently than that and I have tried to end my habit of keeping stacks of magazines and catalogs “just in case there’s something interesting,” so this catalog must have been really interesting!  Of course, [...]