Welcome to extraworksheets.com blog

Let's Build Content!

2011-08-22T22:56:00.001-06:00

My purpose here is to create a huge list of links to every kind of free worksheet possible. Over the past several months we've added links to our electives pages and a few throughout our core subjects. I'm now wondering if there is some way this site could also provide a "favorites" so that visitors could bookmark things within the site that are worth coming back to. I'm not getting too many suggestions for links to add though, so help me out here if you have some noteworthy idea! I sure could use it! We've nearly doubled our traffic in the past year, so I know people are finding the site and using resources.

Website Revisions

2010-09-28T21:54:00.000-06:00

Just today we finalized some website revisions that will allow us to add content more easily. Feel free to send us feedback if you find any glitches! One new thing we are doing is offering advertising spots on our page. Do you have a great product to sell that teachers might be interested in? Please contact us. Since our site is really all about "free worksheets" not selling products, we'll try to keep these advertisements unobtrusive. Look for more links to "free" resources throughout the site. Enjoy!

Spring Break 2010!

2010-03-31T09:42:00.000-06:00

Of course we would all like to think we truly took the entire spring break off and did only our own thing, but chances are all of us will spend a few minutes... even if is just a few, getting something organized for the classroom. Here are some thoughts you might consider implementing into your newly re-energized classroom routine as you return.

Add website links at the end of those notes sent home to parents: Look for links to sites like http://www.schoolfamily.com/ where parents can get advice about how to help their students succeed in school. You might type out a list of eight or ten sites with short messages or descriptions and then just clip them apart to "add" one when you photocopy notes to parents.

Create some "celebrate spring" activities that are short and simple, but break up the routine of the classroom a little. For example, take five minutes to pass out pictures of flowers and see how many your students can name. Send the winner home with a tiny potted flower for their mother. Show a short video clip of a "spring event" such as a hatching chick to students. Use the "celebrate spring" moments to make school more fun . . . especially on those long, warm, sunny days where we all just want to go outside and play!

Take a "spring walk" around the block and see how many signs of spring students can identify. Again, award someone for being the most observant or analytical.

Plan a "spring events only" show-and-tell day. Give students parameters that have to do with spring events and see what students bring to show and tell.

Holiday Gift Exchange Ideas for the Classroom

2009-12-12T00:42:00.000-07:00

As the holidays draw near, I'd like to share a few ideas for teachers:

Have parents donate to a game fund for your classroom instead of buying you gifts. Allow a volunteer to collect the donations so parents who spend very little don't have to feel obligated and you won't know who donates.
Divide students into small groups and have each small group choose a game for the classroom. Parents can donate to purchase a game for each group. Students could have a contest and a fundraiser --let parents know you are doing this instead of exchanging gifts. Students share their "game" as a gift to the other groups.
Ask for a classroom budget to purchase educational games and present them as "gifts for all of us."
With the economic crunch, collect suggestions from parents about how to save money on gifts. Get students enthused and participating.
Create a fun gift exchange with special rules like "spend no more than $0.92 or $2.009 cents.

2009-06-10T10:55:00.001-06:00

Well, summer is here. It's time to think about some summer school options. It's nice outside, perhaps someone has some games that help reinforce multiplication tables or addition and subtraction practice? Help me, teachers!

Added a few links!

2009-03-22T22:51:00.002-06:00

We've been adding a few links over the last several weeks. We rearranged the high school English section and even added a link to our webstore. Next goal is to organize the elementary science section into useful categories. Any ideas?

Not a Blogger

2009-02-18T21:37:00.000-07:00

I'm just so ......not a blogger.
Once a week... yeah... well.
Do visit www.extraworksheets.com.
If you find cool ideas, do post them here.
I'll check in now and then.

Introduction and Welcome

2008-12-09T23:08:00.001-07:00

Welcome to our new blog!
At www.extraworksheets.com we hope to keep the "free" resources flowing. Visit our site. Share it with other teachers or homeschoolers. Bring us comments and swap resources here. We'll try to post some "new" idea or resource now and then.