A Teacher’s Use of Binders

Ms. Kellogg has created a binder full of interesting sites for her 2nd grade students to explore over the summer. She put the binder up on her wonderful website. (When you look at her website, be sure to check out the great “how to” videos that her students created at the bottom of her site.)

Here is her binder:

Websites to Try this Summer

Better Spelling Tips

Sometimes it just takes a little guidance to help a poor speller become a great speller.  In this livebinder are a few really good websites that break down spelling tips in a way that can help a young child develop good spelling habits.  This is not only useful for your 2nd grader, but your 5th grader, as well.  There is even an online free interactive game that your kids can play that will help them practice random spelling.  The game is located in the last tab of the binder below.

Click on this link to open the binder.

Become a Better Speller

6th grade algebra and other middle school math problems

We continue to get interest in our math binders – must be that time of year.  For those middle schoolers who are tackling algebra – here is a great collection of websites with algebra and other middle school math worksheets to print out and practice at home.

Just click on the binder link below and then click on the tabs in the binder to view the different websites.

6th grade algebra

4th,5th and 6th grade Math Word Problems

It’s parent/teacher conference time and if you are like many parents, you are probably working on certain math skills with your kids. We had a very good response to our 3rd grade math word problems binder and have a few more math word worksheet binders for the 4th, 5th and 6th graders.

Inside each binder is a little summary about the skills the kids should be developing at that grade level. To view the different worksheets, just click at the top of the binder to see the corresponding tabs. Click on the tabs to view the websites with the printable worksheets. Some of the tabs even contain websites that let kids answer questions directly online.

To open a binder just click on the link or image below – Enjoy!

4th Grade Math Word Problems

5th grade math word problems

6th grade Math Word Problems

Math Word Problems for 3rd graders

There is nothing better when helping your child learn a new math concept than having worksheets handy so that you don’t have to make problems up or xerox copy books over and over again. 

In this livebinder are several websites that provide guidelines and worksheets to help your child (from 2nd, 3rd or 4th grade) practice doing word problems, multi-digit addition, money, fractions, decimals, multiplication and rounding.

To open just click on the link below and click on the different tabs and sub-tabs to view the different websites and worksheets.

Enjoy!

3rd Grade Math Word Problems

Getting Organized this Year

The new year is fast approaching and with it comes a bunch of new resolutions that you hope to keep going for the rest of the year if not for the rest of your life. One of my top priorities is to take control of my life – and that means getting organized, at work, home and in other areas of my personal life.

This binder has a few motivating links that should inspire you to get organized this year. Included are other websites which give useful tips on how to get organized in specific areas of your life.

If you’ve ever thought about how you can organize the clutter of digital documents and online web links that you collect everyday, consider trying out LiveBinders. It’s a free online application that lets you organize the information you collect online by combining them in one place. You can organize your documents in binders and build a collection of binder resources to easily grab at your fingertips.

To view, click on the link below. To browse through the different websites, just click on the tabs at the top.

Getting Organized

Purify your air with Plants

This binder is about the green way you can clean the air in your home. Some plants are excellent at cleaning pollution from indoor air. Dr. Bill Wolverton published his research at NASA to find plants that clean the air. These plants absorb toxic chemicals like benzene, formaldehyde, and trichloroethylene which are commonly used in the production of clothing, furniture, mattresses, carpets, plastics and printing. One healthy plant can clean a 100 sq.ft. room of 87% of these contaminants in 24 hours. (try the Rubbert plant or Peace Lily).

Check out his inexpensive, well-illustrated, and extremely practical book – “How to Grow Fresh Air: 50 House Plants that Purify Your Hofme of Office.”

To open the binder, click on the link below. Once the binder is launched, click through the tabs and subtabs in the binder below to view all the different websites that talk about plants and their purification value. Some sites will list plants that you can buy for your home.

Plants that purify the air

Taking care of a Shih Tzu

We’re looking at the possibility of adopting an older dog and, of course, it pays to know what you are getting into.  This binder is a collection of websites regarding any information on Shih Tzu dogs, their breed, dog grooming, nutritional needs, dog recipes and general discussion sites for various Shih Tzu health related issues.

Shih Tzu dog care

Handmade holiday gift ideas

Having your kids make holiday gifts this year not only can help keep the budget down, but it can also help them improve their reading, math, fine motor movements, planning and follow-through development skills.   It’s also a great way to get the family working on a project together and opening up your child’s imagination and creativity. 

The following binder has a list of links with clever gift ideas and instructions as well as a place to buy or sell handmade gifts.

Just click on the link below to launch the binder – then click on the tabs at the top of the page to view the different websites.  Enjoy!

Home Made Holiday Presents

LiveBinder It update!

We are happy to announce that the LiveBinder It bookmarklet tool has been updated.

Here are some of the changes in this release:

Auto-open:

Now when you add a link to a binder through the LiveBinder It bookmarklet tool, the binder will automatically open so that you can see where the link was added in your binder.

Non-conforming Links:

Some users have come across links that override the binder trying to open the link in its own browser window.  LiveBinder has now corrected that problem by adding the URL link to the tab page and launching a separate window for the web page.  Everytime you click on the tab of that particular link, the browser window will come to the front of the binder.

Error messages:

Any error messages caused by odd characters typed into a binder title has now been fixed.

To benefit from these new updates, replace your bookmarklet by going to livebinders.com/tool.

Let us know how it goes and if you encountered any problems.

Enjoy collecting!