Summer School

Summer school, do I have to?

I was just reading about a great idea for summer study. This is so much better than a traditional summer school.

Have you noticed how much your child enjoys using the computer? If you haven’t, you should. Kids are constantly surfing the web. Whether they’re checking out a video game or chatting with their friends, they are (without a doubt) online. So, it makes sense to turn to the web for a fun alternative to summer school. Time4Learning’s website offers just that. A web based summer learning program that they won’t mind using. In fact, they might even like it!

Learning Vocabulary

I just learned that words taken from a person’s name are called eponyms. These include maverick, 'diesel, galvanize, zeppelin, watt, saxophone, bloomers, braille, pasteurize, nicotine.

Time4Learning has an incredible fifth grade vocabulary building program (in any case, that's where i learned this). Here is all the info that you might need on their programs for vocabulary:

first grade vocabulary
second grade vocabulary
third grade vocab
fourth grade vocabulary
fifth grade vocabulary
sixth grade vocabulary
seventh grade vocabulary
eighth grade vocabulary

thefreedictionary.com stuff

Ok. It's a whole new ball game. I'm going to put up thefreedicationary.com's simple scripts for giving a page a simple definition for any term. It's free, simple, and probably won't work on this type of page with the awful implementation.



thefreedictionary.com//lookup.htm#script

A test of a cool new box

Here are some neato new boxes from thefreedictionary.com people from farlex. Had agreat talk with Steve Boymel regarding this stuff.

	Online Reference Dictionary, Encyclopedia & more
Word:
Look in:	Dictionary & thesaurus Medical Dictionary Legal Dictionary Financial Dictionary Acronyms Idioms Encyclopedia Wikipedia Periodicals Literature Other languages: Spanish Dictionary German Dictionary French Dictionary Italian Dictionary Chinese Dictionary Portuguese Dictionary Dutch Dictionary Norwegian Dictionary Greek Dictionary Russian Dictionary
by:	WordStarts with Ends withMentions

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Word of the Day

derisory
Definition:	Incongruous; inviting ridicule.
Synonyms:	absurd, cockeyed, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous

Word of the Day
provided by The Free Dictionary

Spelling Bee

difficulty level:
easy
hard
expert

score: -

please wait...

spell the word:

Spelling Bee
provided by The Free Dictionary

Top Educational Sites per Quantcast

I am manually reviewing the top sites on Quantcast to find the highest volume educational sites. While I need to refine my definitions, I'm focusing on K12. Data is monthly.

Merriam Webster: Do they count?
addictinggames.com 161
Nick.com 184th
Funbrain.com: 10 M people, 135 Million page views. 189th
Discovery.com 214
Miniclip 232
NationalGeographic 238
Gamestop 269
pbskids.org 310
bigfishgames 372
greatschools.net 425
enchantedlearning.com 448 2.9M people,
coolmath-games.com 541
primarygames.com 575
scholastic.com 586
virginia.edu 705
studyisland.com 732
edhelper.com 735
stanford.edu
christianbook.com 794
wonderhowto.com 795
agame.com 797
factmonster 865
starfall.com 892
nickjr 887
myiqquiznow.com 922
questia.com 984
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SpellingCity.com 3050
ufl.edu