The Mean Starfish

by John

this picture comes from deviantart.com

Once upon a time there was a starfish, his name was Bob. He was a very mean star fish. Whenever another sea creature came by he would call them a name like the one octopus who went by everyday. He would say "Watch out Octo Boy or one day I'll take your tentacles off and sell them to a human and make chop suwee or other things." But one day a diver came and took Bob while he was bugging the octopus. But the Octopus jumped on the diver and saved the starfish and the starfish lived happily ever after.

Differnces and Memory - Early Math

Whak-a-differnce is good for helping youngsters recognize differences.

Memory is good for beginning memory skills

Mikey Mouse

The kids enjoy skateboarding. One of their names is Mikey, this picture was titled "Mikey Mouse".

Homework Club Schedule

The sessions that are in school are in brackets, everything else is at the studycentre.

Alex's Flower

Flower that one of the students made about a year ago.

Money - Coins

Money Worksheets from Home Education Resources

This sites offers free printable money worksheets.

algebrahelp.com

Algebra Worksheets

from algebrahelp.com. Online worksheets with everything from basic algebra to advanced algebra.

Sample Problem:
5u2 + -11uv + 6v2
Solution: (5u - 6v)(u - v)

This site is useful in that it will give you a step by step walk through of the answer to the question you are working on if you are really stuck.

There is also a section of the site that has lessons.

Fairytales

Thumbalina

Fairy Tales Collection.com

This site is extensive and awesome! Fairytales from:
Hans Christian Anderson
Mark Twain
The Grimm Brothers
Frank Baum
Joel Chandler Harris
Aesop
Myths and Legend - Norse Mythos, Authurian Legends
Around The World - Asian Origin, American Indian, Indian
Miscellaneous Authors

Free Dictionary/encyclopedia

the free dictionary

With everything from Article of the day, In the News, This day in History, to hangman, spelling bee, and horoscopes. You can now fully customize your own homepage.

Librarian ChickExtensive list of education links in the following categories:

1. Books/Audio books
2. Calculators/Mathematics
3. Class Management/Worksheets
4. Collaboration/Social Networking
5. College/Student Loans
6. Dictionary/Thesaurus
7. Foreign Language
8. GPA Calculators
9. Graphs/Presentation
10. Highlighters/Web Annotation
11. History/Geography
12. Home Library
13. Lectures/Speeches
14. Memorization
15. Notes/Forms/Writing
16. Online Learning/OpenCourseWare
17. Organization
18. Poetry/Quotes
19. Reference/Research
20. Science/Space
21. Test Taking/Prep

hangman

Online hangman game featuring Dolch Words. There are various other games as well.

Am or PM

This page will help kids learn what events during the day happen during the am hours of the day and during the pm hours of the day.

This activity is brought to you by aaa math. The site has activities for kindergarten students through to grade eight students.

Clocks

Interactive Clock

Interactive activity for learning how to tell time. Another activity from shodor.org.

100 Greatest Events in Canadian History

This site is brought to you by Canadian Encyclopedia Historica, which has over "50,00 articles and growing everyday." This is a timeline outlining the 100 greatest events in Canadian History, good for a history refresher.

funbrain

Funbrain has tones of fun activities for young students. The various sections of the site include Math Games, Reading, Arcade, Playground, and All Games. The site is meant for students in K5 through Grade 8. My favourite is of course the Math Arcade.

Interactive Math and Geography

lizardpoint

Fact Math practice, either online or in printable worksheets. These are great for days when students have no homework, and also to reinforce these much needed skills.

World Map Quiz

Also fun to try is this interactive World Map Quiz. I failed to find one of the oceans.

Shodor Interactive Activities

With everything from arithmetic to statistics. While this site is not the most visually attractive, it can be useful.

Well this my first post for Homework Club, and I have no doubt that it'll be a bit before I send invites out to the students.

So for my first post I will recommend iknowthat.com.

iknowthat.com is full of activities from most subjects for students from preschool to grade 7/8. The kids here have enjoyed Leon's Math Dojo. But if you asked them I am sure that they'd say they'd prefer going to a game on addictinggames.com without having to do any math or reading... but rules are rules. :)