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Sumdog  is a website that allows children to play math games while also practicing math skills at grade level.  Games adapt to the child's skill level as they play.  Students earn points as they continue to play and achieve new levels. Teachers can create accounts for their class through Sumdog.  I created accounts for my students with ease and was able to print login cards for my students to have handy when signing into their accounts. You also can create assessments and math practice tasks for students.  You can customize the assessments and math practice tasks according to your student's ability level.  For example, you can create a daily multiplication practice for your class and modify it so that certain students might just be working on multiplication by 2s and 3s, while other students are working on higher number multiplication questions. Currently, Sumdog is offering free 15-minute webinars to teachers interested in learning more about how t...

Never in most of our lifetimes have we seen something impact us globally like the COVID-19 virus.  From week to week the government is making new announcements and the changes that are taking place can be quite overwhelming to digest for many of us. As an educator on spring break, this vacation is not like any I've experienced before. I think I speak for so many educators when I say that it isn't a time of true rest and relaxation.  I awake each morning looking for direction on what we can expect to come as we are being told we will be returning to work next week.  Our students will not be in our classroom as the government has issued an indefinite suspension of classes. More districts are looking to remote learning options and how to best support teachers with off-site learning for students.  I have fortunately experienced teaching online in the past and see a lot of possibility with using the internet to deliver instruction to students during these uncertain t...