Homework stretch
Homework Stretch
This platform serves the purpose of providing guidance, practice, and extension for our Bolton Scholars.
Homework Stretch Helpful Links
Resources
In the next two sections you will find links to both Math and ELA sites.
The following sites are primarily for grade K-2.
Sites are primarily for grades 3-5.
Foreign Language
English - http://www.learn-english-online.org/
Chinese - http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/
Mandarin - https://chinesepod.com/
Spanish - https://www.fluentin3months.com/free-online-spanish-language-lessons/
Spanish - http://studyspanish.com/
Francais - http://www.studygs.net/francais/
French -http://french.about.com/od/francophonie/u/startlearning.htm
Italian - http://italian.about.com/od/grammar/Grammar.htm
Italian - http://www.studyitalianlanguage.org/
German - https://www.deutsch-lernen.com/
German - https://www.deutsch-lernen.com/learn-german-online/beginners/summary.php
Additional Resources
Almanac
http://www.factmonster.com/almanacs.html
Atlas
http://www.factmonster.com/atlas/
Dictionary
http://dictionary.factmonster.com/
Encyclopedia
http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia.html
Cliff Notes
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation a wonderful resource for correct grammar information. - http://www.grammarbook.com/
SparkNotes - http://www.sparknotes.com/
Study Guides and Strategies- http://www.studygs.net/
Nurturing Creativity
T4I is the first online platform that combines advanced management of complex challenges with a powerful interface for doing multidisciplinary brainstorming. Post challenges, organize them, vote them, and share them. Access the brainstorming interface and combine visual, linguistic, acoustic, emotional and other stimuli to accelerate brainstorming processes and train your creative muscles.
Get creative: Join for free, and create your own challenge or pick an existing one. Enter the brainstorming interface. Watch the 1-minute tutorial and review the basic help if needed. Brainstorm ideas using the different areas, save what you come up with and encourage students to use it at least once a week to keep their creative muscles fit and strong.
Posterini is an all-in-one graphic design platform that combines easy templates with powerful tools, allowing your students (and you) to easily creative graphics for projects, homework and much more.
Choose a template and create professional posters and flyers for your classroom in just minutes. Better yet, encourage visual experimentation among students, helping them develop their creative muscles.
Get creative: Join. Decide on a poster or flyer you need to create for a specific project. Choose a template that fits with your objective. Create your design, export it to a Jpeg image and share your result on your favorite social networks or with the rest of your team.
https://artsandculture.google.com/
The best art and culture from around the world helps encourage students’ creative thinking in powerful ways. Google Arts & Culture allows you to explore and navigate an incredible array of artwork and creativity, much of which students wouldn’t have an opportunity to see otherwise.
Get creative: Use the platform to stimulate your creative thinking in connection with specific projects. For example, students can use Google Arts and Culture to connect art with other subjects, like science (The Diversity of Dinosaurs) or geography (The Hidden World of National Parks).
https://www.creativitypost.com/
Creativity is everywhere, and this website shares stories of creativity in pop culture, technology, science, philosophy and more. Bookmark the site to make it available to students in the classroom or use it for creative homework assignments.
Get creative: Students can use this site to find content that inspires their next personal project or as a way of digging into a passion of theirs during free classroom time.
Coding is a powerful way to exercise creativity in the 21st century, and a skill all students can benefit from. Use this tool to get students started in coding, and if you’ve never learned, you can play alongside them.
Get creative: If you don’t know how to code, but want to learn—and most importantly, want your students to learn—use Tynker in the classroom. Students will love building their own digital projects and sharing with their friends and family.
Nurturing Mental Ability
Sudoku is a number placement game that relies on short-term memory. To complete a Sudoku puzzle, you have to look ahead and follow trails of consequences—if you put a 6 in this box, that one must be an 8 and this one a 4, and so on. This type of planning helps improve short-term memory and concentration.
You can play Sudoku online, on an app, or on paper. Look for a regular Sudoku in your newspaper, buy a book with a collection of puzzles, or download a free app for your phone or tablet.
Sudoku puzzles are available in varying degrees of difficulty. When you're starting out, play the easy games until you learn the rules. If you're playing on paper, use a pencil!
Lumosity is one of the most established brain training and mental fitness programs. You can sign up for a free account to play three games per day, or choose the subscription service for more offerings. Either way, you can keep track of your results and improvement.
Lumosity's fun brain training and mental fitness games, tests, and activities are backed by science. You can play them on the website, or download the free apps for iOS and Android. Lumosity also has a meditation and mindfulness app called Lumosity Mind.
https://games.aarp.org/games/daily-crossword
Crosswords are a classic brain trainer, accessing not only verbal language but memory from many dimensions of knowledge. There are many ways to do crossword puzzles, both online and off. If you receive a daily newspaper, you'll almost always get a crossword there. Or pick up a book of crosswords specifically suited to your skill level and interests.
You will also find many options for crossword puzzles online or via free or inexpensive apps. The AARP website offers a daily crossword that's free to everyone, whether or not you're a member of the group.
You'll need to download an app to play Elevate's 35 (and counting) different brain training games, which have a strongly educational feel. It's free (with in-app purchases) and both iOS and Android versions have tens of thousands of five-star reviews. Elevate's games center on reading, writing, speaking, and math, and you can customize your training to focus on whichever areas you prefer. As with most other brain games, you can track your progress to see how your skills are improving.
Peak is another app-only option (available for iOS and Android) that provides brain games to help you work on focus, memory, problem-solving, mental agility, and more cognitive functions. If you're a competitive person, you might be motivated by seeing how you perform against other users. The app is free to use, but an inexpensive subscription unlocks more features.
Claiming to have the world's largest collection of brain teasers, Braingle's free website provides more than 15,000 puzzles, games, and other brain teasers as well as an online community of enthusiasts. You can even create your own puzzles to give your brain a super workout. Braingle has a wide variety of offerings, including optical illusions, codes and ciphers, and trivia quizzes.
Queendom has thousands of personality tests and surveys. It also has an extensive collection of "brain tools"—including logic, verbal, spatial, and math puzzles; trivia quizzes; and aptitude tests—for you to exercise and test your brain. If you'd like to save results and scores, you'll need a free account. Some tests give you only snapshot results for free, and charge a fee for full reports.
As a reminder your scholar has access to a varitey of educational apps through their APS myBackpack
