{"id":8484,"date":"2013-08-01T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T07:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/?p=8484"},"modified":"2018-12-17T11:49:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T11:49:57","slug":"helping-kids-prepare-for-third-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/01\/helping-kids-prepare-for-third-grade\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping Kids Prepare for Third Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you know of young children who are apprehensive about the new grade they will face after the summer break?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out how some Minnesota teachers have used a custom website\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.almostathirdgrader.com\/\">Almost a Third Grader<\/a>\u00a0to address this issue.The results are, I think, quite brilliant. No wonder the project has been picked up by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/east\/217236161.html\">local media<\/a>\u00a0and even the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics\u2019 daily\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.smartbrief.com\/servlet\/encodeServlet?issueid=3ADF506D-E69C-4709-A725-D74B1A4ADD06&amp;sid=e90b4ccc-e620-4991-92f5-8ba91f449a68\">SmartBrief<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some features I really like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A new theme\/topic every couple of days over the summer<\/li><li>Free access without having to sign in<\/li><li>Engaging teaching videos made by teachers<\/li><li>Web links to other sites<\/li><li>Age-appropriate content<\/li><li>\u201cPoll of the day\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>With all the free tools available today, I doubt the teachers behind this project had to pay more than a few dollars for this entire site. The only real cost was their time, and the payoffs should be great, not just this summer but for years to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What could you do to help your students using free web tools like this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know of young children who are apprehensive about the new grade they will face after the summer break? Check out how some Minnesota teachers have used a custom website\u00a0Almost a Third Grader\u00a0to address this issue.The results are, I think, quite brilliant. No wonder the project has been picked up by\u00a0local media\u00a0and even the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/01\/helping-kids-prepare-for-third-grade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Helping Kids Prepare for Third Grade&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12],"tags":[19,11],"class_list":["post-8484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math-technology","category-teaching-mathematics","tag-math-technology","tag-teaching-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8487,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8484\/revisions\/8487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}