If you’ve ever watched birds on a feeder, it’s natural to try to count them. Before you know it, you’re doing Bird Math! Photos of birds on a feeder and bird sounds enhance this set of activities, which includes simple counting, adding numbers from one to ten, and subtracting from ten to zero. Bonus: Photo collection and bird sounds to download!

It’s important to give students feedback as they work on tests or practice activities, so you can never have too many feedback sounds. This resource includes seven sets of feedback sounds in child, female, and male voices. Bonus: PDF tutorial for making your own feedback sounds using Audacity!

In the IntelliTools Classroom Suite® Media Sounds folder, there are three subfolders full of sounds that don’t get used as much as they deserve because you can’t tell what they will sound like from reading the file names. The subfolders are Buttons, Magic, and Sci Fi. I imported all those sounds into toolbar buttons and saved as an activity, Preview Sounds. You can try out and compare sounds by clicking buttons in the large toolbar in this activity. Bonus: A tip on adding a sound button from Preview Sounds into your project!

What is faster and easier to read than a crossword puzzle, but still tests word skills? The answer is, a clever puzzle called 7 Little Words®. You can download printable versions FREE for classroom use. Bonus: Link to the 7 Little Words daily puzzle in French!

You can’t beat openclipart.org as a source of high-quality, copyright-friendly clip art. All art on the site is offered under a Public Domain license. That means you can use, modify, and distribute this art . Bonus: Link to a list of suggested ways to use the art from this web site!