Anna+Mayhan's+Tutpup+Page

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What is tutpup? Tutpup is an interactive website that provides students with opportunities to practice Math and English skills through exciting games and activities. What sets the tutpup website apart from other educational game sites, is its connection with children around the world. Children are able to play Math and English games against children in different countries around the world. We all know that children learn best when they are actively engaged in an activity. Interactive games intertwined with educational skills help students learn without even realizing they are doing "school work". This site provides children with fun learning opportunities and the chance to interact with other children around the globe. The best part about this site is that tutpup is free to all students, parents and educations!

How Can I Use tutpup?

By signing up for a free membership to tutpup, you are able to choose games at the correct developmental level for your student. Games range from "Easy-peasy" for students just beginning math addition and subtraction skills or early multiplication and division strategies to "Area 51" for students that are working on 3 digit addition/ subtraction and multiplication and division.

Teachers are also able to create their own class group in which their students can participate. After they participate in the games, teachers can access results and use them as another piece of data for their students.

[|Beginning Math Practice:] This link will take you to a great math game for students in kindergarten and first grade that are ready to practice addition and subtraction facts up to 10. In my kindergarten classroom, I would use this as a supplement to classroom instruction. My higher students would be able to get on to this site during math work stations to practice facts. I would also have my students track their wins and losses and the number of facts they would be able to answer.

[|Beginning Spelling Practice:]

This link will take you to a spelling game in which the students hear a word and then must be the first to spell the word correctly to advance. This link would be great as a spelling work station in first and second grade. I would utilize this website by letting my students practice simple beginning spelling words. This is also great practice for beginning keyboarding skills. Students often type by "hunting and pecking". By racing to write a word, the students will become more familiar with the keyboard and hand placements.

In addition to math and language activities, it would also be useful to research some of the countries that students playing these games live in. When students see a flag or country name for their opponent, the class could research that country to find out more about what it is like to be a student living there. This would be a great connection to the world around us for the little ones in kindergarten and first grade.