News and Updates

Yesterday I released the Count Down Timer to help you define time limts. This can be for anything from a timed writing exercise, to the length of time at stations, or for how much time is left for a break.

We are continuing to work on new read more

Yesterday I released the Multiplication Worksheets. Today we've already updated it to include allowing you to choose to have negative numbers. Now with a flip of a switch, one or more numbers may be negative, to increase read more

Last week I released two new Math worksheetsAddition Worksheets and Subtraction Worksheets.

Today we released read more

Last week I released two new Math worksheetsAddition Worksheets and Subtraction Worksheets.

As part of the updates I mentioned, we've added on and improved them both. Now the read more

Earlier this week I released an Math Addition Worksheets. Today we're releasing a follow up to that, the Subtraction Worksheets. As always, you can create your worksheets and export read more

I've been working on making some additional tools for the Free Aids for Teachers website. While I had slowed down, I redirected some effort since so many parents are now needing to homeschool and or teachers are teaching remotely.

I've put together and released read more

A year a go I launched ths site to have something to do while I was out of work. Now that a lot of parents are having to stay home to help their kids, and teachers are trying to figure out what to do, I would like to remind people of this free site.

Please feel free to share and use this s read more

We've updated our video section so there are lots of new video tutorials for you to follow along with. Now almost all of our free teaching aids, such as Word Search, read more

This week we've been busy with other projects, but that doesn't mean we've ignored Aids for Teachers.

We worked on further improving the UI based upon some feedback we recieved. Especially in the area of directions. While seemingly simple, that actually took a decent chunk of time, but it read more

We added a Aid this week: Word Definition. This is designed to be a Handout that you can give to a class as it includes the word and definition/description. There is nothing to fill out, but he helps students learn the terms they need before a quiz. It is cur read more

Last week we added two new Aids. Both can be used for quizes and/or study worksheets - however you prefer. The Aids are Muiltple Choice Quiz and Word Definitions. This week we worked on expanding read more

This week we've been busy updating our Topics. Especially since we've gotten the bugs worked out. In the last week, I've solicitied some help, so we've added new Topics, such as States and Captials as well as 8th Grade ELA definitions. Each of these can be added to both read more

Last week we fixed a a minor bug in Word Jumbler. During our review of Jumbler, we noticed that the code only supported 12 words/definitions. However, some of our Topics supported over 20 words. Therefore, we've expanded Jumbler to now handle 25 words and definition read more

We've been working on some behind the scenes aspects over the last week. Some of what we do, you see directly. Other things, well that happens to make it faster easier to update. One update was to simplify the Word Export. We can now use a unified Word Exporter which means that working on future read more

We've been working on the next big feature for a couple of weeks - Topics. Previously our Topics page allowed you to use pre-done for you word lists to build your Word Searches.

As of today, we've update read more

We've been working on the next big feature for a couple of weeks - Topics. Our Topics page allows you to use pre-done for you word lists to build your Word Searches. We have made some changes to the way it was read more

Found and fixed the last known bug in the Word Search which didn't correctly hide the diagonal words. With the initial internal testing done, we are now working on external testing.

In other news, we've been working on the next b read more

Found and fixed a pretty serious bug in the Word Search which kept all of the words bunched together.

In other news, we've been working on the next big feature release, which allows you to download pre-done for you word lists to build your read more

Today we're releasing the update to the news section of the site, to make it easier and faster to use. Additionally, now show the most recent item on the homepage.

Now, that might seem like small potatoes, and it is. That's because we've been working on the biggest update yet, behind the read more

Today we've Word Search based upon research that we've done. Namely, there is the option to create a Word Search in all caps which some find easier. It's not mandatory, so you can use all caps, or all lower case.

Additionally the Word Search has had some cle read more

We've updated Word Jumbler to make the UI a little cleaner for you.

There is now a "Show Descriptions" option at the top. If you don't have it selected (default) the descriptions boxes won't show for you, making it much faster/easier to fill out the read more

Today we formally launched the site for Aid for Teachers with our first two Aids, Word Search and Word Jumble.

There are additional Aids already in the works. We'll be posting them here when we launch them.