Last week, the School News Network (an education news site based in Grand Rapids, MI) ran this article about Rocket Spelling. It hints at the heart behind this website: Rocket Spelling is one student's quest to make spelling more fun for the next generation of students than it was for him.

If you enjoy Rocket Spelling, you might also be interested in some of Josh's other creations, all designed to help elementary teachers, such as:

ThirdGradeMathGames.com: this site has eight different games, all created in Scratch, that students can use to work on the four basic operations, telling time, counting coins and making change, fractions, perimeter, and area.

CustomMathGames.com: in keeping with the theme of gamifying education, this site allows teachers to request that a specific math game be designed for their classroom. If you teach math and want to make a tough concept fun, you might consider gamifying it in this way!