SCHOLASTIC FLASHLIGHT READERS
Interactive site with elements that bring setting and characters to life while supporting key skills - comprehension, vocabulary, organizing ideas, writing and more. Follow the link to the Scholastic home page for teacher, parent and student resources.
Flashlight Readers http://www.scholastic.com/flashlight
Online basic skills games http://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/
Internet4Classrooms - A large collection of grade level skills help pages.
Clifford's Interactive Storybooks -- from Scholastic, simple stories and games to teach reading skills. http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/
Starfall – Starfall.com is a great beginning reading site. Short and long vowel sounds, consonants, simple stories are presented in a colorful way. Free materials are available for the teacher to order. http://www.starfall.com
Houghton Mifflin English -- A very colorful, interactive site with instruction and games on a variety of English topics. A very well-done site for Grades K - 5. http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/hme/k_5/index.html
Math websites:
Number Cruncher -- Fast facts in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. There are three different skill levels which make this site appropriate for grades 1 - 6. Select from the following four sites, and then select a level:
Subtraction - http://www.edbydesign.com/maths/number_cruncher_subtract.html ;
Multiplication - http://www.edbydesign.com/maths/number_cruncher_multiply.html ;
Division - http://www.edbydesign.com/maths/number_cruncher_divide.html ; and
Challenger (all four operations in one) - http://www.edbydesign.com/maths/number_cruncher_challenger.html
Seussville University -- A Random House Dr. Seuss site that focuses on early math skills (K-2). http://www.seussville.com/university/math/
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Math -- This site for all grade levels (pre K - 12) is quite amazing. It has a graphical representations of most manipulatives used in the math curriculum, and it lets students move them and work with them via the computer mouse. http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/vlibrary.html
Piggy Bank -- A fun game for K - 4 to learn to count money. http://fen.com/studentactivities/Piggybank/piggybank.html
AAA Math -- These pages illustrate and provide interactive arithmetic exercises and problems. They contain a series of basic math lessons. http://www.aaamath.com/
Prongo – This site provides a variety of games for ages 3 – 12. The games teach math skills and thinking skills. The games for young ages are good for developing basic skills for using a mouse. http://www.prongo.com/games/
K-8 Online Animated Interactive Lessons
Berenstain Bears http://www.berenstainbears.com
If your students like The Magic Tree House series (and let's be honest, who doesn't?), they'll love The Magic Tree House website. Students climb up the tree and enter the tree house to find some great puzzles, fun games and quizzes on any of the 45+ MTH books.
Toporopa
Can't afford that summer vacation schlepping around Europe? No worries, just pull up Toporopa on your nearest browser and learn all about the geographical, political, historical and economical aspects of the wonderful continent.
Learn Your Tables
Learn Your Tables is a nice interactive site that allows students to practice their multiplication times tables. Learn Your Tables is ideal for introducing topics on an interactive whiteboard (not that you'll have one over summer, but it's good for thinking about next school year), and for extension material on individual computers or in a lab.
Cool Math
Probably one of my favorite math sites, Cool Math is "designed for the pure enjoyment of mathematics." This interactive site features a plethora of fun games, puzzles, calculators and lesson plans.Science Bob
Science Bob is a fun, interactive site that has several different areas for kids to choose from. There are videos, experiments, science fair ideas and a research help link with many fantastic links to other sites. Don't forget to click on the "Whatever you do, DON'T CLICK HERE" button (or not).
Grammaropolis
Grammaropolis is a fun, interactive site that helps students learn about the parts of speech.
Math Live
Math Live, a fantastic site for upper elementary students, is full of cartoon math tutorials on subjects like fractions, multiplication, area and perimeter, tessellations, probability, and a variety of other topics. The glossary section is an amazing collection of math concepts animated for more solid understanding.
E-Learning For Kids
e-Learning For Kids is a great site with some wonderful interactive learning games that are engaging and fun. Students click on their grade and can then choose from a list of games divided into subjects.
ABCya!
ABCya! is a fun site for lots of great games and activities. There is a niceword cloud generator very similar to Wordle that creates nice-looking word clouds. The one-up ABCya! has over Wordle is that you may directly save your word cloud as a .jpg without any registration.
Story Jumper
Story Jumper is a wonderful site that allows children to create their very own books. You can create cover pages, add text, upload drawings or photos to illustrate your story, and you can use the Story Jumper clipart gallery, too. One of the best things about Story Jumper is that it is easy for teachers to create and assign student accounts.
Merriam-Webster Word Games
Merriam-Webster Word Games is a nice collection of games that gets students thinking and improving their lexicon. There are crosswords, cryptograms, word searches, jumbles and a plethora of other brainy games.
Questionaut
Questionaut is a Math, English and Science game from the BBC. The premise of the game is your standard question/answer delivery, but what I really like about this game is twofold. One, the artwork, created by Amanita Design, is amazing. You could get lost in just looking at all the beautiful details. The second thing that really brings this educational game to a higher level, in my book, is that students will have to work and explore to be given the questions. Within each level, the player will need to complete a series of clicks to release the questions, adding a very subtle think-out-of-the-box element to the game.
Vocab Ahead
Vocab Ahead is a collection of short videos that give definitions, usage and pictures associated with interesting vocabulary words. You can subscribe to receive a vocab video of the day, and there is also a section of videos by students that are fantastic.
Science With Me
Kids love hands-on projects, and Science With Me is chock-full of fun science projects. You'll also find science movies, songs, coloring sheets, worksheets and stories to help kids learn scientific principles and science in a fun way.
MathRun
A fun site for practicing basic math facts, Mathrun is a simple idea (math problems float up the screen, and you have to tell whether they are correct or incorrect), and I love simplicity. There is no registration required and no advertisements -- I love this, too. Mathrun rates your brain speed (I got mine up to 140 mph before having to get back to work) and keeps a running total of how many problems you solved correctly. This is a great site to use for independent practice.
Academic Skill Builders
Academic Skill Builders is a research-based and standards-aligned free website featuring educational math and language arts games that will engage, motivate and help students improve their academic skills. There are many interactive games to choose from and they're all pretty fun, have decent graphics/sound effects, and offer great practice to specific skills.
CoSketch
CoSketch is a collaborative drawing site which requires no joining, logging in or registration. Perfect for elementary classes. It's a no frills tool, so there are not a lot of extras, but for simple drawing and text, it works great. Users just go to the site, click on create a sketch, and begin drawing. To add more people, you just send them the url. There's also a nice chat feature. I could see using this to collaboratively solve math problems, play hangman using vocab words, exploring maps (there is a built-in Google Maps support), and a variety of other applications. Finished drawings can be embedded into blogs or websites.
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