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This reference page is for Students as they explore the rich material available on the web.

Kindergarten

Picture Match
3 interactive activities to help early readers

Bananas For Lunch
Online story with audio. Read along with the audio.

The Yellow Gorilla
Online story with audio. Read along with the audio.

Morris' Special Day
Online story with audio. Read along with the audio, learn Spanish words.

Clydes Smile
Online story with audio. Read along with the audio.

The Story of Shapes
Online story with audio. Read along with the audio.

Six Little Teddy Bears
Online story with audio. Read along with the audio.


Color The Rainbow
Online story with audio. Read along with the audio.

Engine Nine, Party Line
Online story with audio. Read along with the audio.

BookPALS StoryLine
The Screen Actors Guild tells stories online, has activities to go along with the story.

New Fish on the Reef
Online story with audio. Try the online activity after reading the story.

Wheels
Another online story with an activity.

Baseball Math
Practice your math facts while playing online baseball.

Counting on a Cloud
Kaboose.Com offers this counting game. There are 2 levels to help count to 10. *Requires Shockwave*

Harcourt Brace Math Games
Interactive Math games for K-level. Requires Shockwave.

Welcome to Seussville
Dr. Seuss's playground in cyberspace.

Story Hour with Mother Goose
Mother Goose on the Web provides stories with audio. The stories run on their own. Requires RealAudio.

Alphabet Fishing
Move the fisherman over the correct letter to toss out your line and pull it in. Put the letters in order. Game is sponsored off of playkidsgames.com

Rebus Rhymes of Mother Goose and others
Sponsored by Enchanted Learning - readers click on a picture and title to go to the story. Designed for beginner readers.

Prongo Games-Ages 3-6
Matching games, and games to help kids learn how to navigate with a mouse.

Shapes
Identify the shapes on these pages.

GameGoo Learning that Sticks
This site has games geared toward the K-2 crowd.


First-Third grade links

Reading is Fundamental
Online stories

Phonics and Reading Games
Games to reinforce fluency in sounding out words.

Knowledgebox KB Kids
A sampling of the activities available through this program.

Funschool - Grade 1 Activities

Your Neighborhood
From Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids. Click on each building to find out how they help our community.

Baseball Math
Play Baseball Math offered by FunBrain.Com - practice math facts while playing online baseball.

FunBrain.Com
Online games to help you to learn.

The Magic School Bus
Join Frizzle on her zanny, interesting online adventures.

StoryPlace Topsy Turvy Tales
Online story with audio. Read along with the audio.

Book-Pop Stories
Read the story while listening to the audio.

Classic Fairy Tales
Online stories with audio. Interesting illustrations.

Learn to Tell Time
This game will help you learn to tell time. Use the mouse to move the hands on the clock to the correct time, then click ok. If you are correct, click ok again to get the next question.

Prongo Games - Ages 6-9
Stock Market game, Baseball Math, Catapillar:match patterns and more

Cool Math 4 Kids
Try these interactive math games. (K-1st grade)

Third-Fifth grade links

Social Studies

America on the Move
A timeline where you put the categories in order.

Map Skill Support

Atlapedia
Online access to physical, political maps as well as key facts.

What's so special about this cow?
Try to identify why this cow enjoys geography.

Library of Congress:Origins of American Animation 1900-1921
Interested in learning more? Click on this link to the history on American animation.

GeoNet
Test your skill on geography with this online game.


Math

Grade 5 Growing With Mathematics Support Resources

Grade 4 Growing With Mathematics Support Resources

Grade 3 Growing With Mathematics Support Resources

Try some of the activities in above links for added practice. These online activities support the Melrose Math Curriculum.

School Spreadsheet Safari
This Thinkquest project explains the purpose of spreadsheets, history and vocabulary.


Language Arts

Magic Treehouse Clubhouse
Online activities covering topics from the the books.

Junie B. Jones
Information and activities on the books.

Weekly Reader
News for kids - online edition

National Geographic Explorer
An online edition for classroom use of content in the magazine.

Children's Storybook
Online stories to read.

Mysterynet's Kids Mysteries
There are stories to read, mysteries to solve and more.

Out on a Limb - A guide to getting along
From U.Ill Extension - online animated activity on getting along.

Prongo Games:Ages 9-12
Practice math facts, play checkers, solve puzzles, Stock Market Game (learn about the stock market using real time stock prices) and more.

Understanding Maps of Earth
Student Fact Sheet - helpful resource with graphics

Animation Support

KidPix and Animation Activity
4th & 5th graders will create animations to support the science curriculum by building volcanoes & simple machines.

Amazing Kids-Animation Station
Learn how to create your own animation. Check out the animation lessons, student showcase and tap additional resources.

Animation Factory
Free animated GIFs for use in projects (read Terms of Use for additional information)


Science Resources
Volcano Resources
Geo-mysteries -Floating Rock
Help Rex to solve this scientific mystery.

Simple Machine Resources
Simple Machines
Use this resource from the Franklin Institute to research information on various machines.

Inventors Toolbox
The elements of simple machines.

Simple Machines Made Simple

Fun While Learning

What Comes Next?
A sequence game from NASA.

Maggies Earth Adventures

SanFrancisco Symphony for Kids
Check this out! Test how much you know about the various instruments and more.

Harcourt Math Advantage
Interactive games that support learning. Requires Shockwave.

Kids Into Action
Sponsored by the Sunshine Co. from New Zealand. There are numerous games and activities to support learning.

Funology.Com
The Science of having fun site. Many topics to explore.

Kaboose.Com
Online games to help you learn. *Requires Shockwave*

Ghosts in the Castle
Welcome to an exciting medieval castle tour. Learn about the people who lived and worked there.

Chateau Meddybemps
This site has language arts games and activities, as well as stories. Geared toward grades K-2.

Explore the Fantastic Forest
Sponsored by National Geographic, this site offers students an interactive game to learn about the forest.

National Wildlife Federation
Kids resource - provides information and games.

Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids
Choose the correct grade level and move through these interactive activities.

iKnowthat.com
Educational website that assists students with reading and math. Also provides a games section. **This requires shockwave.

MapMachine by National Geographic
This online tool will help you learn geography while having fun.

Chess for Kids
Developed by Students for Thinkquest.


Kids@Random
Random House Children's Books - links to authors, games etc.

Funranch.Com
Online games: checkers, air hockey, fenced in, I.Q. etc.

Gamequarium for Learning
Games to support topics in the classroom. Choose the appropriate grade level to practice money skills, language skills and more. *Most games require Shockwave.

Primary Games
There are games across the curriculum in this site.

Safety

Student Search Engines

KidsClick Search
This site gives kids their own search page. The site is maintained by librarians and split by catagory.

FactMonster Search
Student search engine from Information Please.

Kidshub
A kids portal covering many topics - research, interactive games etc.

Homework Help



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Susan Herook, Instructional Technology Specialist
(Last Updated August 2006)