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Educational Websites
Multiplication.com Fun learning activities -- all grade levels. This site contains the techniques, tips, and secrets used by master teachers!
Bees and Honey K-1 Mouse Practice
Gamequarium The site that swims with learning fun!
Animals - Creature Feature Facts & Photos about Vampire Bats! Fun activity for 3rd grade.
   
 
General Education
Eduplace

Education Place for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt textbooks -- Grades 1-6

Includes links for Students (Kids Place), Families, and Educators!

Garden of Praise Garden of Praise is an educational website created in 1999 by a veteran classroom teacher with 35 years experience. Their purpose is to provide free online and printable teaching materials. You are free to print material for your own use at home and in the classroom, but you may not reproduce it for profit.
California State Symbols

Enchanted Learning presents California Facts, Map and State Symbols. The site includes State Flag and Map Quizzes, Printouts and Interactive lessons for K-12.

Constitution of the United States
Constitution Day was Septembe 17, 2010. Click this link: Constitution Day Resource List for websites with information and activities for students or go to U.S. Constitution on the Springbrook website for other links.
 
Skill Building
Dance Mat Typing A fun colourful website with animation and games introducing touch typing to children aged 7 to 11.
 
Research
African-Americans
Gale Cengage Learning Links to biographies of notable African-Americans
 
Biography  
Biographies for Kids On the Garden of Praise website, presented in categories, there are stories of presidents, inventors, educators, scientists, artists, business men and women, and many others.
 
Bibliography  
Draper Library Bibliography Maker Select Source Type, Select Details, Complete The Form, then click Create. The site will create the bibliography reference which you can copy and paste into your document.
 
Native Americans  
Cheyenne Link to Cheyenne Fact Sheet
Kwakuitl Link to Kwakuitl Fact Sheet
Navajo Link to Navajo Fact Sheet
 
Animals
   
bats4kids

Bat Conservation International, Inc.

National Georgraphic Kids
Research Bats
National Geographic Enter the word bats in the Search box to locate magazines, videos, pictures, etc.about bats on the National Georgraphic site.
 
Polar Bear International According to the site this is the Web's most complete source of polar bear information.

 

Enjoy Fun Time With Your Family!

“Our teachers not only provide a safe and challenging academic environment at school, but also have many ideas for you to academically support your children at home. Below is list of some common games and activities that build skills that support academic growth. Over the holiday season spend some time with your children having fun and building skills for school.”

War:  Try having the person with the lowest number win or add two cards together and the largest (or smallest) sum (or difference) wins.

Go Fish:  Number recognition

Jigsaw Puzzles:  Spatial relations

Mancala:  Strategy

Sorry and Trouble:  1 to 1 correspondence and logical reasoning

Rack-O:  Place Value

Guess Who? :  Attributes and logical thinking

Yahtzee:  Addition and strategy

Dominoes:  Number sense

Memory:  Visualizing and holding a picture referent in your head

Uno:  Number recognition and logical thinking

Connect Four:  Sequencing, strategy, cause and effect

Hi Ho Cherry-O:  Fine motor and counting

Checkers:  Cause and effect

Operation:  Fine motor skills

Nesting Blocks:  Compare and contrast

Lacing Cards:  Fine Motor

 

 

 

 

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