Here is a monthly collection of classroom teacher recommended websites. They are based on the units of study in their classrooms. Use these websites to gather information for student projects.
November:
The First Thanksgiving - videoThanksgiving Interactive: You are the Historian
Vocabulary Game- Freerice.com will donate grains of rice for every answer you get right.
Multiplication Table- another activity on Freerice.com .
December:
CANADA:
All About Canada The Pocantico Hills School 5th Grade studied North & South America, and created a website to share their findings. Gather information about Canada; Visit the Provinces through photos, see drawings of the Province Seals, Provincial Fact Cards, and some activities.
Canada for Kids - Canada for Kids site has lots of facts, information, and additional links about Canada.
Easy Interactive Map - This site has an easy to use interactive map of Canada.
Graphing and Pie Charts - 4th grade fun with graphs and pie charts
EXPLORERS: Use these websites to learn about Explorers: Pizarro, Magellan, DeGama, Columbus, DeSoto, Hudson, Drake, Corando, and more...
Enchanted Learning
Kid Info
Interactive Map - An interactive map of North America showing the exploration paths
DMOZ - Open Directory
CyberSleuthkids -
January
tagxedo - Mrs. LeBlanc's class
FEBRUARY
British Flag - Mrs. Rossini's 2nd grade class
http://www.neok12.com/ A terrific collection of free online educational videos, lessons, and activities in Science, History, Math, English..
http://storybird.com/books/
http://www.softschools.com/language_arts/ Language Arts - (Grammar activities- word sort, word searches, ABC order, Compound words, divide words into syllables, parts of speech, synonyms, antonyms, and so much more!)
http://www.softschools.com/math/games/ Math games (addition, multiplication, estimation, word problems etc.)
FRACTIONS - Mrs. Kuketz recommends these sites for practicing fractions.
http://www.visualfractions.com/index.htm Visual Fractions website "Fractions are better understood when seen"
http://www.mrnussbaum.com/mathcode.htm Mr. Nussbaum's site
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm#fractions Sheppardsoftware offers some fun fraction games to play - Compare Fractions Balloon Pop was fun to play.
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/fractions/level4.htm (Level 4, grade 4)
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/fractions/index.htm
http://www.topicbox.org.uk/Maths/fractions/ Topic Box has many fraction games to choose from.
MARCH
Colonial America - Puritans & Pilgrims
Colonial America
information about Puritans with pictures 1
information about Pilgrims with pictures
13 Colonies
Mr. Donn's PowerPoint
Social Studies for Kids: 13 Colonies
Folk Tales, Fairy Tales and Myths:
Fairy Tales online stories
Fairy Tales & Fables (online audio stories - click the speaker/arrow then listen to the story)
Grimms Fairy Tales
Read and enjoy these Fables & Fairy Tale stories
Online audio stories - listen to a fairy tale, classic books for children or kids poems
Listen to Folk Tale stories - Gr. 1-3)
Listen to Fairy Tale stories - Gr. 1-3)
MATH - great resource site for math games http://www.sowashco.k12.mn.us/ro/pages/studentlinks/math/k-1math.htm
Planets and Solar System
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/starwarp2.html Interactive learning game - learn facts about the Solar System
http://athena.cornell.edu/kids/weight.html Choose an object and see how much it weighs on each of the two planets - Mars and Earth
http://marsdata1.jpl.nasa.gov/DrC/ Ask Dr. C a question about Mars
http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/science/earthandbeyond/planets.asp - Can you remember the order of the planets? Learn how
Science (Great websites to learn about Life Cycles. Mr. Williams' 5th Gr. Class is studying about Life Cycles)
Life cycle of a butterfly http://www.thebutterflysite.com/life-cycle.shtml
http://www.monarchbutterflyusa.com/Wings.htm
Life cycle of a frog http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/science_up_close/212/deploy/interface.html
National Geographic For Kids http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/
Lots of interactive experiments http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/
Titanic - video for Mrs Viamari's class
MAY
Measuring Volume - video clip lesson on volume (with music and poem) - Mrs. Kuketz grade 5
Calculate the Volume - video clip lesson on measuring volume
Volume of a Rectangular Prism - video clip lesson on measuring volume of a rectangular prism.
Molasses Flood in Boston 1919 - Mrs. Cornell's classroom:
The Dark Tide: The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo
Business History -
The Great Boston Molasses Tragedy
American Revolution
Have fun with History Mrs. Viera's classroom
Weather - Weather activity - Mrs. Marinelli & Mrs. Kuketz
JUNE
1st Grade teachers welcoming kindergarten
November 2012
Pilgrims
Pilgrims - a short introduction to the Plimouth Colony
Plimouth Plantation - video
William Bradford Agreement - video
Sites
http://mrsenos.weebly.com/
http://msuptonsfirstgradeclass.weebly.com/
http://silvamkg17.weebly.com/
http://leblancmkg.weebly.com/index.html
http://fortunatefifthgrade.weebly.com/
http://hiltonmkg18.weebly.com/
November:
The First Thanksgiving - videoThanksgiving Interactive: You are the Historian
Vocabulary Game- Freerice.com will donate grains of rice for every answer you get right.
Multiplication Table- another activity on Freerice.com .
December:
CANADA:
All About Canada The Pocantico Hills School 5th Grade studied North & South America, and created a website to share their findings. Gather information about Canada; Visit the Provinces through photos, see drawings of the Province Seals, Provincial Fact Cards, and some activities.
Canada for Kids - Canada for Kids site has lots of facts, information, and additional links about Canada.
Easy Interactive Map - This site has an easy to use interactive map of Canada.
Graphing and Pie Charts - 4th grade fun with graphs and pie charts
EXPLORERS: Use these websites to learn about Explorers: Pizarro, Magellan, DeGama, Columbus, DeSoto, Hudson, Drake, Corando, and more...
Enchanted Learning
Kid Info
Interactive Map - An interactive map of North America showing the exploration paths
DMOZ - Open Directory
CyberSleuthkids -
January
tagxedo - Mrs. LeBlanc's class
FEBRUARY
British Flag - Mrs. Rossini's 2nd grade class
http://www.neok12.com/ A terrific collection of free online educational videos, lessons, and activities in Science, History, Math, English..
http://storybird.com/books/
http://www.softschools.com/language_arts/ Language Arts - (Grammar activities- word sort, word searches, ABC order, Compound words, divide words into syllables, parts of speech, synonyms, antonyms, and so much more!)
http://www.softschools.com/math/games/ Math games (addition, multiplication, estimation, word problems etc.)
FRACTIONS - Mrs. Kuketz recommends these sites for practicing fractions.
http://www.visualfractions.com/index.htm Visual Fractions website "Fractions are better understood when seen"
http://www.mrnussbaum.com/mathcode.htm Mr. Nussbaum's site
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm#fractions Sheppardsoftware offers some fun fraction games to play - Compare Fractions Balloon Pop was fun to play.
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/fractions/level4.htm (Level 4, grade 4)
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/fractions/index.htm
http://www.topicbox.org.uk/Maths/fractions/ Topic Box has many fraction games to choose from.
MARCH
Colonial America - Puritans & Pilgrims
Colonial America
information about Puritans with pictures 1
information about Pilgrims with pictures
13 Colonies
Mr. Donn's PowerPoint
Social Studies for Kids: 13 Colonies
Folk Tales, Fairy Tales and Myths:
Fairy Tales online stories
Fairy Tales & Fables (online audio stories - click the speaker/arrow then listen to the story)
Grimms Fairy Tales
Read and enjoy these Fables & Fairy Tale stories
Online audio stories - listen to a fairy tale, classic books for children or kids poems
Listen to Folk Tale stories - Gr. 1-3)
Listen to Fairy Tale stories - Gr. 1-3)
MATH - great resource site for math games http://www.sowashco.k12.mn.us/ro/pages/studentlinks/math/k-1math.htm
Planets and Solar System
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/starwarp2.html Interactive learning game - learn facts about the Solar System
http://athena.cornell.edu/kids/weight.html Choose an object and see how much it weighs on each of the two planets - Mars and Earth
http://marsdata1.jpl.nasa.gov/DrC/ Ask Dr. C a question about Mars
http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/science/earthandbeyond/planets.asp - Can you remember the order of the planets? Learn how
Science (Great websites to learn about Life Cycles. Mr. Williams' 5th Gr. Class is studying about Life Cycles)
Life cycle of a butterfly http://www.thebutterflysite.com/life-cycle.shtml
http://www.monarchbutterflyusa.com/Wings.htm
Life cycle of a frog http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/science_up_close/212/deploy/interface.html
National Geographic For Kids http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/
Lots of interactive experiments http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/
Titanic - video for Mrs Viamari's class
MAY
Measuring Volume - video clip lesson on volume (with music and poem) - Mrs. Kuketz grade 5
Calculate the Volume - video clip lesson on measuring volume
Volume of a Rectangular Prism - video clip lesson on measuring volume of a rectangular prism.
Molasses Flood in Boston 1919 - Mrs. Cornell's classroom:
The Dark Tide: The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo
Business History -
The Great Boston Molasses Tragedy
American Revolution
Have fun with History Mrs. Viera's classroom
Weather - Weather activity - Mrs. Marinelli & Mrs. Kuketz
JUNE
1st Grade teachers welcoming kindergarten
November 2012
Pilgrims
Pilgrims - a short introduction to the Plimouth Colony
Plimouth Plantation - video
William Bradford Agreement - video
Sites
http://mrsenos.weebly.com/
http://msuptonsfirstgradeclass.weebly.com/
http://silvamkg17.weebly.com/
http://leblancmkg.weebly.com/index.html
http://fortunatefifthgrade.weebly.com/
http://hiltonmkg18.weebly.com/