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NEWS

GENERAL

Seussville University -- A Random House Dr. Seuss site that is targeted toward K-2 skills in reading, reasoning, math, and science.  http://www.seussville.com/

Starfall -- This site is targeted toward K-2 skills in reading. Excellent site used primarily in kindergarten to practice sound recognition and develop reading.  http://www.starfall.com/

Time for Kids Classroom -- TFK Classroom is a free K - 8 classroom connection for teachers and students.  It includes current events updates, a reproducible library, quizzes, and activities. http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK.class0,17446,,00.html

Enchanted Learning -- At the Enchanted Learning site, you will find fun, colorful pages on a wide variety of topics, for example, dinosaurs, astronomy, geography, and art appreciation.  Mainly for K - 8, but there's lots of information here that anyone could use, such as the foreign language picture dictionaries. http://www.enchantedlearning.com

Brain Food! Give your mind a work out on some of these devious puzzles! There are hundreds, ranging from word games to logic problems to riddles.  Some are tricky. Some require innovation.  All require thinking power. http://www.rinkworks.com/brainfood/

Scholastic Magazine -- This is an excellent online news magazine for children, approximately grades 3 - 8.  The main story is usually a single page and has two or three critical thinking questions for the students to answer after they have read the article. http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/index.asp

How Stuff Works -- Discusses interesting topics on every subject just like the title says. http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Who's Who and What's What -– Really good current events quiz based on the NY Times.  This is offered Monday through Friday with links to the articles so that students can read to find the answers or to learn more about a topic. http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/quiz/index.html

Trivia Quiz Set -- This website provides trivia quizzes on a wide variety of topics.  http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/contst.htm#trivia

 

GAMES

Kindergarten Games -- A good selection of games for early learners. http://www.giles-lea.giles.k12.tn.us/bms/it/kgames.htm

Chateau Meddybemps Fun and Games -- Fun for all ages at this site.
http://www.meddybemps.com/funandgames.html

Chateau Meddybemps Learning Activities --  A wonderful list of games and activities for early childhood learners. http://www.meddybemps.com/7.33.html

Fun School --  Games, activities, and printables for K - 6. http://www.funschool.com/

Game Goo -- Learning that sticks. http://www.gamegoo.com/gamegoo/gooey.html

Fun Brain --  From Family Education Network, this site has games to sharpen math and language skills. http://www.funbrain.com/kidscenter.html

Coolmath4Kids -- An amusement park of math and more -- especially designed for FUN!  Stuff for all ages. http://www.coolmath4kids.com/

Gameaquarium -- A collection of language arts, math, science, and social studies.  Grades PreK-6 http://www.gamequarium.com/

 

MATH

Math Cats -- Math games.  http://www.mathcats.com/explore/mathcatsgames.html

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:
Addition - http://www.edbydesign.com/maths/number_cruncher_add.html
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.htm

Seussville University -- A Random House Dr. Seuss site that focuses on early math skills (K-2). http://www.seussville.com/university/math

PBS Cyberchase Games -- A variety of good games for ages 8 – 11.  These games involve critical thinking skills and are fun, too.  http://pbskids.org/cyberschase/games.html

Ask Dr. Math -- a great math resource from the Math Forum, here you can find explanations and help for elementary, middle, and high school math topics. http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/drmath.elem.html

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://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/

Piggy Bank -- A fun game for K - 4 to learn to count money. http://fen.com/studentactivites/Piggybank/piggybank.html

Pattern Blocks --  This site provides basic shapes to copy and cut out to use as manipulatives and when studying fractions. http://www.arcytech.org/java/patterns/patterns_j.shtml

Coolmath4Kids -- An amusement park of math and more -- especially designed for FUN!  Stuff for all ages. http://www.coolmath4kids.com

AAA Math -- These pages illustrate and provide interactive arithmetic exercises and problems.  They contain a series of basic math lessons.  http://www.aaamath.com

Math Games -- A collection from 4 different sites, these provide good math practice for K - 2.   http://gkestner.com/Mathgames.html

Education 4 Kids – This site allows you to describe the type of flashcards you want in your drill, and then you click to begin the drill. http://edu4kids.com/math/math.php

Teach R Kids – site provides practice in basic math skills.  Worksheets can be completed and scored online, or printed.  This is practice for K – 3, with anything above that considered advanced. http://www.teachrkids.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

AplusMath -- This web site was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively.   There are games, flashcards and a homework helper. http://www.aplusmath.com

 

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