Ms. Day's Class

Useful Websites for Students

Study Island

http://www.studyisland.com/

 
Kyle's Blog
 
Library Search Engine
 
Ask Jeeves
 
Election newspaper: Front pages
 
Rich Wilson---aka Skipper Rich" -- will begin a three month solo sail boat trip around the world. He will share his experiences on a website for students. Rich and experts on land will post podcasts, videos, blog posts, and many other things for students. Check it out!
 
 
 
Math Sites
 
 
 

 

http://homeworkspot.com/elementary/math/

 

www.funbrain.com

 

http://mathforum.com/students/elem

 

www.mathcats.com

 

www.aaamath.com

 

www.multiplication.com

 

Hidden Pictures- practice your subtraction and addition facts

http://www.aplusmath.com/games/picture/AddPicture.html

http://www.aplusmath.com/games/picture/SubPicture.html

 

Find the number game

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/numbertime/games/find_the.shtml

 

Fix the hundreds board

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/numbertime/games/mend.shtml

 

Counting, Shapes, and Time

http://www.kidsolr.com/earlychildhood/basicskillsa.html

 
 

 

Literacy Sites

 

This site has online short stories that have an emphasis on vowel sounds. It is filled with interactive stories and games

http://www.starfall.com/

 

A wide variety of activities based on your favorite PBS characters

http://pbskids.org/

 
 
 
 

Science Sites 

 

 

 

Lots of animal sites

http://www.lakelandschools.org/EDTECH/teacher/peg/animalsites.html

  

Spiders- Web quest

http://www.angelfire.com/tx4/lessons/spider3.html

http://greece.k12.ny.us/pi/kindergarten/spiders/spiderwebquest.html

 

Pet shop- research a pet that will be in the shop

http://www.geocities.com/mrsevon/webquest.html

 

Teeth:

http://teacherweb.com/MN/Northfield/MaryEBleckwehl/h1.stm

 

Save Sidney’s Smile

http://www.hobart.k12.in.us/webquests/groffquest/dental.html

 
 
Websites from our Science presenter:

http://spaceweather.com News and information about the Earth's and the Sun's environment

http://www.heavens-above.com Location of the space shuttle and the International Space Station

http://wikisky.org Online sky charts and images of sky objects

www.astronomynotes.com Complete astronomy reference

www.nasa.gov National Aeronatuics and Space Administration

www.jpl.nasa.gov Jet Propulsion Laboratory

http://hubblesite.org 

www.esa.int European Space Agency

www.polarimage.fi 

www.space.com Space News

www.astrosociety.org Astronomical Society of the Pacific

http://www.astrosurf/com/avl/UK_index.html Virtual Atlas of the Moon

Http://www.hnsky.org/software.htm

http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/  Sky Charts

http://stellarium.org   Open source planetarium

 

 

Fun sites
 
 
More than 1000 fun activities for young ESL learners, including grammar and vocabulary quizzes, arranged by difficulty

http://a4esl.org/

 

Billed for middle school and high school students, but elementary students can benefit from the dictionaries that come in English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish.   Words are grouped by topics or students can browse by letter.

http://www.pdictionary.com/

 

 A picture dictionary designed for elementary school students, just one of many educational tools from Enchanted Learning.