RESEARCH

RESEARCH AND HELPFUL CURRICULAR LINKS

1st Grade Favorite Sites:

• Animal Planet site about nocturnal animals.
• Enchanted Learning site about nocturnal animals.
• Scale of the Universe - How do we compare in size to things in our world? Amazing!! Slide in and out to explore.
• All About Birds - See photos of birds, listen to bird calls and learn lots of fun bird facts. Listen to turkey and owl calls!
• Starfall is our favorite learning site. Reading practice and much more!!
• Owl Sounds! Listen to the Great Horned Owl.
• Go on a virtual fieldtrip to the elephant sanctuary.

2nd Grade Technology Links:

• Learn all about ants at Ants Alive!
• Have fun with Frog and Toad.
• Practice your skills at 10marks.com.
• Did you know that elephants can paint? Go to elephantart.com to see for yourself!
• Listen to fairy tales on Storynory.
• Practice telling time.
• Explore Adventure Island, learn about symbols and practice map skills.

3rd Grade Technology Links:

• What is happening at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games?
• Visit Biography.com to read and learn about famous people.
• Great biography websites for students recommended by the American Library Association.
• Ducksters biographies for kids.
• Go to the Iditarod site to travel with the sled dog teams.
• Do you know how a rotary phone works? Watch this Kid's React video.
• Learn about our government at kids.gov.

Author and Favorite Book Sites:

• Visit this site to listen to The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter:wiredforbooks.
• Who loves toast with a great deal of butter? Mercy Watson!
• Visit author Tomie dePaola's website and find out all about Tomie.
• Visit author Dav Pilkey's website and play fun games.
• Visit Beverly Cleary's website and listen to an interview with the author.
• Visit the Snowflake Bentley website and view his beautiful snowflake photos!
• Visit PBS Kids to learn with Arthur from the books by Marc Brown.

Animal Sites:

• Visit the San Diego Zoo, learn about animals, play animal games and watch amazing animal videos.
• Visit the Bronx Zoo , watch more animal videos, and learn about your favorite animal friends.

Math Sites:

• Cool Math 4 Kids
• Math Fact Cafe
• Multiplication.com. Play Snowball Fight, The Ants Go Marching, and lots of other fun multiplication practice games.
• Vist shodor.org and practice math skills from addition to algebra and geometry and everything in between...excellent interactive activities.
• Math Magician is a favorite math fact practice site!

Just For Fun:

• Remember Lite Brite? Try it online...litebriteonline.com
• Raffi sings "Robin in the Rain".

Geography Sites:

• Practice your knowledge of countries and states at Ilike2learn.com.

Writing Fun:

• Visit WORDLE and turn your writing into awesome word art.
• Visit Tagxedo and creatively shape your writing.

Science, Spelling, and 4K and 5K Learning:

• Go to Edheads to perform virtual surgery...so amazing!!!
• Visit Peep and Friends for fun learning games for 4K-1
• Visit Spin and Spell and have fun with spelling.
• Visit Kerpoof! and make word pictures, cards, animated cartoons and more!

Language Arts, Social Studies and Math:

• Visit abcya for math, language arts, and typing practice.
• Search the National Archives site for fascinating information and images from history.

Keyboarding Practice:

• Typingtest.com is a great site for tracking your typing progress.
• Dance Mat Typing...a fun way to learn, level by level.
• Ducksters will help 3rd grade track their typing progress.
• Typing Web will let you practice letter by letter.
• 10 Fast Fingers will help you have 10 fast fingers!
• Games to help you type better and better.
• Typing Monster is fun:)

Book Reviews and More:

• Visit Book Trailers for Readers to watch short book promotional videos.
• Meet Me at the Corner to view kids reviewing books for kids at The Big Apple Book Club.
• Kids Reads! The place for reviews and more...