Resources & Favorite Links

Click on the links below to visit our favorite sites!

*NOTE* Some student sites have advertisements. Parental guidance is recommended.

Brainpop — Founded in 1999, BrainPOP creates animated, curricular content that engages students through the use of characters who help introduce new topics and illustrate complex concepts. Log in is required to take part in all resources. User: deerfield1 password: dcs

Coolmath4kids — Cool Math 4 Kids is a math site specially designed for what kids like and how they learn! Students learn that math really CAN be fun!

Freerice — Freerice is a non-profit website that supports the United Nations World Food Programme. Freerice has two goals: 1.Provide education to everyone for free. 2.Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.Freerice is made possible by the generosity of the sponsors who advertise on this site. No log in is needed.

Keyboarding practice — Use your Google username and password to log onto Typingclub where you will learn about home row and how to use your fingers correctly when typing. With enough practice, you won't even need to look at the keyboard when you're typing!

San Diego Zoo — Take a look at all that happens at the San Diego Zoo in California. Our class enjoys looking at the animal cams to see what the animals are up to. Live cams include panda cam, elephant cam, polar bear cam, and others.

Weather.com — Find out the weather conditions and temperatures in any part of the country or world.

www.zearn.org ~Enter your Zearn username and password. We are using Zearn Math to support your child’s math learning. Zearn is a nonprofit organization with a mission to help every child learn and love math. Your child will learn and practice math with fun warm-ups to build foundational skills, interactive videos and engaging digital lessons that challenge and support them precisely when they need it. Although there are many other uses for Zearn, we are using it as an at home practice tool to both re-teach and pre-teach concepts your child is or will be practicing.

http://tumblebooks.com/ ~TumbleBooks is an online reading resource containing over 1,000 titles for grades K-6. It includes talking picture books, read-along chapter books, national geographic videos, non-fiction books, and math stories. User: Deerfieldcs password: dcsDeerfieldcs and books