Helpful Links

We encourage you to use these links at home to help enrich our curriculum. If you don't see a site listed that might be beneficial to the students, let us know about it! Also, let us know if the current links are broken or missing. Thanks!

MATH:

Houghton Mifflin (textbook)

IXL (an account is needed eventually)

Hooda Math (math games)

Kids' Zone (create graphs)

Math Pickle (math puzzles, patterns, logic)

Arcademics (math games)

Khan Academy (video tutorials/how to's)

LANGUAGE ARTS:

Lucky Calkins (reading and writing workshop)

Raz Kids Plus (personalized reading practice)

Grammar Blast (grammar practice)

TIME for Kids (reading/current events)

Kids Reads (book/author reviews)

Spelling City (practice with our weekly words)

Story Starters (need some ideas for creative writing at home?)

Scholastic News

Grammaropolis (fun site all about grammar & words)

Letter Generator (write a friendly letter online)

Kids Spell (grade level lists and games)

Epic (online books for kids)

Focus on Biography:

Bill Melendez (cartoonist)

Ruby Bridges (social activist)

Roald Dahl (author)

Beverly Cleary (author)

Presidents:

Lincoln Site 1

Lincoln Site 2

Lincoln Site 3

SCIENCE:

twig Science (our curriculum)

FOSS Web (suggested links from science text)

Macmillan Science (another textbook)

Nature for Kids (games, videos, experiments & activities)

StarDate (all about the night sky)

Stellarium (download this application for a virtual tour of the night sky!)

Bill Nye the Science Guy (science articles)

NASA for Kids (misc. activities & articles)

New Horizons (track its path to Pluto!)

Potato Power(can potatoes run a calculator?)

Fruit Charges an i-Pod (How to charge your devices using free energy!)

Energy Information Administration (Energy games/info for kids)

Seed Dispersal (YouTube video of different ways seeds travel from the parent plant)

Slow-Motion Seeds (YouTube video of growing beans in slow motion)

Life Cycle of Plants (interactive site all about plants & seeds)

Crayfish Corner (all kinds of facts about crayfish)

Timeanddate.com (daily moon phases)

SOCIAL STUDIES:

TCI (enrichment to our textbook)

Silicon Valley (local history)

San Mateo County (local history)

GeoNet (an online game)

Scholastic:

Thanksgiving Research

Ben's Guide (U.S. Government)

Columbus Day Webquest (Scholastic)

TECHNOLOGY SKILLS:

Coding Websites

Typing Club (keyboarding skills)

Typing Web (keyboarding skills)

Dance Mat Typing (keyboarding skills as a game)

Free Typing (keyboarding games, lessons & tests)

Fun To Type (typing games)

Common Sense Media (get reviews & recommended age levels for books, movies, tv shows, apps, websites and more. Learn how to be a safe cyber-citizen, too!)

KidRex (kid-friendly search engine)

ZuiTube (videos for kids)

DOGO News (current event videos)

Hour of Code (lots of coding games)

MIXED PRACTICE:

Free Rice (every time you play you feed the hungry!)

Scholastic Practice (language arts, math , social studies, science and foreign languages!)

Internet4Classrooms (builds various skills)

Study Jams (math and science practice)

ABCYa (a TON of addictive, yet educational games)

Arcademics (arcade style games in combination with academic practice)

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