Links


You'll find everything from trolls to armadillos on this 
author/illustrator's page.
http://www.janbrett.com/

National Geographic for Kids offers many videos, games, 
activities, and stories about a variety of animals
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/

Teacher/mother Wendy Petti has created a wonderfully engaging and 
visually striking site that brings mathematics to life through 
math-related art, crafts, games, facts, and more. Math Cats will 
probably appeal most to elementary and middle school students, 
though some of its offerings will intrigue people of any age. 
http://www.mathcats.com/

Join Arthur and the gang for fun in Elwood City!
http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/elwoodcity/elwoodcity.html

Activities that help children understand and appreciate the 
concept community.
http://www.planning.org/KidsAndCommunity/index.htm

A complete list of incredible insect links for the primary 
student.
http://wwwgen.bham.wednet.edu/insect.htm

A complete list of awesome butterfly links for the primary 
student.
http://wwwgen.bham.wednet.edu/Butterfl.htm

An interactive fieldtrip to a park, library, and city hall.
http://www.hud.gov/kids/field1.html

Children will have a lot of fun learning to read.
http://www.starfall.com/

Lots of interactive math games! Click in the column under Pre-K-2
http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/vlibrary.html

Learn all about our nation's President and his family.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/

This site will allow your child to practice the 500 most 
frequently used 
words in the English language.  If you click on a list under 
voice, your 
child will hear each sight word three times.  This will help with 
reading 
fluency and word automaticity.
http://curriculum.leeschools.net/words/word%20groups.htm

Fact Monster will allow your child to learn many cool facts about 
a variety 
of topics:  math facts, the world, the United States, people, 
science, 
sports, words, etc.
http://www.factmonster.com

If you have older children in math courses you can't help them 
with, this site will be a godsend!  There is a link for K-8 math 
problems, but there are also tabs for algebra, geometry, trig, 
and calculus as well as general math.  This site will allow your 
child to type in a math problem and will show them step by step 
how to solve it.
http://www.webmath.com/

NASA for Kids will allow your child to learn about space and the 
solar system.
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/home/index.html

This activity introduces 20 word families, with six examples 
provided for each word family.  Learning word families is a fast 
way to increase a students reading vocabulary. It also helps the 
student learn that the ability to decode one word can assist in 
decoding other words with similar alphabet letter patterns.
http://curriculum.leeschools.net/words/First%20100/Families/word%20families.htm

The letter recognition activity provides students an opportunity 
to practice learning both the capital and lowercase letters of 
the alphabet.  Voice assistance is provided for those students 
who are unable to name the letters independently.  Five to six 
letters are covered in each lesson.  After the student is taught 
the letters with voice assistance, they move to the practice list 
to independently name the letters.
http://curriculum.leeschools.net/words/Letters/letters.htm

Consonant digraphs are consonant letters that appear together and 
represent a single sound that is different from the sound of 
either letter.
http://curriculum.leeschools.net/words/Consonant%20Digraphs/consonant%20digraphs.htm

Vowel digraphs are two vowels together, the first is pronounced 
and the second is silent.
http://curriculum.leeschools.net/words/Vowel%20Digraphs/vowel%20digraphs.htm

Three letter blends are three consonant letters that appear 
together in words and represent sounds that are smoothly joined. 
Each of the sounds can be heard.
http://curriculum.leeschools.net/words/Consonant%20Blends/consonant%20blends.htm

Vowel diphthongs are two vowels, both are spoken with the stress 
placed on the first vowel.
http://curriculum.leeschools.net/words/Diphthongs/Diphthongs.htm


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