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Just for Fun |
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Little Fingers Games | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Official Muppets Website--games to play just for fun |
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PrimaryGames.com--many games to choose from in math, reading, social science and science. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gamequarium.com--use the menu at the upper right to choose a category and then select a game |
I know that!.com play these games by choosing to REGISTER LATER, |
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Fun Match a memory game with different levels |
KidsHub.org look for homework help, foreign language learning, learning activities, games and puzzles! |
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| I SPY the famous series of puzzle books has arrived on the web. This site allows students to work puzzles and to submit a personally designed I SPY document. |
Slider Games slide the puzzle pieces in place to solve the game. |
Kids' Castle by the Smithsonian Institution's Magazine for kids. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A Walk Through Time is a web site that will teach students about the history of clocks. It goes from the moon, stars, and planets to the evolution of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) or from sundials to time zones! |   Select your grade level and choose from a variety of language games |
Jelly Belly (the Official Jelly Belly Company Site) provides the history of the company, demonstrates how jelly beans are made, houses a gallery of artwork made from beans. The site also allows the reader to custom design a bean, and has a catalog of products. Items can be ordered from this site. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Great Bug Hunt! Learn about beneficial bugs. Find the hidden bugs and find out all about their value as a garden helper or a pest. | Free Coloring Pages several online coloring pages. |
I Love Pasta a site for pasta lovers, providing a glimpse of history, nutritional information, and recipes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Try JigZone and
solve an electronic jigsaw puzzle! Many to choose among! Animals & more! |
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Holiday Coloring and Games
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| Freepuzzles.com offers 1,000 puzzles in geometry, logic, math, weight and moves, grouped by grade levels. | Fun With Numbers is a site of numbers. There are 28,915 odd prime numbers! Did you know that? Find out what the 28,915 odd prime numbers are and all the other fun numbers! | |
| Kidsmath Practice working with decimals, measurements, graphs as well as math operations. Select a level and start the programs | MathFlash for Kids electronic flashcards for practicing math facts. | MegaMath three games to practice times tables. |
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| Fraction Game Tool A National Council of Teachers of Mathematics to use fractions while moving game pieces across a board. | Fraction Track two player version of NCTM's fraction game tool. |
Fraction Four practice fractions in the context of a two-player game
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Weekly Math Challenges |
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Brain Teasers solve a math teasers each week and check back the following week to see if you have solved it correctly! |
Figure This! Take these math challenges seriously--as serious fun |
Aunty Math Every other week, Aunty Math shares her math challenges with you. These are story problems for students in grade K--5. |
| Brain Teasers | Math Stories.com | Word Problems for Kids |
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What's the Word Game Match the words with the pictures. |
Oddball Find the picture that doesn't fit with the others. |
Begins With..Look for pictures of animals, people, or things that match specific letters (choose from the Menu: The Game Spot) |
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Starfall Stories--fifteen stories that students can read or have read to them emphasizing vowel sounds. |
Star Words Match the word to the boxes of letter shapes. Word Blender allows students to make words with consonant clusters. Snap Lets you practice long vowel sounds. |
Long Vowel Sounds or select from the tabs at the left to study other sounds in words. |
| Drag "n" Spell drag the middle vowel into a word | See and Spell | Sandcastle Sounds middle word vowel sounds |
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ReadWriteThink: What's in the Bag? a language-based activity for stuents K to 8. Listening Game |
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| 2Bee or not Nottoobee 2Bee and Queen Nottoobee need flowers to make honey. Help them find flowers by choosing the correct verb to complete the sentences. |
Spin and Spell | Game Goo: Learning that Sticks |
Author Pages for Grades K, 1, 2, and 3 |
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| Aliki | Jan Brett | Eric Carle |
| Steven Kellogg | Stuart Murphy | |
| Tomie dePaola | ||
Reading and Writing for More Independent Readers |
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Student written vocabulary exercise based on the book. |
Spell Check select a difficulty level and challenge your ability to find the correct spelling, |
Teacher written vocabulary activity |
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Contraction Concentration match the contraction to the words |
Cyberbee Meets T-Rex and other Dino Stories | |
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Spell A Roo find the incorrect word in a sentence. (beginner) |
Scramble Saurus unscramble the words, three levels of difficulty |
Plural Girls--find the correct plurals |
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Paint by Idioms match a phrase with its meaning. |
Word Confusion learn homophones |
Vocabulary and Grammar Builders |
| Language Games | Skillswise for grades K--12; offers both math and reading activities | Game Goo--Antonyms, Synomyns, and Spelling Games |
| Word Searches Find words in organized categories | Word Play and Puzzle Site | Wacky Web Tales--write your own fill in the blanks stories |
| Monkey Business from Game Goo--Construct Sentences | ||
| Listening Activities | |
| Can You Follow Directions? Find the bugs by following the directions in order in Tina's World Buggy Trails. |
Is This Real or Make Believe? Is the story Tina tells a story that could happen or is it one that is fantasy (make believe). |
Science |
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| Animals of the World Game |
Weather Underground Check the weather for your hometown |
Name The Months |
| Animaland Encyclopedia | ||
Social Studies |
| Guess the States and Capitals lets you see the state's outline and also see it on a map before trying to guess its name. |
Reviewed, May, 2004
J. Beyersdorfer
