ELSP Online Classrooms

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The activities listed here support the content area curriculum. They are used by individuals, small groups, one classroom of students, or all students at this grade level. These choices are selected to sharpen student skills or expand their learning.

Commerical Reading Game Websites sites nd on these pages. Links to some of these games are on the reading specific topic pages.
	Sesame Street		Meddybemps

	PBSKids		ict Games

	Starfall		Little Fingers Game Index
		Little Fingers Menu Page
	Poisson Rouge (French & English)		Little People's Clubhouse from Fisher Price

	Giselle's Backyard		Read Write Think

	Learning Island's First Readers to download		My StoryMaker Online

	Nicoland		Play Kids' Games Alphabet Games Vocabulary Games Memory Games
	Homework Help Jr.		Early Learners
	Up to Ten		Sequencing
	Coloring Pages on the Web		Leading to Reading
	Berenstain Bears		Boohbah
	Short Classic Songs		Caillou
Sing A Long a Ribbit Pond Mother Goose Rhymes (Rebus)			Fisher Price MusicMixer

Write Your Own Story with the Storymaker

Noggin Site: 24 ZooMaker Lane:
Let's Make Bumbleberry Soup, The JuicyFruit, Giggles and Tickle hear a Monster

Poetry Spat--Write Poetry with some help from the site

Curriculum Connections

The Seasons
Months of the Year Project	Each month has activities and information suggested--often related to the seaons or the holidays of that month.
FEMA: Ready Kids	Learn how to prepare for dangerous weather events
Fall Simon Says	Press the start game button to begin. Watch the computer and copy the pattern it makes. Complete the sequence in the right order to win.
Lecky Goes Outdoors	Help Lecky choose the right clothes to go outdoors.

Sticks and the Seasons	Explore the seasons with your mouse.

Can You Place Me?	Put the pictures into the correct summer or winter scene.

Barn Dance	Find the hidden pictures in this drawing of a traditional barn dance. Three levels of play.

A Cold Wind Blows	Read and make a rebus story about the fall and winter weather.

Homework Help Jr: Seasons	Many links to activities and stories about the seasons.

Fall Games by Kaboose	6 online games for fall at various difficulty levels.

Winter Games by Kaboose	21 games for winter. Some offer more interactivity to children than others. There is a variety of difficulty levels.

Spring Games by Kaboose	12 games about spring at various difficulty levels.

Summer Games by Kaboose	10 games with additional links to indoor and outdoor games and activities for children.

Dexter Learns to Fly	A springtime story from Highlights

Color and Paint Games	Sheppard Software:matching, coloring, and seek and find. 4 seasons

crayons

Picadome: Colors


What color is?	Brief interactive story about color

Color the Rainbow	A story to listen to

Colors and Shapes by Fisher Price

Lecky's Picture Painting	Coloring and matching activity

Rats	Identify the colors

Shape and Color Match	Match the cards with the same shape and color

String of Beads	Color the string of beads to match the target string.

Color Labeling	Drag and drop the names of the colors on to the color block.

KinderwebGames: Color	Listen to the color name and select the colored dot to match.

Black Dog Color Match Game

Find the Shapes by Storyplace

Pauly's Playhouse: Learning Shapes with Krog

Pauly's Playhouse: Match Krog's Shapes

Colors and Shapes by Gamequarium

From NumberNut.com

Learning Colors Memory Challenge: Concentration Game

Identifying Colors Card Quiz: 10 questions requires word knowledge

Two-Dimensional Shape Name Quiz: 10 questions requires word recognition of color words

Two-Dimensional Shape Memory Challenge: Concentration Game

Sorting Games

From Homework Help a selection of seven sorting games.

Squigley's Arts & Crafts

Online Coloring Pages

	Coloring Books, Crafts, and Games
Each matching game below offers a practice session and three levels of play (Beginner, Intermediate, Expert)	Concentration Games with different levels of challenge
Candyland	Moosentration from L.L. Bean Three levels of play

EasyBake	Double Fun Match from Funbrain Find all the related pairs of cards.

Littlest Pet Shop	Apples for the Teacher Concentration Games: 25 Concentration Games to play

My Little Pony	Math Match Game from Math Is Fun: Match the colored shapes

Play-Doh	Simple Memory Game: One game with large cards to flip

Toy Story Matching Game	Match Up! from Little Fingers (6 cards with shapes)

Tonka Trucks	ABC Match Up! from Little Fingers (12 cards)

Tonka Matching Parts Game	Super Match Up from Little Fingers (12 cards)

	Easy Concetration Game: Sky
Road Signs Matching Game: Reading Required
	Hidden Pictures from Highlights Magazine
Pinata Concentration Game	Click on the hidden objects in these puzzles, and watch them animate! (Two pages of fun!)
Mr. Elephant's Matching Game
	What's Different?
Virtual Goose (very challenging)

PATTERN DETECTIVES:
Use text or audio for this interactive lesson plan, where students will become Pattern Detectives to find sequences and repetitions in a series of examples and questions.

PATTERNING BLOCKS:
Students can use the virtual tangrams available here to create their own patterns and designs. You can also print out the tangram worksheets (above, Printables) to have them replicated in this online game.

PATTERNS:
Again online, audio enhances this lesson plan on identifying and making patterns, and finding patterns in pictures. Student activities reinforce learned skills.

COMPLETE THE BEAD PATTERN:
Click on the color of the bead that should follow. Often several beads will need to be colored. Can be challenging.

PATTERN BRIDGES:
Choose a colored square that will extend the bridge.

books

PBS Word Games and Beginning Math

Learn your ABC's with Kaboose

Online Coloring and Interactive Games by Fisher Price

Between the Lions: Games!

Sight Words Matching Game (two levels)

Story Scramble with Arthur (sequencing of events)

ONLINE COLORING PAGES and PUZZLES

Art for Your Feet

Coloring.com Holiday coloring, seasons, animals, football and more!

Puzzles from Highlights. Choose the level of difficulty and the picture you wish to unscramble.

Buzzing with Shapes--A Tic Tac Toe Game

Alphabet--Letter and Picture Matches:

1. Click on the pictures with the objects that begin with the letter.....
http://www.kiddonet.com/gb/flash/phonics/Intro.html

2. Click on the letter to see an object that begins with that letterhttp://www.poissonrouge.com/abc/index.htm

3. Click on the letter to hear the letter name and see an animation
http://www.juliasrainbowcorner.com/html/a2z.html

4. Word World: animated characters with bodies formed by a letter. View the character's favorite things and click on object to hear thewords spelled ot. Print coloring pages also.

5. Kangaroo Confusion Match upper and lower case letters by clicking on the Mommy wearing the upper case letter. http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/gooey.html

6. Tee Shirt Match Up! Match the lower case letters to the upper case letters and color the white tee shirts to match!

7. Place the bears in alphabetical order by putting them in the little cars-- Alphabet Bears
http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/games/pawpark2/pawpark2.html

8. Picture Match from RWT: learn beginning-letter, short vowel, and long vowel sounds!

Roy, the Singing Zebra: Games and Activities

Rhyming Words	Professor Garfield: Rhyming Words
In the Nick of Rhyme	Digby Mole's Rhyme Game
Get Ready to Read: Rhyme Time	Reggie Loves to Rhyme: Scholastic
Rhyme Rodeo--reading required	Gus and Inky's Rhyme Time
Concentration Rhyming Pictures/Words (no audio)	Find the Rhyme (audio support)
Concentration Rhyming Game Pictures/Words (no audio)	Move the Words to Match Up Rhymes Part I Move the Words to Match Up Rhymes Part II
Rhyme Time: Kaboose	Rhyming Concentration
Rhyming Rockets	Teacher Resource: Rhyming

Fire Prevention Week

firefighter

Read the story, Time to Fight a Fire! from Storytown (audio provided)

Community Club: Firefighter Story Danita Thomas (audio provided)

AH Library (Storybooks, Robert Munsch)

Elmo's Fire Safety

Fire Rescue from Kaboose

Tour a fire truck! Online Tour of Davis, California Fire Engine 31 (requires reading)

Great Fire Drill Esape Challenge (upper primary)

Crack the Code with Sparky (skilled readers)

What does a fireman wear? (skilled readers)

USFA Kids--US Fire Administration for Kids (various activities)

Sparky, the Great Firedog (readers and non-readers)

Be Fire Safe! with McGruff (find the hazards)

Transportation Safety Quiz (skilled readers)

Smokey the Bear--Prevent Forest Fires (skilled readers)

911 Emergency Game (skilled readers)

ghosts

For Primary Students

MeddlyBumps Ghostwalk

Halloween Costumes for Edgar and Andrew

Halloween Coloring Online

Creepy Coloring

Ghostly Differences

Choose a Pumpkin Face

Carve a Pumpkin

Carve a Pumpkin II

Monster Numbers

More Challenging Games

Time for Kids: Halloween

Transmania

Wack O Ween

Streamer Screamer

Scary Filbriks

Frakenhead

Three Pumpkin Pirates Story

Halloween Online Word Search

Thanksgiving

Winter Activities	Snowman from Cute Colors.com
	Gingerbread House to Decorate from Kaboose Jan Brett's Baby Gingerbread House Gingerbread Men and Women to Color! Gingerbread Junction Mice in the Kitchen--find the objects in the picture Guess the Present Santa Filbriks Christmas Candy Cane Game--Hangman Decorate a Tree Holiday and Winter Fun Games by Kaboose Holiday, Christmas, and winter coloring; snowmen, and snowfall games Tic Tac Toe with Santa and Holly Stickers Concentration Game: Stockings Concentration Game: Stockings 2 Holiday Coloring Pages from Funschool Kaboose Make Holiday Music Reindeer Music Dress the Elves Find Your Holiday Present Hidden by Your Dog
	Mix and Match Snowman Game Dress Frosty! Build a Snowman with Highlights Make a Snowman with Kaboose Dress the Snowman with FEMA Snow City Build roads, buildings and show the people who live there! Build a A Snowman Ice Boy Celebrate a Snowy Day
	Snowflake Factory To Play, click on the blue snowflake when the page appears! Snowflake Matching It's Snowing--Hidden Pictures from Highlights
Winter Games
	Arctic Antics The penguins are hosting a pool party in the North Pole and everyone's invited. Help the animals get into the pool safely in the Christmas arcade-style game. Watch out for that diving board -- it's very slippery!
	Polar Pairs--match the animal with its habitat.
	Wintertime Fun a hidden objects game
	Winter Games by Kaboose
	Wild Ride: A Story from Highlights
	Clothes We Wear in Winter Word Search
	Find the Hidden Objects
	Find the Hidden Objects in the Snow
	Barbara Barr's New Year's and Winter Activities
	Winter Coloring Pages!

January Holidays

January Holidays--New Year's Day, Martin Luther King, Winter Celebrations

February Holidays

February Holidays--Groundhog Day, Valentine's Day, President's Day, African American Studies Month

Presidents' Day

US Symbols Match Game


	Little Fingers Candy Heart Flip--a concentration game with words Mix and Match Valentine Dress Up by Billy Bear
	Gamequarium's Valentine Games--multiple pages, lots of fun! Valentine Match from BlackDog Valentine Concentration from Primary Games Online Coloring from BlackDog Unbreak My Heart--easy from BlackDog Unbreak My Really Broken Heart--not so easy from BlackDog Valentine Concentration from Kids Central
	Funschool and Kaboose: Valentine Games Cupid Filbriks Valerie Valentine Extreme Florist Valentine Coloring Online

Chinese New Year

1. View photos of the Chinese Parade of Dragons!

2. Zodiac Symbols Coloring Pages

3. Ancient China Cyberhunt

4. Happy New Year: FCPS

5. British Council:
Click on the orange link to learn about Chinese New Year

6. Information about Chinese New Year from Topmarks

7. Preparing for Chinese New Year

8. Chinese New Year Additional Resources for Teacher Selection from KiddyHouse.com

9. Chinese New Year Activities and Resources for Teachers and Parents

Dental Health Month--from Apples4Teachers.com

Best Games? We suggest...

Colgate Kids World

Plaque Monster Tunnel
Smart Snack Orchard
Lost Tooth
Fish Friends
Rabbit's Band
Tootpaste Tower

Healthy Teeth.org

learn about how to care for your teeth.

SmileKids

Games and word puzzles help teach about dental care

	Barbara Barr's St. Patrick's Day Activities	St. Patrick's Day Game from Primary Games	Coloring.com: St. Pat
	Mighty Books	Funschool St. Parick's Day Games/Coloring	St. Patrick's Day & Leprechauns

Read Across America--Barbara Barr's Site

Seussville University
Math, Reading, Reasoning, and Science!

Who's Who and What's What in the Books of Dr. Seuss

The Lorax Project

Save the Trees!

The Lorax Sticker Game

butterflies

Earth Day Activities

From DLTK: Earth Day Online Games

Envirofun! from the State of Illinois

How much water does it take to grow a hamburger?

Find the answer here on the USGS site!

It's Spring Time!

Barbara Barr's Spring Activities

Spring Games from Primary Games.com

Spring Games by Kaboose 12 games

Dexter Learns to Fly Story from Highlights

Color and Paint Games
matching, coloring, and seek and find for all seasons

Plant a Garden with Calliou

Plant Monet's Garden

Pack for a Picnic

Bug Game and Coloring by Orkin

Easter Games from Kaboose

Egg--tivities

Going Camping!
Tents	Wacky Wildlife: make new animals
Forest	Design Your Own Treehouse
Ocean	Doodle Bug Coloring
Meadow
Winter Snow
Desert
Pond


Ben's ABC Book about Government!

A House Is a House for Me!
A set of activities

Animals and Our Environment
Animal Who?	Press a key and learn the animal that begins with that letter.
Animals Here or There?	Identify the animal's habitat.
Animals There?	Select the correct animal to match the outline of its shape.
Bees and Honey	Improve your mouse skills with this 3 part game.
Jay Calls	Identify the name of the animal that makes a sound.
Fish Tank	Click on exactly the right number of fish you are to catch.
Create a Living Jungle	Select animals and plants to live in a jungle you create.
Mr. Elephant's Matching Game	A classic concentration game with an animal theme.
Where Do I Live?	Two levels of game play--common animals and exotic.
Snuffy's Safari	Explore the jungle, arctic, or ocean with Snuffy's magic glasses.
Amazing Animals--from Kaboose
Zipper the Virtual Dog
Arctic Animals!
Polar Bears Alive	Polar Bears Alive is about a biologist named Dan Guravich who in 1992 founded this website, Polar Bears Alive.
Land of the Great Bear	Learn about the different ages of the polar bear.
Penguins Around the World
Make a Bear	Shockwave fun activity
Polar Bears	This site has interesting facts and cool things to look at.
Natureworks: Polar Bears	This site has characteristics about polar bears, it also has the range, habitat, food, reproduction, and behavior on polar bears.
Scott Polar Research Institute	brief explanation of important polar bear facts.

Game Goo: Learning that Sticks!
1. Can You Follow Directions? Find the bugs by following the directions in order in Tina's World Buggy Trails.	2. 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).

Mama Mirabelle: gather with the baby animals and watch movies with Mama Mirabelle, a warm and loving elephant. Could she know Elmer the elephant?

Amazing Animals by Kaboose Choose a game or a coloring page.

Virtual Goose: Match the colored ball that the goose is holding.

Read The Little Red Ship and the Pirates

The Pirates' Realm

Pirates' Arcade

The Pirates' Coloring Book

Pirate Treasure: Story Ideas and Activities

Draw a treasure chest in Pixie and fill it with stamps of things that you believe a modern pirate would consider teasure!

robot Make a Robot!

Real Scientists
short videos of scientists at work

The Post Office Game!
Use the mouse to move the mailbox and catch the letters. The mailbox must match the color of the envelope!

Additional Teacher Resources:

Carmichael School: Kindergarten Resources

Kindergarten

Coloring Pages throughout the year

Mrs. Haynes Kindergarten Internet Links for Fun and Computer Lab

Reading Games: Adrian Bruce

Reading Games--mrcpl.org

Internet4Classrooms.com (Kindergarten)

Kindergarten Literacy and Math from Internet4Classrooms.com

KINDERGARTEN CURRICULUM GUIDELINES:
http://www.kinderplans.com/content.cfm?pageid=4
Particularly helpful for planning purposes for new teachers, use these guidelines to help you plan your kindergarten curriculum over the summer months

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