Kindergarten Online Classroom

	Online Classroom Although District 21 attempts to restrict external links to web sites of appropriate educational content, neither the school or School District 21 is responsible for questionable or controversial content found through links external to this site.

Staff: Mrs. D. Allbright, Kindergarten Mrs. S. Johnson, Developmental Kindergarten Mrs. B. Molloy (Assistant for Developmental Kindergarten)

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.

Curriculum Connections

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

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.

MAKE A QUILT ONLINE!
Choose a tulip pattern, a grandmother's glower garden pattern, or a log cabin pattern. Select your colors and filling and allow the computer to generate the quilt you have desiged!

PBS Word Games and Beginning Math

Learn your ABC's with Kaboose

King's Park Elementary Early Reading Activities reading, letter identification, letters and sounds, rhyming, word identification and short vowel paractice

Online Coloring and Interactive Games by Fisher Price

Between the Lions: Games!

Inkless Tales

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

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

Fire Prevention Week

firefighter

Tour a fire truck! Online Tour of Davis, California Fire Engine 31

What does a fireman wear?

USFA Kids--US Fire Administration for Kids

Sparky, the Great Firedog

Be Fire Safe! with McGruff

ghosts

Kaboose: For Primary Students

Creepy Coloring
Spooky Differences
Ghostly Differences

More Challenging Games

Time for Kids: Halloween
Transmania
Wack O Ween
Streamer Screamer

T urkey Filbriks from Funschool and Kaboose

Little Fingers Thanksgiving Games:

Thanksgiving Coloring at Funschool

Thanksgiving Games and Crafts by DLTK

Thanksgiving Concentration Game by DLTK

Thanksgiving On-Line Jigsaw Puzzles from Jigzone (Set the number and the shape of the pieces.)

Winter Activities	Snowman from Cute Colors.com
	Snow City Build roads, buildings and show the people who live there! Build an Ice Castle Choose a background and begin building!
	Snowflake Factory To Play, click on the blue snowflake when the page appears! Snowflake Matching
	Gingerbread House to Decorate from Kaboose Jan Brett's Baby Gingerbread House Gingerbread Men and Women to Color!
	Santa Filbriks
Winter Games
	Find the Hidden Objects
	Find the Hidden Objects in the Snow
	Barbara Barr's New Year's and Winter Activities

	Winter Coloring Pages!


	Little Fingers Candy Heart Flip--a concentration game with words
	Gamequarium's Valentine Games--multiple pages, lots of fun! Valentine Match from BlackDog Valentine Concentration from Primary Games Online Coloring from BlackDog
	Funschool and Kaboose: Valentine Games Cupid Filbriks Valerie Valentine Extreme Florist

Dental Health Month--from Apples4Teachers.com

Bright Smiles, Bright Futures

Best Games? We suggest...

Dr. Rabbit's Games

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

	Read Across America--Barbara Barr's Site Reading Rainbow--Games for Young Learners
	It's Spring Time! Earth Day Activities Barbara Barr's Spring Activities Spring Games from Primary Games.com

ONLINE COLORING PAGES FROM

Coloring.com

Holiday coloring, seasons, animals, football and more!

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).

Coloring Books, Crafts, and Games

Thanksgiving

Presidents' Day

US Symbols Match Game

St . Patrick's Day & Leprechauns

Funschool St. Parick's Day Games/Coloring

Coloring.com: St. Pat

Barbara Barr's
St. Patrick's Day Activities

earth day

Spring/Earth Day

From DLTK: Earth Day Online Games

Spring Games from Kaboose

Easter Games from Kaboose

Halloween

View photos of the Chinese Parade of Dragons!

2. Zodiac Symbols Coloring Pages

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.

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

Just for Fun

Buzzing with Shapes--A Tic Tac Toe Game

PBS Kids: Dragon Tales, Berenstain Bears, Boohbah

J igzone

Fun Match several levels of fun

Dad's Tie Match Game

US Symbol Match

Little Fingers Game Parlor

Gamequarium.com--use the menu at the upper right to choose a category and then select a game

Kindergarten Internet Activities/Games from Lincoln Titus Elementary School (numbers, shapes, Clifford storybooks)

Fun with Spot--learning games with Spot the dog and his friends

Dress Cailou make sure that the clothes you choose match the weather out the window.

Mr. Elephant's Matching Game

Crayola

Ben and Jerry's Fun Stuff

Reading and Literacy

Visit the Riley Alphabet Page! Alphabet Learning

Letter Match with Clifford

What's the Word Game match word and the picture

Make a Word with Clifford

Find the Middle Sound with Clifford

LITTLE EXPLORERS Picture Dictionary

Wordmaker

Learn To Read

Word Builder from Harcourt Brace

Ten Little Snowmen

ReadingA--Z.com free books for students to read online

Science

Kindergarten Science Links

Additional Teacher Resources:

Carmichael School: Kindergarten Resources

Kindergarten

Coloring Pages throughout the year

Reading Games: Adrian Bruce

Reading Games--mrcpl.org

Internet4Classrooms.com (Kindergarten)

Internet4Classrooms.com (Pre-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 cur-
riculum over the summer months

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