Dear Second Graders and Guardians,
Technology can be a great learning tool that interests young people! :) I've tried to list some helpful and educational websites below that might provide remedial or enrichment opportunities for your child.
Please let me know if there are specific websites that are useful to you and your family that you would recommend that we share with fellow classmates. Also, please send me an email if there is a website which is no longer active, working well, or has changed its content. Thanks!
I hope you enjoy these online resources!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Patti Maala
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LITERACY:
1. RAZ Kids -(or) "Kids A-Z" - RAZ Kids is a great website for our students to read and demonstrate comprehension! (Note: classroom subscription needed)
2. www.starfall.com -Super streaming video program featuring famous people reading children's books aloud.
3. www.abcya.com - Online games for kids in K-5 sorted by grade level. Games incorporate areas such as math and language arts while introducing basic computer skills.
4. www.fondulaclibrary.org/ - Click on “TumbleBooks” and then listen to great books while they are online and you can follow along with the text and great pictures!
5. www.uniteforliteracy.com - Free online non-fiction books for young readers. All books. Animals. Plants and Food. Earth and Sky. Technology. Healthy me. Family. Friends. Community. Create and Play. Know and Learn & more. (* Audio option: book can be read to you as well.)
6. www.storylineonline.net/ - Super streaming video program featuring famous people reading children's books aloud.
7. www.seussville.com - The Cat in the Hat, Sam-I-Am, Horton and the Whos, and the rest of the Seuss characters welcome you to Seussville, Dr. Seuss's playground in cyberspace.
8. http://www.professorgarfield.org - Options for children to “Create, Play, Explore, & Read “
9. http://www.professorgarfield.org/Phonemics/chickenCoop.html - Reading & Phonics practice
10. www.funfonix.com - Free online phonics games for kids.
11. www.spellingcity.com - Teaching spelling and vocabulary is easy with Vocabulary Spelling City!
12. http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1360 - For every correct answer you choose, 10 grains of rice are raised to help end world hunger through the World Food Programme.
MATH:
13. https://xtramath.org/ XtraMath is a web program that teaches
addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts which are
critical to success in mathematics.
(Classroom log in also possible)
14. www.thinkcentral.com – Think Central / Math Expressions Series (Math) => To log on the first time, please use the username & password from your child’s teacher
15. illuminations.nctm.org/ - Designed to "illuminate" the new NCTM Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. Research based math activities for many grade levels.
16. www.mathabc.com - MathABC.com has unlimited online math practice for children in the 1st up to the 6th grade. This website includes a score report.
17. www.coolmath-games.com - Cool math Games
is a brain-training site, for everyone, where logic & thinking
& math meets fun & games. These games have no violence and no
empty action.
18. www.mathchimp.com - Math Chimp has free math games, videos, and worksheets. We create and collect the best math activities online and organize them by the Common Core Standards.
19. http://www.hoodamath.com/ - Free Online Math Games for 30 days. Various math games for Kids of All Ages
20. www.aaamath.com - AAA Math features a comprehensive set of of interactive arithmetic lessons.
21. www.primarygames.com/math.php - Play cool online math games for kids with our huge collection of learning games. Play free educational math games like Skater Math, Pizza Party, and What Time is It.
22. www.funbrain.com - Contains educational games that improve your math, science, and grammar skills.
VARIOUS SUBJECT AREAS:
23. www.pbskids.org - Educational games and videos from Curious George, Wild Kratts and other PBS KIDS shows!
24, www.pebblego The Emergent Reader Research Solution! To access PebbleGo (online non-fiction data base with a variety of content area = animals, science, biographies, social studies, & dinosaurs) at home, the students can simply go to PebbleGo.com and type in the username and password for your school.
25. http://www.kidsclick.org/ - Non-fiction research: Annotated searchable directory of websites created for kids by librarians. Topics are searchable by subject, reading level and degree of picture content.