Country Meadows Elementary School

 

FIND A GOOD READ

100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know

 

Caldecott Medal and Honor Books

100 Best Books of the 20th Century

National Education Association's 100 Best Books for Children

Bookhive

 

 


TEACHER RESOURCES

Lesson Plans, Collaboration, and Classroom Activities:

BEST ON THE WEB FOR TEACHERS - 200 sites for teachers

BLUE WEB"N - library of 1200 + sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format.

BUSY TEACHERS' WEBSITE K - 12

 

DISCOVERY CHANNEL - categorized list of sites

 

IDEAS - resources to help Wi educators used technology to meet the Wi Model Academic Standards

KINDERGARTEN CONNECTION - provides resources for primary teachers

THE LIBRARIAN'S GUIDE TO CYBERSPACE

FILIMENTALITY - a fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you through the steps to turn Web resources into learning activities

TRACKSTAR - help instructors to organize and annotate Web sites for use in lessons

Other:

WEAC

WI Department Of Instruction

WI Educational Communications Board: Instructional Database

 

 
 PARENT LINKS 

DiscoverySchool.com contains features that are helpful for parents and students. It contains product reviews, educational advice, and study tools. 


Family Education features advice for parents regarding homework help, parenting tips, and advice for some of the challenges of parenting children at different stages of growth.


Family Fun is the website for the magazine with the same name. The site contains additional ideas related to articles in the magazine as well as patterns for craft items and links to other activities and ideas.

The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) developed Facts for Families to provide concise and up-to-date information on issues that affect children, teenagers, and their families.

This site offers a wide range of topics that cover typical development to intervention strategies that may be used at home or at school. The site has valuable information to help children reach their full developmental potential.

This speech and language related site promotes building on language skills and concepts.

Parenthood.com is a great website that offers information for parents regarding their children. A Topics A to Z list includes information such as, but not limited to, ADD and ADHD, Nightmares, Separation Anxiety and Writing.

This activity provides practice at sight recognition and spelling of about 200 high frequency words with an outer space themed game.


HOMEWORK HELP

 

Web Directories and Search Engines

Reference Works

Virtual Field Trips

Online Stories

Magazines

Books

Web Directories and Search Engines

Badgerlink
Kids Click
Kids Connect
KidSpace ~ the Internet Public Library
Yahooligans
Ask Jeeves for Kids

Reference Works:

Almanacs
Yahooligans
Information Please Kid's Almanac

Atlases
World Atlas

Dictionaries
Little Explorers Picture Dictionary/Encyclopedia

Encyclopedias
World Book (NOTE: currently this can only be accessed at school)

Virtual Field Trips:
Milwaukee County Zoo
Milwaukee Public Museum
National Air and Space Museum
National Zoo
White House

 

Online Stories:
Beantime Stories
Children's Storybooks Online

 

Magazines:
National Geographic for Kids

National Geographic
National Wildlife Federation Kidzone
Si-Kids
Time for Kids

Books:
Book Hive

 


 

STUDENT LINKS

 

 http://www.kidsites.com/
This site features educational and fun websites for kids as well as links for “grownups.”
 
 http://www.kidscom.com/
This free site for kids of all ages features a variety of possibilities: games, adventures, key pals, etc. It also includes a page for parents regarding its privacy policy.
 
 http://members.tripod.com/nursery_school/
Looking for nursery rhymes and games for preschoolers? Try this site.
 
 http://www.readinglesson.com/article1.htm
Articles for parents on school issues and practice work for students can be found here.
 
 http://www.readinghouse.com/
Information for parents on teaching their child how to read can be gained from this site.
 
 http://www.learningplanet.com/stu/kids0.asp
Learning Planet includes a fun collection of free games and learning activities just for you! Choose your grade level, and then choose from fun games like Mr. Elephant's Matching Game and Math Mayhem!
 
 http://www.abcteach.com/
This site is for kids, parents and teachers. Free activities, research and report help, project and writing ideas. Diorama themes to print. Rain Forest, Butterflies, and other interesting topics.
 
 http://www.edu4kids.com/
This site is chock filled with different types of drill games. These games allow kids of all ages to develop and enhance their basic skills without banner ads or on-line advertising directed at them. The site is free, and the games are as hard as you want.
 
 http://www.factmonster.com/homework/
The site offers reference materials, fun facts and features, and free individualized homework help. From dinosaurs to the stock market to the latest on Harry Potter, Fact Monster has the information kids are seeking, all in one easy-to-use, searchable site.
 
 http://www.kidport.com/
This site provides interactive math, science, social studies and language arts activities for K-8th graders. Also includes teacher and parent pages. Requires Shockwave plug-in.
 
 http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html
This site has everything for students K-8.
 

 

 

internet-world Search engine for kids: http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/
Dictionary link: http://www.yourdictionary.com/
Have a question? Ask Jeeves! http://www.ajkids.com/
Questions? Try asking Earl! http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/ask_earl/
History and geography for kids on the web: http://www.techedlab.com/techkids/history.html
National Center for Education Statistics Fun and educational links! http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/
Facts about the United States: http://bensguide.gpo.gov/