I am seeing more kindergarten students on a regular basis this year. Over the years, we have become much less software based and much more web focused. Although I have many good sites for this age on my Early Learning page, the trick is to get the kids to the sites. My solution is to create a tizmo for them, which is much more visually based.
Some of my favorite sites for this age are:
Bembo's Zoo, an alphabet site that morphs an animal word into the shape of that animal
Starfall, a site where children can learn the alphabet as well as a very well done phonics based reading program
Literacy Center, a place to practice skills with upper and lowercase letters, numbers, colors, and shapes
Building Language for Literacy, a Scholastic site with three different activities, initial consonants, sorting words based on location, and rhyming words
Count Us In, a math site with fifteen activities covering counting skills, patterns, basic addition and subtraction as well as others
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Sunday, September 11, 2011
My Own Content
Although most of the links on Teach the Children Well are to content provided by others, I would like to highlight content that I have created myself.
On the Math page, under the Addition and Subtraction topic is Fact Family Village which is an interactive site of addition and subtraction fact families from zero to ten.
In the Fractions topic is a grid of fraction links that is designed for students to self-differentiate based on interest, learning style, and ability. It is called Fantastic Fractions.
On the Social Studies page, under the Massachusetts topic are two different formats of the same questions about Massachusetts' Role in the American Revolution. The first is an online crossword puzzle with clues that link to information. The second is a printable set of questions to be used with online questions with links to information.
There are several more links on the Social Studies page. In the Cape Cod topic is Cape Cod Photo Album, pictures from every town on the Cape. Also under that topic is Children's Theatre, a schedule of theatre productions on Cape Cod and within reasonable driving distance. There is a second link to that page under the Theatre topic of the Arts page. In the Elections topic is Electing the President of the United States, a printable set of questions with links that I created for the 2008 election and which I will update as needed for the 2012 election. Under Europe is European Photo Album which includes pictures and information from a vacation that I took with my family in 2000 as well as pictures my daughter took on subsequent trips.
The Other Topics page includes another crossword puzzle that I created called Winter Holiday Customs. This is found near the bottom of the Holidays topic. I have included religious and secular holidays from various faiths and cultures. On this same page are two specialized pages of links to online activities for the 100th Day of School and Gingerbread.
On the Math page, under the Addition and Subtraction topic is Fact Family Village which is an interactive site of addition and subtraction fact families from zero to ten.
In the Fractions topic is a grid of fraction links that is designed for students to self-differentiate based on interest, learning style, and ability. It is called Fantastic Fractions.
On the Social Studies page, under the Massachusetts topic are two different formats of the same questions about Massachusetts' Role in the American Revolution. The first is an online crossword puzzle with clues that link to information. The second is a printable set of questions to be used with online questions with links to information.
There are several more links on the Social Studies page. In the Cape Cod topic is Cape Cod Photo Album, pictures from every town on the Cape. Also under that topic is Children's Theatre, a schedule of theatre productions on Cape Cod and within reasonable driving distance. There is a second link to that page under the Theatre topic of the Arts page. In the Elections topic is Electing the President of the United States, a printable set of questions with links that I created for the 2008 election and which I will update as needed for the 2012 election. Under Europe is European Photo Album which includes pictures and information from a vacation that I took with my family in 2000 as well as pictures my daughter took on subsequent trips.
The Other Topics page includes another crossword puzzle that I created called Winter Holiday Customs. This is found near the bottom of the Holidays topic. I have included religious and secular holidays from various faiths and cultures. On this same page are two specialized pages of links to online activities for the 100th Day of School and Gingerbread.
Saturday, September 3, 2011
September 11
All adults remember exactly where they were and what they were doing on September 11, 2001. I had the impression of watching a bad science fiction movie. If only it had been fiction!
Most of my students were not even alive yet, but their lives are surely effected by this event. Students who are currently in the fourth grade were born in 2001 or 2002.
Here are some resources that I have found that are related to 9/11:
9/11/2001: The Day That Changed America from Scholastic
9/11 Attacks - 102 Minutes That Changed America from The History Channel
Most of my students were not even alive yet, but their lives are surely effected by this event. Students who are currently in the fourth grade were born in 2001 or 2002.
Here are some resources that I have found that are related to 9/11:
9/11/2001: The Day That Changed America from Scholastic
9/11 Attacks - 102 Minutes That Changed America from The History Channel
The National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial
The National September 11 Memorial and Museum
OurStory from Smithsonian
The September 11 Digital Archive
Today in History: September 11 from the Library of CongressSeptember 11, 2001 News Archives
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