Social Studies
Interactive Social Studies Weebly Site: http://interactivesites.weebly.com/countries.html
Cool Math: http://www.coolmath4kids.com/
Discovery Kids: http://discoverykids.com/explore/
Reading and Writing
Interactive Language Arts Weebly Site: http://interactivesites.weebly.com/language-arts.html
Colorín Colorado: http://www.colorincolorado.org/
Interactive Social Studies Weebly Site: http://interactivesites.weebly.com/countries.html
- This website provides interactive games for extension activities and home use. Social studies topics include Native Americans, the US government, and maps and countries.
- This website provides a virtual tour through the White House. On each page, there is a short excerpt about why each area or room is important to the President and his staff.
- This website provides interactive game for students. Topics of available games include Post Office quizzes, "The Great History Mystery," and a Viking board game.
Cool Math: http://www.coolmath4kids.com/
- This website provides addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division flash cards. Other math topics include fractions, tessellations, and lattice multiplication. Step by step instructions for solving various math equations are available for families and students to follow along with at home.
- This website provides interactive games for extension activities and home use. Math topics include angles, tangrams, and mean, median, and mode.
- This website provides games and worksheets for grades first through eighth. Guided materials are in English, French, and Spanish. Free math handouts are also available for extra practice at home. Math topics include addition and subtraction with money, fractions and decimals, and mixed numbers.
- This website provides notes and extension activities for students to use at home. Math topics include skip counting, adding and subtracting fractions, and multiplication. The activities help in teaching children math strategies by breaking up each step of the given problem.
Discovery Kids: http://discoverykids.com/explore/
- This website provides children with interactive games to play in various science topics. Specific content areas include dinosaurs, outer space and planets, and health.
- This website provides a variety of games that cover various science unit topics. These extension activities include games on the water cycle, animal adaptations, and temperature.
- This website provides children with interactive games on topics such as animal habitats, weather, natural disasters, and space.
- This website provides families with various activities and ideas for interacting with nature. Activities include things to do in your local park, backyard, or maybe inside on a rainy day.
Reading and Writing
Interactive Language Arts Weebly Site: http://interactivesites.weebly.com/language-arts.html
- This website provides interactive games for students to play as extension activities after daily lessons. Topics include punctuation and capitalization, compound words, and parts of speech.
- This website provides students with the opportunity to work on their classroom spelling words and sight words. Teachers can post the word list to the site. Students will then be able to play various games with the chosen set of words.
- This website will help children build a stronger vocabulary. Students may work on root words, watch videos about vocabulary words, or create word maps to help them find synonyms. This is a website that focuses on active learning. In order to gain access to the site, you must create a username and password.
Colorín Colorado: http://www.colorincolorado.org/
- This website provides research-based learning strategies, book lists, advice on raising bilingual children, and classroom videos for children.
- This website provides students with the opportunity to play interactive games on topics such as colors, days of the week, and numbers. Children may translate from English to Spanish or Spanish to English.
- This website provides ELL students with current events and news articles in Spanish. Articles may be specified by grade level as well as by reading standards. Content areas vary for students in second through twelfth grade.
- This website provides videos for ELL students that shows children talking about their surroundings in Spanish. Children can work on mastering the names of household objects in English and Spanish. Other topics include conversations about backyard objects and the different times of day.
- This website provides current events for elementary students to read in Spanish.