Online Games and Activities

Online Games
http://www.totcity.com/totplaces/Activities/activities.html

Online Games and Stories
http://www.boowakwala.com

Between the Lions Web page – online stories and activities
http://pbskids.org/lions/

Online Games
http://www.learningplanet.com/kids1.htm

 

Web Resources for Teachers of Young Learners

Early Childhood Teacher Resources A compendium
http://www.edupuppy.com/default.cfm

Early Childhood Technology Literacy Project
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/littlekids/

School readiness Information
http://readyweb.crc.uiuc.edu/

Patti’s K-1 Links – A huge Assortment of really good reading and language arts links
http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/patti/k-1/web/web.html

Stormie’s Resources – An Amazing Collection of Themes and Thoughts
www.preschoolbystormie.com

The Phonics Room - Books, Ideas and Resources for the Alphabet
http://members.aol.com/phonicsrm/

Alphabet Resources
http://mrsalphabet.com/links.html

 


Web resources for Thematic Learning

Thematic Units
http://www.sbcss.k12.ca.us/sbcss/specialeducation/ecthematic/index.html

Thematic Ideas
http://www.preschoolbystormie.com

Themes
http://hometown.aol.com/iteach345/

A World of Kindergartens – A HUGE collection of links by theme or topic
http://shade.grove.iup.edu/~njyost/KHI/KHI.htmlx

Mrs. Fischer’s KinderThemes
http://www.geocities.com/teachermom22/

Kindergarten Connection - Wide Range of Activities and Other Resources
http://www.kconnect.com/

Kindergarten Kafe – collection of activities and idea for letters and themes
http://www.kkafe.net/

 


Teacher Resources – Lists of a Useful Nature

Activity ideas for Multiple Intelligences
http://www.coedu.usf.edu/%7Emorris/multi_ec.html

Can Do! - A Site about Abilities (and Disabilities)
http://www.nlbbs.com/~mbush/

Authors and Illustrators on the Web
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/authors.html

My favorite Author Site is Jan Brett
http://www.janbrett.com/

One Hundred Things to do With a Pumpkin (on a great art site)
http://www.kinderart.com/seasons/whattodowithapumpkin.htm

 

 

Media Resources – For Teachers

The Amazing Picture Machine
http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm

Classroom ClipArt
http://classroomclipart.com/

Weather Cams – A look at Science in Action
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/wxcam.html

Animal Sounds
http://info.fuw.edu.pl/multimedia/sounds/animals/

Children’s Songs - Lyrics and Music
http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/index.html

Free Fonts
http://www.coolarchive.com/fonts.cfm?parameter=main

Live Satellite View of Earth
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth/action?opt=-p

TerraServer – Find Your Neighborhood from a Satellite
http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com


Web Search tools that make sense

Kids Click – a search engine which returns information about reading level and number of illustrations
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/

Awesome Library – Safe Search for Kids
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/student.html

Yahooligans – search engine for kids
http://www.yahooligans.com

K-12 World Safe Search – only searches educational sites
http://www.k-12world.com/cy_pages/cy_search.cfm

Berit’s Best Sites for Kids
http://www.cochran.com/theodore/beritsbest/search.html

OneKey - Safe Search for kids
http://www.onekey.com

Super Snooper – Filtering Search Tool
http://www.supersnooper.com

 

Web Resources for Children’s Books

CyberGuides – from California, Teacher-made Activities and Ideas
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyk3.html

Doucette Index - Teaching Ideas for Books
http://www.educ.ucalgary.ca/litindex/

 

Other Resources

Keypals or Epals as a CLASS experience
http://www.epals.com

Journey North – An Online Project you CAN do!
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/

 

Inspiration from the Web

Thoughts on the Bottom of a Beanstalk
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/5059/thoughts.html

My Hero - A Website about Extraordinary People and Heroes (including teachers)
http://myhero.com/home.asp

A Lesson Example that is Tremendous – How Many Spots does a Cheetah Have?
http://www.nctm.org/tcm/2000/02/tcm_spots.htm

Like Mud, Not Fireworks – Passion in Teaching Reading by Mem Fox
http://www.memfox.net/

 

Example Early Education Websites:

Perry Ohio
http://www.perry-lake.k12.oh.us/pes/gradelevelwebsites/kindergarten/kindex.htm

An Amazing Thematic Unit of Study to Use and/or Learn From
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hollow/1213/underthesea.html