This website includes games and other activities for a variety of math skills for all grades. The site is hosted by Harcourt, our district’s math series publisher!

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Handwriting

http://abcteach.com/directory/basics/handwriting/zaner_bloser/manuscript/worksheets/

This site has good tracing pages for practicing handwriting!

http://www.kidzone.ws/tracers/

Another site with tracing pages to practice handwriting.

Please choose Zaner-Bloser to most closely match our instruction at school.

http://www.handwritingforkids.com/handwrite/manuscript/animation/uppercase.htm

http://www.handwritingforkids.com/handwrite/manuscript/animation/lowercase.htm

http://www.handwritingforkids.com/handwrite/manuscript/animation/numbers.htm

The above three sites show us how to form our letters and numbers!

http://www.meddybemps.com/letterary/guide_and_archives.html

Watch Spinner, the Writing Spider, make the letters of the alphabet! Then practice on your own paper! Check out the home page: www.meddybemps.com for more games! Caution- the home site is very “halloweeny” with witches and such…please proceed with utmost caution if you do not wish your child to be exposed to these characters. It is a very cute site otherwise! I leave you forewarned and thus remove further responsibility on my part if you choose to explore the site! Thank you!

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Science and Social Studies

http://teacher.scholastic.com/commclub/

This great site about community helpers reads to us!

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngyoungexplorer/moreissues.html

This website features our National Geographic Young Explorer magazine!

Click on a cover and it will read the articles to you!

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

This great site is based on the magazine National Geographic Kids and is for ages

6-14. There are animal videos, animal facts, and lots of games and other fun

activities. Check it out!

http://littlekids.nationalgeographic.com/littlekids/

This site is for ages 3-6, based on National Geographic Little Kids magazine, and

has great ideas for crafts, science experiments, and other fun-at-home activities!

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Other Fun Websites

http://www.literacycenter.net/lessonview_en.htm#

This site helps us practice our letters, numbers, and even spelling! We play with

this site in class often!

http://www.funbrain.com/

More fun & games!

http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/

More fun games and stories by Scholastic with our friend Clifford!

http://pbskids.org/

Fun games and activities featuring shows and characters sponsored by PBS.

http://www.iknowthat.com/com/GradeLevel?GradeLevel=0

Check out these animated games covering many subjects across all grade levels!

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/month2month.htm

This site provides MANY links to online games covering many skills. Math

activities are at the top…scroll down for reading and literacy games, too!

http://www.kidzone.ws/

This website has links to lots of Fun Facts and other games, too!

http://pbskids.org/sagwa/stories/storymaker/index.html

This fun site allows children to make a picture with “stickers” and then write about it! Something different to encourage your child to write and be creative! Enjoy!

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Parent Resources

http://www.vvsd.org

Our district website!

http://www.fountaindale.lib.il.us/

Check out Bolingbrook’s library resources and monthly activities!

http://www.learningpage.com

This free member site has tons of printable activities for children of all ages.

Activities cover all subjects- reading, math, science, writing, and so on! There are

also lots of fact pages and clip art picture pages. Many of these pages will look

familiar- we use them in our classroom!

http://www.beginningreading.com/Word%20Formation.htm

Print the worksheets on this site to practice building and sounding out words!

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/CompactforReading/tablek.html

This government sponsored site has TONS of School-Home Activities that are great for pre-reading and developing reading skills! It’s REALLY worth looking at! You’ll need Adobe Acrobat Reader.

http://scholastic.com/clicksmart/

A former room parent of mine LOVED this website building reading skills and

confidence…so, from a parent to a parent- I share this with you! Enjoy!

(Note: You do have to pay, but there may be a free trial)

http://sites.target.com/site/en/readysitread/home.jsp

Sponsored by Target, this is a reading website promoting book clubs for kids! Great ideas inside…so go ahead, why not start a book club with your child and some of his/her friends?

http://www.pbs.org/parents/readinglanguage/kindergartner/main.html

This website is sponsored by PBS and includes great resources for understanding your child’s reading and writing development, including ways to enhance reading skills.

http://www.fcrr.org/curriculum/curriculumForParents.htm

This site gives more suggestions for ways to have fun reading and enhance the development of reading skills.

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/392

25 Activities for Reading and Writing Fun

The title says it all and there are ideas for all ages!

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/47

Family Literacy Tips: From A-Z

More great ideas for fun reading activities at home!

http://www.readingrockets.org/guides/other

This page lists reading resources for parents that are available to download. Many

of these sources were developed to help parents better understand reading

development, processes, and instruction.