Sawtooth Elementary School Computer Lab

Mrs. Farnsworth’s Favorite Websites

Fun & Educational Websites: Starfall ABC’s (A wonderful site to work with letter recognition and sounds.) Starfall Learn to Read (A great site for working with basic reading skills.) Starfall It’s Fun to Read (An interesting site for young readers. Check out the wonderful biographies of famous artists! Starfall I’m Reading (Folktales, plays, nonfiction and more at this site for older readers.) The Keyboard Challenge A fun game to see if you know your typing keys! Where Education & Technology Meet A great site with fun, educational games! Seussville (This is a website dedicated to Dr. Seuss. It is fun and educational! Grammar Monster A website with free grammar lessons and tests. The Early Childhood Education Network: Early Literacy Center (A great site for younger students.) National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (A website for students of all levels to use computerized manipulatives for interactive mathematics.) Spacetime Mathematics A great site with a fun arcade and a way to check out fractals! Math IS FUN (Lots of math fun at this website! Thanks Billy for suggesting it!) **************************** Links about the United States: Can YOU pass the third grade?? Click here to find out! 50states.com usacitylink.com classbrain.com Interactive United States map usparks.com **************************** Research Websites for Kids KidsKonnect (A safe Gateway for Kids to Access the Internet….an awesome site!) Ben’s Guide to the US Government (Ben Franklin leads kids on an interactive journey to discover our government and country.) World Book Online (A fantastic reference site for older kids!) **************************** Resources for Teachers and Parents: Open Court Resources (The largest collection of free K-6 Open Court Resources available on the internet) Math Drills (Free software that you download to your home computer. The drills are for addition and multiplication facts.) ALA: Great Websites for Kids (This is an enormous list of wonderful sites for kids, compiled by the Association for Library Services to Children.) **************************** We now have a page with a wealth of resources for parents…check it out by clicking here. ****************************

New Websites: The Virtual Body (An awesome site that allows you to build a human skeleton, check out the human brain, and so much more.) Radar’s Biology4Kids (Learn about everything from cells to animal systems.) Liberty: The American Revolution (Learn about this amazing time in our history.) Games: Winter Games (Have some fun in the virtual snow!) Curious George Website (This is a wonderful site created by PBS Kids!) Arthur Website (And another great website from PBS Kids!) Berenstain Bears Website (And one more website from PBS Kids!) Scholastic’s Nina Loves to Name Things (A really fun site to practice language skills!) Scholastic’s Reggie Loves to Rhyme (Some more language fun with Scholastic!) Scholastic’s Leo Loves to Spell (One more fun language site from Scholastic!) Dress Up Games (This site is for those online fashionistas!) Montgomery Knolls Website List (Although these are links for the second grade, there are some great websites for every grade!!) Harrison Elementary’s Mousing Around Website (Some fun games from one of the other great elementary schools in our district!) Crawford the Cat (Short educational videos for the little ones and fun games, too!) GameGoo This is another awesome website, suggested by Ms. Waters at Morningside! Thanks, it’s tons of fun! Cool Math! This site is awesome, with a virtual lemonade stand! Click Kids, to the left on the toolbar and check it out! Magic School Bus Games! Very fun website for younger kids. FunBrain Word Turtle (Create your own word search puzzles; great for reinforcing spelling words.) FunBrain (This is a really fun website, filled with educational games for elementary school kids!) Poptropica (This is a really fun site that used to be linked to funbrain. Here it is on its own.) Sheppard Sofware (This is a really fun and educational site that Mrs. Baldwin found….check it out!) NASA Kids’ Club (Out of this world games from NASA.) Two Minute Drills (Football on the Computer!) PIX Roundup (Here’s the game that used to be on Quiz Hub…..see how low you can score!) **************************** Links for the Science Fair & Geography Bee: Geography Links (Websites used for the geography bee.) Science Fair Links (Websites, as well as student information, for the Science Fair.) **************************** Search Engines: Yahoo Google Ask.com Mapquest ****************************

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