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| Reading and Language Arts | Spelling City - A fun way to practice your spelling words. |
| Subjects and Predicates -- Rags to Riches game finding simple subjects and predicates. | |
| Grammar Blast -- Great links for reviewing grammar and parts of speech. | |
| Reading Comprehension Connection -- Select a subject and a skill level. Click Start Lesson to begin. | |
| Strategies for Reading -- This site will help you learn about the 9 strategies to make you a better reader. There are lessons and activities to practice as well. | |
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Prefixes and Suffixes -- Use these links to practice using prefixes and suffixes.
Maggie's Earth Adventure Short Circuit BBC Prefixes BBC Suffixes |
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| CNN stories -- Choose a topic, read news stories, and do activities using vocabulary, comprehension, sequencing, and more. | |
| Book Report Sandwich Station -- Build a book report like you're building a sandwich. This website helps you by giving you ideas of what to write. Print and enjoy! | |
| Power Proofreading -- Interactive practice on proofreading skills. | |
| Harcourt Reading Series Online Activities -- Lots of fun and educational activities that go along with the stories students read in class. Click on Grade 4 for 4th grade activities. | |
| Gameaquarium - a variety of language arts games and activities to reinforce English skills | |
| Reading Comprehension Online -- Read the passages, answer the questions, and click Score Test when you are done. | |
| Poetry Idea Engine -- Write a limerick, haiku, cinquain, or free verse poem with the help of this machine. | |
| Vocabulary builder - for each vocabulary question answered correctly, 10 grains of rice will be donated to the UN's World Food Program. | |
| Harcourt Trophies Resources - Links to activities for
each story in the series. Comic Creator - From ReadWriteThink. Create your own comic strip! Letter Generator - Learn the parts of a letter and how to write your own letter from Read Write Think. Bio Cube - Create a cube-like outline for a biography from Read Write Think. Text Features - Site from Oswego School District that teaches text features including subheading, titles, vocabulary, captions, charts, and illustrations. Sadlier Phonics - Complete the activities using your knowledge of letters, sounds, and words. Locating Parts of a Book - Site from Oswego School District that teaches the parts of a book, including some short quizzes. Internet4Classrooms Language Arts - Multiple sites for language arts skills. Author's Purpose - Learn about and practice activities about Author's Purpose from the Florida Center for Instructional Technology. COWS Context Clues - Practice 10 questions using context clues. Strategies for Reading - Learn about 9 different ways to help you become a better reader. Lessons and activities to practice. Drawing Conclusions - Quick online quiz for Drawing Conclusions from Oswego School District. Prefixes and Suffixes - Try out these fun practice sites for prefixes and suffixes. Maggie's Earth Adventure Short Circuit BBC Prefixes BBC Suffixes Kids' Lab Context Clues - Great tutorial and practice for reading for meaning of vocabulary in context. Includes both direct definition and inferential context clues. Stapleless Book - Create a book from the Read-Write-Think site. Instant Poetry Forms - Choose your poetry form from the list of links provided. Then just add words to make the poem your own. Book Report Sandwich Station - Build a book report sandwich and print it out! Power Proofreading - An interactive site with several stories to practice proofreading skills, broken down by skill area. Castles - An interactive journey about castles. Harcourt Reading Series Online Activities - LOADS of cool reading and writing activities. Wordle - Create a word cloud at the Create page. |
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| Math |
FRACTIONS
Soccer Shootout -- Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions from FunBrain. Start with easy addition and work your way on to harder levels. Your answers must be in simplest form! Fraction Pizza -- Click Enter Activities, then either choose a level or start at level one and work your way through the whole game. Fraction Frenzy -- Quickly match the equivalent fractions to advance to the next level before time runs out. See if you can beat Ms. Cuevas' high score of over 70,000! MONEY Change Maker - Funbrain site to practice making change from amounts less than $1.00 to less than $100. Add Money - AAA Math site for practicing adding money amounts. ADDITION Ambleweb Addition Machine - Practice one and two-digit addition. Add Your Way to a Million - A Quia Rags to Riches game to practice two-digit addition. PLACE VALUE Place Value Pirates - Locate the correct number in a specific place value "Find the 3 in the tenths place." MEAN MEDIAN MODE Mode, Median, and Mean - Learn about and practice using mode, median, and mean from this BBC site. |
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Decimals Adding 1 Decimal Digit Adding 2 Decimal Digits Subtracting Decimals TIME Elapsed Time from Shodor - Interactive clocks to practice elapsed time to the half hour, 5 minute, and 1 minute. Elapsed Time - Use the recording sheet to work on Elapsed Time. More Elapsed Time - Practice calculating elapsed time on this Mr. Nussbaum site. |
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| Harcourt Math -- Interactive math games and tutorials from the publishers of our math books. | |
| Links Learning -- These illustrated math lessons explain the topic to you through words and video and also give you some activities to practice. | |
| Texas Online Assessment -- Online practice for state math assessments. | |
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Virtual Manipulatives -- Explore and practice
different math skills with these games. AAA Math - Online practice with many different math skills. |
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MULTIPLICATION/DIVISION Math Facts in a Row - Click in the box and answer 10 problems in a row as fast as you can. Multiplication Grand Prix - Create a private game to compete against a friend answering multiplication facts. Multiplication.com - Several fun games to practice multiplication skills. Math Journey - Site from Quia to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and rounding for with several setting options. Sum Sense Division - Place the numbers in the boxes to complete the division problem. Harcourt That's a Fact - Choose addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division practice. Study the problems you missed. Draggable Multiplication - practice two digit multiplication. |
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| Multiplication Facts Practice -- See how well you know your multiplication facts.. | |
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Math Magician Multiplication
-- Challenge yourself with answering 20 division facts in 1 minute.
Choose a fact family or mix it up. Fish Shop - scoop up fish using your multiplication skills Car Wash - Choose which facts to practice |
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Math Magician Division -- Challenge
yourself with answering 20 division facts in 1 minute. Choose a fact family or mix it up.
Division games |
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Geometry Links
Everything You Wanted to Know About Area & Perimeter -- Click on AREA. Then click on the rectangle, read and click next. Work through the levels starting at 1 and going until you finish level 3. Flips, Turns, and Slides -- Make sure you read the directions before you begin this game! Interactive Quadrilaterals - Manipulate a square, rectangle, rhombus, trapezoid, and kite to discover its properties. Shapes and Patterns -Site from BBC that lets you practice identifying quadrilaterals and triangles. Pattern Blocks - Create shapes and patterns with online pattern blocks. Quilt Patterns - Explore symmetry through this online study of quilt patterns. Billy Bug and His Quest for Grub - Practice using ordered pairs. |
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Math Playground -- Lots of fun, interactive
math games.
Arcademic Skill Builders Grand Prix racing, fun games using basic operations |
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| Ten in a Row -- See how long it takes you to answer ten math facts in a row. | |
| AAA Math -- Practice many different math skills and keep track of how many you get right. | |
| Game Aquarium - math games pertaining to a variety of topics: money, place value, basic operations, geometry, etc | |
| Place Value Game - Play against the computer; the goal is to make the largest 5 digit number. | |
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Arithmetic Workshop --word
problems and general math practice Brainchild.com - Practice for state testing on math. Input-Output Machine - Practice with input output functions. Illuminations: Factor Game - Play against the computer or a friend to practice factors. |
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| MEASUREMENT The Ruler Game - Practice using a ruler to the nearest 16th inch. Measure It! - Funbrain site to practice centimeters and inches . |
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| Science |
NUTRITION My Pyramid Blast-Off Game -- Reach Planet Power by fueling your rocket with food and physical activity. Figuring Out Food Labels -- Learn how to read and understand labels on the foods we eat. Nutrition Cafe -- Great games about nutrition and healthy eating. |
| Marine Biology: The Living Oceans -- Great site from the American Museum of Natural History. Play games and find information about marine biology. | |
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Very fun interactive activity for studying nutrition! Animal Life Cycles - This site includes the life cycle of frogs, butterflies, dolphins and kangaroos. It's called "Changing and Growing". It also links to animal sounds (frogs and dolphins). Magnets All About Magnets - A good place to learn all about magnets. Simple Machines A short quiz over simple machines After you have learned about simple and compound machines, here is a great site to test your knowledge. |
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| Social Studies | U.S. Regions -- Click on a region of the United States to learn more about it. |
| Life in the White House -- Great website about living in the White House now and in the past. | |
| Ben's Guide to U.S. Government -- Great website that explores the election process, historical documents, how laws are made, and even includes interactive games. | |
| Christopher Columbus -- Enchanted Learning website describing his trips and ships. | |
| Latitude and Longitude -- Use these lessons to learn about it, then take the quiz. Click here to type in your address and find the exact latitude and longitude of your house. | |
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Famous Kansans
A student search engine for biographies - can filter by category Kansas Pedia - Information on famous people from Kansas. Biography.com - Sponsored by A&E. Short Harcourt Biographies - A selection of biographies with pictures and easy text. bios on many famous people. A student search engine for biographies - can filter by category |
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State Information
States, Capitals & Regions -- Great website from Sheppard Software. Game levels range from just learning the information to expert plus! Test your knowledge! Identify the States -- Simple game from Funbrain.com where you label the highlighted state. Stately Knowledge -- Great site from the Internet Public Library. Click on a state to read and learn basic facts about it. 50 States.com -- Basics facts about all states PLUS links to other informational resources for each state. NetState -- All 50 state flags and more state information. Madder of Facts! - This practice is similar to a Mad Minute, but focuses on states and capitals. Know Your States - Click and drag the states to the correct place on the map. |
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| Interactive USA Map - Great with the Smartboard | |
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| Other |
The Three CyberPigs:
Privacy Playground -- How well do you know how to use the internet? In this game, you will learn about different
things you will see on the web and what to do about them.
Disney Site - promoting safety using the Internet, do's and don'ts INTERNET FOR CLASSROOMS - Internet 4 Classrooms site with links to online activities for every subject! EXCELLENT! Renwick Schools Hotlist - Another great compilation of links for all subject areas. Phil Tulga's Music Resources - Very cool, interactive activities that combine music into language arts, math, and science. The Three Cyber Pigs: CyberSense and Nonsense -- Learn important lessons about when to believe or not believe what you see on the and internet etiquette (or netiquette). Get Your Web License - Super site from PBS that quizzes you on Internet safety. I Know That! - A site with all types of different subject areas for practicing skills. |
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Kids Click- great way to find all kinds of information
Yahoo for Kids- good search engine for information |
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| 4th Grade Skills -- Internet 4 Classrooms website with lots of links for math and language arts. | |
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Sense-Lang Touch Typing -- Practice your keyboarding
skills.
Keyboarding Practice -- Select a drill to practice the keys you need to improve. Gamequarium Typing -- More links to keyboarding games. Some don't work at school. |
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