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Listed below are links we hope you find beneficial. We have added many new ones that we hope you will explore.These web pages contain information as well as a variety of skills. We hope to continue adding new links to this page, so keep checking back. 

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AAA Math

This is an excellent resource for any type of math you want your child to work on. You choose the grade level of your child ( At the top of the opening page)and then on the next page you choose the skill you would like them to work on. There are many skills to work on in this site beginning with place value , rounding and estimation which we begin the year with.

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Grammar Gorillas

This site offers an interactive game for students to practice nouns, verbs, and other parts of speech

SpellingaRoo

 There is a beginner as well as an intermediate level of  interactive spelling games to practice spelling words. (For grades 1-5)

Definition Guessing Game

This is a fun way to build vocabulary. Students play the game Fake Out to try to guess the definition of words.  There are three different grade levels ranging from K-8 .

Reading Details

This site is fantastic.  It is geared for primary grades (K-3).  They have short videos for learning different consonant and vowel blends.  They have great activities for letter recognition. One item to check out for sure is their poems.  Each poem focuses on either a long or short vowel sound.  The poem can then be read by the computer or by your child.  After reading the poem, they do short activities working with a particular sound.

Phonics Interactivities

This site offers phonics activities for grades K-6.  There are different games to work with consonant an vowel sounds.  There are also activities for homophones, synonyms, antonyms, and much more.  Good site for reviewing reading skills.

Long Vowel Activities

This website works with the long vowel songs.  The focus is poems like a site stated earlier.  They have links to make worksheets working with various vowels.
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Vocabulary Activities

This site mainly focuses on vocabulary activities.  It is geared for grades 3-6.  The activities focus on antonyms, categories, and analogies.  Many activities to choose from.

PBS for Kids reading activities

Many of these activities are for primary students grades K-3.  Fun games to play for building reading skills.  It does require Shockwave to play these games.  Shockwave is a free download if you do not have. 

Reading Activities Goo Games

These games are reading games. They are for grades K-6.  They work with letter recognition, sounds, fact vs. fantasy, sentence building, antonyms, synonyms, poetry, and spelling.  These games are a lot of fun and you still are learning!

Weekly Brain Teaser

Do you like math brain teasers? Check each Thursday for  a new math related brain teaser. This site offers different grade levels from grades 3-8.

Insect Fun

For all bug lovers.. this site has information, photos, games, recipes, etc.  The site was created by the University of Kentucky Entomology Department. (Grades 1-5)

Kids Planet

This is a wonderful site to get animal photos, fact sheets, and wildlife games. Created by the Defenders of wildlife, it is designed for Grades 1-5. 

Interactive flash cards

This site offers flash cards that are done on the Internet. You can choose multiplication, division, addition, or subtraction. You choose the difficulty level. They will tell you the accuracy of the flash cards done and the speed that your child did them.

A+ Math

This site also contains flashcards like stated above. This site will also create flash cards that can be printed, or you can create custom flashcards for the facts you want your child to practice and print these. Besides flash cards, there are games, worksheets, and a homework helper. On the worksheets you choose what type of problems and how many problems. They will give you the ansers for these.

Fun Brain

This site has a variety of math skills to work on. One that may be fun is playing baseball with math facts. You choose the difficulty level and what operation to use.

Math Link

This site has a list of math activities to do. Some are very fun!

Online Worksheets for math

This site contains worksheets that you can make online. the child does these sheets online and they are scored. There are also other math activities for children to do on this site.

Elementary Sites

This site is a math site which contains activities for various areas in math. Number sense/operations, data analysis, Problem solving, patterns, geometry, and measurement are all concepts that are covered on this page. They have some fun games to practice basic math facts. Soccer shoot out, baseball, and speed grid are a few examples.

Eagles Internet Resources

This site contains many various math activities also. Many are focused on addition and basic facts. There are some neat activities. Tackle Math Football is one example of a game you can play on this.

Math Lab

This site is a great site for larger addition and subtraction problems especially when working with regrouping. There are different math games to choose from, but I suggest draggable math. This activity will give your child an opportunity to practice regrouping when subtracting.

Interactive math games for grades 3-6

Do you want to have many different opportunities and activities to study concepts being worked on it math? Well if you do, this is the site. There are fun computer games on this site that works with algebra, fractions, measurement, time, geometry, patterns, money, and data. It is a great site for grades 3-6.

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