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Discover The First Thanksgiving

November 11th, 2021

Plimoth Plantation: You Are The Historian

(plimoth.org/for-students/you-are-the-historian)

Grades 1-8, with parental supervision

Interested in learning about the history of Thanksgiving? Look no further than this award-winning website produced by Plimoth Plantation (the spelling is correct). Here, kids and their families can discover what really happened at the first Thanksgiving and separate the myths from the facts.

When you get to the site you will see a brief introduction. Notice the Teacher’s Tools under the “Learn” drop-down menu on the homepage.

Eager learners can also jump right in and begin their investigation by clicking on the image or the button “Do you have what it takes? Click here to begin!” A new page opens to a multi-media extravaganza with beautiful sights and sounds. Your hosts invite you to use clues to unearth the real history behind the Thanksgiving feast. Click on “Begin Game” to begin the journey.

This is an engaging website presenting historically accurate evidence of the first Thanksgiving or harvest celebration in colonial America that kids of all ages are certain to enjoy.

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French Language Lessons & Games!

October 30th, 2021

French Games

(www.french-games.net/)

All grades, with parental supervision

Learn and practice French through lessons and games at this UK website.

From the information on the site, Beginner activities are for students age 5-11 and Intermediate activities are suitable for students 11 and up.

Using the site is fairly straight forward broken into steps:

Topics – Start by selecting the level in the first box, then whether you wish to study words or sentences. Next select from the list a lesson category. On the next page, choose the topic for your lesson.

Lessons – After a topic has been chosen, choose which option for the lesson you would like. Select “Full Tutorial” to go through the entire lesson. Choose “Introduction” and the page will scroll down to the interactive word list. Click the French word to hear it. Or, if your student is already familiar with the word list, select the “No tutorial thanks. Go to the Games” option to go straight to the topical games.

Games – have fun practicing what you have learned with a variety of interactive online games. There are nine different types of games:

  • Mix and match – match pictures with the word
  • The Beetle and the bee – Win strawberries by moving a beetle around the game field. When you hit a strawberry, a box opens revealing images and a word. Match the word with the correct image and win a berry.
  • Pelmanism – Concentration game where the player matches the pictures and word
  • Four in a row – Tic-Tac-Toe type game but in order to get the “X” you must match the word with the correct picture
  • Hangman – classic game of guessing a letter to figure out the French word
  • The frog flies – Move a frog around a game field to capture flies. Answer questions to win points.
  • Sow grow – Match the audio of a word to the image. Correct answers help your flower grow.
  • Spelling game – Select the correct spelling of the French word or phrase with the image shown.
  • Rock fall – This is a fast-paced game where the player tries to “catch” a falling rock and then has to match the image with the correct word to win a point. Sounds easy enough but catching those rocks is difficult.
  • Tests – a variety of tests to check the students’ knowledge of what they have learned.

This is a wonderful site for either starting to learn French or to practice learned skills. Be sure to bookmark to use throughout your language studies.

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Reading Games for Kids Who Love the Computer

August 11th, 2021

PrimaryGames

(www.primarygames.com/reading.php)

Grades K-6, with parental supervision

For all kids who love to use the computer — here’s a great site to get some basic drill and practice in spelling, reading, and grammar using interactive, online games.

When you get to the site you will see the words “Reading Games.” Below it is an icon menu of the many games offered in this subject.

You will find all kinds of games to practice Language Arts including: 

  • Clueless Crossword – Can you solve the crossword without using clues? Complete the crossword puzzle by guessing the letters.
  • Word Grid – How many words can you form with the given letters?
  • Missed Letters – Practice letter recognition by trying to find the missing letter that completes each.
  • And many more – including alphabet and letter recognition games for the very young.

Bookmark this site. Because once you’ve exhausted the Language Arts section, you can explore the games for other subjects by looking at the menu at the top of the screen. You’ll see that this site offers interactive online games to learn science, math, social studies and more!

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Fun Online Math Games for K-5!

August 9th, 2021

LearningGamesForKids.com – Free Online Math Games for Kids & More

(www.learninggamesforkids.com/)

Grades K-5, with parental supervision

This ad-supported website archives learning games for Math and every other subject – all accessible for FREE!

When you get to the site you’ll see a menu of interactive math games sorted by grade range for K-5, and you can select by math strand as well including:

  • Addition
  • Subtraction
  • Multiplication
  • Division

You can select random math games, too.

The arcade-style games are engaging with sounds like blips, beeps, and buzzes to encourage play.

When you’re through playing math games, check out the menu on the left side of the screen where you will find interactive learning games for the following subjects:

  • Animals
  • Educational Songs
  • Health
  • Art and Music
  • Vocabulary
  • Spelling
  • Literature
  • Geography
  • Social Studies
  • Science
  • And More!

You’ll also find a selection of games for preschoolers, keyboarding games, educational videos, printables, etc.

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Help Your Child Learn to Read with this Early Literacy Resource

August 4th, 2021

FreeReading.net: Free Reading Lessons, Materials, & Resources for K-3

(www.freereading.net/)

Grades K-3, with adult supervision

This website offers a free, multi-media, open-source instructional reading program that helps educators teach early literacy

It contains a 40-week series of reading lessons covering phonological awareness and phonics activities designed for a typical Kindergarten or first grade core reading program. This program is also used as an “intervention program” for kindergarten or first grade students who need additional help with learning to read.

That said, (and the early emphasis on learning to read at too young an age by schools aside) the resources here can easily be used for children of all ages when they are developmentally ready to learn to read.

As mentioned at the website, FreeReading provides scope and sequence activities in the following categories:

  • Phonological Awareness: Students learn to blend and segment the sounds in spoken words.
  • Letter Sounds: Students learn to say the most common sounds for printed letters.
  • Letter Writing: Students learn the correct way to write letters.
  • Sounding Out: Students learn to produce and blend the letter-sound patterns in written words. For the first time, they read.
  • Word-Form Recognition: Students learn to read written words without sounding them out. (Some educators refer to these words as “sight words.”)
  • Irregular Words: Students learn to read high-frequency irregular words such as the and was by sight.
  • Reading Connected Text: Students learn to read their first stories.
  • Letter Combinations: Students learn to say the most common sounds for letter combinations such as sh and oa.
  • Irregular Words II: Students learn more high-frequency irregular words to read by sight.
  • Advanced Phonics: Students learn to read words with features such as inflected endings, silent letters, and multiple syllables.

All of this is accomplished with free, downloadable and printable lessons and materials such as picture cards, word cards, flashcards, decodable passages, word list generators, and much more. You’ll find audio and video aids too. There is even a “literacy is priceless” blog as well as a live forum to provide support to educators who are teaching reading.

When you get to the site, use the menu on the left side of the screen and click either Find Activities or Teaching Tools.

This site provides a wide variety of early literacy tools covering phonological awareness, reading and spelling fluency, and writing comprehension!

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Language Arts Learning Activities

July 7th, 2021

Mr. Nussbaum: Language Arts – Language Arts Activities for K-8

(mrnussbaum.com/lang-arts)

Grades K-8, with parental supervision

This ad-supported website is a massive archive of all kinds of learning activities and resources for every school subject. For this review, we are focusing on the huge variety of free language arts games, printables, reading comprehension activities, grammar editing, spelling help, and other resources.

When you get to the site, you will see a variety of menu boxes below the words, “Language Arts.” To access each activity, click on the words below each box (rather than the boxes themselves) that include:

  • Language Arts Games – Play 12 games that teach sentence and paragraph editing, spelling, punctuation, and writing basics.
  • Online & Printable Reading Comprehension Exercises – Read a paragraph or essay on any topic you select and answer multiple choice questions about it. Use either the online or offline versions. Topics include the American Revolution, the Silk Road, Galaxies, Lewis and Clark, Peregrine Falcons, etc.
  • Story Units – Read 3 different online stories and enjoy the interactive activities that further learning.
  • Sentence Surgeons & Paragraph Paramedics – Learn to be an editor! Correct sentences for spelling, grammar, and punctuation online.
  • Cloze Reading – Fill in the blanks in a sentence or paragraph with the correct word from a vocabulary bank.

Other activities teach and/or remediate spelling, alphabetical order, parts of speech, punctuation, and more. Many of these activities will allow you to choose either printable or online exercises.

When you are through with the Language Arts section, use the menu at the top of the page to find activities for math, geography, science, etc.

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