The Smithsonian Institute has a great page of resources for any parent-teacher especially concerned with meeting the benchmarks for their child's school year days. http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/
This is a great quick reference site. http://www.worldbook.com They have North America curriculum standards for all the grade levels.
The Florida Dept. of Education standards page.
Creative Press: Standards Search
One book for the reading list is written by: Paul Lowery & Tim Thomas titled Do you know where sea Turtles go? It is available @ www.pblstories.com (click on the Book Info link).
www.cccturtle.org is a link mentioned for educators & the adopt a turtle foundation.
National Geographic also has a great lesson plans page.
Here is the sea world/shamutv.com teachers page. They have some great lesson ideas and information.
Teacher's Domain is such a great site! I love the organizational tools.
Education World is another great source for lesson planning and info.
Pacific Resources for Education and Planning
This is such a great and clever site for teaching tips and helpful info! Share2Learn.com
http://www.nytimes.com/learning
Houghton Mifflin Activity Search Page
These are great educational flag sites.
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/cbk.html
Geography of the United States This is a great geography state site.
Place the state in the right place
Google Earth.com-Piper loves using this!
Another great science site! LiveScience.com
Here is a fun Nasa kids site
Rader's Chemistry 4 kids and Biology 4 kids
The Night Sky This December By: Dr. Jamie Love
PhysicsCentral Great Activity Book & Coloring Book
Make Math, Money & Clock Worksheets Here Math Fact Cafe
More Free Worksheets Here
SparkleBox has all kinds of printables.
We love board games! Make some of these
Reading Comprehension Worksheets From Handipoints
Reading Comprehension from abcteach
Big Ideas in Beginning Reading
www.starfall.com has a lot of free reading and phonics exercises.
Piper's easy spelling bee (she thought of the name herself!) Piper dug right into this site (spelling city.com)! This is a great home school work & quiz site.
Reading Writing and Thinking resources for K-12
Here is a free govt. publication site with a parent oriented math handout for K-5th grades.
This is the page from Ed.gov Helping your Child Series
This is a great Elementary mathematics site especially for parent's Manual
NCRI (National Coral Reef Institute) has a nice p.d.f teacher's guide.
McGraw-Hill publishes educational material and has a great link on composers -here-. I found Piper an older publication of a Math in my World textbook that they published which we both have thought to be a good math text.
Another great music site is http://www.makingmusicfun.net/
Smithsonian's History Explorer
This is a geat reference site for early American history.
http://www.atlasofworldhistory.com/index.html
A&E has a nice classroom helper for their informative programing
http://www.renaissanceconnection.org/index2.cfm
Great lesson plans page based on the Library of Congress.
Great Source has a nice site called iwrite, for lesson planning in effective writing skills.
Grammar and Structure Definition Page
SheppardSoftware.com has a nice animal kingdom site among other things.I downloaded their geography software and Piper had an easy time picking it up.
Piper loves doing these
Their Dance Mat Typing is also
My Pyramid. gov kids is a helpful site and even has a game!
Walmart Vision Center and Weekly Reader have created a neat eye sight.
bigiqkids.com has an assortment of ed. games
Handipoints is so great, Piper just loves it. You can customize task charts and they can actually earn points for their virtual world adventures by doing the tasks.
Florida Home Schooling Statute
MATH Tricks, Puzzles, & Games This is a fun book with a variety of math games and riddles.
ELECTRONIC SNAP CIRCUITS JR. It is so much fun for her to make real working projects (light, fan etc.). Here is their web site.
This is such a great site, I even drew cartoons after watching Cartoon Doodle Tricks! He uses the alphabet letters to form each different cartoon. This makes a great activity to do at the elementary age.
Some of Piper's Curriculum; Past & Present: WriteTraits workbook*, Summer Vacation workbook*, Disney Preschool 3 Pack Software*, School Zone Math 1-2 (software)* & First Grade Combo, 501 Science Experiments, Advantage Reading Grade 2, *Piper's Favorites
These are so neat, they have great design ideas.
Kiddie Records Weekly-Classics
From the Golden Age has some great children's audio
stories to record and play!
| One of the Prince of Wales many charities is a community out reach program which supposedly educates and informs the public about the condition and importance of the rainforests, or whatever Camille lets him do (I'm speculating). | |
United States Patent and Trademark Office Here is one of their great sites. Their list of links is great too! The site of the day is The National Gallery of Art: The Art Zone Vertical gardening like this is a great way to introduce gardening & grow without fear of pests from soil & the ground . An easy Life Science project is growing spouts. One Great Site Here AeroGarden Every science class should definitely have one of these. Piper loves Dr. Suess. Hop on Pop was her first early reader. This site also has some nice games. Since Piper was four, she has spent a great deal of time on the computer. Her favorite site then was pbskids. Club Penguin has turned out to be one of her favorite gaming sites now. Although we have hit a road block in it. I don't want to give it away but we got surprise pay out points from the penguin authorites and have yet to be sent on a mission to recapture the villain. Maybe he entered the polar protection program. Mattel.com has great games. Kaboose.com - Funschool link - GlobeRider I thought this P.B. S. Kids site about dinosaurs was great! Another one I like for her is Sid the Science KId. One of her favorites this year is Fetch. Hooda math games http://www.suite101.com/ is an on line article site. essortment has an assortment of info This is such a cute craft project site Another great project site is of course, Crayola's Lesson Plan Page. The best kid's project site ever created! CoolWhip.com essortment's Craft Recipe Page and essortment's Do It Yourself Page Here is a homemade glue and paste recipe and one for play dough from Early Advantage. Resource guide page from The Safe Side and their Family Watchdog Sex Offender Locator. Project Safekids Child Abduction Prevention Page. has a great on line guide page of all their butterflies. They also have a neat 3D butterfly that you can zoom in on and rotate |
Disney Family Fun has some nice pages for Learning Activity Games, Sidewalk Games and Paper Crafts.
