Academic Links

Key website links used at Frenchtown School

Kindergarten

Monarch Butterflies http://www.monarchwatch.org/

Early Childhood Literacy Go to Play and Learn http://www.literacycenter.net

Cool Science for Curious Kids Cool butterfly project http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience

Children's Storybooks Online. A different way to read interactively to your child.
http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html

Dr. Seuss' Seussville - activities and interactive games for all those lovers of Dr. Seuss. http://www.seussville.com Crayola Creativity Central http://www.crayola.com/kids

Excellent site - so much from science to letters http://www.bobsedulinks.com/

1st Grade

First grade learning games. http://www.mtnbrook.k12.al.us/tech/k6/1.htm

Book Adventures http://www.bookadventure.org/

Computer Based Math Practice http://www.rcs.k12.va.us/gles/games/arithmattack.htm

Excellent Game Site - Includes Math, Science, Language, and more!!! http://www.primarygames.com/games.htm Interactive manipulative http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/topic_t_1.html

Clifford the Big Red Dog http://www.scholastic.com/clifford/flash.htm

2nd Grade

This site has a fun 100 chart where you can "splat" in different colors!
http://www.primarygames.co.uk/pg2/splat/splatsq100.html

Go for the Grammar Gold website http://harcourtschool.com/menus/preview/harcourt_language/goforgold.html

White House for Kids http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/whlife/index.html

3rd Grade

Interactive Links http://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/sbeck/interactive_curriculum_sites.htm#Language%20Arts

More Interactive Links http://www.thecoo.edu/~apeter/computer_lab.htm#third

Graphic Organizers http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/index.html

Sum Sense - practice your basic math facts http://www.primarygames.co.uk/pg2/sumsense/sumadd.html

Math eLab http://www.harcourtschool.com/elab/grade_3.html

Elapsed Time activity http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/elab2002/grade_3/018.html

Pronoun Clubhouse Game http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/pronoun_clubhouse/index.html

Grammar Practice Park activities http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/language_arts/grammar_park_g3.html
Wacky Web Tales - like Mad Libs http://www.eduplace.com/tales/

This is where you can find lots of different stories to help you practice the cloze strategy of reading comprehension.http://www.enchantedlearning.com/cloze/

Great Mystery Multiplication Game. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/mult/mult.html

A Fun Food Chain Game : Fish Food http://www.nwf.org/kidzone/kzPage.cfm?siteId=3&departmentId=77
Telling Time Game http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/draggames/sthec3.html

Great Math Site http://www.mathsurf.com/parent/index.html

More plural help! Can you become an expert at "more than one" nouns?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/spelling/plurals/pluralrules/index.shtml

Sentence Clubhouse - Practice making 4 different types of sentences.
http://www.hbschool.com/activity/clubhouse/index.html

Ride the Predicate Coaster - Tell the difference between simple Predicates & complete predicates.http://www.hbschool.com/activity/predicate_coaster/index.html

Plural Nouns Tic-Tac-Toe Game (for 2) http://www.hbschool.com/activity/plural/index_pre.html T

ravel through the reef with pronoun help http://www.hbschool.com/activity/sea_park/index.html

Using this activity, you can write your own poetry...haikus, limericks, cinquains, and free verse. http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/poetry_engine.htm

Base 10 blocks http://arcytech.org/java/b10blocks/b10blocks.html

Practice "measurement" with this fun activity http://www.funbrain.com/measure/index.html

Go on the Human Body Tour! http://place.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/tour/tour.htm?body

4th grade

A great Language Arts site to help your child build a sentence. http://fen.com/studentactivities/WallOfWords/wow19.html

A great math graphing activity. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewise/maths/data/

Using a ruler. (Children need a lot of practice on this!) http://www.visualfractions.com/FindGrampstrict.html
Sum Sense - practice your basic math facts. http://www.primarygames.co.uk/pg2/sumsense/sumadd.html

Science topics galore disguised in "yucky" packages http://www.yucky.com

Excellent children's literature site http://www.carolhurst.com

5th Grade

Great Electricity and Magnetism Overview http://ippex.pppl.gov/interactive/electricity/

A few great interactive demos on electricity and magnetism plus many more demos from other areas of science.http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/electromag/java/

Electricity and Magnetism Exhibits http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/topics/topics.html

An electricity tutorial. Please click to site and use the menu on the left to go through the tutorial progressively.
http://www.uce.ac.uk/education/research/cript/electricity%20book/frame%20start.htm

Virtual Microscope - just like using one in a lab. http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/virtual/virtual.html
KidsHealth website - to answer many health related questions by children and for children. http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/

Books Read by Famous Movie/TV Stars! http://www.bookpals.net/storyline/

Interactive Tangrams http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/frames_asid_289_g_2_t_3.html?open=activities

Creative Tangrams http://website.lineone.net/~joethedragon/games/tangrams.html

Visual Fractions - Many Activities http://www.visualfractions.com/index.htm

Equivalent Fractions Fireworks http://www.hbschool.com/activity/mmath/mmath_frac.html

Baseball Science!! What kind of reaction time do you have? http://www.exploratorium.edu/baseball/reactiontime.html

Science Tools http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/tool_index.cfm

Viewing Ocean Currents http://oceancurrents.rsmas.miami.edu/atlantic/florida_3.html

Excellent way to get a handle on grammar. http://a4esl.org/

Editing and revising! http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/proof.htm

Media Center

A site for virtual field trips. http://www.field-trips.org/trips.htm

The NASA Space Shuttle Earth Observations Photography database of over 400,000 images is a national treasure.http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/efs/

These web pages will help you find out the basic facts of any state in the Union, including Washington, D.C. http://www.ipl.org/youth/stateknow/skhome.html

A web search for kids by librarians. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/kidsclick!/