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Kidblog.org is designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with their own, unique blog. It is safe and simple, yet powerful enough to allow students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community. The teacher maintains complete control over student blogs. Teachers can set up their class with no student email.

I have heard good things about this site. I like the fact that the classroom teacher controls the student blogs.

Decimal Squares provides simple games for students to use to develop their math skills. The games do not require an account to play and they work on any web browser that has current Flash plug-ins installed. The games are best suited to middle school students, but could be used with upper elementary grades or with high school freshmen.

National Geographic Kids has a wide variety of games, puzzles, and activities for students of elementary school age. National Geographic Kids has nine games specifically for developing geography skills.

Cat in the Hat Math Safari

Livebinder created by Shana Ellason with math resources K-12

This web site, suitable for students in grades 4-12, conains a library with full versionsof dozens of classic children's books, including David copperfield, Grampa inOz, and Peter Rabbit, as well as a few rarities such as The Bashful Earthquake by Oliver Herford and The Marquis of Carabas, painted by Edmund Evans.

Fairrosa Cyber Library, maintained by Roxanne Hsu Feldman, features an online reading room with bookshelves of classics, fairy tales and folk tales, and stories and rhymes for students in grades K-8. The site also caontains a Lewis Carroll collection, an annotated list of dragon stories, an index to popular children's authors and illustrators, and related links to children's literature.

This site provides a collection of free online and printable language arts activities and merials for grades K-8.

This folkloresite, suitable for grades K-6, contains retellings of American folktales, Native American myths and legends, tall tales, weather folklore and ghost stories from each and every one of the 50 United States. It also includes lesson plans and teacher resources.

This site for kids approaches poetry with a sense of humor. Read new poems and rate them. The activities are terrific. there are also fill-in-the-blank poems and riddles that have rhyming answers. Be sure to visit the Poetry Theater in the Poetry Fun section.

Donna O'Briant provides a collection of multi-subject, preschool and kindergarten activities for teaching the alphabet. For more language arts and thematic activities created by Donna, go to the bottom of the page and click on Alphabet Soup.

Crayola Art Education Lesson Plans provide K-12 teachers with a wide variety of lesson plans and projects that integrate art with other curriculum areas. Users can search by products (crayons, markers, colorred pencils, etc.) subject area, and age.

Art Safari allows kids to explore paintings and sculptures from the Museum of Modern Art accompanied by a series of questions where they are encouraged to write about what they observe. They can also submit their own artwork.

coloring.com is an interactive coloring book with more than 100 pictures for primary school pupils. Kids can color pictures online from a variety of categories and email their pictures to family and friends.

Craft ideas from Alphabet Soup contains hundreds of craft ideas for grades K-12. Click on Craft Recipes, Art Ideas, and AlphaBites for more craft ideas using every letter of the alphabet.

This is a site that is partnered with Discovery Education. It includes interactive lesson and videos about sicence. Students can meet scientists and play the conservation game.

Easy to read: TTJunior.com offers easy-to-read news stories for 2nd Graders, 3rd Graders and advanced 1st Graders, as well as remediation and ESL for all grades. Easy to write: Students can post blog comments that teachers review before publication. Click below to sign up. It's fast, easy and free!

Templates for teachers provides lots of free teacher resources that can be printed. Many of the templates are modifiable and/or printable. There are 100's grids, graphic organizers, hall passes, flash cards, thank you notes, ABC flash cards, handwriting practice forms, DOLCH flash cards for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade, plus muchmore.

Interesting site. Saw that there were lots of already created free resources listed.

This collection of ready-to-use graphic organizers will help children classify ideas and communicate more effectively. All of our printable graphic organizers are designed to facilitate understanding of key concepts by allowing students to visually identify key points and ideas. By using graphic organizers across all subject areas, you will be empowering your students to master subject-matter faster and more efficiently. We have graphic organizers for reading, science, writing, math, and for general use. You'll also find blank printable templates like graph paper, dot arrays, and other useful tools.

This provided by BBC to improve students touch typing skills through a series of lessons covering four different levels. The difficulty moves up gradually from level one where students are introduced to a lesson on the right placement of their hands on the keyboard to level four where they will learn elaborate keyboarding tips.