CVSD Elementary

Six step process in the instruction of vocabulary (building academic vocabulary).

This site is broken down by grade level (right side) and there are a number of games lists (left side).

GrowingWithGoogle - wonderful site for those who need support with google . Lots of tutorial videos about a variety of Google tools.

Check out this terrific wikispace on google. Lots of tutorials on various google tools.

"Over 5 million people are learning a language with our award-winning, interactive courses. Practice with native speakers from around the world!"

"ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that is designed to let anyone easily create their own customized 3D pop-up books."

This is cool. Users can create 3D books via what is called augmented reality.

Math is Fun has a variety of math topic areas for students K-6.

Looks like an interesting site. Please share with anyone you feel may be interested. This is also another site to share with parents via your teacher web page.

Free worksheets on a variety of topic for language arts (reading and writing, grammar, spelling phonics, handwriting) as well as math, science and social studies. There are also brain teasers and teacher helper tools such as award certificates, teaching tips, etc. In addition, there are holiday worksheets. This site would be great for differentiated activities. In a quick preview I saw they had worksheets that were of the same topic areas but they has easy and harder options available. This would be another good site to share with parents.

Cool site for K-6 teachers. Lots of free resources.

Game Classroom is the next generation of homework help! This site has a variety of math and language arts games for students K-6. This would be a great resource to add to any teacher web page as well as one to share with parents who are seeking ways to support their child at home.

Shared by one of my grad students. Lots of topics covered for math and Language Arts.

The Elements of a Story site guides students as they create learn about the elements of a story and eventually create their own story.

Cool site for teaching students about the elements of a story. Referred to me by one of my grad students.

This is a really great site. Users can create book lists of books you have read, want to read or are currently reading. You can connect with friends and family and see what everyone is reading and share your book reviews. It is free.

What a great tool for groups of people to network about what they are reading. One of my grad students shared this with me. She uses it for her gifted students. She is able to see what they have or are reading. She can also see what their goal is and what books are yet to be read from their goal. Free site. Users add their own book reviews.

Fun interactive site to teach students about advertisement and the many forms of advertisement that they will see throughout their community.

Tony Angelini shared this site. I checked it out too and it is a fun interactive way to teach students about advertisement.

Thinking about numbers using frames of 5 can be a helpful way to learn basic number facts. The four games that can be played with this applet help to develop counting and addition skills. Instructions Choose one of the four games that can be played with this applet: How Many: Identify how many items or empty squares there are. Build: Drag a certain number of items to the frame. Fill: Determine how many items are needed to fill the remaining squares. Add: Drag items to complete addition problems. Choosing Play All from the Games menu will randomize which of the four games is played.

Another free resource from Thinkfinity. Math interactive.

Elements of a Story. Uses the story Cinterella to teach students about the elements of a story.

Great site to teach elements of a story.

The Googal in Google... Google Can Do that? Part One

For anyone into google.

This literacy site provides activities for adjectives, naming nouns, eponyms, jigsaws

Looks like a good interactive site for children.

folds into 3 D shapes

3D math manipulatives

This site provides a variety of math applets.

Here are some interactive for math.

With Google Earth, you can create awesome tours, taking viewers on a virtual trip from place to place. You can enhance your tours with narration, images, videos, text, and other types of information. The tours you create can even be embedded into a website.

How to get started using google earth.

Smithsonian's interactive exhibit on the history of Transportation in America.

Looks like an interesting site for those interested in history.

Interactive tool to aid inpoetry writing.

Interactive tool to aide in poetry writing.

Site that allows the user to enter any word and a variety of links will be brought up that relate to that word.

Neat search engine. You put in any word and it goes out to the web and grabs multiple links that connect to that work in some way.