There is a wealth of information on the Internet.  These web sites have activities that you and your child can do together.  Some sites focus on articulation, some on phonemic awareness, some on grammar and others target vocabulary.  Look through the list and visit sites that your child will enjoy doing while they are having fun

GENERAL SITES (all checked on 12/14/10)

 

www.starfall.com EXCELLENT!! The teachers at McPherson use this site with their students in the computer lab.  Help your child become familiar with this wonderful site. The stories can be read out loud to practice articulation.

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/ The activities on this site include sound blending, alphabet recognition, categorization and more.  Activities range from pre-k (ABC-Cow) to 5-6^th grade( Alphabet Soup)

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionary.html  this is a good site for a simple picture dictionary (beginning readers)  Explore the entire site and you’ll find rhymes and other language related activities

  http://www.quia.com/pages/havemorefun.html  You’ll find fun interactive speech games & activities at this site.

http://www.dositey.com/  Free interactive lessons, exercises and worksheets, educational

games, open-ended questions in Math and Language Arts, and more

http://www.learningplanet.com This site is full of great interactive activities and is broken down into 3 grade levels. It has a fun visual matching activity at each level that gets harder as the student gets more answers correct.  There are also math activities on this site.

http://www.learningplanet.com/stu/kids0.asp This is another page on the same great site above.

 http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/gooeylo.html  The menu that you reach provides many interactive activities at different difficulty levels. Check Alien Scavenger Hunt for a spelling/phoneme awareness activity. All of the games here are fun and children love to play them without realizing that they are learning.

http://www.meddybemps.com/6.7.html  This site has activities for listening, language, math, reading and writing.  There are games appropriate for pre-k through middle school.

 http://www.seussville.com/seussville  The Fox in Socks game is a good language sequencing activity.  It works on word order and use of prepositions.

http://www.janbrett.com    The activity pages are all related to Jan Brett’s books.  The Dolch sight word lists are wonderful.  There are flash cards to print out for numeric concepts, alphabet recognition, concentration games and coloring pages.

 http://familyeducation.com/printables/index/0,2081,1,00.html?wtlAC=FE_printable3v2fe,ha-fe   This link takes you to a page of things you can print out to do with your child as well as general information on learning.  The site covers areas of math, reading, geography, music, art and science. http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/home_tumblebooks.asp this web site has wonderful stories to listen to with your child or for them to listen to while the words are displayed on the screen. 

SYNTAX  (Grammar)

http://www.eduplace.com/tales/index.html   This site has “Wacky Tales” to create using parts of speech.  They are set up like “Mad Libs” and it is an interactive site do the students can see their finished story.  This is a fun way to work on PARTS OF SPEECH & GRAMMAR.

http://www.english-online.org.uk/games/gamezone2.htm   English Grammar games to play on-line it features vocabulary building and grammar.  There is a game called “The Grammar of Doom” that older students will enjoy.

VOCABULARY SITES

http://www.funbrain.com  Make your own Word Search Games  to print out or play online. http://www.funbrain.com/words.html Look at the index and you will find activities for vocabulary building that are fun games.

http://www.quia.com/pages/havefun.html  This great page covers synonyms, antonyms and categorization.  This site features Jeopardy style games that can be played with either one or two players.  Spelling counts so you may have to sit with your child to do these activities.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8136/tonguetwisters.html  This collection of tongue twisters will keep everyone trying to speak a clearly as they can!

http://www.speechtx.com/articulation.htm  This site has pictures that you can print out and make your own articulation cards.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/flash/concentration/index.htm This page is a phonemic awareness activity that assists in sound discrimination

IDIOMS AND NON-LITERAL LANGUAGE

http://www.funbrain.com/idioms/index.html  Idioms add color to language. Help FunBrain.com's grand master, Salvabear Dali, finish his paintings by identifying the correct expression.  This is a great activity for children who need assistance with inferences and non-literal language.

http://a4esl.org/q/h/idioms.html  This site also has "quizzes" on idioms and although it is an ESL site it is great for students who have difficulty understanding indirect speech/language concepts.  http://www.elfs.com/2nN-1Xpix.html  This page is an interactive activity for idioms.  Great for students who are not native English speakers and for students who need to work on inferences.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/6720/ more idioms these are higher level then the site above.

SOCIAL SKILLS

MATH FUN FACTS

WWW.IXL.COM  - Family Math Information - recommendation for a website, a math tip, and a fun math fact appropriate for all grade levels.

 

 

Math to the Max - February, 2012

Happy New year!

Website: www.funbrain.com
This is a well-named website – it’s lots of fun!  You identify your gender and grade level (no need to give your name or any other personal info J) to play arcade math, math baseball, connect the dots, tic tac toe and more!  There are even opportunities to sign on with a friend or family member and play each other!

Fun Fact: Forty is the only number with all of its letters in alphabetical order.

Tip to Try: Challenging your child to figure elapsed time lends to critical thinking and helps with problem solving. Make a point to periodically ask him/her how much time has passed since a certain activity. For example, "How long has it been since dinner?" Or, "How much time do you have between school and soccer practice?"