Miss Mosher’s Sites to Support Learning

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Click on your grade level to work on skills you are learning in your tier groups.

Kindergarten Fine Motor and Basic Skills

Kindergarten Reading Skills

Kindergarten Math Skills

First Grade Reading Skills

First Grade Math Skills 

Second Grade Reading Skills

Second Grade Math Skills

Third Grade Reading Skills

Third Grade Math Skills

Science Enrichment

Enrichment of the Arts

Foreign Language Practice

History Fun

 

       My Favorite Sites Of The Year!

Have Fun Teaching

havefunteaching.com

The music and dvds on this site provide great teaching songs and turn alphabetic principal into a fun rap. A great site for math development and skip counting as well.

Thinkfinity
http://www.thinkfinity.org/home

Bring more hands-on math, science, social studies, and reading to kids with this collection of experiments, online activities, videos and podcasts. Dive into the many multifaceted, multi-week projects on topics that kids love to explore. This site has tons of interactive games and online activities, kids learn while they play.

American Memory
memory.loc.gov

American Memory, maintained by the Library of Congress, is an online gateway to unique primary source materials that relate to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers seven million digital items including manuscripts, sheet music, photographs, films and sound recordings that are organized in more than 100 collections, such as Civil War Photographs, History of the American West, and Voices from the Dustbowl. The searchable content areas include economics, geography, social sciences and technology. The site also provides activities and lesson plans for using the collections in classrooms.

Blue Web’N
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/

Blue Web'n is an online library of outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). Blue Web'n does not attempt to catalog all educational sites. Sites are hand-picked and are, in our opinion, among the most useful for classroom or instructional use.  To receive email updates, send an email message to bluewebn-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.  You will then receive weekly emails of the top site picks for teachers!  Check out the link for Filamentality – this is a terrific way for you to create and post online activities for your students as well as look for resources already selected by other educators.  (School Center can also be used in this manner.)

BrainPOP
www.brainpop.com

BrainPOP is a producer of original animated K-12 educational movies that explain concepts in English, math, science, health and technology.  There are a number of free movies available for teachers.  For access to the more than 300 colorful narrated films on topics such as asthma, atoms, digestion, static electricity, photography and robots – teachers may opt to may for subscriptions to the site. It is all correlated to national standards from NCTM, NCTE and NSTA. The site also provides related educational content including games, quizzes, puzzles and activities, with opportunities for students to get questions answered and exchange e-mail with BrainPOP characters.

Crayola Creativity Central
www.crayola.com

This content-rich, free multimedia site presents art resources that are applicable to every curriculum area from pre-K through high school. Crayola offers craft and projects ideas for each grade level, instruction on art techniques for using different types of media, lesson plans and classroom teaching tips. It includes related content with games, quizzes and an online calendar featuring daily art ideas. The site has several search engines for finding topics easily, and hosts an online gallery that is one of the largest collections of student art on the Web.

Education World
www.educationworld.com

Education World was developed in 1996 as a free resource guide to make it easy for K-12 educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom. It has now become one of the most comprehensive sources of curriculum materials on the Web, offering a safe search of more than 500,000 resources, with original content that is not available elsewhere. This material includes lesson plans, teaching units, curriculum guides in every subject area, special features tied to the calendar, school reports, site reviews, professional articles and related resources.

I Know That
http://www.iknowthat.com/com

This is a fun interdisciplinary site that is easy to search and enjoyable for both teachers and students!  Find interactive tools – searchable by content area and/or grade level.  A wealth of information – useful for all elementary teachers!

Marco Polo
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/

Marco Polo maintains a collection of standards-based, discipline-specific educational Web sites for K-12 teachers.  Each of the collections is sponsored by the major content organization supporting the national standards for that particular area.  For example – visit Illuminations and you will find a wealth of awesome interactive Math resources for children sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.  Click on Expeditions and your students will be treated to an interactive exploration of geography via the link to the Expedition Hall.  This site is sponsored by National Geographic. In a nutshell, MarcoPolo features seven content Web sites with lesson plans, student interactive content, downloadable worksheets, links to panel-reviewed Web sites and additional resources created by the nation's leading education organizations

The New York Times Learning Network
www.nytimes.com/learning

This is a news-centered multimedia education site for grades 3-12, with up-to-date features that change daily. These includes stories and photographs from the world-famous newspaper with related activities, guided Web tours on topics such as The Presidential Cabinet or Westward Expansion, news summaries and quizzes, and a variety of free question services. The network also maintains an excellent collection of curriculum materials in every content area.

Grade Level Gold
www.gradelevelgold.com

This site is a goldmine of free, teacher-selected online curriculum sites and materials targeted for each K-12 grade level and subject area. It includes resources for teachers and parents. Identified teacher advocates update the content in each area regularly, and send out weekly grade-specific e-mail identifying curriculum-rich online resources.

The WebQuest Page
webquest.org

The WebQuest model, developed by Bernie Dodge with Tom March at San Diego State University, is an inquiry-centered learning investigation where most or all information is drawn from the Web. This Dodge-hosted site is a forum for exchanging WebQuest ideas and resources, with examples at every grade level and content area.  Follow the links for “Top, Middle, and/or New” on the left navigation window of the site.  You’ll then be able to search through the Webquests based on grade level.

LANGUAGE ARTS AND LITERATURE

Read between the Lions- PBS kids
http://pbskids.org/lions/games/

Poetry for Kids
http://www.gigglepoetry.com/

Mad Libs

http://www.penguinputnam.com/static/packages/us/yreaders/madlibs/fun.html

Wacky Web Tales
http://www.eduplace.com/tales/

Geared at grades 3 and above – provides a great number of different interactivities along the lines of mad libs.  This is a great extension site for reinforcing parts of speech.  Students will enjoy creating their own Wacky Web Tales and sharing with peers.

Kidsreads.com and Teenreads.com
www.kidsreads.com, www.teenreads.com

These related sites are outstanding places for students to find information about their favorite books, series, authors and characters. Each site offers reviews of the newest titles, in-depth author profiles, interviews, announcements of book awards, games, puzzles, contests and opportunities for readers to write book reports and post ideas.

Reading Primary


Starfall
http://www.starfall.com

Julia’s Rainbow Corner
http://www.juliasrainbowcorner.com/html/funandgames.html

PBS Kids  - Reading Rainbow & Read Between the Lions
http://www.pbskids.org

Spatial Concepts & Learning Adventure – Numerous interactive Preschool & Kindergarten Activities
http://www.meddybemps.com/9.600.html
http://www.meddybemps.com/7.33.html

Apple Picking with Wilbur the Worm – comparing and classifying sizes.
http://www.little-g.com/shockwave/apple.html

Kinderweb – identifying shapes, colors, and animals
http://bright-productions.com/kinderweb/index_silent.html

Language Arts Skills

http://www.joelson.addr.com/languagearts.htm

Reading Intermediate

America Reads – Just for Kids

http://www.ed.gov/inits/americareads/kids.html

Submit online book reviews

Houghton Mifflin EducationPlace (Grades 2 and up)

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmsv/

  • Wacky Web Tales
  • Power Proof Readers
  • Brain Teasers

Book Adventure

http://www.bookadventure.com/ 

Story Place

http://www.storyplace.org/ (In English & Spanish)

 Read Write Think http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp

MATHEMATICS

AAA Math
www.aaamath.com

Select either a Math topic or a grade level to explore interactive, age-appropriate resources.  This would be a good site to reinforce math concepts with students.

A+Math
http://aplusmath.com/

Flashcards, educational math games, etc. – More interactive sites to reinforce concepts.

ENC Online
www.enc.org

The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse maintains one of the best selections of K-12 math, science and technology education resources on the Internet, offering curriculum materials and services for educators, parents and students. These include thousands of online teaching materials and lesson plans categorized by topic, a "Digital Dozen" of featured monthly sites and related curriculum news that is updated daily.

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/vlibrary.html

Click on the grade level/subject area on the matrix to find age-appropriate interactive math activities for students.  The tools on this site are extremely engaging and valuable to students to help learn and/or reinforce concepts.

Illuminations from NCTM
http://illuminations.nctm.org/

Similar to the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives – this site provides additional interactive math activities for students.  These would serve as terrific extensions to help support the math curriculum.  Follow the links for tools and resources to find very rich activities for your particular age group.

Natural Math
http://www.naturalmath.com/mult/index.html

More interactive Math activities.

The Math Forum @ Drexel
http://mathforum.org

The Math Forum, now housed at Drexel University, is truly the "last word" for in-depth online resources for any topic in mathematics from K-12 through college and advanced math. The site offers teaching and learning materials for arithmetic, algebra, geometry, probability/statistics and calculus, with weekly and monthly challenges, online discussions, a question-answering service and presentations on key education issues. (This is more teacher-focused than some of the other sites.)

SCIENCE

K-12 Science Curriculum/Projects
http://www.k12science.org/currichome.html

There are numerous engaging science resources on this site including collaborative projects, real-time data collection projects and more!  Sponsored by the Center for Engineering and Innovation in Science Education.

eNature.com
www.enature.com

This site would be good for intermediate students researching various animals.  This comprehensive nature resource sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation, offers free illustrated field guides to more than 4,800 plants and animals, including amphibians, reptiles, insects, mammals, trees and wildflowers. The site also provides opportunities to learn about various habitats, keep online field notes, ask questions of experts, participate in discussions, hear bird songs and receive related newsletters.

Science NetLinks
www.sciencenetlinks.com

This site offers a wealth of free resources to support K-12 science, including standards-based lesson plans, recommended resources grouped by grade levels, and curriculum "benchmarks." The site also uses multimedia technologies, such as radio updates on science topics.

SwitcherZoo
www.switcherzoo.com

Follow the link for “Play Switch Zoo Online” to enter the interactive site for students.  Students can develop their own breeds of animals – they have a blast developing these via the interactive zoo tool.  The products of their creativity make for great writing prompts, story starters, and focal points of poetry.  Visit the educator’s gallery for lesson plan ideas that correspond with this interactive site. 

The Yuckiest Site on the Internet
http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/

Find links for “Your Gross and Cool Body” – great explanation for kids on the digestive system!  Follow the link to “Worm World” and learn how worms help our environment (great extension for earth science)!

SOCIAL STUDIES

CNN Student News
www.cnnstudentnews.com

This information-rich multimedia site relates daily news stories to middle and high school curriculum content to help learners keep pace with world events. It offers a variety of teaching and learning resources, including background articles, online forums, films, sound clips and animations, and a powerful search engine for finding specific topics.

Time 4Kids
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/
The online version of Time for Kids magazine, is the news, homework helper and exploration destination for kids on the Internet. The site keeps you on top of the news and lets you create, learn, get involved, explore, play games and access tools to help you with your homework.

Live Webcams – a great way to bring the “World” into the classroom

Africam
http://africam.com/

Feeling brave?  Travel with your students to the Serenghetti via a live Webcam.  Take a peek at what the animals are doing at one of the multiple live webcams posted in the Djuma Game Reserve in South Africa.  (Keep in mind it may be dark at the game reserve depending on what time of day that you are visiting.)

Bahamas Cam
http://www.perryinstitute.org/

Live from the Perry Marine Institute.

For more live web cams – visit the Discovery Channels Webcam link at

http://dsc.discovery.com/cams/cams.html

HEALTH, NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION

KidsHealth
www.kidshealth.org/kids

Sponsored by the Nemours Foundation, KidsHealth provides accurate, doctor-approved, jargon-free health information about children from birth through adolescence. The site offers a separate area for kids with age-appropriate content and offers thousands of original articles, animations, interactive activities, games and resources developed by health experts.  This would be a terrific resource to provide students with an interesting site to research the human body systems.

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                   The role of technology in our learning environment is to enhance, engage, and support what we do with students. We strive to push ourselves out of the mindset of using technology for technology’s sake!

                                                 

What St. Agnes Students Have Taught Me

A Poem By Miss Mosher 

Have you put on a hat with elephant ears,

Laughed so hard it brought you to tears?

Worn a patch on your eye, a hook on your hand

As you taught the “ar, ar” sound in buckets of sand?

Have you awoken each morning with a tune in your head

That teaches each rule for the last book you read?

“Silent e,” “All the planets,” oh the “money song” too…

There’s those gumdrops, those bridges, Beluga’s still blue.

Have you noticed each crevice of a child’s smiling face

Been surprised by a “boo” or a small arm’s embrace?

Have you played the nurse, the detective, the judge,

Gone to retrieve that child who won’t budge?

Have you stayed up all night and actively thought

Of a method to teach those skills they “don’t got”?

Have you jumped up and down, done a victory dance,

As they read that hard word they see at first glance?

 

If you have, than you know this job’s hard to do.

You’re an actor, a teacher, a friend, oh it’s true.

A musician, a director, an author, a cook,

What you do in one day could fill up a book! 

The planning, the meetings, the paperwork hit

Some days I’m sure you just want to quit

But then you remember what was said, “Can’t be done”

Has turned into victories your students have won.

Like that day when they read their very first book

You remember it well that bright toothless look

The excitement, the joy, the raised self esteem

Their hugs and their giggles, their faces just beam.

And you know it’s all worth it, both good days and bad,

If years from today they’ll remember they had

A teacher who loved them and saw in their eyes

Potential and talent- much to their surprise.

A teacher who took the time in each day

To point out their strengths to smile and to say,

“I’m proud of you. I’m glad I was here

to watch you triumph and blossom this year.”