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Games
Phonics skill development games and a
few other reading development games
Nursery
Rhymes are an important
foundation for reading. Click and print out and color rhymes and
learn
about why they are so valuable
to new readers! Click here to see the word
families in Nursery rhymes.
This site
also has music for each
rhyme!
Beginning
Sight Words
Alpha Bears - put the bears in Alphabetical Order!
Letter Recognition Learn to recognize matching upper and lower case letters, Vowels and Consonants!Lower & Upper case Game
Beginning
Consonant Sounds
Fearless Freida - combine letter sounds
to create words. Children type simple three letter words to match the sounds.
Matching
Game - with Arthur! Play against Arthur and match multi-cultural symbols!
Dynamo's
Den - lots of fun learning
games.
Reading
along with a story and learning
to follow directions is a great learning activity for beginners.
These stories are from the BBC so it is a good time to talk about
cultural differences. Try these as well. Animal
Stories, Fairy
Stories, World
Stories, Paint
and Color Stories.
Create
a story here.
BBC's Education Homepage Explore this deep and wonderful site for many things to do with kids!
Pounce
is a great game for learning
phonics -- it also helps students learn to recognize words and know
meaning!
A.B.Cow
lets young students find the missing alphbet letters.
Fuzzy
Lions Ears - hearing the sound
and completing the words is this games goal.
Alien Scavenger Hunt- combine vowels
and consonants to make words and earn points.
Chicken
Stacker (vowel sounds) let
students match vowel sounds by stacking up the chickens!
Consonant
Blends - click on the blend and
read a fun rhyme.
Long Vowel Sounds - practice long
vowel sounds with these cute poems!
Use phonemes to build a
Sand
CASTLE
Story
Scramble -- Put the screens in
order to make a story!
Digby
Mole's Word Activities -
Matching, rhymes, beginning and ending sounds
Story
Bear - 3 interactive stories
develop listening skills and following directions.
Fraser
the Eraser helps students
develop listening skills, learn how to describe things and follow
directions!
HMS
Sweet Tooth - lets students put
periods (full stops) at the end of sentences!
The
Patchworker lets students patch
together sentences so that they make sense!
Dragonland
lets students identify the
questions and win the jewelled question mark from the
Dragon!
Look
Out Below ( make small words
from the letters of a big word in this game)
Be
a Descriptive Detective -
Describe carefully and help Arthur find the missing
person.
Squanky the Tooth Taker - find the
opposites.
Magic
Key - Seeing patterns in poems
and rhymes
Intermediate
Monkey Business - help monkey build a
bridge by putting words in order and making sentences.
Gawain's
Word (word blends) you can make
words in a joust!
Look
Out Below ( make small words
from the letters of a big word in this game)
Words
and Pictures These games from
the BBC have many activities will make learning phonics
fun.
Learn Nouns and Verbs with this fun game.
Code
Calling lets kids find words
that have similar meaning to replace in sentences.
In Floppy
and the Puppies you must fill
in the sentences using context clues.
Creamcake
Cake Mystery is a game that
uses rhyming skills.
Word
Play lets you child see and
hear the word as it does exactly as it says!
Advanced -
Intermediate
Alphabet
Soup sounds simple enough but
don't be decieved. It is for older elementary students and the reward
of finding the words in the soup is a fun riddle!
Game Goo- 13 interactive games
covering a range of skills. practice antanyms (opposites) with
Squanky the toothtaker, Poetry Pickle lets you practice
alliteration, rhythn, and rhyme,
Fearless Freida let you practice making words with your
knowledge of letter sounds - good keyboarding practice! Alien
Scavenger Hunt lets you crete words by finding the missing
letters and shooting them from the sky! Monkey Business lets
kids build a bridge so the monkey can cross by constructing
sentences,
On-Line Word Searches on many subjects Click on the one you want and scroll down to find the start!
ReviseWise
Reading - from BBC Education.
Practise and test your skills in the following reading areas;
Reading, Writing, Poetry, English, Spelling, Grammar, Math Science --
there is even a game zone here!
Wacky
Stories is great to learn how
nouns, verbs, and adjectives work
On-line Books and
Stories
Surfing for Good Stories - Not all the links work -- but this site has many, many great story sites. You can't use it at school -- it is blocked but you can put story sites you like in your favorites at home.
Bembo's Zoo - A delightful on-line
animal picture book. Click on a letter of the alphabet and watch an
animal form on your screen made from the the letters in the name of
the animal! You have to see it to believe it! (requires
Shockwave)
Kids
Corner Enjoy this assortment of
Beatrix Potter stories, recreated as online texts, complete with her
lovely illustrations. (Primary)
Aesop's
Fables created by John R. Long,
contains an alphabetically arranged collection of over 654 online
fables for grades 4-12. Each tale includes the moral of the story and
many are presented on RealAudio. The site also offers online the 127
fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. (Junior,
Intermediate)
FunSchool
is full of great games by grade level!
Science
Fun
MadScience
Fun
Science
Bob's adventures!
Sid the Science Kid
Math
Fun
Math
Forum
A+
Math
Animated
Math Glossary
Math
Fun
Johnnie's Math
Funbrain.com
Masters of Mathematics Practice On-Line
Online
Flash Cards
Houghton
Mifflin Math
Math
Cats
AAA
Math
Play
to Learn
Telling Time and
Counting Money
Math
Playground
National
Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Count
us In
15 math related
games from addition to volume.
Create
a Graph
Educational
Java Games
money, time, pattern
blocks, fraction bars, integer bars, and more...
Measurement Games
-
learn
mass, length or capacity!
Virtual
Ruler
Learn
equivalent measures
- quarts, tons, pounds, yards etc.
Money Counting
Games
GameAcquarium
Number
Sense
Counting
Fun!
Find
the Doggie Bones
Bobber's
Farm - odds and
evens, composite and prime numbers
Count
by twos -
coloring fun
Try the
MONSTER
SQEEZE GAME to
learn about greater than and less than
Cats
in a Line -
teaches ordinal numbers with cute kitties!
Use reasoning to
GUESS THE NUMBER
Find the Patterns (Beginner)
Telling
Time
Learning to use the
Clock
Clockworks
is
fun
Play
missing hands
What
time is it?
Kindergarten
Addition
GameAcquarium
addition
fun
Division
Division
GameAqcuarium
Division Games
Fraction
Fun
GameAcquarium
- Fraction
Games
Multiplication
Multiplication
games
GameAcquarium
multiplication games
Factor
Bingo
Place
Value Games
GameAcquarium
place value games
Subtraction
Subtraction
Challenge
Practice
EVERYTHING -
rounding, estimation, word problems -- difficult stuff!!
Math
Jeopardy
Ask
Dr. Math
anything (relating to math)
Help kids manage money
and learn math with this fun game, Escape
from Knab! 4th
grade and up.
Flood
is a great game to help
children think about organizing information by subject.
Math fun - a weekly brain
teaser!
Geography
Fun
Try this
fun
geography game
Help
the Alienz get
to their destinations in this game that helps kids find their way
around the globe!
There are many things to do in our community which are completely free. Here are some that Ms. Cheap recommends!
Tour the Tennessean and see how a paper is made. Call 664-2171
Tour downtown churches including the 1849 Egyptian Revival Downtown Presbyterian Church at 154 5th Ave. N. (254-7584) Christ Cathedral (255-7729) or Sri Ganesha Temple -521 Old Hickory Blvd. Bellevue (665-2727)
Visit Vanderbilt University (walking tours of its historic groundsa and buildings, sculptures and arboretum. 2nd floor of Kirkland Hall at the center of campus on the West End side and pick up a campus map (322-7771)
Tour the Schermerhorn Symphony Center 1:00 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday (687-6500)
Walking Tours for downtown -- Sommet Center (259-4747)
Self-guided walking tour of the state Capitol (741-1621)
Nissan auto plant in Smyrna - 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Tuesdays adn Thursdays. Call for reservatgions (459-1444)
Teaching Tolerance helps us talk
with our children about global violence and issues of hatred here at
home. Teaching
Tolerance,
helps us understand many points
of view. On a world-wide scale
tolerance is difficult to come by. The two sites below focus on the
Palestineian and Arab disputes and what some creative people in those
two countries are doing to bring about understanding and
peace.
An American
summer camp brings Israeli and
Palestinian youth to the States and offers some hope, as does a joint
settlement of Israelis and Arabs at Neve
Shalom/Wahat al-Salam.
Great book lists for reading
International Reading Association Lists.
Children's Book Council
One of my favorite stops for Great BOOKS
