Manske's Top Picks

Manske's Top Picks
An Internet Hotlist on Sites for Kids

created by Mrs. Manske
Hamilton School District

Introduction
Parents, here is a list of some of the sites we use at school. Students are usually directed to the reinforcing games/activities as a lesson or as reinforcement of a taught concept. Have fun exploring them with your children. We check the links listed here once a month. If you find any that are no longer working, please don't hesitate to notify me at:
manste@hamiltondist.k12.wi.us

The Internet Resources

Brainpop Jr. - Great movies for younger students to use.
Brainpop Videos - Wonderful videos for topics related to science, social studies and a lot of other subjects.
Maple Avenue List - Use this Filimentality to get to great sites that teachers are using at Maple Avenue School.
SMALL GROUP CLASS -
The Weather Channel - Use this link to weather information about the states.

Kindergarten and Grade 1

*KINDERS-ABC Literacy Links - Kindergarteners and First Graders learn how to use the keyboard while learning uppercase and lowercase letters/sounds.
*KINDERS-ABCya - Fun learning games for kindergarten students.
*KINDERS-Julia's Rainbow Corner - Use this site to learn letters, numbers and to have all around fun.
1-ABC Pictures -
1-Fun 4 the Brain - Have some fun practicing your addition facts.
1-Starfall Reading - Learn what sounds the letters make while reading some stories.
Grade 1 ABC - A fun matching game of beginning sounds. What level can you get to?
Grade 1-$ MONEY - Spending Spree-great site but there are some adds that pop up.
Grade 1-$ Money - Beginning site for practicing money skills.
Grade 1-$Coins - Recognizing coins.
Grade 1-$money - Slide the coins into the cup for money practice.
Grade 1-ABCya games - A great collection of learning games for first graders.

Grades 2-3

2- FunBrain Tic Tac Toe - Anoter great math site for Marvelous Math Madness.
2-ABCya - Many fun games for all subject areas for you to play.
2-Add Like Mad - Work on your basic adding facts.-Addition
2-Addition Fishing - A quick paced fishing game to practice your facts.
2-Dinosaur Dictionary(Enchanted Learning) - This is a great site to find information out about your dinosaur.
2-Into the Books - Interactive activities to be used with the 2nd grade.
2-Kids Number - The most challenging of all games in the Math Madness set of games.
2-Mad Minute Addition - A great drill game to practice your facts. How many can you get correct in one minute?
2-Sheppard Software Games - Many games for you to explore in. Come practice your math skills.
3-ABC---Star Typing Practice Games - All types of great typing games to help improve your skills.
3-ABCya Puzzle with High Frequency Words - Make a word search with high frequency words. You may do this after your Paws lessons are finished.
3-Alpha Munchers - A keyboarding game to play when you are all caught up in Paws.
3-State Games - have fun challenging yourself with games about the 50 states.
3-WEATHER EdHeads - Report and Predict the weather using this fun weather game.
3-WEATHER Games - Weather fun for all.
3-WEATHER Wild Adventure - A one or two player game traveling accross the world while learning about weather.
WEATHER Noaa - Use this site for information about famous weather situations.

Grade 4

4-ABCya - Games for 4th graders to practice all types of skills.
4-Wordle Word Clouds - Use this to create a wonderful collage of words that highlight you.
Fact Fragment Frenzy - A lesson on notetaking.
Typing with Parachutes - Try your hand at typing the falling letters on the keyboard. Remember no peeking-and put your keyboard skins over the letters.

Grade 5

5-ABCya - Games for 5th graders to practice all types of skills.
5-Idea@s - Use for Photostory
5-Pics 4 Learning - Use for Photostory
5-Picsearch - Use for Photostory
Ask4Kids - Find great pictures on the web.
Fun 4 the Brain Math - Practice all types of math facts here in a many different types of games.
Kids Com Internet Safety - A great site to learn how to stay safe online.
Krazy Typing For Kids - Use this for helping with your typing skills.
Lead Sentences - Use these exmples to come up with a great lead sentence for your newsletter on the ancient Mayans.
Minnesota Coconut Growers -
QUICK Validity-5 - Use to see if a website is a valid source for information.
Search Engine: KidsClick - A search engine geared to elementary students.
Sheppard Software - Work on multiple math skills at this site.
Tech4Learning - Need to find a photo-check out this site.

Learning Games and Activities

****NEW Typing Games**** - Have some fun practicing the skill of keyboarding.
Cool Math - A very 'cool' math site for students.
Flehmer's Favorites - A list of wonderful websites that the Writing Technology teacher, Mrs. Flehmer is using with her students at Lannon School.
Free Online Typing Games - A great way to build your speed and accuracy in typing.
Free Typing Games - Click here to practice your typing skills all while feeding the frogs, saving the planet from asteroids and sailing on a nice lake:)
Fun 4 the Brain - Awesome games for math skill practice.
Ladd' s Links - Come to this site to see what links/websites Mrs. Ladd is using with her students.
Math Advantage - Use these to get added practice on math concepts at your grade level.
Math Dictionary - A great resource for learning terms in math.
Math Playground - A great site for checking on understanding of math concepts as well as a place to practice your basic facts.
Mrs. Smith- Corner of the Web - Come see the sites that Mrs. Smith, a Writing Resource Teacher from Woodside School uses with children just like you.
Rules and Tools for Keyboarding! - Let's see how much you remember from last year about keyboarding. Use this for the first day of class scavenger hunt with your neighbor.
Time for Kids News -
Wacky Tales - Job 2) Using this website, fill in the appropriate words to create some fun Madlibs. When you have created at least 3 funny stories complete Job 3. Job 3) On the answer sheet include your name, grade and tell us if you enjoyed doing this independent web activity this year. Should we do it next year? Is there anything that we could do to make this activity better?
Wacky Web Tales - Learn parts of speech the fun way. Create stories by filling in (Mad-lib style)the blanks.

Indoor Fun

Crayola Creativity Central - Games, craft ideas and information found here!
Family Education - Games for the whole family related to subjects in school.
Fun Brain - Many links to activities listed by grade levels.
King Online Games - Play some fun games over the summer. You will especially enjoy the challenge of Civiballs which focuses on physics.
Lego Fun Zone - Have some fun with legos.
PBS for Kids - Many links to various activities featuring popular characters including Clifford, Arthur, Barney and more.
Poptropica - Come explore the many lands of Poptropica.
WINTER Fun - Puzzles and games about the season of winter.
WINTER-Kaboose Games - Indoor fun with games about winter.
Xmas-Make a Snowflake - A very fun website that lets you make a snowflake and add it to the gallery.
Xmas-Santa Puzzle - Can you work the Santa Puzzle?
Xmas-Snowman Puzzle - Build a snowman.
Xmas-Trim a Jan Brett Christmas Tree - Have fun decorating a beautiful tree complete with twinkling lights.

Content by Mrs. Manske, manste@hamiltondist.k12.wi.us
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Last revised Mon Jan 30 9:39:09 US/Pacific 2012