• EverydayMath Online
  Student Login
• Ask for Kids
• Brain Pop
• Eduplace
• Enchanted Learning
• Fact Monster
• Frida Kahlo Paintings
• Kids's Click
• Macmillan Learning help
• National Geographic Kids
• Singing Science
• Stapleless Book
• Starfall
• Story Bee
• Story Map
• TIME for Kids
• Venn Diagram Interactive
• Whyville
• Yahoo for Kids

Useful Websites

• Interactive Poetry from ETTC. Create poetry by filling in the blanks.
• Moving Stories Watch Animated stories such as Anansi and the Pot of Beans and A Tale of Two Frogs Available free from August House. Titles change.
• Kids Space from the Internet Public Library Free. Features Reference, Science Fair help, Author Pages, Story Hour, U.S. Presidents, Arts & Crafts, Games, and much more.
• American Memory Primary source materials from the Library of Congress in many forms: documents, photographs, films, maps, audio files, and more.
• LIFE magazine historical photo image archive hosted by Google
  http://images.google.com/hosted/life
• Today in History from the Library of Congress.
• On This Day Highlights in history from the New York Times learning network.

[top]

Pick your Summer Reading

May/June/July/August

Building Bridges: 5th Grade

Researching: 5th Grade

Researching the Frontier: 4th Grade

Ability Awareness Books

Discover Stories at Story Bee

• Seussville

[top]

Building Bridges

• Build Big (Force Lab) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/bridge/index.html
• Oakland Bay Bridge http://baybridgeinfo.org
• Bridge Design http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bridge/build.html
• Earthquake Simulator http://eduweb.com/portfolio/bridgetoclassroom/engineeringfull.html

Ability Awareness

• Thinking Big: the Story of a Young Dwarf by Susan Kuklin (362.1/KUK)
• Be Good to Eddie Lee by Virginia Fleming (E/FLE): the story of a boy with Down's Syndrome
• Seal Surfer by Michael Foreman (E/FOR): a boy on crutches
• How Smudge Came Story by Nan Gregory (E/GRE)
• Through Granpa's Eyes by Patricia macLachlan (E/MAC): story of a boy who learns about the world from his blind grandfather
• Stargone John by Ellen Kindt McKenzie (FIC/McKENZIE): story of a sister and her brother who thinks differently
• The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd (FIC/DOWD): a boy who thinks differently solves a mystery
• Freak the Mighty by Rod Philbrick (FIC/PHILBRICK): the friendship between two boys, one a small genius and the other a bumbling giant, leads to new understanding, adventure, and some sadness

Research using Grolier for 5th grade: Click here to download the research document.

Researching the Frontier in 4th: Click here to download the research document.

[top]

Past months: Dec 07, Jan 08; Feb 08, Mar 08, Apr 08, May-June 08
2008-2009: Sept 08, Oct 08, Dec 08, Feb 09, Mar 09