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THEMATIC UNITS

http://www.alfy.com/teachers/teach/thematic_units/index.asp

Internet-Based Classroom Activities, Lesson Plans, and Related Book Resources all

organized by conceptual themes. Check back often, weÕre adding 15 themes a month!

ROCKS UNIT

http://atozteacherstuff.com/lessons/RocksUnit.shtml K-1. A three-lesson unit

presenting introductory concepts about rocks. It includes printable worksheets
to supplement the unit.

FAIRY TALE UNIT IDEAS

http://atozteacherstuff.com/lessons/FolkTales.shtml

K-2. Pick and choose from activities that include reading, writing,

graphing, map skills, measurement, and time.

BERENSTEIN BEARS BIG CHAPTER BOOK ACTIVITIES

http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/guides/noguns.html

This page lists a number of chapter books for this age group, with classroom

activities for each one.

SPELLING ACTIVITIES

http://atozteacherstuff.com/lessons/Spelling.shtml

K-5. A new collection of activities just starting to grow...

please stop by and add your own spelling activities!

THE GRAMMAR GORILLAS

http://www.Funbrain.com/grammar/index.html

Are you working on parts of speech with your class? Nouns? Adjectives? Adverbs?

This online skills game can help reinforce skills learned in your class. Scroll down for

help if they forget what an adverb, etc. is.

USING CYBERGUIDES & KID PIX TO ENLIVEN THIRD GRADE LITERATURE

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html

The Cyberguide is similar to a webquest with different activities in

Language Arts and Social Studies that tie into literature. My 3rd grade

students did the Trumpet of the Swan Cyberguide and used KID PIX to

produce a trumpeter swan slide show as the final activity.

25 IDEAS TO MOTIVATE YOUNG READERS:

http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson035.shtml

Lots of fun things to do including Reader's Bingo and Story Webs. You'll find lots

of ideas here for sparking excitement into your reading program.

CLIFFORD BOOKS

http://www.iup.edu/~njyost/KHI/clifford.html

Scroll down past the listing of Clifford books, to find songs and a multitude of activities

based on the Clifford books.

K - 3 CYBERGUIDES:

http://www.sdcoe.K12.CA.US/score/cyk3.html

Cyberguides offers literary resources and activities on many of the classics studied in

grades K-3 and offers many related activities and links Very valuable resource for
early reading.

PRIMARY GRADE ACTIVITIES FOR EACH MONTH OF THE YEAR

http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/month/index.html#January

Mrs. Payton shares her first grade class web activities for each month.

BERIT BEST SITES FOR CHILDREN

http://www.beritsbest.com/

There are all kinds of fun things for children on this site as well as educational

activities and links to other sites. You can search for topics and enjoy holiday and
seasonal activities.

KIDPIX RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES:

http://www.uvm.edu/~jmorris/kidpix.html

Use this great software with your students to create wonderful projects and activities.

Good ideas for integrating technology into your curriculum.

VIRTUAL ALPHABET

http://www2.minot.k12.nd.us/classrooms/madden/virtual_alphabet.htm

Try this site to review the alphabet with your students. Each letter has an animal

character associated with it, an original song with a familiar melody, and links to

other pages about that animal.

FAIRY TALE UNIT:

http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/923.html

This is an on-going, sixteen day unit in which students will read a variety of popular

fairy tales and then engage in group activities or independent writing.

TEKMOM SEARCH TOOLS FOR STUDENTS

http://www.tekmom.com/search/index.html

A great starting point for young children to

search the net.

ZOOM SCHOOL

http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/school/

Zoom School is an online elementary classroom with classes in allsubject areas including

classroom activities and print outs and some great subject-specific dictionaries. This is

a great site for your students.