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Interactive Games

On the free site funforthebrain.com, kids get to solve math problems (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division). If they get the answers right, they will earn rewards.

Rewards are a great way to keep kids motivated, so this site is worth a look!

Games include Pizza Piazzaz, Math Models, Math Monsters, Snowball Fight, Patty’s Paints, Color Creations and more.

The website also hosts games for learning English grammars and reading, parts of speach, suffixes or science.

http://www.fun4thebrain.com/index.html

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23.Jul.09 Uncategorized Comments (0)

Literactive - Learning to Read Activities

Literactive.com is a wonderful literacy resource for children and teachers. The site contains a multitude of interactive story books and materials that can be used at home or in the classroom.

This site is geared toward pre-school through Kindergarten but would be helpful to beginning readers of any age.

The Kindergarten Guided Reading section contains leveled readers, nursery rhymes, and poetry books. Worksheets for learning ABCs and pre-writing are available for download in PDF format, and the Activities section includes numerous interactive games including memory and sequence games.

If you’d rather your child or student complete activities in a sequence, check out Literactive’s Road to Reading online phonics reading program. The Road to Reading contains even more literacy activities and would be perfect for a computer center.

Free to register and download worksheets

http://www.literactive.com/Home/index.asp

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16.Jul.09 Uncategorized Comments (0)

Learning Music

On the free website sfskids.org, kids can learn about musical notation, tempo, rythm and much more. The can also find out more about instruments of the orchestra: string, woodwinds, brass and percussion.

The music lab lets children experiment with music. For example, in the Harmony Viewer, you can try out the same piece of music with different harmonies, and hear the difference. In the Instrumentation activity, you can try out how the music sounds if you change what instrument plays what part.

This is a great set of free musical lessons for children! The site was created by the San Francisco Symphony.

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My Storymaker

My Story Maker is a tool that helps kids write their own stories. Add characters and objects to the storyboard, and click them to add actions. A basic story will be automatically written, and the students can then change the text with adjectives and other descriptive words.

When the story is finished, you can print it or link to a PDF version of the book.

You will find a variety of characters to add to your story, including a scientist, a mermaid, a ghost, a dragon, a dinosaur, a robot and many, many more. Settings include a desert, a sea, the moon, a forest, a room and more.

My Story Maker was created by Carnegie Library. No registration or download is required  - just click and start writing your story straight away! A fun and interactive way to improve children’s writing skills!

http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/mystorymaker/

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Learning to Read

Starfall is a fun site for kids learning to read. It has interactive games starting from learning the alphabet, learning words, to how to read. Most games have an audio track, sothe kids can listen to the word, and repeat back.

http://www.starfall.com/

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Google Search Skills

This site has a number of videos, demonstrating the best search techniques in Google, and how to use Googles extensive toolsets. Suitable for adults as well as students.

Login: e-learningforkids  Password: boostelearning

http://www.boostelearning.com/index.php

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e-Learning for Kids

E-Learning for Kids is a global, nonprofit foundation dedicated to creating fun and free learning games on the Internet for children ages 5 - 12. The site hosts a large number of educational flash games for children on many subjects.

Includes interactive games on Maths, Language, Science, Computer Skills, Health & Life Skills, English Language.

http://e-learningforkids.org/

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