Mill Lake Elementary School

Math Websites to Use at Home

Visit the following website for our daily math lessons, homework, and skill practice:

http://www.pearsonsuccessnet.com

Problem Solving with Max:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/max

Math Magician (test your math skills against the clock):

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Mathmagician/cathymath.html

Fraction practice:

http://www.primarygames.com/fractions/start.htm

Think Math:

http://www.harcourtschool.com/thinkmath/index.html

Helpful Websites to Use at Home

READING AND LANGUAGE ARTS WEBSITES

http://www.teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1

Word Builder (practice building words):

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/wordbuild/

There are other types of games on this site.

Fun Brain reading games:

http://www.funbrain.com/brain/ReadingBrain/ReadingBrain.html

Character trading cards:

http://readwritethink.org/materials/trading_cards/

Book Adventures (search for books by reading level or interest):

http://www.bookadventure.com/ki/bs/ki_bs_helpfind.asp

Wacky Web Tales:

http://www.eduplace.com/tales/

Write Your Own Play:

http://www.kids-space.org/HPT/1a/11a.html

Noun Practice:

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/basketball/index.html

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/plural/index_pre.html

Contractions:
http://www.primarygames.com/contractions/question1.htm

Noun and Verb Sorting:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/adventure/grammar1.htm

Writing Web Sites

http://www.kids-space.org./bean/bean.html  A cute website to publish your writing! It is also great for reading other children’s writing.

http://www.rhymezone.com/  This site allows you to type in a word and it will give you rhyming words, synonyms, antonyms, or a definition for the word.

http://littleplanettimes.com/  This website has a creative page that you can post your stories/poems. There is a central theme (problem) about a character and you can send in solutions on how to solve the problem.

http://library.thinkquest.org/5109/  You can read and solve mysteries or write an ending to the mysteries.

www.eduplace.com/fakeout  A series of vocabulary words for different grade levels. You have to choose the definition that they think the word is.

http://www.funbrain.com/grammar  A cute game to reinforce the parts of speech. The game has two levels.

http://www.brainpop.com/

http://www.gigglepoetry.com/  Excellent poetry site. You can read models of different types of poetry and write your own poetry.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/listenandwrite/home.htm  Students can read, listen to, and create poems. They also meet the twins and when they go into the simile satellite. Students can also create poems by filling in the blanks.

http://www.school-house-rock.com/GrammarRock.html  Cute songs for grammar. All lyrics are listed on website and you can listen to them!

http://www.meddybemps.com/9.700.html  It has story starters with picture prompts to encourage writing.

http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/writing_bugs.shtml   This page, Writing Bugs, offers many story starters. If you click on the story starter, you can download it on fancy paper.

http://www.techlearning.com/content/working/  A teacher resource site. This site has technology websites and articles.

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/index.html  Proofreading site. Very good!

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/Great site. Offers MANY websites for different skills in all areas.

PARENT SITES

Helping your Child With Homework

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Homework/

Parents Guide to the Internet

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/internet/

A Resource Directory of Learning Partners, Reading Sites, and Other Literacy Organizations that Serve Children and Their Families

http://www.ed.gov/Family/JustAddKids/

Parenting Family Education Network

http://www.familyeducation.com

Children Now's Directory of Children's Issues on the World Wide Web

http://www.dnai.com/~children/links.html

The Learning Company

http://www.mecc.com/default.htm

Strong Families, Strong Schools: Building Community Partnerships for Learning

http://eric-web.tc.columbia.edu/families/strong/

Summer Home Learning Recipes (K-3; 4-5; 6-8; 9-12)

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Recipes/

Team Up for Kids! How Schools Can Support Family Involvement in Education

http://www.ed.gov/PFIE/schools.html