Click on the links below to access sites that our faculty and staff believe to be useful for students and parents/guardians.  This page will be updated periodically, so check back often.

Students in 4th - 8th Grade have Google Apps accounts.  They can click on the image to login.




Keyboarding Practice

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/ - Dance Mat Typing - younger kids just love this site!

http://www.funtotype.com/ - Typing games.

http://www.onlytypinggames.com/ - Typing games.

http://play.typeracer.com/ - Type against your friends.

http://freetypinggame.net/ - Online typing lessons.

http://freetypinggame.net/play.asp - Various arcade-style typing practice games.

http://www.typingtest.com/games/?m=1 – More typing games.

http://www.typingtest.com/ - A good typing test for speed and accuracy.

http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/keyboarding_games.html - Keyboarding games.

Bruce's Unusual Typing Wizard - Students can install this FREE program on their home computers to practice.

 

Creative Writing (Want to learn more?  See Mrs. Walton or Mrs. O'Brien about Creative Writing Club.)

http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/ - National Novel Writing Month - Young Writers Program

http://www.gigglepoetry.com/ - Giggle Poetry

http://www.writingfun.com/writingfun2010.html - Writing Fun: An interactive writing help site that includes downloads for off-line use.

http://www.lightningbug.com.au/ - Lightning Bug: Your writing partner, helping you write a story from beginning to THE END.

http://karenromanoyoung.com/index.html - Karen Romano Young's website (author of Doodlebug: A Novel in Doodles)

 

Fire Safety

http://sparky.org/#/Sparky - Sparky the Fire Dog

http://scholastic.com/firesafety/ - Scholastic's Fire Safety



Language Arts

http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/

http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/ - National Novel Writing Month is November!

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

http://www.lightningbug.com.au/

http://www.spellingcity.com/

http://www.kidsreads.com/reviews/index.asp

http://www.storyplace.org/ - Digital library.



Math

http://mathplayground.com/index.html - Math games.

http://www.aplusmath.com/Flashcards/ - Online flashcards and worksheets for a variety of math topics.

http://www.learnyourtables.co.uk/ - Great site for practicing multiplication facts.

http://www.visualmathlearning.com/index.php - A free interactive multimedia on-line tutorial for math. Its first level, Numbers and Arithmetic, is a pre-Algebra course for middle-school students.



Science

http://whyfiles.org/ - The science behind topics in the news.

http://www.edheads.org/ - Online games and activities for a variety of topics.  Virtual knee surgery anyone?

http://www.nps.gov/learn/ - Learn about our National Parks.

http://www.periodicvideos.com/ - Videos for all the elements on the periodic table.

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index.html - NASA Kids: Games and infomation about NASA.



Computer Science

http://scratch.mit.edu/ - For more Scratch links, see the Computer Class Journal.

http://www.netsmartzkids.org/indexFL.htm - Internet safety for kids.

http://www.netsmartz.org/netparents.htm - Internet safety for parents/guardians.

http://inpics.net/index.html - Online tutorials for software applications.

http://www.woopid.com/ - Watch free technology training videos!

http://www.commoncraft.com/ - Watch unique "In Plain English" videos on a variety of technology subjects.



Spanish

http://www.spanishspanish.com/ - Online flashcards.  

http://www.loquella.com/learn-spanish/ - Online lessons.

http://www.123teachme.com/learn_spanish/spanish_for_children - Online lessons & games.  

http://www.queondaspanish.com/ - Online lessons.  

http://www.onlinefreespanish.com/ - Online games and lessons.

http://www.spanishwordsearchpuzzle.com/ - Online & printable word search puzzles.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryspanish/start_here/ - Online Spanish lessons.

http://www.bocabeth.com/ - Free materials.

http://translation2.paralink.com/ - Translation site.

Realidades Website -  Website for the 6-8th grade textbook.



Multi-Subject

http://playkidsgames.com/

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/clf/index.htm

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/homeworkhelp/homework_help_home.html

http://pbskids.org/ - PBS Kids: Educational games relating to PBS kids shows.

http://www.ala.org/gwstemplate.cfm?section=greatwebsites&template=/cfapps/gws/default.cfm American Library Association Links: Great websites for kid separated by category.

http://www.abcya.com/

http://www.infohio.org/default.html - InfOhio

General Interest

http://www.coolcleveland.com/blog/category/kids/ - Cool Cleveland Kids: Kids activities around the Cleveland area.

http://www.clevelandmemory.org/ - Cleveland Memory Project: A site dedicated to Cleveland's past with pictures and essays.