Helpful Links for Students

 

Hey kids!! Here is a list of websites that I thought would be helpful for you to practice your skills while having fun. Just make sure you have your parents’ permission!

 

Math

Basic Math: Hundreds of pages of basic math skills, interactive practice on every page, an explanation of the math topic on each page, and several challenge games on every page.

http://aaamath.com/B/grade3.htm

 

Multiplication Skills: Math lovers, polish up your multiplication skills!

http://www.gamequarium.com/multiplication.html

 

Multiplication Tables: Work on your 4′s -13′s multiplication tables with Black Dog!

http://blackdog.net/games/math/multiply/006.html

 

 

Kids Bank: Guided by Penny, Dollar Bill, Interest Ray, and Checks, students will learn about money, savings, interest, checking, and electronic banking in this very interactive site.  There are quizzes and games that help students review what they learn during the tours.

http://www.kidsbank.com/index_2.asp

 

Ordered Pairs Online Math Activity

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/BillyBug2/bug2.html

 

Fractions Brain POP!

http://www.brainpopjr.com/math/fractions/basicpartsofawhole/

 

 

Math Baseball: This game provides students with a fun way to practice basic facts.

http://www.funbrain.com/math/

 

Math Practice: Students can practice their math skills while being timed.  This site covers all of third grade math.

http://www.ixl.com/math/grade/third/

 

Multiplication Practice: At this site, students can practice their basic facts and play multiplication games.

http://www.multiplication.com/students.htm

 

Spelling

 

Fun School: Can you spot the misspelled words?  Click on this site and see!

http://www.funschool.com/games_popup.php?g=ms2_ds1&t=j&w=620&h=360

 

Little Explorer’s Picture Dictionary: This isn’t for babies either!! The amount of information on the site just “boggles the mind”!!!!

http://www.littleexplorers.com/DictionaryA.html

 

Spelling Wizard- Practice for your spelling tests.

http://www.scholastic.com/kids/homework/spelling.htm

 

Reading

 

 

Children’s Favorite Authors: This is a comprehensive “hot list” of links that will take students to the websites of their favorite authors.

http://www.ahisd.net/campuses/cambridge/library/chilauth.html

 

Roald Dahl- Check out Roald Dahl’s Home page. Take a look at all the awesome books he has written.

http://www.roalddahlfans.com/books.php

 

Reading- Wordsearch

http://www.funbrain.com/cgibin/wd.cgiA1=play&A2=1&INT=1&theme=*Musical_Instruments&A3=instruments&INSTRUCTS=1

 

Join the Flashlight Readers Club! This is such a cool site!! I love it…

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/flashlightreaders/flashT_landingPage.asp

 

 

Reading- Wordsearch

http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/wd.cgiA1=play&A2=1&INT=1&theme=*Musical_Instruments&A3=instruments&INSTRUCTS=1

 

Wacky Tales

http://www.funbrain.com/wacky/index.html

 

Writing

 

Mad Lib Fun: Verbs, nouns and adjectives…OH MY! This is a silly way to write a new story and learn the parts of speech.

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

 

The Writing Process- Use this site to work on your Writing Scavenger Hunt! This is an excellent site with awesome information on how to improve your essay writing skills.

http://www.geocities.com/fifth_grade_tpes/writing_process.html

 

Grammar Gorillas- Nouns and verbs practice!

http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/gg.cgi?A1=m&A2=0&A3=0&AFUNCT=1&ALEVEL=0&INSTRUCTS=1

 

Writer’s Block

http://fun.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/wall.cgi?A1=s

 

Main Idea Riddles

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/book_buddy/rosie/skill_pre.html

 

Practice your cursive here!!

http://www.handwritingforkids.com/handwrite/cursive.htm

 

Social Studies/Current Events

 

 

Time for Kids: This website is an outstanding resource for kid-friendly news stories.  It is great practice for reading non-fiction text, and it provides lots of extra activities for students to complete after their reading.

www.timeforkids.com

 

Civil Rights Web Hunt

http://www.mecca.org/~crights/cyber.html

 

Martin L. King Web Hunt

http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/about king

 

Spanish/ Other Languages

 

 

Spanish for Kids: Here is a great website to help you practice and increase your spanish skills.

http://www.123teachme.com/learn_spanish/spanish_for_children

 

Learn a New Language with Games: A website to help you learn new languages while playing games!

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/foreignlang.html#spanishgames