Maple Avenue Sites

Maple Avenue Sites
An Internet Hotlist on used by Maple Avenue Staff and Students

created by Maple Avenue Suggested Sites
Maple Avenue Elementary

Introduction
These are sites that have been preselected for children to use at Maple Avenue Elementary School.

The Internet Resources

1-Manske's Top Picks - These are sites that Mrs. Manske is currently using with her classes.
2-Hamilton Research Resource Page - Start Your Searches Here! These are research resources that can help you with finding information about any topic.
AAA Study - Topics which includes interactive practice, explanations and challenging games for each concept. This site also includes US and world geography, spelling and math activities.
Brainpop - Wonderful videos for topics related to science, social studies and a lot of other subjects.
Brainpop Jr. - Wonderful videos for topics related to science, social studies and a lot of other subjects geared for younger students.
Enchanted Learning - A great resource for beginning research skills and topics with good visuals and easier reading levels.
Learning Planet - Learning games and activities for all grade levels.
Raz-Kids - This site will be used by students for practice with literacy skills.
Wellness Sites-McDonalds - Use this website to find the nutritional value in the foods you eat from McDonalds.
Wellness Sites-NFL Play60 - Learn how to be active with your favorite NFL players. Join the play60 movement and be your best self.
Wellness Sites-Sheppards Exercise - Do you know how to keep your body in shape? What are the different types of exercise and how much should you get each day?
Wellness Sites-Sheppards Nutrition - These games will help you learn what the food categories are from the food pyramid and what are the healthiest to eat.
Wellness Sites-The Daily Green - All good things 'Green' can be found in this website. Check out the section on new green cuisine.

Kindergarten

BBC-Numbertime - Students must place the correct missing tiles in the hundred grid to complete this online game.
Buddy Activity-Campbell/Benz-Primary Games - This site is full of fun ocean themed games to play!
Buddy Activity-Campbell/Benz-Sheppards - This site has three ocean activities. You can watch a movie about ocean animals, play an ocean animal guessing game, and create an ocean picture all your own! Choose from: “Ocean Movie” “Ocean Game” “Create an Ocean”
Count Us In - A wonderful site for beginning counting games and early math fun!
Fishin' Mission - A fun, timed, counting and sorting game for kindergarten students.
Kindergarten Online Games - All kinds of fun games for Kindergarten children to play.
Learning Planet - 'Practice counting by 1's, 2's, 5's & 10's as you race the clock!'
Money game for Kindergarten - 'A perfect place to shop around for correct change! Practice coin recognition and values to place the appropriate amount of money in the shopping cart to solve a story problem.
RekenWeb Games - This website allows you to choose the age of the player! Children can practice a variety of skills, but the game we have played most in kindergarten is the Speedy Pictures.
Sesame Street Letters - Cookie Monster loves cookies, but he can only eat the ones that match the beginning sound/letter shown on the screen.
Snakes and Ladders - It's is an interactive counting on game, similar to Chutes and Ladders, which can be played by 1 or 2 players.
Starfall Reading - Reading activities for young students.

Grade 1

Arthur Website - Arthur's website is a ton of fun with Arthur and friends. Visit this site for playing cards, Arthur games, and cool activities.
BookFlix - Great online story site!
Dav Pilkey - First grade readers visit a website exploring this fun children's author.
First Thanksgiving - First and second graders will explore this site to find out facts about the First Thanksgiving.
Jan Brett - A website exploring this great children's author.
Moon Calendar - First graders see the different phases of the moon.
PBS Story Factory - Come to this site to build a story.
Sheppard Software - A wonderful website that contains lots of different online learning games and activities.
Starchild - Learning activities for young astronomers.

Grade 2

A Kid's Life in Italy - How much do you know about Italy? Take a tour with Mario, a second grader in Sicily, Italy!
Active Science - Visit 8 different habitats to test your knowledge about the needs of living things! You will need to click on humans and animal habitats link.
Attribute Block Activity - Attribute Block Activity: Use this activity to sort blocks by shape, color,or size.
Between the Lions - Get wild about reading with these PBS characters. Good for reading and phonics practice.
Fact Monster Winter Olympics - There are 92 countries whose athletes will be participating in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. Use this site to research interesting facts about those countries.
Houghton Mifflin Kid's Place - This website helps students to practice sorting words. It goes with what we are doing for our spelling pilot.
Into the Books - Interactive activities incorporating reading strategies.
KidCyber - Use this website for research on Australian animals along with many other interesting topics.
Lego Fun Zone for Older Kids - Experience Indiana Jones and many other fun lego building games.
Magic School Bus - Take a tour of the Magic School Bus. Study different science topics such as habitats, planets, and more!
Mrs. Rupnow's Favorite Internet Sites - Check out the cool websites that Mrs. Rupnow's using with her Second Graders!
National Geographic Geography Game - Second Graders use clues to help solve mysteries and find continents, countries, states and provinces.
Poetry Creation Station - Need help creating great poetry? Visit this site to learn about different forms of poetry and let the creative juices flow!
Science Monster Page - Solar System facts and cool science activities!
Second Grade Skills Practice - Practice second grade skills such as phonics, sequencing, contractions, synonyms,fractions, math facts and telling time.
Switcheroo Zoo - Challenge yourself to make each habitat 100% compatable for all five living things!
Weight on Other Worlds - Find your weight on other planets.

Grade 3

50 States - Get basic information and go to many links to find necessary facts for the state you are studying.
Ben's Guide to Government - This site will teach you how our government works.
Dice Rolling - Investigate probability with a dice rolling activity!
Dr. Seuss - Learn more about Dr. Seuss and do activites related to his books.
Enchanted Mind Tangrams-Advanced - ****Note****A more advanced site for creating the tangram shapes. Scroll down a bit and click on the tangram button. You must have Java loaded for site to work.
Harcourt Schools-Us Regions - Games to study the regions of the United States.
Heads and Tails - Investigate probability with a coin flip activity.
KidsCom Tangrams- Beginner - ****Note****This is more of a beginner site.Try your skill at manipulating shapes around to make a design. There are quite a few adds-but worth it.
Math-Measurement -
Math-Metric Conversion Assessing -
Math-The Ruler Game -
Math-Volume -
Nourish Interactive: - Variety of games to teach students about a balanced diet and encourage them to make healthy food choices. (puzzles, concentration, interactive Food Pyramid, Snack Attack)
PBS Democracy - A great site to learn about the American System of Democracy.
PBS Probability Games - Investigate probability with various games.
Parenthood-Explore your name - Use this site to find out what your name means.
Pres-Classroom Help - Information on the presidents can be found here.
Pres-Fun Facts - Information on the presidents can be found here.
Pres-Garden of Praise - Information on the presidents can be found here.
Pres-Potus - Information on the presidents can be found here.
Pres-Whitehouse - Information on the presidents can be found here.
Pyramid Blast off Game: - Click and drag foods from each section of the food pyramid to fuel your rocket ship, learn about portions and amounts of each food needed to balance your diet.
Race Car Math - Use this site to practice your math facts in a fun way.
Simple Machines-Edheads - A great site to learn about simple machines through the glossary, as well as practice finding everyday machines in an interactive house and toolshed.
Spelling City - A fun place to practice your word study skills
State Weather Information - State weather information can be found here.
Stately Knowledge - This is a site designed by the public library system that is designed to give many facts about your chosen state.
United States Regions - Excellent regions of the United States website that includes facts, places of interest, fun facts, and photos of all 5 of the regions. Links to individual state sites are also included.
Water Cycle - This site provides a basic explanation of the water cycle complete with pictures and descriptions
Weather/Clouds - This is a site that is used by third graders to study cloud-types.
Weatherwizkids - Great weather information!
Weekly Reader - Come to this site to learn about the election.
ie and ei Word Game - Practice working with ei and ie words with this fun game.

Grade 4

Maple Avenue Fourth Grade - Check out the websites that the fourth grade are using at Maple Avenue School.
Maple's Email for 4th graders -

Grade 5

Basic Tornado Awareness - Tornado Awareness - A Guide to Survival
Cliffhanger - Does the hiker have a greater probability of falling off of the cliff or making his way back to safety?
Cloud Gallery - This site has exciting pictures of different cloud families along with clear descriptions of each picture.
Dice Probability - How often will the numbers be rolled? What about the sum of the dice?
Geography and Trivia - Practice finding continents, oceans, states, and countries. Also there is trivia, and math problem solving.
Night of the Twisters - A Literature Unit for Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman
Spaghetti Book Club - A student created book club that includes a large variety of book reviews.

Content by Maple Avenue Suggested Sites, manste@hamiltondist.k12.wi.us
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Last revised Tue Nov 29 10:58:35 US/Pacific 2011