Fun

Apples 4 the Teacher

Crayola

Prongo

Created by the people who make OWL, Chickadee, and Chirp Magazines, this site offers three age levels for fun interaction: kids 3-6 years old, 6-9 years old, and 9-13 years old

Disney’s Winnie the Pooh

Fun and games for young children

Silly Books

All kinds of fun activities for Preschool to 3rd grade

Game Classroom – games in math and Language Arts by grade (K-6); also some review questions and multiple answers

Jig Zone – Many Jigsaw Puzzles to do online

Solar System Jigsaw Puzzles - NASA

Mr. Nussbaum – games in many subjects – grades 1-5

Webonauts Internet Academy – PBS Kids

Arthur Comic Creator - Create your own comic book with the characters from Arthur, complete with background scenes, a variety of props, and dialogue bubbles.

Lots of Activities and Fun

Things to create with adults

Tessellations Online

Pitara Games for all Kids

Sports Games – Funschool  1- 5

Tuxpaint – very similar to Kidpix but you can download it for free

Bob’s Place of Educational Links – great sites in many subjects

Kids Know It Network – games and activities in many subjects

Math Cats – age calculator – How old are you in months, minutes, seconds?  Type in your birthdate and find out!

Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean

Professor Garfield’s Knowledge Box - Click on your grade level here for learning games, each with audio and animation, and covering appropriate topics through math, science, language arts and social studies.

The Same Game - Match the adjacent spheres of the same color to clear the board.  The more you clear at once, the higher your score. Addicting! (Factmonster)

Letter Blocks - ABCYa – Grades 3, 4, 5

Rubik’s Cube (Math Playground)

Smarty Games – many fun games in several different areas over several grades

 

 

Thanksgiving Crossword Puzzle to do online (iteslj)

Animator Vs. Animation – Alan Becker - click on the F11 key for a full screen (click on F11 again when you're done)
 
Paper Toys – more 3D objects to print out and build at home
 

Make a Flake – interactive – on the computer cut your own snowflake out of the paper

 

ABCYA – Word Clouds
Make Word Mosaic - more Word Clouds
 

Jeopardy Templates – Microsoft Office website

 
Basic Spanish Words and Phrases with Pronunciation for you to learn

Basic French Words and Phrases with Pronunciation for you to learn

 

*Netsmartz for Kids – A program of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children – has many kid friendly videos and games about being safe in real life and being safe on the internet.  I am showing some of these videos during computer lab time.

*Safetyland – online computer game to see how much you know about computer safety
 

 

Fun Websites By Grade

 

 Typing Fun

Free typing games

Many Typing Sites

Letter Fall – typing practice - How quickly can you type the right letters before they all stack up at the bottom?!

Typing Games - Soft Schools

Balloon Typing Game – select the speed

Learn 2 Type – typing test– measure your typing speed (WPM)

Keybr.com – another typing test and activities

Power Typing - Typing Games

Typing Master – Typing Games

Gamequarium – Keyboarding (Typing) Games

Keyboarding Games from Learning Games for Kids

Typing Games – Sense-Lang.org

Alpha Munchies – a typing game

Keyboard Climber – (TVO Kids)

Online Typing Games – Typing Master

Soft Schools – typing games

Clockwords - Online Typing Games – several more too - upper grades

Space Typing Games – you need to be fast! (Ingenuity)

SpellChecker - check your spelling and learn new words

 

Digital Photography

Photostory 3 - create picture albums with music and transitions on your computer - only for Windows XP

Picasa – free photo editing from Google

 

Tuxi – photo effects and picture frames


 

Fototrix – add a border to your picture

World’s Greatest ... Certificates – include your photo (Fototrix)

 

Elf Yourself – Winter Holidays only - you can use your own photo to place on an elf that dances!

 

 

 

 

 
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