Educational+Links

=**Assignment 3: Blog address, articles about using blogs and summaries:**=

Here is the address to my blog: [|http://dlwood2.blogspot.com]

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=**Assignment 4: Technology Websites and summaries:**=

[] This lesson uses the book __Dan the Flying Man__, by Joy Cowley. I have used this book in my classroom for many lessons. However, this lesson has the children typing up their own thoughts on where else Dan the Flying Man could fly. I liked that it incorporates other arts as they also have to create a watercolor picture to go along with their typed-up response. [] This is a very simple lesson that introduces students to using a word processing document. The objective is to use a word processor to alter text size, color and font. [] This lesson has the students using a program such as Kid Pix to sort stamps according to color. While I do like the concept, there are a few things that I would change. I would limit the colors to two or three. I also would not expect them to use 30 different stamps, but rather give them a certain amount of time and see how many of each color they could find. [] This lesson has the students using Kid Pix to create a class book of Goldilocks. Each child is expected to illustrate a page in the book. We do a lot of work with fairy tales and Goldilocks is one of them. We often create our own endings to some of the fairy tales or make them into "twisted" fairy tales. This would be a good class book activity. [] This one doesn't use technology, but I liked some of the ideas and I didn't want to loose the address. So I included it here! [] Some of this may be above a kindergartener's head, but I thought it would be cute... especially since we will be taking a course on taking computer apart! The students are asked to draw a picture of what they think is inside of a computer. When finished you can go to this site and look at pictures of what is //really// inside of a computer. [] This site has the kindergarteners using tools in Kid Pix to create a colorful caterpillar by using the circle tools and then changing the paint colors. Once all of the circles are complete, the students can go back and use the drawing tools to add other details (legs, feet, antennae, a face...). =**Assignment 5: Lesson Plan**=

Here is my 5 day lesson plan on living and nonliving things. =**Assignment 6: Web 2.0 sites and summaries:**=

[] Shidonni is a site where students can draw animals and a world for them to live in. The students can name their animal as well as take care of the animals by feeding them, petting them or sending them to sleep. The animal will eat the food that the student has drawn for it. They can choose if they want their pet to walk or fly. This can be a great tool for digital storytelling or describing animals or daily routines.

[] Talking pets is site where you can make cats and dogs talk by typing in text. Once you have chosen your pet, you can choose which voice you would like it to have, choose accessories and change the background. If you put comas between the words, you can make your pet speak slower. Since the text only allows 200 characters, this would be a good writing activity for kindergarteners. I think the kids would get a kick out of listening to a cat or dog "speak" what they just typed in. Older kids can email their talking pet to a friend.

[] Wordle is a site where you can create “word clouds” from text that you enter into a text box. The "clouds" are made up of the words you enter. However, more you enter a word, the larger it will appear in the cloud. You can change the look of your word cloud by changing the cloud layout, the font, and the color schemes. I would like to use this as an addition to our mother/father's day gift. The students could type up a simple My Mom __ poem. The main words that would appear would be "My Mom" followed by all words describing their mom (or dad). =**Assignment 7: Educational Games or Tools:**=

[] This is the Everyday Math early childhood series games. Since this is the demo site, not all of the games are available to everyone. Our district, until next year, has Everyday Math as our curriculum. The three games available are: Build a Train (click a die, + or - that many train cars from your train), Monster Squeeze (guess the mystery number by clicking on a number that is greater or less than the mystery number) and Spin a Number (student spins a # and moves that many spaces forward. The student plays against the computer). The students do enjoy playing the math games. [] Great for my students that need to practice their one-to-one correspondence skills! You count a given number of shapes and then click on the number. [] A ton of different content videos, games, puzzles, activities, etc. [] Great literacy site for my kindergarteners that need to be challenged. This site offers games on phonics, spelling, rhyming, alphabetical order, pronouns, conjunctions, synonyms, punctuation and sentence structure. It gives the students a choice of starting with medium, hard and really hard. [] I would use this site at the beginning of the year or for some of my lower students that still need practice with letter identification. It has all of the letters in alphabetical order. The students click on a letter to hear its name and then a picture that starts with that letter shows up. Very simple. [] Students need to stir the soupy goop. Two letters appear on two separate boards. After the students stir the goop a picture starting with one of the two letters appears. The students need to click and drag the picture to the board with the correct beginning sound. [] This site has literacy and math games for ages preschool through seventh grade. While it only offers six or seven games per grade level, the games are educational and developmentally appropriate. You can subscribe to this site for $40/year for more games and activities. [] There are oodles and oodles of educational games on this website. The students enjoy playing games with cartoon characters they frequently see on t.v. [] I have this one here because I was just using it and didn't feel like typing in the address again with my kids. It's a part of pbskids. [] The computer reads the students a question and offers three answers. The student then clicks on the correct answer. There are literacy and math games. [] A website I plan on using during my literacy block as a part of my "Daily Five" (listen to a book on tape). This website is chock full of phonics and stories of all genres. [] Hey, we live in Wisconsin, right?! I thought this would be a good website to show the students before a visit to a farm. It has a cartoon-like tour of how milk and cheese are made. It also has some games and coloring pages. [] This is also another site that I would use during the "Daily Five" portion of my literacy block. There are many books that the students could listen to. They could also visit this site during their free choice time or during computer lab time to play the games or do the puzzles. [] This is a site with a lot of good math games to help the students with basic number concepts. [] T his webpage has a lot of different graphic organizers. Looks like there is something for everyone.

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http://pbskids.org/lions/cornerstones/click/story/hypertext/ And one with the book below where the student writes letters for the cow. If she isn’t writing yet, have her match letters from various characters to the correct characters. Click Clack Moo

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http://www1.center.k12.mo.us/edtech/edm/K.htm Kindergarten Math resources

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Books online that you can read for free. Just thought I’d share. It’s more primary books, than upper level books. You have to read these, there is no voiceover reading to the students.

http://www.k-5mathteachingresources.com/ Tons of GREAT math center resources!!!