Ask A “blank”

From the Virtual Reference Desk, comes a collection of links to “ask experts” about a particular topic.
“Expert” categories include:
Arts
Careers
Foreign Language
Educational Management
General Education
General Reference
Health
Language Arts / Linguistics
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physical Education
Science
Social Studies
Vocational Education
Might be useful for a career day project.

Smartboard templates galore

Check this site out, for many pre-made Smartboard templates. Topics include Primary, History, Math, Science, Language Arts, Business, French, Art, Music and General.

More Kindergarten Technology Info.

Educational CyberPlayground has gathered information relating to young students and their use of computers. Important skills include Basic Mastery of Concepts, Personal and Professional Computer Use, and Applications of Technology are mentioned.
There are also several web sites provided to practice keyboarding and mouse skills.
There is also a section for older kids and ways to keep [...]

Read Write Think

ReadWriteThink – NCTE and IRA are working together to provide educators and students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content.
Sections are divided into three Literacy Engagements: Learning Language, Learning About Language and Learning Through Language.
ReadWriteThink also provides free online student materials to support [...]

Kindersite – Websites for Pre-K through First Grade

“The Kindersite has 1,000s of links to the best Games, Songs and Stories for young children. The Kindersite is designed [...]

MLK Day Resources

Teacher Planet:
http://www.teacherplanet.com/resource/martinlutherking.php
This has many lesson plans, worksheets and additional links
Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/index.htm
This is a great resource, with a biography and interactive timeline of his life. The timeline is a useful tool for a class discussion – just project the timeline on the numonics board or with a COW, or on your [...]

Telling Time

Check out these sites to help students with telling time.

Set The Clock (hours, including Welsh pronounciation!)
Willy the Watchdog (two player game, half-hour)
Days of The Week (wordsearch)
Months of the Year (wordsearch)
Half Hour Quiz
Bang on Time (5 minute intervals)
Stop the Clock
Clock Flashcards

More Math and Language Arts Sites

Saxon Publishers offers free math and language arts activities for student use. Make sure you choose the correct grade level from the drop down menu to narrow the amount of sites.

Internet4Classrooms

I4C – Helping Teachers Use the Internet Effectively provides Internet resources for the K-8 teacher. For example, here are links that cover Math and Language Arts for each grade level.

Kindergarten
First
Second
Third
Fourth

Also, start your day here for the Daily Dose of the Web
Choose from:

Question of The Day
Subject Area
Quotation Sources
Brain Teasers
Interesting Trivia.

Free Clipart

Here is an excellent resource for free clipart. Open Clip Art Library (http://www.openclipart.org/) allows anyone to use the clipart for anything. If you do use images form this site, they ask you to provide the URL (http://www.openclipart.org/).
There are over 6900 images from over 500 artisits.Once images are submitted to the project, they become Public [...]