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KidSmart for
Early Learning - IBM, in partnership with Bank Street
College, the United Way and EDC, has launched KidSmart. Designed
specifically for parents and teachers.
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Early
Childhood Web Sites
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Early
Childhood Technology Literacy Project
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The Innovative Teaching
web site is updated for 2003 and ready to surf!
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A to Z Kid's Stuff -
Lots of very basic approaches to instruction for Preschool and
Kindergarten, categorized by headings that will surely make sense to
any primary teacher.
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Early
Childhood Technology Literacy Project - This website offers
the background and materials to teachers around the world.
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The
Shifting Kindergarten Curriculum This digest reviews factors
influencing kindergarten curriculum, and contrasts characteristics of
skill-based and developmentally-oriented programs.
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EduPuppy - Kristen
Hammond heads up this well-screened directory of developmentally
appropriate ideas and materials perfect for grades K-2. Using keywords
and categories teachers can sniff out the best activities, research and
resources for the classroom. Very user friendly.
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Enchanted
Learning - This portion of Enchanted Learning is dedicated
exclusively to younger students. It includes letter and number
recognition, colors, animals, transportation, as well as themes, links
and a child-friendly search tool. Definitely worth your consideration.
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ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary
and Early Childhood Education - This site is one of 16
clearinghouses in the ERIC system, providing resources for educators,
parents and families, interested in the development, education, and
care of children throughout early childhood. A great resource for
research and literature helpful to educators.
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Funschool -
Original activities designed for younger students, Funschool is a great
place to have safe fun online. There's lots of familiar game formats
here, and great use of JAVA applets for interactive uses of technology.
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Idea Box - All
kinds of timely lessons and activities designed for the primary grades,
including message boards where teachers can get together and offer
support and ideas for one another.
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KinderKorner -
Kinder Korner is a resource web site for teachers and others interested
in early childhood education.
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The School Bell
- Kathy Gursky offers this collection of themes, activities and
resources for the primary classroom.
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Early
Childhood Technology Literacy Project
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Zoopz
Learning Games - Young students will adore these colorful,
interactive learning games.
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Blue's
Clue's Safety Printables
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Historical
paperdolls
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Connect The
Apples
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Preschool
Activities
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Free
Downloads
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Dryer
Sheet Butterflies
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Edible
Crafts
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Nutrition
Facts
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A World of
Kindergartens
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Little
Explorers K-3
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The Place for all
things Early Childhood
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The National
Association for the Education of Young Children -
practical information for parents and early childhood
professionals.
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Idea Box -
Dedicated to the education of young children, this site has ideas,
articles, projects, seasonal themes, and printable pages
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Carol Gosset's Kindergarten
Connection -- providing valuable resources to primary
teachers
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A
to Z Teacher Stuff
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Our
Apple Unit
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- Ms.
Lee's Kindergarten Experiments with Science
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- Teaching with
the Web
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- The
Gingerbread Man Theme
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- Three
Billy Goats Gruff
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- Gateway to Education
Materials
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- Kinder
Garden
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- K-3 Cyber
Guides
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- A Is for Angelfish
- picture page for each letter in the alphabet
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- Alike
But Different - activities to develop observational skills
(involving both auditory and visual recognition), lay the foundation
for the concept of numbers, and provide staff with information
regarding students' ability to comprehend two attributes
simultaneously.
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Early Childhood
Educators' and Family Web Corner - all things early childhood
with original articles, reproducible calendars, teacher ideas,
interactive pages, and quality content from linked sites
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- Bry-Back
Manor - 50 activity pages, craft ideas, clip art,
downloadable freeware games
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- The
Chalkboard - resources for early childhood and kindergarten
teachers, including arts and crafts, holiday activities, math and
science, self-concept activities
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- Children
First - curriculum guide for kindergarten students
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- Eggciting
Math Using plastic eggs, students can do a variety of
activities (via downloadable file) that will help them with such
concepts as one-to one correspondence, and relating symbolic,
pictorial, and concrete materials.
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- Escalating
Kindergarten Curriculum This digest examines kindergarten
retention and the need to escalate the kindergarten curriculum so that
more students may be successful in first grade.
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Shaping
Up This delightful story involves circles, squares,
triangles, and rectangles and how they live together. The story can be
told on the flannel board. Not only is this activity excellent for
recognizing shape, there is a moral to the story that helps children
see the relationship of mathematics to everyday life.
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- Go
Fly A Pattern Students copy and extend patterns using the
design revealed on a kite and then extend the pattern on its tail. This
site features a downloadable file.
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- Gone
Fishing This activity (via downloadable file) incorporates
the concept of number recognition with the children's book, Fish
Eyes by
Lois Ehlert. Students gain an appreciation of reading, number words,
and sequencing numbers as they go fishing.
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KinderArt
- KinderArt features free online art lesson plans, activities and
recipes for K-8. The Little Hands section offers creative activities
for preschoolers.
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- Grandpa Tucker's Rhymes
and Tales Here you'll find poems and stories that kids love.
You will find seasonal stories and something new. This is a fun site to
explore with your students or place at a center.
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- Hide-and-Seek
Lesson Explaining abstract concepts to young children can be
made easier by involving the kids in activities. This lesson plan helps
teach kindergarten students the concept of animal hibernation by having
them hide nuts and later try to find them. As part of this lesson,
students also observe and record different weather conditions.
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- Holidays on the Net
This site offers links to holiday celebrations year-round.
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- Inside
Kindergarten Inside Kindergarten is designed to provide
information and ideas for kindergarten teachers. A growing collection
of thematic units is available, as well as a daily schedule with
descriptions and lots of links to other education sites.
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- KidPort
Reference Library: Science Here you'll find lots of easy,
kindergarten-level Internet activities dealing with sea life, plants,
animals, space, light, energy and matter, and more.
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- Kinder Art
Here you'll find over 130 free art lesson plans of every kind including
drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, multicultural art, cross
curricular art lessons, coloring pages, and The Art Book.
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- KinderCrafts
Presented by Enchanted Learning Software, this site has numerous crafts
even youngsters can make. There are holiday activities, classroom
projects, cultural artworks, and more to choose from.
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- Kindergarten Connection
This site includes teacher tips, lesson plans, book reviews, and web
links.
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- Kindergarten Kafe
Here you'll find an online kindergarten teacher's newsletter with ideas
and articles for and by K teachers.
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- Kindergarten Themes
This site features kindergarten themes from Houghton Mifflin's
Invitations to Literacy program. Choose a theme name to find
theme-related extension activities, links to relevant web sites, and an
up-to-date bibliography of supplementary readings.
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- Kindergarten
Units Here are some wonderful thematic units from a
kindergarten teacher.
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- Kinder
Korner This resource for pre-K to second grade teachers is
packed with thematic units, useful links, and tips for teaching.
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- Lesson
Plans Kindergarten This site offers math games, teacher
ideas, and monthly lesson plans.
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- Little
Explorers Even the youngest children are fascinated with the
Internet. Make their surfing sessions educational as well as fun with
Little Explorers' online dictionary. The child simply points and clicks
on a letter and a word starting with that letter pops up on the screen.
This is a great way to get the young ones started online.
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- Mother
Goose Nursery Rhymes This site offers an index of many
nursery rhymes. Each is written with rebus pictures to make the reading
fun and easy.
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- Paper
Dot Plates This hands-on activity (via downloadable file)
uses paper plates and sticky dot labels to reinforce the understanding
of sub concepts of a number. It introduces the concepts more/less;
part/whole; conservation; and oral and symbolic names of numbers.
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- Patti's
K-1 Classroom This primary teacher offers excellent lesson
plans, projects, activities, and resources for teaching students using
the TEAM approach.
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- Phonics
Activities Here are some great phonics activities for
beginning and pre-readers.
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