Online resources for you and your children to learn and grow...
Below is a video, which recites Fundations sound cards that the children and I do daily through the fall. This is for your children to watch, or as a reference for you. If your child struggles with sounds, remind him/her to think of the picture on the card.
Click on the buttons below to get to each online resource. Then follow the directions under each one.
* Please let me know via email if you have any issues with these sites/apps! : )
* Please let me know via email if you have any issues with these sites/apps! : )
- Log-in details for your child came home in October! Email me with any questions.
- This is a fun, interactive reading website with MANY books and texts at your child's independent reading level. It is designed to support literacy skills and build on comprehension and increase reading fluency.
- Click the link above to get to the Starfall sign in page (or download the app from your App Store)
- Enter email address: [email protected]
- Enter password: brooks
- Set your children up on a feature on the site that best suits their needs!
- Some key content areas available are: geometry & measurement, numbers, values, addition and subtraction, money, letter sounds, short & long vowels, digital stories/books, sight word sentence building, and much more if you explore!
- If you plan to use this resource as a reading tool, the best places to visit are Backpacks Bear’s Books (icon with bear pulling book off shelf), Learn to Read (icon with Zac the Rat), It’s Fun to Read (icon with 2 children holding an open book), and Talking Library.
- Download this app from your device’s App Store
- Enter access code: qmb5767
- Click on your child’s name
- Click on F & P, which is our leveled reading program. Then choose your child’s reading level, A-H.
- Another option is Read to Me.
- Set your child up and they have a new world of reading possibilities!
- Download the Math app from your App Store
- Not all features will be available, but the ones that aren’t far exceed Kindergarten level.
- Game 1 is the best and most fun feature. You can play too, or up to 4 family members!
- Click link above, and enter class code: 4andsj
- Username: First and last name
- Explore the options and which features you see fit for your unique child
- I have assigned assignments that meet each kids’ specific needs and current levels. As usual during this remote learning experience, these ARE NOT mandatory.
- This site has L.A., Math, Social Studies and Science
- Click link above
- Click Log In in the top right of the screen
- Next click "I am a Student"
- Password: deans1
- Enjoy any digital editions of magazines from months that have passed! Accompanying each are videos and games that pertain to the same nonfiction/current event topic as the magazine. If they scroll through a few pages the magazines from the 2019-2020 year are available too!
- Click link above or go to http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/
- There are options that specify that they are Kindergarten appropriate. If you scroll down a bit on the Home Page, you will see the following...
- Recommended activities on the site include:
*Preschool/Kindergarten* (numbers, colors, shapes, alphabet, animals)
*Preschool Animals* (movies, create games, games, flashcards)
*Animal Kid's Corner* (lower row - puzzles, matching games, painting)
*Geography* (learning and lower levels - states, countries, more).
*Early Math* (counting, simple adding and subtracting, more)
*Easy Spanish* (colors, objects, animals) - Explore & choose games that will challenge your child or help him/her practice skills.
- *Adobe Flash Drive is needed, I believe for most of the activities on this site.
- Click link above
- Username: deans16
- Password: moby16
- This site is AMAZING and has many different topics that you might want to specify to your children which they should use.
- Below is what the HOME screen looks like when your child logs in.
- Go to www.sbpl.info
- Click E-services & then E-children
- Click BookFlix or TrueFlix (outside library) *FYI TrueFlix is geared for 3rd- 6th graders, but thought I'd let you know for older siblings or family members*
- Input your library card number
- Another option is to use any of the numbers on the orange strip sent home attached to Book Flix letters
- This site has great learning videos and activities pertaining to letters, numbers, Science, & Math!
- Please explore and send me feedback or let your kids explore and show you the cool features.