Welcome and Enjoy!
21st Century
Educator's Guide to Web 2.0 Tools
Flash Projects
Web 2.0 Tools
Create your own music station with Pandora!
Activboard
Look at all of the great resources!
Albemarle County
Albemarle County Schools homepage
Daily Progress NEWSPAPER
Albemarle County Teacher Resource Page
Charlottesville and Albemarle County
Local news and weather
Brain Gym
Try some brain gym activities
Character Counts
The Pillars of Character
China
Author study- DEMI
Chinese Museums
Chinese New Year
Enchanted Learning- China
Hear a story- Round is a Mooncake
Little Exployers- China
More fun with tangrams
Read some Chinese Fables yourself!
Silkworms
Silkworms
Select the CHALLENGE
Virtual TANGRAMS
Virtual Walk - The Great Wall of China
Pandas
Animal Planet- Meet the pandas
Web cam- San Diego Zoo
Egypt
Busch Gardens- Egypt
King Tut
King Tut Exhibit- coming to Philadelphia, PA
Learn more about the Nile River
More about King Tut
National Geographic King Tut 1923
Snaith Elementary- Egypt activities!
Take an Egypt test!
The British Museum- EGYPT!
Tomb of Perneb -
Valley of the Kings
Virtual Tour- The Great Sphinx
Visit Egypt with National Geographic
Gods and Goddesses
gods and goddesses
Information about gods and goddesses #2
Hieroglyphics
Create your own cartouche
Hieroglyphics
Mummies
How Mummies Are Made
Interactive Mummy!
Pyramids
The Great Pyramid
The Rosetta Stone
The Rosetta Stone
The Story of the Rosetta Stone
ESOL
Practice English
Fairy Tales and TALL Tales
Andersen Fairy Tales
Antimated tall tales- Listen now!
Enjoy a Brothers Grimm tale
Listen to a fairy tale on Real Princess
Tall Tales
Fun for Everyone!
Ask Jeeves
Build your own snowman!
Children create
Create a word search with your family!
Earthlights photo
Fact Monster
Free pictures from Pics 4 learning
Learn all about Braille
Make a snowflake today!
MET-Metropolitan Museum of Art-NY) for families and children
Musician- Betsy Q
Play a game of checkers!
Practice sign language!
Visit The National Zoo
Who invented that?
Keyboarding Practice
Virtual Snowman
Internet Safety
Net Smartz for Kids Internet Safety
Language Arts/Reading
Compound words
Create your own cartoon!
Creative Writing ideas for you at home!
Noteworthy Books for Children
Online dictionary!
PBS stories for children
Read some folk tales!
Science- Reader
Sight word hangman game!
Word building activities
100 of the Best Books for Children!
Practice Dolch basic sight words here
Work with word families/ spelling patterns here
Mad Libs-
Power Proofreading
Word Girl- reading vocabulary/comprehension practice
word families, short vowels
Favorite authors
Authors and Illustrators
Authors for children
Barbara Park ( Junie B. Jones Series)
Cynthia Rylant
Jeff Brown (Flat Stanley)
Marc Brown
Mary Pope Osborne (Magic Tree House Series)
Matt Christopher
Steven Kellogg
Tomie de Paola
Write to your favorite author
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry for children
Poetry for kids
Math
100th Day of School Ideas
Another subtraction game- facts
Chess, anyone?
Count some change- money practice
Create designs with pattern blocks
Easy place value
Everyday Math --Games
Everyday Math- fact practice
Fact practice
Fun math games
Funbrain games
Guess My number
Interactive sites for Smartboard
Math fact strategies- practice at home
Math Magician
Math practice materials for home
Number games
Place value practice
Place value- 100 chart
Power lines #1 Problem solving with addition
Practice subtraction!
Practice with < > and =
Probability
Probability- spinners
Problem solving for families- spacial
Problem solving games
Spacey Math- subtraction facts
Subtraction bowling game
http://www.abc.net.au/countusin/games/game8.htm
Subtraction fact practice
Subtraction- practice
Sudoku puzzles
Tangram Game
Telling time game
Telling time games
That's a Fact!
Virtual manipulatives
Measurement
Animal Weigh In
Fun Brain- Measure It!
Money
Count money here!
More counting money
Practice counting money- online
The History of Money
The U.S. Mint
Mimio
Lesson ideas from Mimio
Native Americans
Children of the Earth Native American site
Eastern Woodland Native Americans
Enchanted Learning- buffalo
Explore the forest- National Geographic site
Kings Park Native American pages for second graders!
National Museum of the American Indian- DC
Powhatan Village
Read about longhouses
Uses of the buffalo- Native Americans
Bison
Other Portaportals
Christine Scott
Janelle Catlett
Nancy K. Williams
D. Showker
Sarah LaPrade
Second grade portaportal
Science
Air and Weather activities- FOSS
Animal Facts here!
Brain Pop
Cool science for curious kids
Cyber Tiger- You are the zookeeper!
Earth Day Activity
Explore the Forest!
For animal lovers!
For the young and curious scientist!
For those interested in SPACE
Magnet quiz
Science explorations!
Science- Reader
Shark Safari
Virginia Naturally
Visit the USGS site!
Young Astronomers visit this site from NASA
Simple machines
Life cycles
Butterfly life cycle
Lifecycle pictures
Parts of a Plant
Plants
The Life Cycle of a Bean Plant
States of Matter and Water Cycle
Droplet and the Water Cycle
The Water Cycle Explorer
More States of Matter
States of Matter
More Matter
Smartboard
Primary smartboard
Social Studies
About Virginia
Ben's Guide to US Govt.
Economics for Kids
Economics site
Great economics site for families
Place the states
Read TIME for children
SOLutions- Cartoons about the SOLS
Symbols of USA- matching game
The Underground Railroad
The US Mint for kids
Veteran
Visit The White House
Economics
Goods and Services
The Lemonade Stand Game
Famous Americans
Second grade SOL famous Americans
George Washington
Jackie Robinson
Harriet Tubman
Famous Virginians
Geography
Geography quiz
Geonet
GIS Day
Map Machine
Maps
USGS
World Atlas
Continent practice
SOL Practice games and review for 2nd and 3rd graders
SOL Jeopardy game review
Practice for the SOL tests
Spanish
Practice your Spanish!
Read about our Spanish program! Play games
Spanish practice games for students
Spanish practice
Teacher/Parent resources
Book It Program- Parent ideas
CAI -Curriculum Assessment Instruction - Albemarle County
Carl
Delta Kappa Gamma
Framework for Quality Learning
Graphic organizers
High frequency words
Illuminations- NCTM Math web sites
Linda Hutson's Home page
NAGC (National Association for Gifted Children)
National Science Teachers Association
NCTM Standards (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics)
Parent resource from Va. Dept. of Education
PDK (Phi Delta Kappa)
School lunch menu
Second grade math lessons from NCTM
SOL Practice Tests for Second Grade
V.A.S.T. (Virginia Association of Science Teachers)
V.S.R.A.(Virginia State Reading Association)
Virginia Center for Children
Reading comprehension practice sheets
Practice for the SOL tests
SOL Jeopardy game review
PBS- teachers
Handwriting support
handwriting help
Cursive Practice
SOL Practice
Practice reading test
Information on the SOLS
Third grade review SOL games
Second grade SOL tests
Jefferson Lab- practice tests
Weather
Create a cloud book at home
Magic School Bus- weather
Make a wind vane at home
Meet the Weather Dude!
Photographs of clouds and information, too
Weather Wiz Kids