Early+Elementary+(K-2)

Add your favorite websites below along with a 3-5 sentence explanation of the website!

Little Bird Tales is a wonderful website for Kindergarten teachers because it infuses student creativity with new technology. On this website students are able to create a story, illustrate the story and then they can record their own voice reading the story. The students will take great pride in these stories becasue they can be shared with their parents and they can hear their own voice reading it. The website takes you through each step of the process and it is very easy to learn how to create these online stories. --Brianne V

http://mrsibrahim.wikispaces.com/ This is a wiki in progress I feel like. It is a good way to set up a wiki, and have it organized. It needs more information and needs to be expanded more and have more kids active on the site, but its a work in progress, and as teachers we can learn from it. I do like the pictures of what they have done in class and diagrams because it helps students, and gives them a place to go to if they forget the diagrams. --Ashley F

http://wikiharju.wikispaces.com/ This page offers this teachers second grade class all the information they need to stay both entertained and informed about the class whenever they have internet access. The educator here has links for all of the subjects that they go over in class so that students and parents can stay up to date on what is being learned (a plus when a student goes on vacation or is home sick). Another thing that I saw was that there seemed to be places for both student and parent interaction so that both parties could feel involved and comfortable with working together online. -David B.

http://b-7bobcats.wikispaces.com/Meet+Me... This website allows for other teachers and parents to keep up with what students are doing in this first grade classroom. It provides works of students, resources to be used at home, and the first grade curriculum being used. - Madison B.

[] This is a website that has been created by a Kindergarten teacher here in Jefferson County to help early elementary educators. Mrs. Shehan provides many wonderful lesson plans that can be used in Kindergarten,1st, and even 2nd grade classrooms. Class projects, monthly themes ideas, book lists, program integration ideas, classroom setups, party ideas, expectations ideas, and even family projects ideas are all presented for educators to use and work with. This site also provide printable pages that are very cute and can be very useful! - Cary S.

http://corduroy.wikispaces.com/ This is an interesting, interactive wiki that elementary educators can use with their students following the reading of the book //Corduroy//. This specific wiki presents lesson ideas (a letter writing activity, character discussions, poetry connections, etc.) in an interactive format that teachers or parents can use to strengthen comprehension and connection skills. There is even a cool word wizard game that allows students to work on spelling as they remember words associated with the book, //Corduroy!// This is a wiki that young students can used along with some assistance from an adult. //--// Cary S.

[] I really liked this website because it offers valuable phonics games and reviews for students who are learning to read and master the English language. If computers are available in the classroom or on occasion this is a valuable tool to help students review what they have been learning in their early elementary years. For example, this website has games for learning initial alphabet sounds, then vowell sounds, then it moves on to explore digraphs, and nonsense words all of which are valuable for students learning to read and write. ---Jannessa H.

http://1000names.wikispaces.com/home This wiki is a great example of how to use wikis in early elementary classrooms. A 1st and 2nd grade teacher wanted to show her students what 1000 looks like, so she started a wiki asking anyone to add their name to an increasing list of names. The project not only shows these students what 1000 names looks like, but people kept adding their names to the wiki, making the project go way beyond its objective. So far they've gotten 1775 people's names! --Julia C.