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CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES

Cool Preschool Activities
http://parentpals.com/4.0Teaching/teaching.html
Parent Pals has organized specific educational and therapy games to help you enhance your child's learning and language skills. The games are presented by levels 1-4.

Teaching Ideas for Early Childhood Special Educators
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/pep/teach.htm
Theme related classroom ideas with some ideas for adaptations.

Online Stories
http://www.theideabox.com/idealinks.nsf/ Online+Stories?OpenView&Start=1&Count=100&Expand=1#1
This site has games and children's stories on line.

Activity Plans from Scholastic
http://teacher.scholastic.com/calendars/index.htm
These ideas changes with the month and include parent ideas to send home.

Internet Field Trip
http://teacher.scholastic.com/fieldtrp/index.htm#k2
This site offers links within the scholastic site grouped by theme of study.

The Perpetual Preschool
http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/
This interactive site was built to celebrate the creativity and dedication of all those who contribute to the perpetual education of young children. Here are activities specific to different areas in any preschool classroom like, block area, dramatic play etc. This site also has chat rooms for teachers, professional development information and lots more!

The Activity Cupboard
http://www.mothers-home.com/activities/sherri2.htm
Great craft ideas about everything from animals, flowers, festivals, using throwaway items for crafts, and more.

Free Activities
http://www.ghbooks.com/activity/
A collection of games, experiments, projects and diversions for children and their parents and teachers. Some of favorite activities from every book we publish, are collected and put on the Web for you to enjoy.

Preschool Learning Activities
http://www.nickjr.com/grownups/home/activities/index.jhtml
A terrific index of themed learning activities based on the shows Blue¹s Clues, Maisy, Little Bear, Kipper, Gullah Gullah Island, and the Busy World of Richard Scarry.

Gayle's Preschool Rainbow
http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/
At this site ideas, thematic units and suggestions for preschool lesson plans are discussed and early childhood education activities are reviewed.

More Activities
http://www.janbrett.com/activities_pages.htm
At this site you can download and print coloring pages, find fun projects to make, download and print masks.

Print and Use
http://www.janbrett.com/put_the_animals_in_the_mitten.htm
An activity print out to use with Jan Brett's "The Mitten".

STORIES ONLINE

Blue Bear
http://www.dreambox.com/storybox/bluebear/bluebear.shtml
Story which reads quickly.

More Stories on Line
http://www.ipl.org/youth/StoryHour/
Share and enjoy

Berenstein Bears
http://www.berenstainbears.com/puzzle/portraitpuzzle.html
Visit the Berenstein Bears, create color pages, read a story on line, play games.

THEME RELATED ACTIVITIES

Art

Kids and Art
http://www.kinderart.com/lessons.htm
Lesson ideas on everything crafty: bulletin boards, curriculum, drama, drawing, folk art, multicultural, seasonal art, sculpture, etc.

The Idea Box
http://earlychildhood.about.com/education/earlychildhood/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?
site=http://www.theideabox.com/ideas.nsf/craft%3FOpenView%26Start=1

has an alphabetic or thematic listing of craft ideas, plus other preschool resources.

At The Chalkboard
http://members.tripod.com/~Patricia_F/welcome.html
Preschool Place you will find teacher submitted art and craft ideas.

 

Animals

Animals and other games
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~beckyis/animals.htm
Interactive story, play with colors and memory game

 

Alphabet & Words

English Word Games
http://www.nanana.com/wordgames.html
Your place for many useful and unique word games for kids, students and adults. Both in English and Japanese.

Alphabet book
http://www.northstar.k12.ak.us/schools/upk/books/alpha/b.html
All about alphabets.

Animated Picture Book Big/Small
http://www.liveandlearn.com/bigsml.html
At this site kids can read the animated picture book Big/Small. Pictures are colorful and animated.

 

Matching

Match pictures and words
http://www.willya.com/ww/choose_g.htm
Here kids can play matching picture game, Fill-In-The Blank Rhyming Game, find pictures, get to know William & Molly, and more. There is also a section for Parents and Teachers.

 

Music

Kiddles
http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/index.html
search for children's songs by title or theme. You can also hear the tune played over the internet.

 

Africa

Afro-America
http://www.afroam.org/children/children.html
Discover Africa with fables, games, brain teasers and lots more.

 

Spring

Science
http://www.doscience.com/act_archive/condiment_diver/condiment.html
Do Science -great science activities for parents, students and teachers. Educators will find ideas for the classroom and resources for professional development.

Center Activity
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/8787/preschool.html
This page of links is organized around learning center areas. Check out the science are for some early childhood science links.

 
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