K-2+Resources

General Resources
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 * Fraboom is the world's first LIVE interactive online children's museum.

Literacy

 * Google Lit Trips: Plot out the journey characters take on their journey in their reading materials. Books can come to life on a map by adding pictures, text, voice, and even video.
 * [|Starfall]: Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to teach children to read with phonics. Our systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice, is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL). Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children.
 * KidBlog Kidblog meets the need for a **safe** and **simple** blogging platform suitable for elementary and middle school students. Most importantly, Kidblog allows teachers to monitor and control all publishing activity within the classroom blogging community.
 * Roy the Zebra: The site is home to a package of interactive games, stories and resources that have been developed to help emerging readers learn to read.
 * Story Time for Me is a beautiful collection of digital children’s books for primary students in kindergarten through second grade. Each story includes charming illustrations, animation and professional narration with music and sound effects. Activities accompany every story that encourage imagination and creativity (these are coming soon!).
 * Read Write Think : Engage your students in online literacy learning with these interactive tools that help them accomplish a variety of goals—from organizing their thoughts to learning about language—all while having fun.
 * Poetry Forms: Choose your poetry form from the list of links on the left. Then just add words to make the poem your own.
 * Academic Skill Builder - Free online resource, which offers educational video games that can be played by several students at once, has released 40 Web-based learning games for K–8 students. They cover basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills.

iPad/iPod Apps:

 * [|Miss Spider Books]: Watch, read, listen, and play as this beloved, classic picture book magically comes to life. With multi-touch animation, painting, puzzles, and games, the Miss Spider’s Tea Party App reinvents the reading experience for the whole family.
 * [|Dr. Suess Books]: New features only available in this omBook include professional narration, background audio and enlarged artwork for each scene. To promote reading in young children, individual words are highlighted as the story is read and words zoom up when pictures are touched. By combining the original text and artwork of Dr. Seuss with features that entertain and promote reading, this omBook appeals to readers of all ages.

Math
Academic Skill Builder - Free online resource, which offers educational video games that can be played by several students at once, has released 40 Web-based learning games for K–8 students. They cover basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills.
 * Ants Go Marching In: subtraction game
 * Illuminations**:**is designed to:
 * Provide Standards-based resources that improve the teaching and learning of mathematics for all students.
 * Provide materials that illuminate the vision for school mathematics set forth in [|//Principles and Standards for School Mathematics//], [|//Curriculum Focal Points for Prekindergarten through Grade 8 Mathematics//], and [|//Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense Making//].

iPad/iPod Apps

 * iPads in the classroom: Listing by grade level