My Links
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Hello Kids and Parents: Learning Links are the education sites or subscription sites that we use in our classroom. December is the opening of our Coding Unit. Each grade level has a goal of completing a course in class and at home. Yes, there is homework in Technology as it is now infused throughout the curriculum. Our focus is on keyboarding, coding, digital communication, digital literacy and citizenship, and core academic subjects like math and language arts.
In coding each grade level has a entrance code and a secret animal for identification. Here are the codes.
Fourth Grade: HNQFKX
Third Grade: SFLQBL
Second Grade: VKGRLN
They have Type to Learn codes in their binders, along with ixl, and reflex.
Math
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Chess for Kids: For Computer Club
Reading/Language Arts
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Spelling City
Come here to work on grade level spelling and vocabulary. -
Grammar Gorillas
Practice identifying the parts of speech -
Sortify: Parts of Speech
Please try out all these games for grammar fun.
Science
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Smithsonian Wild Animal Research
images, cam shots, and video of various animals -
Enchanted Learning: Animals
This is a good page for second and third grade to begin research on animals A-Z. It is also good for habitats and coloring pages for animals. -
World Animal Foundation
Very good fact sheets that can be printed out. -
Perth Zoo for Kids
Great fact sheets for 2-5 year olds. Use for animal projects.
Social Studies
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Bill of Rights Match Game
Fourth Grade Curriculum Theme -
Columbus Poem
Read through this poem twice, keep the page open. Now go to the Fourth Grade Folder and open the Columbus Word document. You will see a Columbus poem that is in disorder and need of punctuation and grammar changes. Using copy and paste, as well as highlighting an changing mistakes, put this poem in order to match the original. -
Library of Congress
You want to research a person or a historical event? Start here! -
Bread and Roses Strike 1912
Overview of the conditions that led up to the Bread and Roses Strike of 1912.
Integration
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Great Podcasts: Time to Chill and Listen
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Storybird
Storybird reverses visual storytelling by starting with the image and "unlocking" the story inside. Explore artists, get inspired, and write. -
Immigration Dinner 2016
Thank you to Amesbury Educates, the fourth grade students and teachers, parents, staff helpers, and specialists for a job well done. -
How to make a Story Bird: Read First
This is how a student creates and saves a Storybird in school.
Keyboarding
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Alternate Keyboard Program
I have added typing.com as an alternate program for your kids to use at home. -
Bubble Keyboarding
You need to keyboard all the alphabet before you attempt this one. I don't want to burst your bubble.
Programming
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Fourth Grade 2018-2019
Find your name, your pw icon, sign in. Work your way through the programming activities. Start with 2 Maze- and move to the highest level. Don't skip activities. Do them all. Work your way through the puzzles. The skills are progressive. You will get credit for work completed. This is going to be fun.
Research
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Pebble Go: Research For Elementary
This is a great organized web site that is at grade level content for elementary students
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Kids Britannica from our Public Library
Great for early learning research. Free to all Massachusett's children.
