Maureen M. Welch

Click on this site to play games for various subjects.  To find games for a certain subject, click on a subject at the bottom of the page.

GRAMMAR

http://www.gamequarium.com/partsofspeech.html

Learn a word of the day, build your own dictionary, and play vocabulary games.

http://www.wordcentral.com/home.html 

Synonym Pirate Game:

http://www.firstschoolyears.com/literacy/word/other/synonyms/interactive/synonyms.htm

The Joy of Pigs
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/pigs/index.html

Fractured Fairytales

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/fairytales/

Children’s Favorite Authors

http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/authors.asp

CURSIVE
Zane-Bloser - Handwriting activities from Zane-Bloser 

Handwriting for Kids - Worksheets online to help students tackle cursive letters.

TYPING
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/levels/level1.shtml

SCIENCE

Plants: This is an awesome website that introduces students to a plant's structure, life cycle, and parts.

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/case1/case1.html

Learn about Natural Disasters below!

 http://www.fema.gov/kids/dizarea.htm

Water: At this site, students will learn how the special properties of water allow life on the water planet—Earth. There are games to play and movies and pictures to see.

http://www.fossweb.com/modules3-6/Water/index.html

SOCIAL STUDIES

National Government

http://bensguide.gpo.gov/

 Branches of Government!

http://www.texaslre.org/branches_game.html

Ellis Island

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/index.htm

This website, Time for Kids, is an outstanding resource for kid-friendly news stories. It is great practice for reading non-fiction text, and it provides lots of extra activities for students to complete after their reading.

www.timeforkids.com

Election

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/election08/

http://www.weeklyreader.com/election/games.asp

Fifty States practice

http://www.50states.com/

OTHER

How do YOU learn best?

http://www.ldpride.net/learning-style-test.html