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Toys & Games
[|Game Goo] - Educational games focused on reading, with no ads

[|Holiday Guide - All Fun and Games]

[|Jigzone] - You can upload pictures and it can be turned into a jigsaw puzzle; you can change the size of the puzzle pieces. These puzzles can be emailed or posted online. You can also browse the gallery of already created puzzles with stock photographs.

Water
[|Discover Primary Science] - Come to this site to view animation videos, practice online science activities, and learn about science at this interesting site. The videos bring many important science topics alive, including the physics of motion, structures, and more. Examples of movies include "Cleaning Dirty Water," "Exploring Lungs," or "Bouncy Custard Balls." Topics vary from pollution to the human body to levers to making homemade bouncy balls!
 * Resources:**

E-learning for Kids - Check out this site offering free learning courses to students in science, language arts, English language, math, health and life skills, and computer skills. Choose from a wide variety of different learning experiences in the subject areas for earning in a fun and engaging way. Each subject area has countless interactives ready to go! Detailed instructions are provided for each activity. **Available in English, Spanish and French.**

[|H2O Conserve] - Learn about your water footprint and ways to conserve water

Let's Use Our Imagination
[|1000 Images on the Tip of My Tongue] - This website presents idioms organized in categories in **English, French and Spanish**. After choosing a category, students see a list of matching expressions. They can hear the idioms pronounced and used in sentences. This site offers a new and different feature than most idiom sites: a link to an equivalent idiom in French or Spanish! The only idioms here are idioms with similar expressions in the three languages, though they are not directly translated. By clicking on Activities, students can see selected idioms in animated cartoons with sound.

[|Andersen Fairy Tales] - Introduce your students - even non-readers - to the classic fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen with this charming multimedia resource. Students can listen to three narrated and cleverly animated tales, play some interactive games, and learn about Andersen's life.

[|Audio Stories for Children] - Chuck Brown, the host of //Light Up Your Brain//, takes readers on audio adventures of timeless classics such as Cinderella and Peter Rabbit, as well as other various stories. Mr. Brown records the stories and provides them on his web site for FREE! Hint: Use the stories during listening centers or as enrichment to a theme or shared/group reading during class. Play the stories on an interactive whiteboard or projector and have students draw pictures of the story. If copies of the story are available, have students follow along with a partner during the audio reading. [|Book Adventure - Book Finder] - Helps students find a new book that is on their level, appropriate, and interesting to them.

[|Book Pals Storyline] - A website created by the Screen Actors Guild, with stories read by famous actors. Can have captions.

[|Elements of a Story] - uses an engaging retelling of the Cinderella tale to explore the parts of a story

[|Free Reading] - This collaborative, wiki-style site is full of rich literacy activities for grades K-2. There are small group and whole group activities, focusing on phonemic awareness and phonics. Topics range from sight words to letter sounds.

[|Goldilocks Story] - Hold your mouse over the colored lines ('coloured'lines in BBC-speak) to listen to the highlighted text in a refreshing British accent. At the end of the brightly pictured story, 10 easy multiple choice questions immediately pop up to reinforce word/name recognition.

[|Literactive] - Phonics reading program for early readers; story can be read aloud and students can read along.

[|Silly Books] - This site offers animated books with audio (some authored by children), jokes, cartoons, interactive games, and more. **Some books are in Spanish**. Hint: Have your promising writers submit books for possible publication at this site (with parent permission, of course!). SillyBooks does the illustrating and audio.

[|The Story Place] - The Children's Digital Library, **in English and Spanish**. Preschool section is appropriate for grades PreK-2, elementary section is for slightly older students. Book is read aloud with accompanying actions; students can listen and read along.