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Third Grade Favorites

 

Art

Crayola Crayons hosts this super site with  greeting cards, crafts, coloring pages, and games

Snowflake Maker  Cut and design virtual paper snowflakes.

 

Games

Class Brain - Mental Madness puzzles, board games, role-playing games, all types of educational games!

Disney.com - The official Disney site

FunBrain- educational games in a variety of subject areas for 3rd grade.

I Spy - Play games based on the I Spy series of books.

JustKidsgames- site with educational games about reading, math, science.

Nick.com - fun games from the popular TV network.

pilkey.com-  a fun site from the author of Captain Underpants- check out the groovy games.

Primary Games - has lots of educational and fun games

GOAL

Tessellations - a great web site to help with the GOAL tessellation project

 

Homework Helpers

B.J. Pinchback's Homework Helper is a powerful feature of Discovery School's Student Channel.  It lists over 625 educational sites on the web.  The Student Channel also offers favorites such as a dictionary, thesaurus, and puzzle maker.

Internet Public Library- one of our favorite sites, has a youth division which offers links to 12 different subjects areas.  Great for research and reports!

Kid Friendly Search Engines-  find great web sites fro your school topics by using these kid friendly search sites.

 

Keyboarding

Alpha Munchers Typing Game- Type letters to protect your food from the munchers.

Dance Mat Typing -Colorful and tuneful introduction to touch typing - do all 12 levels and become a top typist.

Glencoe's Online Keyboarding-  16 lessons with video clips, even printable score sheets.

Super Hyper Spider Typer  Save Berry the spider from hungry lizards with words on their backs by typing words quickly

 

Math

ABCya!- addition, subtraction, counting money, keyboarding practice, identifying computer parts, connect the dots, fractions and much more!

Play some "Cool Math Games" at this site including the classic simulation game Lemonade Stand.

Fun Brain Math Arcade-  25  fun math games at various skill levels.

Math Playground is a math learning site for students in grades K-6.  It features a large collection of word problems, math games, and logic puzzles.

Third Grade Skill Builders  -a long list of sites to build skills in math arranged by skill.

 

Reading

Bookhive This is an excellent place to look for reviews of current titles in more than 20 categories.

GameGoo: Learning that Sticks - Fun games such as Paw Park Sassy Seals and Alien Scavenger Hunt Space Trash to practice your Communication Arts skills.

MrsP.Com - a fun, new web site celebrating books and reading-hear stories, play games.

Tumble Books- E Books for  Kids   Thanks to Northland Library find access to on-line picture books, Chapter books, puzzles and more- a great site  ! Click on the left for Tumble books or try some of the other websites recommended. 

 

Science

Astro Adventures- learn about the solar system  as you save  yourself from disaster on the Redstone Space shuttle- super interactive introduction.

Make A Robot- Build and test a robot at the Iwaswonderingthat.org site. Also try Gorilla Quest.

Planet Heroes- This site from Fisher Price has activities ranging from constellation dot to dots to online space puzzles.

Planet Ten- Take an awesome virtual tour through the solar system and even design and launch your own planet.

Solar Lab- Read facts about planets and play a guessing game.

Zathura  Some  cool space games from the movie based on the Chris Van Allsburg book.

 

Social Studies

Visit the Jigsaw Puzzle Zone and try to assemble their USA  puzzle.  Hint:  You can choose the number of shapes --- Can you do 48

Place the States-  test your knowledge. Can you drag the states to their correct location on the map ?

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