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English Language Arts
ABC Mouse
ABC Mouse is a site for kids where they can learn many different topics through animations, games, books, songs, puzzles, art, and printables. ABC Mouse’s reading curriculum covers uppercase and lowercase letter recognition, rhyming words and word families, more than 450 books and beginning readers, sentence structure, and parts of speech. I can even track student progress so parents can see how their children are learning and if they are improving.
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ABCmouse.com (2007-2021). ABCmouse.com Early Learning Academy. [Website, first month free then $12.99/month after that]. Retrieved on September 14, 2021 from https://www.abcmouse.com/abc/
Technology Standard 6c:
Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.
Technology Standard 1c:
Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame
Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame is a fun quirky game where a big blue animated monster who tackles everyday frustrations that experiences different emotions. Students get to see the different emotions and pick out different scenarios on how to better handle the situation. Students will tap on thought bubbles which produces possible strategies to choose when the monster experiences different feelings. The app is free and can be viewed through iTunes and Google Play.
Commonsense (2021) Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame. ( iTunes App, Google Play) retrieved on September 14, 2021 from https://www.readingrockets.org/literacyapps/emotional-regulation
Technology Standard 1c:
Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
Community Helpers for Kids
Community Helpers for Kids I believe is a great way to end or check on my students’ progress throughout the lesson as it is being taught. This video is interactive and gives the students a chance to match the role of the person with their correct job description. By showing this video, I will be able to reach multiple learning styles that are present in my classroom.
Community Helpers Guess Who
YouTube. (2018, December 15). Community helpers for KIDS | Jobs & occupations for preschool and kindergarten | Kids academy. YouTube. Retrieved September 15, 2021, from https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=jt2q1cHsH6E.
K.SL.PKI.4 Describe familiar people, places, things, and events, and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Community Helpers Guess Who is a free app that would be a great fit for kindergarten students. This app is consisting of a matching game where you have to match the two familiar items from the community together. Each of the items or things on the matching list are all ones that would have been taught/ reviewed throughout the lesson.
Gildacaroline. “Memory Game - Community Helpers.” Wordwall, 7 Oct. 2020, https://wordwall.net/ resource/5049663/memory-game-community-helpers.
K.SL.PKI.4 Describe familiar people, places, things, and events, and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Education.com
Education.com has hundreds of games to help students learn in all topic areas. For my topic, phonics, there are over 100 games about blending sounds and spelling, prefixes and suffixes, spelling mulitsyllable words, blended words, and so much more.
Education.com (2021). Phonics. [Website, $8.00/month]. Retrieved on September 14, 2021 from https:// www.education.com/resources/phonics/?cid=11.75
Technology Standard 1c: Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
Emotions for Kids
Emotions for kids is a great video to share with students to introduce the main basic emotions that people feel. This is like a reveal because it uncovers the name of the emotion after showing a picture of
what the emotion looks like. This video is fun and will get students attention about learning about emotions. The video also gives an example after revealing the emotion.
SmileandLearn (2020, November 20). Emotions for kids. Retrieved from YouTube on September 13, 2021 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jetoWelJJJk
Technology Standard 1c:
Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
Feelings everyday
Feelings everyday is a fun and interesting site that will keep kids engaged. In this pbs learning website, students are able to learn by watching videos and through great description. Through the video a various amount of feelings will ne exposed.
Fleming, Candance. (2021) pbs learning media. Feelings everyday. Retrieved on September 15, 2021 from https://tn.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ket-earlychild-healthme/feelings-everyday/
Technology Standard 1c:
Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
Hopster Saturday Club: Empathy
Hopster Saturday Club: Empathy is a great resource for students to practice with identifying emotions. It’s a companion app to Saturday Club, an original series from the digital TV network, Hopster. The app is 100% free, the access to the TV series isn’t. The silly and extremely emotional characters showcase a relatively well rounded collection of feelings, where some of the games are simple and others are complicated.
Commonsensemedia. (2019) Hopster Saturday Club: Empathy. (iTunes App, Cost:Free) retrieved on September 13, 2021 from https://www.commonsensemedia.org/app-reviews/hopster-saturday-clubempathy
Technology Standard 1c:
Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
How to Help a Highly Emotional Child Cope with big feelings
How to Help a Highly Emotional Child Cope with big emotional website is a learning excerpt where students can grow. This website dives into teaching about emotions, explains feelings and behaviors,
validating feelings, teaching about emotion regulation and more. In this website, it provides in depth information about emotions.
Morin, Amy. (2021). Very well family How to Help a Highly Emotional Child Cope with big feelings. Retrieved on September 15, 2021 from https://www.verywellfamily.com/how-to-help-an-overlyemotional-child-4157594
Technology Standard 1c:
Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
Kid Pillar Community Helpers
Kid Pillar Community Helpers is a great article that should be read as a class. The content within the article is everything that the students need and more. I suggest that we read it together for a couple of reasons, the first reason is my students cannot read fluently yet, and it is a lot of information therefore, I would want to break it down over a few lessons.
“Community Helpers - Practical Life Activities for Kids.” KidPillar, 1 June 2021, https://kidpillar.com/ community-helpers-activities-kids/#2.
K.SL.PKI.4 Describe familiar people, places, things, and events, and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Learn to Read with Phonics
This starfall.com website titled “Learn to Read” offers a variety of fun ways for students to learn how to read with phonics. This website allows children to learn through exploration. Starfall’s emphasis on phonemic awareness, systematic sequential phonics, and common sight words in conjunction with audiovisual interactivity has proven effective in teaching emergent readers. This website includes learning through games, songs, mathematics, and reading activities for K-3.
Starfall Education Foundation. (2002-2021). Starfall Education: Kids Games, Movies, & Books K-3. [Website, free]. Retrieved on September 13, 2021 from https://www.starfall.com/h/index.php?mg=m
Technology Standard 6c:
Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.
Technology Standard 1c: Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
People in Our Community Song
People in our Community song is great way to start a lesson about familiar people, places, and things. Using this video to open my lesson will give me the chance to grab my students’ attention and get them excited about the lesson. This video is also great because it reaches more than just one learning style.
wearebusybeavers. (2012, December 2). "People in our community" - teaches jobs & occupations. YouTube. Retrieved September 15, 2021, from https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=mw6RBvUmayA.
K.SL.PKI.4 Describe familiar people, places, things, and events, and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Read with Phonics- Phonics Games
Read with Phonics is a great resource for students to use in or out of the classroom. This app has a main character, which is an alien, and it takes the students on an adventure through 4 different worlds where they can practice and learn all about phonics and phonic sounds. This app has a variety of games to help with letter and sound recognition.
Way We Learn. (2021). Read with Phonics. [Google Play, Cost: $3.49 - $8.99 per item]. Retrieved on September 13, 2021 from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details? id=uk.co.fonics&hl=en_US&gl=US
Technology Standard 6c:
Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.
Technology Standard 1c:
Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
Reading Lessons for Kids
This video is a great video to share with your students to introduce them to letter blending, sight words, and phonics. This particular video has a variety of songs and characters that help young students to learn. The characters in the video ask questions to get children thinking, sound words out, and say the sounds of letters. They take students through a series of lessons all about phonics.
Lotty Learns (December 30, 2017). Letter Blending + sight words + Phonics | READING LESSONS for Kids. Retrieved from YouTube on September 14, 2021 from https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=SFkNf9r1oak&t=900s
Technology Standard 6c:
Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.
Technology Standard 1c:
Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
Sesame Street: Name that emotion with Murray
Name that emotion with Murray is a very fun video to show students when talking about feelings. This exciting video will keep students engaged while staying focused and geared to learning. In this “name that feeling” video students play a game and guess which emotion each character is feeling. In this video they also use more advanced vocabulary words such as “anxious,” and “grouchy,” words that are not basic but are used in the upper elementary learning experience.
SesameStreet (2015, January 26). Sesame street: Name that emotion with Murray. Retrieved from YouTube on September 13, 2021 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxfJicfyCdg
Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
Syllable Division
This particular video prepares students with the required skills needed to split a word into syllables. The video goes through the six rules of syllables. The advantage of this video is for students to learn how to split words into syllables and then therefore have smaller chunks to read. The video takes them through several words, breaking them down, and sounded them out with the viewer.
Nessy (2020, April 4). Syllable Division | Learn the six rules of syllables | Chunking words | Learn to Read. Retrieved from YouTube on September 14, 2021 from https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=_H5azHca5yY
Technology Standard 6c:
Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.
Technology Standard 1c:
Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
Time for Kids Community Helpers
Time for Kids Community Helpers is a great website for younger students. This website offers pictures along with a read aloud for the students who are struggling with reading. It also comes in Spanish for the ELL students in my classroom. Time covers in depth what each person does within our community in a way that children can understand.
“Community Helpers.” Time for Kids, 1 June 2021, https://www.timeforkids.com/k1/communityhelpers/.
K.SL.PKI.4 Describe familiar people, places, things, and events, and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Tool Hint Community Helpers 1.
Tool Hit Community Helpers 1 is a free web app and a mobile app that is a great resource for the students to be able to use. This app tells the description of an occupation and the students will choose between two options to select the best fit. This app provides pictures and reads the question to the students. I would use this app as a fun way reinforce what has been taught.
Lampe, C. (2021, June 10). Community helpers 1. Free Games online for kids in Nursery by Cici Lampe. Retrieved September 15, 2021, from https://www.tinytap.com/activities/g2vtf/play/community-helpers-1
K.SL.PKI.4 Describe familiar people, places, things, and events, and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
ABC mouse
This ABC mouse app is a great tool for students to have fun and learn. It is free for educators; students can enjoy many different subjects with this app. It is easy to keep track of the students progress and keep them on the task. Students can work at their own pace and work on lesson they may need the most help on. Students get to create an avatar and win points to dress it up and furnish a little avatar home. There is also a class pet, a virtual zoo, and a aquarium.
Age of Learning, Inc. (March 6. 2014) ABC mouse.com: Early Learning Academy. © 2007-2021. Free/Inapp purchases Age of Learning, Inc. https://www.abcmouse.com/
Fiction/Nonfiction
The app epic is a great resource for students to chase their curiosity in fiction or nonfiction. It has games that will engage the students in the exercise. You have sign up to receive an account however, it is free for educators. Students will receive a code, so that they can log on and explore fun books at any time. Epic have a vast variety of books that are designed to fuel curiosity and reading confidence.
Epic Creations (May 21, 2015) Epic. Copyright Epic! Creations, Inc. Sep 9, 2021. 9.99/month https:// www.getepic.com/
Technology standards: 6a
Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
Technology standards:
1c Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
Fiction vs Nonfiction
This YouTube channel Harry kindergarten Music uses music to engage children in learning about fiction and nonfiction. He has a catchy song that is easy to remember. Students will use this channel to enhance their knowledge about fiction and nonfiction. The video also breaks down what make a fiction book fiction and a nonfiction book nonfiction.
Foss, Kathryn. (August 5, 2015) YouTube: Fiction vs Nonfiction. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=7RRPqkPnRl8
Fiction and Nonfiction
On this YouTube link from the geeky library lady gives the students information about the two different kinds of books. She explains one is called fake and the other is sometimes called not fake. She simplifies the terms so the students can grasp the concept of fiction and nonfiction. She also gives examples of different fiction and nonfiction stories.
The Geeky Library Lady. (July 28, 2014) You tube: Fiction and Nonfiction September 26,2017 https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUW03JXJOAU
Technology standards: 6a
Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
National geographic kids: History.
This kids.nationalgeographic.com website offers a lot to explore. It is an animal and geographical based site that allows students to read informational text with a diverse range of activities. The sites provide brain boasters that the students can click on and choice the information that they would like to read about. The site also has tons of amazing material to help students learn about different animals and
people. It also has videos of animals and events to help students build an understanding of the material they are reading.
National geographic kids, (© 2015-2021). National geographic kids: History. Copyright © 2015-2021 National Geographic Partners, LLC. https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/history,
Technology standards 6a:
Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
Technology Standards
1c: Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
Read me a story ink: The Lady Who Could Have Been President.
This readmeastoryink.com is a website with over 400 hundred books to read, have read, or listen too. It meets majority of the students’ needs in the classroom. Students can look up any fiction novel and read away. Students also get to create their own story with interactive links. This will get students engaged and ready to learn.
Axt, Don. (October 2000) Read me a story ink: The Lady Who Could Have Been President. 2010–2021 Robert W. Topp and The Hermitage Bookshop. https://readmeastoryink.com/search-the-stories/
Technology standards 6a:
Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
Technology Standards
1c: Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
