Hummingbird Educational Resources

Links

 Links to web sites that I have found most useful. If you know of some other links that are teacher friendly e-mail me and I'll add it to my list. Happy surfing!

• ABC Teacher's Outlet

• Activity Idea Place - Over 1000 ideas for preschool children

• Activities in the Sunshine Room

• Alphabet Coloring Pages

• A to Z Kids Stuff: Resources for educators and others to use in a classroom, child care center, or at home. There are lesson plan themes, monthly calendars, fun educational activities for Pre-School and School-Age children, as well as free downloads

• Building Blocks to Reading - Activites by the letter

• The Chalkboard - Nice site with lots of ideas for kindergarten/preschool teachers; interactive.

• ECEOL Website, Collaborative effort of early childhood educators in building a site with well thought out content; growing site with global early childhood perspective.

• Erik/EECE Reggio Emilia Page,Information and resources related to the approach to Early Childhood Education developed in preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy.

• Hall of Early childhood, Teacher sites, sites for kids and special populations

• Idea Box: Early Childhood Education and Activity Resources, Nice resource with seasonal activities, projects and games, printable pages, music and songs, recipes, crafts and on-line stories

• The Learning Planet -  It is a place for kids preschool thru sixth grade to play fun learning games online.

•  Love and Laughter Educational Services - A resource for parents, teachers and caregivers featuring Monthly Themes, Daily Lesson Plans, and a Literacy Enrichment Program.  The themes will be explored via Hands-On Learning Activities, Art and Crafts, Language Activities, Music and Movement, Math Activities, and Science Discovery.

• Mary's Home Page, Something for everyone from teachers to quilting and gardening!.

•  Miss Annie's Pre-K Class - There are many activities in art, music, movement, science, manipulatives, literature, dramatic play, cooking/great recipes, basic life skills, and lessons in etiquette/good manners.

• Mrs. Petersen's Preschool Page site has thematic units (book ideas, storytelling, songs, recipes, art activities, centers, games, etc;), resource links, weekly note, message board, curriculum board, web rings, and more!!

• Natural Learning  - A fun site where anyone can print fingerplays or an art section for making Ellie the elephant.

• NAEYC, National Association for the Education of Young Children

• Patty's Preschool Resources

• Preschool Corner ,Ideas to use in preschool classroom.

• PRESCHOOL TEACHER, Curriculum ideas organized by month with lesson plans and place to share ideas.

• Tammy's Teaching Tips

• Teacher's Net,Tons of links, ideas, message boards, chat room and more!

KINDERGARTEN

• Addie's Inside Kindergarten

• A to Z Kids Stuff: Resources for educators and others to use in a classroom, child care center, or at home. There are lesson plan themes, monthly calendars, fun educational activities for Pre-School and School-Age children, as well as free downloads

• The ChalkboardNice site with lots of ideas for kindergarten/preschool teachers; interactive

• Early Childhood - site with lots of free craft ideas for teachers and parents supported by BioColor

• Idea Box: Early Childhood Education and Activity Resources, Nice resource with seasonal activities, projects and games, printable pages, music and songs, recipes, crafts and on-line stories

• Jenna's Website

• JumpStart Kindergarten, Page with activities for children; slider game, connect the dots, coloring book, etc. (For children who LIKE flat, pencil/paper activities or who want computer fun.)

• Kindergarten ConnectionThe Kindergarten Connection is designed to serve teachers and parents anywhere, and at any time.

• Kindergarten Kafe- Online kindergarten teacher's newsletter with ideas and articles for and by K teachers!

• Kindergarten Reading Readiness This site is professional and provides educational resources for parents and teachers for Reading Readiness. Activities, links and resources are available for ages birth through age 12.

• The Learning Planet -  It is a place for kids preschool thru sixth grade to play fun learning games online.

• Mrs. Williamson Kindergarten Page - This site serves Mrs. Williamson's kindergarten students and their parents.

• Mrs. Griffin's K Page, Links, lesson plan ideas and more!.

• Teacher's Net,Tons of links, ideas, message boards, chat room and more

• Worlds of Kindergarten

• Captioned-Media Program - FREE-loan, open-captioned videos to American deaf/hard of hearing students, parents, families, teachers. Educational and special-interest videos available. Funded by US Department of Education.

• Special Education Web:Resources, For teachers and parents.

• Linda's Resources for Early Childhood Special Education, For teachers and parents.

STAY AT HOME MOMS AND HOME SCHOOLED

• Stay At Home Mother's "Complete support for the at home motherhood lifestyle"

DAY CARE

• Daycare Provider's Homepage, Nice page with lots of stuff

LITERACY AND LANGUAGE

• Celebrate Children's Authors - Links to many favorite author's sites

• Marcus Pfister  - Author of Rainbow Fish

• Crocket Johnson Homepage - Author of Harold and the Purple Crayon

• Story Arts | Storytelling in the Classroom - The ancient art of storytelling is especially well-suited for student exploration

•  Reading Lessons - We have several really good downloads that folks will find very useful.

Two are mathlessons and one is the Dolch wordlist program.
 
• Learning Our Names

• Lots of Alphabet Stuff on the Web

• Alphabet Superhighway

• The Official Berenstein Bears Website, Lots of activites. You can even e-mail onw of the characters.

• Teachers at Random, A quick loading easy to use resource center with materials to assist teachers and enhance the classroom experience for young readers.

• Keeping Kids Reading, Contains information about children's books and reading.

• Gryphon House Books on line

• Sunshine Online, Site devoted to providing reading material for 5-8 year olds.

• The Official Eric carle WebSite, Eric Carle's book  and more.

• Carol Hurst's Child Literatue Site, Site devoted to providing reading material for 5-8 year olds.

• Jan Brett's Home Page, Great reproducible pages for use in conjunction with her books.

• Children's Literature Web Guide

• Just For Kids Book Search, Great for window shopping without having to buy.

SCIENCE AND COOKING

• Cooking With Young Children, Lots of fun recipes for little hands.

• Kids Science Sites - Compiled by the Children and Technology Committee of the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.

• LearningPlanet.com - It is a place for kids preschool thru sixth grade to play fun learning games online.

•  AIMS Education and Foundation  - simple to complex science ideas

MUSIC

• Sacred Heart Primary School Choir

• Hop Pop Town, Great music activities with colorful animal characters.

• Music Education Links:Contains quite a few links that deal with music education

• Children's Music Web - non-profilt organization dedicated to music for kids

• KIDiddles (TM) - Not Your Average Kid Site, Index of lots of children's songs.

CLIP ART

• Billy Bear 4 Kids, Fun clip art and reproducible pages.

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