**MATH**
Games and flash cards for basic math facts.
APlus Math
Clear step-by-step instructions, skills practice and math games
for many areas of math
Math is Fun
Cool math 4 kids is an amusement park of math and more -
especially designed for fun, fun, FUN!
A math site for 5 - 12 year olds. Includes how-to lessons and
explanations, games and brain benders for math.
Cool Math 4 Kids
videos to teach math operations (need sound)
Great for homework!
math how-to videos
Cool tricks to help you learn the times tables.
Times Tables Tips
Interactive 100 chart - good for skip counting to learn patterns
of times-tables, etc.
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/math/games/100-number-chart-one.html
All about Geometry
Practise sheets to print off at home or school for many different
math concepts.
http://www.dadsworksheets.com/v1/Worksheets.html
Practise long division with step by step prompts. If you type in
a wrong number, nothing happens (unless you have the sound on).
You have to type in the correct answer for the program to work
(and you get an excited sound!) Great for home practice!
Snork's Long Division (Step-by-step long division game)
Kahn Academy video explaining division...the basics. For
students who do not understand what division means, and for
parents to watch with their children.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTzTqvzWzm8&feature=youtube_gdata
Here is a similar method to the one taught in class for long
division. To help remember the steps, we use Does McDonalds
Serve CheeseBurgers? The first letter of each word stands for the
steps: Divide, Multiply, Subtract, Check (if the answer is less
than the divisor), Bring Down.
For parents to help their children with long division
Shows fractions up to sixteenths; also shows equivalent fractions
Fraction number line
Adding fractions with the same and different denominators -for
the advanced math group
http://www.mathsisfun.com/fractions_addition.html
Fraction to decimals game. Level one is tenths and level two is
a combination of tenths and hundredths.
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/fractions/FractionsToDecimals.htm
**LANGUAGE ARTS**
Guides you through writing diamante poetry.
Diamante Poetry
Design and write a postcard
**CURSIVE HANDWRITING**
Shows step-by-step instructions on forming uppercase and
lowercase letters. When you put the cursor over the letter, an
animation shows you how to form the letters. Practice sheets to
print off elsewhere in the site.
Cursive Handwriting
**KEYBOARDING**
typing practice - where you race against a clock to see how fast
you can find letters on the keyboard.
http://www.freewebs.com/weddell/findtheletter.html
A fun keyboarding site to try at home to learn and improve your
typing skills. The sounds and graphics are great!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/
**COLOURING**
All about colouring. Also has cool, detailed, printable
colouring pages for intermediate grades.
Colouring Pages for Intermediates
Ask questions and get easy-to-understand answers.
Virtual Surgeries (knee, hip and brain), designing cell phones,
simple machines, odd machines, weather, etc. All hands-on and
interactive.
Ed Heads Interactive Science
Inuit - introduction and history
Haida First Nations - introduction and history
Site for kids, all about First Nations Peoples in Canada
Canada's First Nations Peoples
big houses of Coast Salish and Haida and others
http://www.freespiritgallery.ca/nativeindianhouses.htm
History and information about the Coast Salish
http://www.joejack.com/coastsalishhistory.html
Picture and description of a Coast Salish shed house
http://www.straight.com/article-275094/vancouver/faces-vancouver-coast-salish-plank-houses
Click on the story of the first totem pole and read it and look
at all the pictures, including the close-ups.
First Totem Pole Story
Kids' site about Pacific Northwest Coast First Nations
Raven Tales on Eldrbarry home page at top of page.
Pacific Northwest Legends
http://www.eldrbarry.net/rabb/rvn/rvn.htm
INSTRUCTIONS for First Nations Fishing at Royal BC Museum
Click on Continue at bottom of main page.
Click on Activities at top of page (red bar).
Click on Esquimalt and Songhees Fishing Activities.
Read info and follow directions given
First Nations Fishing Activities at Royal BC Museum
Brief history of Simon Fraser, explorer and fur trader.
Who was Simon Fraser?
Excellent site about Canadian Explorers
http://edselect.com/explorers
Rules about hard c and soft c; hard g and soft c. Cartoon style.
http://rbeaudoin333.homestead.com/hardsoftc_g_1.html
Sport Fit Canada
Ms. Allen's Class Blog