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         These are some of our favorite websites. Do you have any favorites you'd like to share with us? If so, email christyrosander@gmail.com  and let us know!  
 
  


Valley Oaks Charter School Links
Looking for New Ideas for Journal Writing or Essay Topics? Check out the Writing Prompts link on the homepage for plenty of ideas! 

United Streaming
Enhance your lessons with over 50,000 video clips.  Enter the school pass code 99A9-3DE1, then enter the required fields

 

California Streaming

Enhance your lessons with video clips. On the left –hand side of the screen,  enter your username (the first and last name of your resource teacher , lower case with no space) and password which is valleyoaks (lower case, no space). Note:  both the user name and the password are lower case sensitive.

 
 California State Standards

This site features actual past standardized test questions for each grade level 

 
California State Standards 
Click on subject, then grade level
This is a great resource for actual sample writing prompts, examples of writing, and scoring.

 

 

 

Reference and Cross Curricular

 

Kern County Library 

Easy access to requesting, renewing, and searching for books and media.   Contact our local library for your free PIN #. 

 

KETV 

Search programming weeks in advance to plan your educational viewing.  In the Tehachapi KETV is currently only available to Brighthouse customers on channel 15.  A great resource!!!!! 

Links Learning

Math, reading, and science

 

American Heritage Dictionary 

American Heritage Dictionary with voice for pronunciation

 

Yahoo Kids Study Zone  

Check out this cool, easy to use site out for Science, Social Studies, Math, and Reference

 

Yahooligans
A visit to this site should be your first step in researching anything online. It's a safe, kid-friendly search engine. Search by keyword, subject, or by using their categorized listings of favorite topics.

 

Learning to Read 

Excellent site for ideas, games, and printable books (checkout the homeschool section)

 

Yahoo Kids Reference  

Dictionary and Encyclopedia

 

Word Central 

Dictionary and Thesaurus)

 

Scholastic News 

A great resource for current events

 

ABC Teach

So many resources, worksheets, and units for every grade level and topic, a must visit

 

Biographies

 

Ask Jeeves for Kids

Search engine for kids   

 

Funbrain

Visit this web site for fun ways to use your brain! You'll find all types of games and activities to keep your thinking skills sharp. Test your knowledge of the 50 states, make up wacky stories, play math baseball, and more!

   

Free Worksheets

Free worksheets for all subjects

 

 

 

 

Resources by Grade Level
  

 Valley Oaks Kindergarten 

All textbooks featured, detailed by unit or skill
 
Valley Oaks First Grade  
All textbooks featured, detailed by unit or skill
 

Valley Oaks Second Grade  

All textbooks featured, detailed by unit or skill

 

Valley Oaks Third Grade 

All textbooks featured, detailed by unit or skill

 

Valley Oaks Fourth Grade 

All textbooks featured, detailed by unit or skill

 

Valley Oaks Fifth Grade 

All textbooks featured, detailed by unit or skills

 

Valley Oaks Sixth Grade  

All textbooks featured, detailed by unit or skill

6th Grade Online Literature Guides

Summer of the Monkeys

Hittite Warrior

Mara Daughter of the Nile

Pyramid

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 

·          Study Guide Spark Notes, great site for symbols and theme analysis. Parent and student pages

Bronze Bow.

·          WebQuest Focuses on the fight for injustice.

·          CyberGuide  Includes writing and reading activities resulting in a student product. San Diego County Office of Education 

·          Mini Unit  Summary and suggested activities. Easy Fun School

 

Valley Oaks Seventh Grade

All textbooks featured, detailed by unit or skill

7th Grade Online Literature Guides

A Single Shard

·          Teacher's Guide with pre-reading activities, thematic connections, and interdisciplinary activities. Random House

·          Book Discussion Guide includes a summary, book talk, discussion questions, and related websites. Multnomah County Public Library (Oregon)

·          Lesson Plan includes a review, things to notice and talk about, activities, and related books. Carol Hurst

·          Literature Learning Ladders includes links to author information, lesson plans, and other teacher resources. Annette Lamb

Door in the Wall  

Chapter questions and enrichment activities. Brian Thornton

 

Valley Oaks Eighth Grade

All textbooks featured, detailed by unit or skill

 
 
 

Math

 

Click on the grade level for K-5 Macmillian/McGrawHill California Mathematics teacher and student online support.

Kindergarten

 

 

1st Grade

 

 

2nd Grade

 

 

3rd Grade

 

 

4th Grade

 

 

5th Grade

 

 

Click on the following link to access 6th-8th grades Pearson Prentice Hall Math online support, then enter the Web Code on the inside cover of your Mathematics textbook.

 

 

6th-8th Grade Prentice Hall Online Support

 

 

 

AAA Math

Great website for instruction and games at all grade levels, abilities, and in all areas of math! 

 

Math Facts Cafe
Need to work on your times tables? This site has a flashcard program that will help you master your multiplication facts in random order.

 

Math Stories

 

Math Activities

 

 

  

Language Arts


Dolch Sight Words

Go into reading, then to sight words, this is the best worksheets for all the dolch sight words
 
Vocabulary Lesson Plans  
Great site to learn Latin and Greek roots, prefixes, suffixes, even has SAT prep!
Add some power to your spelling list by learning vocabulary from the roots up

 

Multnomah Library Book Discussion Guides

 

Random House Teacher Book Guides

 

Carol Hurst's Literature Site

 

Book Adventure

Online multiple choice tests for hundreds of books, fun and free

 

Learning to Read  

Excellent site for ideas, games, and printable books (checkout the homeschool section)

 

Graphic Organizers

Reading and writing organizers

 

 

  

Science

 

Periodic Table

Studying the Period Table and getting confused? This site is an excellent source of information for the elements, element groupings and how the data is user friendly once you know the rules this is a must for any eight grader. The games are fun, challenging and most of all informative!

 

National Geographic

 

Exploratorium

 

Yucky

Gross stuff about the human body and science

 

Monterey Bay Aquarium

 

Brainpop

 

Henry Ford Museum

 

Inventions

 

How Stuff Works

Every wondered how doughnuts are made or what makes an airplane fly? Visit this website to satisfy your curiosity!

 

Science Fair Resources

Discovery Education

 

Education Planet Guide

 

Educator Resource Guide

 

Exploratorium

 

Science Fair Theme Page

 

 

 

 

Social Studies/Geography

 

Geography Maps and Games  

Can you find Iraq? What is the Make history come alive with maps, games, and countries. Use this site to brush up on US capitals or travel to other continents for in depth maps and games.

 

50 States
Researching one of the 50 states of the United States? This website provides a link to thousands of websites about the USA. Just visit the site and click on any state to be taken to a listing of sites about that state. 

 

 

 

 

Art and Music

 

Art Adventures  

Art curriculum for the entire year, all grade levels

 

Getty Museum Art Lessons

 

Puppets

 

Gary Lamb

Musical selections to enhance learning

 

 

 

 


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