Lexington
Public Schools Elementary School Libraries
Web pages for Kindergarten students
with research links reviewed and selected by the
Librarians of the Lexington Public Schools, Lexington, MA
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indergarten
Links
- Books and
Authors
- Jan Brett's
Home Page
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- Marc
Brown's Arthur Home Page
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- Eric
Carle's Home Page
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- Language
Arts
- ABCs
Let's Get Ready to Read Click on a letter and
follow the stars to introduce letter sounds.Be sure your
computer sound
is on.
- Building Language for Literacy Go on a language adventure with Nina the Naming Newt
or
Leo the Letter-Loving Lobster.
- Chateau Meddybemps
Learn about letters of the alphabet. Count, color and create.
Write a story and solve riddles. Parent and teacher guides
available.
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- Dinosaur Alphabet Book Click
a
letter to find out about a dinosaur.
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- I Love Colors Choose
a color and then go to a page with lots of activities.
It's
fun to read Practice reading with six interactive
stories. Be sure computer
sound
is on.
Learn
To Read Practice sounds and listen to a story using
the sounds.
- Letter Printouts A-Z Each
page has a capital letter, a lower case letter, and four words that
start with that letter, with pictures of those words to color.
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- Math
- Aunty Math
Every other
week "Aunty Math" presents a new math challenge for grade K-3.
- Math Activities Puzzles,
number games, patterns,and size comparison activities.
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- Science
- Chicken Box
Lots of pictures of various breeds.
- Chickscope
Explore the 21 day life cycle of the embryonic chick.
- Farm
Animals Click on
animals to see photos and learn about their behavior.
- Morphing Embryos
Watch silent video clips of human, pig and chick embryos.
- Watch
a Chick Hatch See the video of the hatching. Be
sure to click on the link to the egg tooth.
- Wendell's
Yucky Bug World
Everything you ever wanted to know about roaches.
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- What Tree
Is It? Identify trees
and see photographs of their leaves, fruit, and bark.
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- Social
Studies--Community
- Betsy Ross Homepage Find out about her life and the history of the flag.
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- Community Club Learn about neighborhood workers.
- Community
Helpers Enchanted Learning site with puzzles, games, and
printable books.
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- The
World of Benjamin Franklin
Find out about this important American.
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- Your neighborhood Description of community workers.
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Social
Studies--U.S. Holidays
- Christopher
Columbus Print out and color this picture of Christopher
Columbus on his ship.
- Columbus
Day Crafts and Activities Learn about Christopher
Columbus and his journeys.
- Martin
Luther King, Jr. Find out about this great man and print
out a chart to compare your life to his.
- President’s
Day Arts and Crafts Learn about President’s day.
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Please report
suggestions, additions, and notice of obsolete links to the
Library
Media Center Staff. Date Last Modified:
3/14/08.
Criteria: Sites on these pages have been reviewed by
Lexington (MA)
School Librarians using the following criteria.
- grade level appropriateness
- curriculum enhancement
- accuracy/authenticity
- readability
- ease of student use
Disclaimer:
To the best of our knowledge these
links have been selected using the above criteria. The Internet is a
constantly changing environment and we cannot be held responsible if
students link to unknown material. We recommend that all sites
be reviewed by teachers or parents before use.
Copyright Notice: Internet site
annotations and library logo copyright 1997 by the Department of
Libraries and Information Technology, Lexington Public Schools,
Lexington, Massachusetts. Permission granted to print this page for
non-commercial purposes only in its entirety.
This page was developed
during the summers of 1997 and 1998, supported by a Lexington Education
Foundation grant to the Lexington Public School's Department of
Libraries and Information Technologies. Authors and developers were
Linda Corbett, Library Media Specialist, Fiske Elementary School;
Margaret Donovan, Library Media Specialist, Lexington High School and
Web Manager; Susan Lum, Library Media Specialist, Lexington High
School; Martha Stanton, Coordinator, Libraries and Information
Technologies; Arden Veley, Library Media Specialist, Clarke Middle
School; and Caryn Werlin, Library Media Specialist, Bridge Elementary
School.