Wendy Flach - Resources

Garden Project

Lettuce

Garden Project - Lettuce

Learning about Lettuce -
What nutrients does lettuce provide?
What vitamins are in lettuce?
How does eating lettuce keep us healthy?

Spinach

Garden Project - Spinach

Learning about Spinach -
What nutrients does spinach provide?
What vitamins are in spinach?
How does eating spinach keep us healthy?

Kale

Garden Project - Kale

Learning about Kale -
What nutrients does kale provide?
What vitamins are in kale?
How does eating kale keep us healthy?

Mustard Greens

Garden Project - Mustard Greens

Learning about Mustard Greens -
What nutrients do mustard greens provide?
What vitamins are in mustard greens?
How does eating mustard greens keep us healthy?

Collard Greens

Garden Project - Collard Greens

Learning about Collard Greens -
What nutrients do collard greens provide?
What vitamins are in collard greens?
How does eating collard greens keep us healthy?

Interactive Test Practice

Interactive ISAT Sample Questions

Cloze and Speed Reading Passages

Pearson Practice Reading Passage Test

iPad Rollout

Book Print

Common Core Standards

Common Core Standards - State Standards Initiative

National PTA - Parent Information about Common Core

Word Work/Vocabulary

Fourth Grade Vocabulary Learning Games

Spelling City

Students use this site weekly to study their spelling words, practice with games, and test on the words and definitions.

Coconut Vowels

Coconuts with words in them fall to the beach andtThe student must match missing letters to the correct word coconut. If a coconut reaches the surfboard before you blast it, your stage will end.

Flamingos - Suffixes

Form a flock of flamingos with suffixes -y and -ly.

Turtle Dash - Vowel Practice

Fill in the missing letters for the word provided to move the turtle(s). Up to 4 players can play at once.

Postcards - Vowel Phonemes

Help write a postcard by clicking on the vowel phonemes in each sentence or by clicking and dragging the right spelling into the gap in the words.

Create awesome "word clouds" from text you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Reading/Literature

Advanced Phonics and Comprehension

This website provides reading passages that are specific to advanced phonic skills for upper elementary readers.

Language Arts Games, Passages, and Resources

Book Adventure - Kid Zone

Houghton Mifflin Kids Place

A site that connects to our reading series.

Dr. Seussville

Learn about Dr. Seuss and his contributions to literacy.

2009 Reading ISAT Practice

2010 Reading ISAT Practice

2011 Reading ISAT Practice

Mysteries

Detective Skills - The Indianapolis Public Library

Kids Mystery Net

F.B.I. - Federal Bureau of Investigation For Kids

C.I.A. - Central Intelligence Agency for Kids

Wildfires

Three Main Types of Wildfires: Discovery.com

Wildfire Videos: National Geographic

Wildfires Webpage with Smokey the Bear

Myths, Tales, Legends, and Fairy Tales

Fairy Tale Plays

Pourquoi Tales

This site has some quick Pourquoi Tales that support our Literacy Focus.

Myths & Legends

Ancient Greek Gods, Myths, and Legends

Greek Myths for Children

Mathematics

Lines of Symmetry Game

Math Playground

Play with numbers and give your brain a workout!

Mathematics ISAT Practice

Multiplication Basic Facts Practice

Interactive - Pan Balance using shapes

Math Topic 18 uses pan balances to teach the equal and not equal algebraic concept. Students can use this one with shapes to build that conceptual thinking of the pan balance. Then check out the one using numbers to entend their thinking.

Interactive Pan Balance - Numbers

Extend student thinking using a pan balance to understand algebraic equations and their equalities.

Kids Zone: Create a Graph

Make useful graphs and try other math activities!

Cool Math 4 Kids

Fun Math Games with a bunch of different skills!

Science

The Phases of the Moon

2010 Science ISAT Practice

2009 Science ISAT Practice

Animal Classification

An animal class is made up of animals that are all alike in important ways. Scientists have grouped animals into classes to make it easier to study them.

Everglades - Eco Tour Rap

Students can play the video about the Florida Everglades to increase their reading fluency.

Simple Machines

Help the robot find the simple machines and learn how they work! This site is a lot of fun, try it out!

Brain Pop Science - How the World Works

Really Cool Science Site with many activities.

Physical Processes/Energy

Students can play games, read, and take quizzes about changing circuits, sound, electrical conductors, Earth Sun and Moon, Forces in Action, Friction, How we see things, Light and Dark, Light and shadows, magnets and springs.