Fun Sites:

Fun Brain:  All kinds of games educational and otherwise.  Also books and comics.  

ABCYA:  So many games for different grades.  Upper grades, check out the magic pen!

Compound Words Game  

Vocab/World Food Program:  Test your vocabulary skills and donate rice through the UN World Food Program at the same time.

Seussville:  Everything fun Dr. Seuss style!  More suited for younger students.   

Scholastic Kids:  Scholastic site with information on books, authors, and has games and more!

Word Cloud:  Creates a word cloud.  The more words you type in the more interesting your word cloud will become.  

Eduplace:  Houghton Mifflin math games

National Geographic Kids

San Diego Zoo for Kids:  Lots to do and see!  

Mate In One:  Checkmate puzzles for chess lovers.

Discovery Kids

Disney Games:  Fun games for kids.  Please do not play any game that requires a user name or password.

San Francisco Orchestra:  Fun with music.

Jam Studio:  Create a song with chords by chosing different instruments, drums, chords, etc.  This site does require a user name and password to save your songs, but not to create a song.  

Virtual Keyboard:  Plays different types of sounds, burt doesn't record.  You can also hear chords.  

Virtual Piano:  You can play and record your songs on a much larger keyboard.  Playback sounds better than recording.

Kisstunes:  A virtual keyboard with recording;  playback and recording are smooth.

Mainly Educational

Earthquake.USGS.gov:  Students can check out recent earthquakes in California and around the world.

Weather Wiz Kids:  Everything about weather.

CIA Kids:  A kids page from the Central Intelligence Agency

Kids.gov:  A kids site by and about the US government.

Sites for Teachers

Discovery Education:   Subscription required.

Read, Write, Think:  Has classroom resources for language arts.

Illuminations:  Resources for teaching math.

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives:  Many online math activities, organized by grade level and math strand.  Excellent online manipulatives and teaching ideas.

Prezi:  A presentation tool where you can create presentations (like Powerpoint but a little more creative in some ways) online and share with others or just show your class.  Ask Miss Schwartzkopf for a demonstration if interested in more information.