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Parent Resources

TAKS Information Booklet (http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/taks/booklets/index.html)
The purpose of the Information Booklets is to help Texas educators, students, parents, and other stakeholders understand more about the TAKS tests

TAKS Training (http://www.tea.state.tx.us/ssc/training_modules/elementary.htm)
This learning module addresses how the TEKS in middle and high schools are based upon TEKS in elementary grades, and how careful instruction in elementary TEKS can benefit students throughout their school years.

Britannica Online (http://school.eb.com/)
Encyclopedia Britannica Online offers its complete online encyclopedia with related Internet links and multimedia collection. Both of these resources include access to an online dictionary, atlas, bibliographies and annotated timelines. Make sure you have your school's user name and password. Check with your school Librarian.

The facts about...Reading First (http://www.nclb.gov/start/facts/readingfirst.html)
No Child Left Behind website

Lamar Pictures (http://www.ofoto.com)
This web site has pictures we have taken during school activities. Log in as: smcclendon@ssisd.net, Password: lamar
Click on album to view photos for this year. Click on My Friend's Album to view photos from last year.

Student Links

Kidz Page (http://www.thekidzpage.com)
This site has great games for facts, drill and reinforcement of skills. It includes: alphabet, vocabulary, memory, math and problem solving.

Candlelight Stories (http://www.candlelightstories.com/
DefaultNewMain.asp)
Candlelight Stories has games, on line stories and lesson plans. It has a great spelling game called Stellar Speller.

Mrs. Alphabet (http://www.mrsalphabet.com)
This is a great website for Kindergarten or First Grade. It has activities for Teachers, Students and Parents. Everything you ever wanted to know about the alphabet, phonics, reading and math.

4 kids (http://www.4kids.org/)
www.4Kids.org's team of educators, writers, artists, technology specialists and students produces a weekly newspaper article and maintains the www.4Kids.org website. Make www.4Kids.org "your link to the latest tecKNOWLEDGEy on the Web."

Bookworm (http://games.yahoo.com/games/downloads/bw.html)
Great game for vocabulary or spelling. Play this game by linking letters together to make words. This game looks like scrabble. Beware, it is addictive!

Room 108 Educational Games (http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/
108.html)
This link has great games for reading, math, logic and more.

Room 108 Kids Stories (http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/108b.html)
The Kids Stories Center. Like to write stories? Get your story animated and put online with music backgrounds! Listen to stories with animation.

The Struggle Over Iraq (http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/teachers/archives/twtfk/ns/
0,15590,030321,00.html)
This site has informative information about why we are going to war. It has reproducibles, the magazine article on line and a teacher's guide for the lesson. It also has suggestions for talking to kids about war and terrorism.

Kids Scoops (http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kidscoops/index.html)
Current events from TFK kid reporters.

Top-the-Teacher Trivia (http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/games/topteacher/
0,10893,344943,00.html)
This is a tic-tac-toe game where each teacher represents a different subject. You can learn more about each teacher by clicking "Learn About Me!" When you click a teacher, the teacher will make a statement based on his or her subject area. You can then choose to AGREE or DISAGREE. If you are right, an X will appear in that square. If you are wrong, an O will appear.

FunBrain.com - Word Turtle (http://www.funbrain.com/detect/index.html)
A custom seek-and-find word search game. Students give FunBrain a list of words that it then hides in the puzzle. Grades K-6

FunBrain.com - Oddball (http://www.funbrain.com/oddball/index.html)
An interactive game for young children. The computer shows four pictures and the student is asked to pick out the one that "doesn't belong." Grades PreK-3

FunBrain.com - Vocabulary (http://www.funbrain.com/vocab/index.html)
Students see a picture and click on the word that best describes the picture. Grades PreK-3

FunBrain.com - Spelling (http://www.funbrain.com/spell/index.html)
An interactive game in which the computer will give twenty sets of four words. Students place a check next to the word spelled wrong and spell the word they checked correctly. Grades 4-8

FunBrain.com - Grammar Gorillas (http://www.funbrain.com/grammar/index.html)
An interactive game in which students must identify parts of speech in sentences. There is a beginner level (nouns and verbs only) and an advanced level (all parts of speech). Grades 4-8

Geospy (http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geospy/)
This game has students identify the countries in each continent

50 States and Capitals (http://www.50states.com/)
Links to information about each of the 50 states. Grades K-12

Biographical Dictionary (http://s9.com/biography/ )
A searchable database with more than 28,000 biographies of major figures from world history. Grades K-12

PencilNews - News for Kids (http://pencilnews.com/index.php)
MSNBC's website offers these current events news stories written for kids. Grades 3-7

Crossword Puzzle Grades 3-12 (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/xwords/index.html)
Twice a month you can play a new crossword puzzle on The New York Times Learning Network. Play online, or print.

Between the Lions Grades K-2 (http://pbskids.org/lions/)
Get wild about Reading. Features interactive games, stories, and printable activities featuring characters from the PBS Kids series.

Story Place (http://www.storyplace.org/preschool/other.asp)
Preschool Library: 11 Read-Aloud Stories to Listen to, Follow up Activities and Printable Craft Pages.

Monster Exchange Gallery (http://www.monsterexchange.org/scripts/ms/showcard.asp?id=2226)
This link will take you to Mrs. McClendon's gallery page on the Monster Exhange website. These descriptions and drawings are from her second grade class 2002-2003.

Trackstar (http://trackstar.hprtec.org)
This track was made by Mrs. McClendon. It has 8 websites to practice basic math facts. On Trackstar's home page, look under Find a Track. Type in 153147 beside by track id. Click on view in frames. This will take you to Mrs. McClendon's track. These sites have addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts.

Illuminations (http://illuminations.nctm.org)
This is a MarcoPolo website. It has great interactive math tools for K-12 grades. On their home page click Interactive Math Tools and you will find math tools that will help reinforce math skills.

Eduplace (http://www.eduplace.com)
This site is a great place for any subject or level. Check it out!