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Early Childhood and Kindergarten

• Preschool Express - Preschool Activities & Ideas for Teachers, Parents and Grandparents
• Between the Lions - This is for teachers of early readers and pre-readers, ages four to seven. Have you seen the PBS television series "Between the Lions" which helps young children learn to read? WGBH Boston just launched the companion website, which also works work well just by itself.  It provides the text of the original stories, along with several games and activities for children--all meant to spur interest in words, sentence structure, and other aspects of early literacy.
• Kindergarten Resources - A hotlist of kindergarten resources compiled by  Sue Roseman, an Educational Technology Integrator for the Ottawa Carleton District School Board, with lots of resources and tools for the early childhood educators.
• KidSmart for Early Learning - IBM, in partnership with Bank Street College, the United Way and EDC, has launched KidSmart. Designed specifically for parents and teachers.

• Early Childhood Web Sites

• Early Childhood Technology Literacy Project

• The Innovative Teaching web site is updated for 2003 and ready to surf!
• A to Z Kid's Stuff - Lots of very basic approaches to instruction for Preschool and Kindergarten, categorized by headings that will surely make sense to any primary teacher.
• Early Childhood Technology Literacy Project - This website offers the background and materials to teachers around the world.
• Early Childhood Thematic Units - Kathy Van Velzen offers this collection of eleven units complete with Bulletin Board Ideas, Cooking Ideas, Fine Gross Motor tasks, Language Development, Literature, Music, Sample Lesson Plans, Sample Parent Communications, Software Support, and Toys and Materials.
• EduPuppy - Kristen Hammond heads up this well-screened directory of developmentally appropriate ideas and materials perfect for grades K-2. Using keywords and categories teachers can sniff out the best activities, research and resources for the classroom. Very user friendly.
• Enchanted Learning - This portion of Enchanted Learning is dedicated exclusively to younger students. It includes letter and number recognition, colors, animals, transportation, as well as themes, links and a child-friendly search tool. Definitely worth your consideration.
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education - This site is one of 16 clearinghouses in the ERIC system, providing resources for educators, parents and families, interested in the development, education, and care of children throughout early childhood. A great resource for research and literature helpful to educators.
• Funschool - Original activities designed for younger students, Funschool is a great place to have safe fun online. There's lots of familiar game formats here, and great use of JAVA applets for interactive uses of technology.
• Idea Box - All kinds of timely lessons and activities designed for the primary grades, including message boards where teachers can get together and offer support and ideas for one another.
• KinderKorner - Kinder Korner is a resource web site for teachers and others interested in early childhood education.
• The School Bell - Kathy Gursky offers this collection of themes, activities and resources for the primary classroom.
• A World of Kindergartens - Excellent listing of early childhood resources gathered from around the globe and covering such popular areas of interest as the 100th day of school, computers in the primary grades and bookmark collections on high interest topics.

• Zoopz Learning Games
  Young students will adore these colorful, interactive learning games. Create barnyard scenes complete with animated creatures, then print and color the results. Connect to the Toy Corner and click on each item to trigger a lively animation. Solve puzzles to make your way home in Inch Worm. An amazing collection of activities, brought to you by Meyers Labs

• Blue's Clue's Safety Printables
• Historical paperdolls
• Connect The Apples
• Preschool Activities
• Welch's Online Match Game and Slide Puzzle
• Dryer Sheet Butterflies
• Edible Crafts
• Nutrition Facts
• Free Downloads
• Sodamail Sponsor

• Early Childhood Technology Literacy Project

• A World of Kindergartens

• Little Explorers K-3

• The Place for all things Early Childhood

• The National Association for the Education of Young Children -  practical information for parents and early childhood professionals. 

• Idea Box - Dedicated to the education of young children, this site has ideas, articles, projects, seasonal themes, and printable pages

• Carol Gosset's Kindergarten Connection -- providing valuable resources to primary teachers

• KinderArt - KinderArt features free online art lesson plans, activities and recipes for K-8. It has been designed by an artist and art instructor especially for parents, teachers, homeschoolers and kids. The Little Hands section offers creative activities for preschoolers.

• 101 Kindergarten Tips -- How to prepare your child for kindergarten

• Jardin Mundial Kindergarten.  

• A to Z Teacher Stuff

• Our Apple Unit

Ms. Lee's Kindergarten Experiments with Science
Teaching with the Web
The Gingerbread Man Theme
Three Billy Goats Gruff
Gateway to Education Materials
Kinder Garden
K-3 Cyber Guides
A Is for Angelfish - picture page for each letter in the alphabet
Alike But Different - activities to develop observational skills (involving both auditory and visual recognition), lay the foundation for the concept of numbers, and provide staff with information regarding students' ability to comprehend two attributes simultaneously.
Alphabet Soup - A soup bowl contains the alphabet. Run your mouse over a letter see the image of something beginning with that letter.
Bry-Back Manor - 50 activity pages, craft ideas, clip art, downloadable freeware games
The Chalkboard - resources for early childhood and kindergarten teachers, including arts and crafts, holiday activities, math and science, self-concept activities
Children First - curriculum guide for kindergarten students
Counting Sheep Count-Along - counts along with the child to help teach basic counting skills
Counting Sheep - How Many? - picks up where the count along above leaves off. Count how many sheep there are with this interactive quiz
Early Childhood Educators' and Family Web Corner - all things early childhood with original articles, reproducible calendars, teacher ideas, interactive pages, and quality content from linked sites
Eggciting Math Using plastic eggs, students can do a variety of activities (via downloadable file) that will help them with such concepts as one-to one correspondence, and relating symbolic, pictorial, and concrete materials.

Escalating Kindergarten Curriculum This digest examines kindergarten retention and the need to escalate the kindergarten curriculum so that more students may be successful in first grade.

Farm Shapes This site challenges you to find all of the particular shapes hidden within the pictures, while reinforcing the basic shapes.

Go Fly A Pattern Students copy and extend patterns using the design revealed on a kite and then extend the pattern on its tail. This site features a downloadable file.

Gone Fishing This activity (via downloadable file) incorporates the concept of number recognition with the children's book, Fish Eyes by Lois Ehlert. Students gain an appreciation of reading, number words, and sequencing numbers as they go fishing.

Grandad's Animal Book This interactive book has a poem and a picture for each of the letters of the English alphabet. There is a multiple choice quiz. Pictures of several animals are shown with each letter and a click on the mouse button lets the young reader select an animal. There are several pages which show groups of animals.

Grandpa Tucker's Rhymes and Tales Here you'll find poems and stories that kids love. You will find seasonal stories and something new. This is a fun site to explore with your students or place at a center.

Hide-and-Seek Lesson Explaining abstract concepts to young children can be made easier by involving the kids in activities. This lesson plan helps teach kindergarten students the concept of animal hibernation by having them hide nuts and later try to find them. As part of this lesson, students also observe and record different weather conditions.

Holidays on the Net This site offers links to holiday celebrations year-round.

Inside Kindergarten Inside Kindergarten is designed to provide information and ideas for kindergarten teachers. A growing collection of thematic units is available, as well as a daily schedule with descriptions and lots of links to other education sites.

KidPort Reference Library: Science Here you'll find lots of easy, kindergarten-level Internet activities dealing with sea life, plants, animals, space, light, energy and matter, and more.

Kinder Art Here you'll find over 130 free art lesson plans of every kind including drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, multicultural art, cross curricular art lessons, coloring pages, and The Art Book.

KinderCrafts Presented by Enchanted Learning Software, this site has numerous crafts even youngsters can make. There are holiday activities, classroom projects, cultural artworks, and more to choose from.

Kindergarten Connection This site includes teacher tips, lesson plans, book reviews, and web links.

Kindergarten Kafe Here you'll find an online kindergarten teacher's newsletter with ideas and articles for and by K teachers.

Kindergarten Themes This site features kindergarten themes from Houghton Mifflin's Invitations to Literacy program. Choose a theme name to find theme-related extension activities, links to relevant web sites, and an up-to-date bibliography of supplementary readings.

Kindergarten Units Here are some wonderful thematic units from a kindergarten teacher.

Kinder Korner This resource for pre-K to second grade teachers is packed with thematic units, useful links, and tips for teaching.

Lesson Plans Kindergarten This site offers math games, teacher ideas, and monthly lesson plans.

Little Explorers Even the youngest children are fascinated with the Internet. Make their surfing sessions educational as well as fun with Little Explorers' online dictionary. The child simply points and clicks on a letter and a word starting with that letter pops up on the screen. This is a great way to get the young ones started online.

Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes This site offers an index of many nursery rhymes. Each is written with rebus pictures to make the reading fun and easy.

Paper Dot Plates This hands-on activity (via downloadable file) uses paper plates and sticky dot labels to reinforce the understanding of sub concepts of a number. It introduces the concepts more/less; part/whole; conservation; and oral and symbolic names of numbers.

Patti's K-1 Classroom This primary teacher offers excellent lesson plans, projects, activities, and resources for teaching students using the TEAM approach.

Phonics Activities Here are some great phonics activities for beginning and pre-readers.

Shaping Up This delightful story involves circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles and how they live together. The story can be told on the flannel board. Not only is this activity excellent for recognizing shape, there is a moral to the story that helps children see the relationship of mathematics to everyday life.

The Shifting Kindergarten Curriculum This digest reviews factors influencing kindergarten curriculum, and contrasts characteristics of skill-based and developmentally-oriented programs.

Story Creation Create a personalized story for your children. You can print it out and have many hours of happy reading. Pick a story title, then fill in the form with information about you and your name and friend's names appear in the story. This is great fun and motivating to the reader.

Theodore Tugboat Online Activity Center This site is an online activity center for Theodore Tugboat, where students can help Theodore decide what to do next in illustrated, interactive stories, use the online coloring book to color pictures of Theodore and his friends, or listen to a Theodore story using RealPlayer.

These Are the Letters of the Alphabet Colorful letters and animated drawings make this an attractive place for young children to learn the alphabet.

Weekly Reader Kindergarten This tremendous web site offers a monthly classroom calendar, Zip's problem of the month to solve, coloring book pals, cooking with kids, science activities, games, and much, much more.

World of Kindergartens Kindergarten teachers from around the world have joined together to provide curriculum support to each other and anyone who needs ideas. The information found at this site has come from a discussion list composed of kindergarten teachers.

World of Puppets Do you like the puppets on Sesame Street? People all over the world love puppets. Come with us in this social studies lesson to see them in Japan, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Then make a puppet, write a puppet play, and hold your own show for children in another class.

WWW Colors Book Project Introducing computer technology to young students is a challenge. This project makes that process fun. Your youngest students will be able to create coloring book pages that will be posted on the Internet for other students to enjoy. Everything you need for this fun activity is provided at this web site, which was prepared by the Instructional Technology Development Consortium of San Bernardino County, California.

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