Resources

The following links are available online to support student learning and research at home.

	Web Tools	iPad Apps
Provocation for Writing	Panoramas.dk Storybird	Epic Citadel ArounderTouch
Storytelling Tools	Google Sites Bitstrips iMovie Trailer Templates	Comic Life ComicBook! Playschool Art Maker Toontastic Puppet Pals iMotion HD Strip Designer
Audio Tools	Vocaroo Voicethread Little Bird Tales	Fotobabble Little Bird Tales
Brainstorms, Mind Maps, and Infographics	Bubbl.us Wallwisher Lino-it Google Drawing Piktochart	iBrainstorm
Creative Ways to Share Student Learning	Google Presentations Domo Animate Classtools.net  - Fakebook  - Arcade Game Creator Oddcast Photoface Green-screening using iMovie	Scribble Press Book Creator Educreations Interactive Whiteboard

How We Express Ourselves

http://betsystreeter.blogspot.com/
Scroll down to the video “Let out the creative beast” …….

http://www.littlebirdtales.com/
Capture your child's voice and imagination with our creative story building tool and share them with friends and family.

http://storybird.com/ 
Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print.

There are also some sites – both art and music on
http://www.diigo.com/user/nerine/Gr3_creativity

• Norman Rockwell Museum

• American Masters Database of Visual Artists

• WebMuseum, Paris

• Online Tours of the National Gallery of Art

• National Poetry Month

  
  

  This website from the Academy of American Poets includes information on the history of National Poetry Month. Find out what happens during National Poetry Month on the frequently asked questions page.

• Word Mover

  
  

  In this interactive tool from ReadWriteThink, students can move individual words to create original poems.

• Writing With Writers: Poetry

  
  

  Scholastic offers this poetry resource for grades 1–8. There are tips from authors of children's poetry, a teacher's guide, step-by-step workshops, and more.

• Favorite Poem Project

  
  

  The Favorite Poem Project, cosponsored by Boston College and the Library of Congress, is dedicated to celebrating, documenting, and encouraging poetry's role in Americans' lives. Watch or listen to citizens read poems they love.

Bitstrips
List of homophones

HOW WE ORGANIZE OURSELVES

SHARING THE PLANET

http://www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/vft_zoo.html
http://www.globio.org/glossopedia/article.aspx?art_id=39
http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/got_questions_groups_list.html
6 different Biomes
Facts about habitats 
Habitats and Food Chains
More habitats

Build a habitat 
http://www.switcheroozoo.com/games/habitatgame.htm 

Survival Zone – Can you survive different habitats 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/mammals/challenges/flash/grassland.shtml 

Build a habitat here.
http://www.switcheroozoo.com/games/habitatgame.htm 

Explore this link to find out about what animals are endangered and how humans can help to save them.
http://wwf.panda.org/ 

Survival zone- Can you survive in these habitats?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/mammals/challenges/flash/grassland.shtml 

This is a wonderful site with extensive information and videos, games, and activities related to animals and habitats.
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/ 

This website contains excellent information about different biomes in the world and animals and plants found there.
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/world_biomes.htm 

Create a username and password to find out where different animals live around the world.
http://pbskids.org/krattscreatures/login.shtml? 

This link to Discovery Kids will take you to a list of different games/activities related to animals on the Discovery site.
http://kids.discovery.com/search/results.html?query=animals&go.x=0&go.y=0 

This link will take you to a list of good web resources for this unit.
http://www.delicious.com/QAPrimary_library/Grade3Habitats 

HOW THE WORLD WORKS

The following websites give some great ideas and experiments to try:
Steve Spangler science
BBC science
More BBC science
How stuff works
Brainpop Username: qa Password: primary.
Scholastic
Collaborative science learning
Bill Nye the science guy
Steve Spangler Videos

WHO WE ARE

http://www.biographyonline.net/

http://www.gardenofpraise.com/leaders.htm
http://www.pitara.com/magazine/people.asp
http://www.ala.org/gwstemplate.cfm?section=greatwebsites&template=cfapps/gws/displaysection.cfm&sec=11
http://www.biography.com/tv/classroom
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/4_11/site/numeracy.shtml

Here are some useful Multiple Intelligences (MI) websites:
MI test and Info
MI test and information
MI games
Take a multiple intelligence quiz here.

LANGUAGE

Book finder
Use this link below to search for books at a Grade 4 level, just type the name of the book you are reading in, and it will tell you what level the story is.  Scholastic bookwizard

Click here to find a chart that compares equivalent reading levels in different systems. 

Access our school library, find kid-friendly search engines, look for copyright-free images, and much more at our QA Primary Library site.

The following websites are useful for school.

Brainpop is one of these. There are often topics related to our UOI's on brainpop.

The information can be very helpful.

For extra reading and some fun activities tumblebooksis a great resource. You can read the books yourself or have them read to you and even practice your comprehension skills.

Check out the amazing visual thesaurus on this website. It is a great resource for expanding your vocabulary. Visual Thesaurus. You can also try http://www.visuwords.com. It is another wonderful resource.

__Getting Along__

Grammar Games

Magnetic poetry

Online Stories

Literacy Link

Book Flix - http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/bookflixfreetrial/
User name: bkflix Password: water

Big Universe: http://www.biguniverse.com/
User name: nchalmers Password: Qatar123

MATH

These sites offer a variety of math games in all strands(addition, multiplication, fractions, etc.)

For multiplication, try http://www.multiplication.com/ . Click on the tab that says 'Games' or 'Learn'.

www.rainforestmaths.com
http://www.mathplayground.com/wpdatabase/wpindex.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize/numeracy/units/index.shtml
http://www.helpingwithmath.com/

For practice with area and perimeter: http://www.bgfl.org/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/perimeter_and_area/index.html

For practice rounding: http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=DartboardRoundingv2

For practice with place value: http://www.gamequarium.com/placevalue.html

Create a graph