Helpful Links for Students

ABCya! 
ABCya! is a website that provides educational games and activities for school-aged children. The games on the website are organized into grade levels from pre-kindergarten to fifth grade, as well as into subject categories such as letters, numbers, and holidays.
 
Child Fun Family Website 
Child Fun is a website of activities for parents to use at home to support their child’s learning. There are resources for holidays, animals, colors, the alphabet and much more.
 
Dance Mat Typing 
Dance Mat Typing is a fun website for beginning keyboarders. Through a series of 4 interactive levels, students will learn finger positioning and have a chance to practice typing. At the end of each level, students can earn a reward for their tying skills.
 
Fact Monster 
Fact Monster is a website that contains several reference works under one umbrella, including the Columbia Encyclopedia, Random House Dictionary, an atlas and an almanac. It also features quizzes, flashcards, a homework center and Flash-based games. In 2001 it won a Webby Award for best youth site.
 
Hour of Code 
The Hour of Code website offers a wide variety of coding activities for all levels of expertise. There are activities geared towards the pre-reader all the way through high school. Students also have the option to choose beginner or comfortable depending on their familiarity with coding.
 
Kids Zone 
The NCES Kids’ Zone provides information to help you learn about schools; decide on a college; find a public library; engage in several games, quizzes and skill building about math, probability, graphing, and mathematicians; and to learn many interesting facts about education.
 

Literacy at Home: Digital Children's Reading Initiative

Family reading supports for kids.

Math Drills
Math-Drills.com includes over 50,000 free math worksheets that may be used to help students practice a variety of math topics including geometry, pre-algebra, measurement, and number sense.
 
Math Expression 
Math Expression provides free math tutoring online. It provides easy to understand lessons with videos, study tips, and practice questions.
 
National Geographic Kids
Nat Geo Kids allows students to explore all things science through videos and games.
 
Nick Jr. 
The Nick Jr. website provides games and videos from favorite shows seen on the Nick Jr. channel.
 
Online Destiny Catalog 
The Cumberland County Schools library management system allows students to search for, view the status of, and create holds for books in our school library. Select our school and the catalog tab to begin your search!
 
PBS Kids 
The PBS Kids website provides educational games and videos from favorite shows seen on the PBS channel.
 
Prodigy Game
Prodigy Game is an engaging math game covering topics from grades 1-8.
 
Science With Me! 
ScienceWithMe! is a fun online hub for science and technology learning resources.
 
Seussville 
Seussville is filled with information about Dr. Seuss himself and his books and characters. Students can learn about the author, watch videos, and play games with characters based on favorite Dr. Seuss books.
 
StarFall 
Starfall is a website that teaches beginner readers how to read with phonics.
 
Teach Your Monster to Read
For young children in the first stages of learning to read; both those who are on track and those who need extra support and motivation. The series complements Phases 2-5 of Letters and Sounds and other major systematic synthetic phonics programs. Keeps children focused on rehearsing and consolidating what they learn in school.
 
Tech Education 
An excellent site to help students evaluate information on the web. Searching and evaluating information on the internet.

30 Days of Families Learning Together

Resource created by the National Center for Families Learning.

Tynker: Coding for Kids 
Tynker is an educational site that teaches block coding. There are over 2,000 activities that foster 21st Century Skills such as problem solving, creativity, and collaboration.
 
Weather Wiz Kids 
Weather Wiz Kids teaches kids all about the world of weather. There are fun experiments and games that bring weather learning to life.
 
Word Central, Student Dictionary 
Word Central is an online dictionary geared for student use.
 
4Kids 
4Kids is a site full of educational games and videos about topics such as spelling, geography, and multiplication.