Favorite Links

• Las Brisas PTSA Kids' Corner has plenty of activities.
• I put together this interesting sites link of family and student activities. Kids, go to the students' section. Parents, investigate the parents' sites*. (See below.)

  Cool Reading Fun

• Las Brisas' library (Look at the AR list.)
• Phonics and Word Structure for Super Stars
• Snowman Builder
• Time for Kids; games and activities, news, plus, be part of the kids' polls
• kids' site for any Phoenix Public Library

  What is Good Writing?

  * Use A Parents' Guide to the Six Traits of Writing instead of the site mentioned to remove the mystery of what ideal writing should look like. If you'd like a thorough glimpse of our curriclum, please refer to the Arizona State Standards which are the foundation of the curriculum.

  Math Sites

• Drag the Times
• PBS cyber math games
• math matrix of games and activities
• place value games
• time and clocks
• counting coins
• cash register link of games
• flash cards
• learn about money
• Math Facts Practice

  Social Studies

  Westward Expansion :

  Try the Phoenix Library site above for books online and to have books sent to the nearest branch.

  General/overall sites: "Moving West", "On the Oregon Trail", "students' perspectives of the trail", "history of Oregon Trail" or "Emigrant Road" (with photos and maps)

  The Trails http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0210182/route.html Also, try the general sites above

  Forts http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0210182/forts.html Also, try the sites for landmarks.

  Landmarks "PBS OT sites" http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0210182/landmarks.html http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Sites.html http://www.nps.gov/whmi/educate/ortrtg/1or0.htm http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/greenway/leahy/ot/landmarks.htm (A kids' version:) and http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/greenway/leahy/ot/research_l.htm sites http://www.emigrantroad.com/contents.html (to visit the sites by photos and maps)http://flms.ddouglas.k12.or.us/~ludwig/tag/thinkquest/Oregon_Trail/1trtr.thml

• Try the "Landmark Challenge"

  Wagons http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/greenway/leahy/ot/guidebook/wagontrain.htm http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0210182/inwagon.htm http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/greenway/leahy/ot/guidebook/wagons.htm http://www.sover.net/~barback/ot/wagons.html (Different kinds of covered wagons) http://endoftheoregontrail.org/wagons.html Prairie Schooners http://204.234.22.1/SDGI/Newell/Blueprint.html Blueprint of a Wagon, supplies, etc.

  Animals http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0210182/livestock.html http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/greenway/leahy/ot/guidebook/oxen.htm http://heritage.uen.org/cgi-bin/websql/query.hts?type=6&tid=50814

  Supplies http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/greenway/leahy/ot/guidebook/weapons.htm http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0210182/supplies.html http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/greenway/leahy/ot/guidebook/food.htm http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/greenway/leahy/ot/guidebook/tools.htm

  http://204.234.22.1/SDGI/Newell/Supplies.html

  Pioneer Life in General http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/6470/

  Clothing http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/greenway/leahy/ot/guidebook/clothing.htm http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0210182/clothing.html http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/settlers3.html scroll down to spinning and weaving and clothing

  Cooking http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/greenway/leahy/ot/guidebook/cooking.htm http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/greenway/leahy/ot/guidebook/fires.htm http://www.lapcohistsoc.org/cooking.htm

  Kids on the Trail http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/greenway/leahy/ot/guidebook/children.htm http://www.or.blm.gov/nhotic/Kids/trailkids.htm http://heritage.uen.org/cgi-bin/websql/query.hts?type=6&tid=48

  Mountainmen http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/greenway/leahy/ot/guidebook/mountainmen.htm

  Native Americans http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/greenway/leahy/ot/guidebook/nativeamericans.htm

  Hardships http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/greenway/leahy/ot/guidebook/rivercrossings.htmhttp://library.thinkquest.org/CR0210182/hardships.html http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/greenway/leahy/ot/guidebook/hazards.htm http://www.cob.montevallo.edu/O'TooleTK/

  Chores http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/greenway/leahy/ot/guidebook/chores.htm http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/settlers3.html http://fayette.k12.in.us/frazee/Pioneer_Life.html

  Diseases http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/greenway/leahy/ot/guidebook/sickness.htm Danger on the Trail

  Weather http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0210182/weather.html

  Mistakes http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0210182/hardships.html#nono

  Games and crafts Oregon Trail Guidebook-Crafts Pioneer Games http://heritage.uen.org/cgi-bin/websql/query.hts?type=6&tid=50782

  Science Sites

• Rock cycle
• Continental drift
• Rock Jokes
• fossil formation (interactive lesson)
• Brainpop fossil formation video

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