WEBSITES

Language Arts


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Webster's Dictionary Online
Great website for looking up words in the dictionary, in the thesaurus, and even playing fun and educational word games

Dictionary.com
Also a nice online Dictionary

Scholastic.com for Kids
Includes games and contests, book central, a homework hub, and many other great resources for reading lovers.

Common Grammar Errors in English
A fun cite that explains the correct usage of commonly mistaken words and phrases in the English language.  Listed alphabetically.

Literature.org
Free Literature available for online viewing

Project Gutenberg
Also contains free Literature for online viewing--mostly classic works.

Math Websites

adding integers

subtracting integers



All math topics:

aaamath.com
Contains subtopic categories
examples would be decimals, measurement

aplusmath.com
Creates worksheets for various concepts

http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/math/index.html
Online problem solving practice


http://www.superkids.com
Creates worksheets for various concepts

http://www.homeschoolmath.net
Creates worksheets for various concepts and online practice

Virtual Manipulatives
This site contains virtual manipulatives for most concepts
It also contains logic activities such as MasterMind, Tangrams, Number Puzzles, etc

http://www.flashcardmath.com/
 Creates worksheets

Word Problems and Brain Teasers:

Education Place-Brain Teasers
Contains word problems of the week,
along with a archive of problems

Science
 

Earthquakes
Epicenter Activity

USG Earthquake Site

Earthquake Review PowerPoint
(You will need PowerPoint or PowerPoint viewer to
play this game.  PowerPoint viewer is a free download)

Measurement
Length
Measuring Mass
More Measuring Mass
Metric measurement conversions

Resources

http://inventors.about.com/

http://encarta.msn.com/

http://www.worldbook.com

http://ap.accuweather.com

http://search.epnet.com

www.historychannel.com

Internet Safety:
www.netsmartz.org

http://www.PHSchool.com

This website corresponds to our science textbooks and has links, self-tests and lots of great material which ties into our curriculum.

www.SciLinks.org.

Throughout your child's texbook there are "web-codes" listed in the margins of the text.  When you get on this website and enter the codes it will take you to the applicable links. 

Social Studies

Religion

Catholic Encyclopedia

http://www.newadvent.org/

Daily Mass Readings

http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/

Vatican: Holy See

http://www.vatican.va/

Liturgical Calendar

http://www.themass.org/calendar.htm