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Lunch With the Principal
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Our Classroom in Action
Our Classroom in Action

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2nd Grade Garden
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My Puzzles
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Sight Word Lists
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As Seen in Class
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Spelling City
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For Parents
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Check out these GREAT websites!  They're fun and fabulous!  Thanks to Mrs. Lunsford for putting it all together for us!  She's done a remarkable job!

For Parents and Guardians
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Hearst's Website
This is Hearst Elementary School's updated website. It has lots of great information about our school. You'll want to bookmark this one!
San Diego Unified School District
Everything you'd like to know about our school district and more.
Family TLC
Contains a wide range of family activities - games, sports, crafts, music, cooking, nature and more. Find parenting tips, articles on child development and hundreds of new age-appropriate child activities.
Kids Health
Articles on many aspects of child health—for parents, kids, and health professionals—from the Nemours Foundation.
 
Reading, Writing, & Grammar
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Dav Pilkey's Extra Crunchy Website O' Fun
One of the best author websites I've seen! Dav is the author of the Captain Underpants series, Kat Kong, Dozilla, Dog Breath, and much more!
GameGoo
Lots of fun language arts-related games!
Giggle Poetry
Read and write funny poems or find out how to perform poems with your friends!
Meet Authors and Illustrators
Want to know more about a favorite author or illustrator? This website will help you find what you're looking for!
Create a Stapleless Book
Create a six page stapleless book with just one sheet of paper, following folding and cutting directions. This site is awesome! I would love to see the book you create, bring it into school to show us! Enjoy!
Picture Match
This interactive site practices matching beginning letter sounds, short vowel sounds, and long vowel sounds!
Time for Kids
Read about current events, play games and even get help with your homework! A fun site!
Scholastic
There's so much to explore in this website, you'll get lost for hours! Check out Clifford, Captain Underpants, The Magic Schoolbus gang and so much more!
Starfall
PBS for Kids
 
Math
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Brain Bashers
This site contains tons of exciting brain teasers, puzzles, riddles, games and optical illusions! The choices are endless!
Prongo.com
In the mood for a fun collection of games that might just teach you something at the same time? Practice your math skills in games like Lemonade Larry and Batter's Up Baseball. Also includes age-specific games like checkers, connect the dots, matching, word and maze games.
Pattern Block Design and Creation
Math Playground
Lots of fun math games from easy levels to challenging!
Math Fact Challenge
A fun way to practice for lightning rod!
 
Science
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Monterey Bay Aquarium Live Web Cams
Mesmerizing! The aquarium's live web cams offer a look at marine life in their various exhibits! Play with the otters, dive with the penguins and swim around the kelp beds, all from the comfort of your home!
Funology
At Funology, science is all about having fun! But that's not all. Besides fun facts and experiments you can perform, you'll also find crafts, recipes, magic tricks, jokes, and a whole lot more.
NASA For Kids
Are you interested in learning about space? Think it would be cool to be an astronaut? If so, this website is for you!
How Stuff Works
Curious about what makes things tick? How Stuff Works brings you hundreds of articles that cover a wide range of subjects like 3-D graphics, animals, video games, engines, roller coasters, toys, electricity, computers, and much more.
 
Social Studies
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Whitehouse Kids
There are many activities here, including math challenge questions and games!
States
National Geographic for Kids
Kids Newsroom
 
Fun and Games
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Primary Games
Fun Brain
Brainpop
Fun, educational website.
Games for the Brain
Games that are fun to play and great for the brain!
Barbie.com
If you loe Barbies, then this is the site for you! There is a tons of things to do and see here!
Crayola
 
Miscellaneous
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Sports Illustrated for Kids
If you're a sports nut, you have to check out this website!
 
Search Engines
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Ask.com For Kids
Very easy search engine for kids to use.
Yahooligans
Kids Click!



Related Links

    Online Books for Kids
    This is a great website for online illustrated books or kids. What's cool about these books is that you can turn the pages as you continue to read. Check it out! (Scroll down to find the books)

    National Geographic For Kids
    A great website for the whole family -- articles, games, videos, stories etc. Worth a look!

    San Diego Zoo's Website for Kids
    Crafts, games, articles, science experiments, recipes . . . way too much fun!

    Fun Brain
    A fun website with some really neat educational games as well as fun games.

    Primary Games
    A fun website that has a variety of games --fun for all.

    Timmy's Fun Stuff
    This is our very own Timmy's webpage. Take a look at it -- is is great!

    How to Take Care of a Betta Fish
    This is a basic website that explains how to take care of a Betta Fish. We had a few students get Bettas and they wanted info abotu their new pets. Great Pet Owners!

    Learn to Type
    This is the website that we used in class to learn to type -- it's free and all online!

    Aesop's Fables Puppets - Check it out!
    This is the link to the play that we visited - fun puppets for all to make!

    San Diego Zoo Website!
    Check it out -- it will help to know it when we visit it in April!

    Second Grade Websites
    LOTS of Second Grade Websites - they even give a description of what they are -- check them out!

    Lemonade Stand Game
    A great website that will help you get to learn supply and demand.




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