Erin Bouma's Recommended
30 Children’s Educational Websites
SONGS
1. http://www.uptoten.com/kids/uptoten-home.html 60 songs for kids, interactive with bright cartoon visuals; good voices, simple melodies and lyrics
2. www.kindersite.org Links to games, songs, stories for English Learners – free registration
3. www.nancymusic.com/SongMonth.htm Singer Nancy Stewart offers original and traditional songs and activities
FINGERPLAYS
4. www.Songsforteaching.com/fingerplays/index.htm Some with sound, all with lyrics
5. www.nncc.org/curriculum/fingerplay.html Fingerplays and Action Verses
ALPHABET
6. www.primarygames.com/abc_fun/abc_fun.htm
7. www.allaboutstuff.com/Kids_Games/about.asp
8. www.kindersite.org/directory/directoryframe.htm
“Alphabet Zoo” ages 5–7 – upper and lowercase letters and animals
9. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/dreamhouse/nursery/colorbk.html ABC coloring pages (one per letter)
10. www.poissonrouge.com/abc/index.htm Interactive. Click on individual letters – they each have a different activity
11. www.surfnetkids.com/abc.htm Sites for learning ABCs with notes
12. http://internet4classrooms.com/kplus_alpha.htm Alphabet resources for teachers
13. www.bemboszoo.com/Bembo.swf An artist’s ABC. Click on each letter
14. www.jeremypettis.com 26 Types of animals (A–Z), beautifully and colorfully designed
NURSERY RHYMES
15. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/dreamhouse/nursery/rhymes/ Mother Goose Pages of nursery Rhymes, Alphabetical list
16. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/dreamhouse/nursery/reading.html Reading Nursery Rhymes with Children
17. http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/storyhour/goose Listen to Mother Goose Rhymes being Read
18. http://www.fidella.com/trmg/contents.html The “Real Mother Goose” Collection with traditional illustrations
19. http://www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco94/literature/mothergoose/rhymes/menu.html Mother Goose Rhymes listed by first lines
20. http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Dell/3942 19 rhymes collected by “Daughter” Goose (some with graphics or sound)
21. http://www.mamalisa.com/house/index.html With 17 illustrated and voiced
22. http://www.nurseryrhymes4u.com/NURSERY_RHYMES/ALPHABETICAL.html Many rhymes – some sung, some spoken
23. http://www.smart-central.com/ Nursery Rhymes and Silly stuff – some with accompaniment audio
24. http://www.iyedo.com/ “Nursery Rhyme Land” Offbeat visual graphic presentation in 3 Chapters
25. http://www.coreknowledge.org/CK/resrcs/lessons/04__K__KinderPoemsSongs.pdf Nursery Rhyme s, historic and vocabulary notes and associated activities (37 pages)
26. http://www.rhymes.org.uk/ Historical background and lyrics to 112 rhymes
For Parents of Very Young Children
27. http://www.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=key_language Early Language and Literacy, Zero to Three Organization
For Older Children
28. www.exploratorium.edu/ San Francisco Children’s Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception
29. http://pbskids.org/zoom/index.html American Public TV – Older Children’s Creativity Site
30. www.infovisual.info Visual Dictionary, Cool, Laid out by Category