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Intermediate School Resources This page is dedicated to providing resources for students in grades 3-5. Resources may be educational games and activities to enhance student's knowledge, accuracy, or speed. Resources may also consist of parent/educator ideas and suggestions. Please feel free to navigate to other pages on the left side of this wiki for additional resources and ideas on improving your child's skills. __**R****esources provided are available at no cost unless it is specifically noted!!!**__

**Ipod Touch, Ipad, and Iphone** are increasing in popularity even with students in grades 3-5. I have provided a list of educational apps for the Ipod Touch, Ipad, and Iphone. Prices for the apps I recommended will range from free to $3.99. Scroll down on the page to view these resources.

If you have any questions or suggestions for additional resources for Valley View Intermediate School students, please email me at meagen@valleyviewsd.org.

__PSSA Resource from the Pennsylvania Department of Education __ [] - This resource provided by PDE will give sample PSSA questions by grade level and subject. __Numerous Subject Areas __ __at One Website __ **[|http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/spectopics/summersparklers.]** - This collection of editors' choices from TeachersFirst will spark summer excitement for parents and kids alike. Whether you want to create something, ignite new learning, or hold on to what you already know, you will savor these safe, reviewer-recommended resources. Be sure to share with your friends, neighbors, and family. Teachers will want to share this page with students departing for summer break. **[]** - Thousands of resources organized by subject for children grades K-5. **[]** - Excellent teacher website with numerous resources. **[]** - Teacher created resources for all subject areas.
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__Math﻿ __ **__ [] __ - ** 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.

[] - Math resources from a teacher with the Council Rock School District [] - Our research-based and standards-aligned free educational math games and language arts games will engage, motivate, and help teach students. Click a button below to play our free multi-player and single-player games! In the future we'll add features enabling you to save records, tailor content for differentiated instruction, and pinpoint student problem areas. [] - AAA Math features a comprehensive set of interactive arithmetic lessons. Unlimited practice is available on each topic which allows thorough mastery of the concepts. A wide range of lessons (Kindergarten through Eighth grade level) enables learning or review to occur at each individual's current level. [] - Cool math 4 kids is a math site specially designed for what kids like and how they learn! Math really CAN be fun and really CAN be easy to learn [] - Learning addition and subtraction using virtual manipulatives. [] - Math Playground is an action-packed site for elementary and middle school students. Practice your math skills, play a logic game and have some fun! [] - Educational games from the U.S. Mint. [] - IXL's math skills are aligned to the 2010 Common Core State Standards, the 2006 Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Kindergarten, the 2005 Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Pre-Kindergarten, and the 2005 Pennsylvania Assessment Anchors, providing comprehensive preparation for the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA). With IXL's state standards alignments, you can easily find unlimited practice problems specifically tailored to each required standard. [] [] - We scoured the web for the best and most trustworthy educational games with the single goal of providing students, parents and teachers with the best interactive homework help the web has to offer [|http://www.numbernut.][|com][|/] - This site offers an introduction to mathematics and its variety of topics. It's not just for kids, it's for everyone (even if you aren't a number nut). http://smartmeasurement.wikispaces.com/ - Numerous resources for math located on one website. Reading/ Language Arts [] [] - The standard way of organising books for choice, on shelves in a library or a bookshop, or on the web, starts from the products available - the authors, titles, publishers or genres. Using innovative software whichbook.net enables, for the first time, the choice of book to start from the individual reader and what he/she is looking for. FREE to borrow books!!! [] features educational games that help students develop reading and language skills. [] [] [] - We scoured the web for the best and most trustworthy educational games with the single goal of providing students, parents and teachers with the best interactive homework help the web has to offer [] [] - Our research-based and standards-aligned free educational math games and language arts games will engage, motivate, and help teach students. Click a button below to play our free multi-player and single-player games! In the future we'll add features enabling you to save records, tailor content for differentiated instruction, and pinpoint student problem areas. [] - Everyday math resources provided by Center School District. [] - Features videos of actors reading children's stories

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Kid Friendly Search Engines  [] - Joyce Valenza supplies a great list of search engines for students. http://springfieldlibrary.wikispaces.com/KidSearch2 - A site offering multiple kid-friendly options to Google created by an elementary school librarian. Science [] [] [] - What might future explorers of the solar system see? Find out by taking an interactive tour through the eyes of Hugo Award-winning artist Ron Miller. [] - Animal web cams at the National Zoo. [] - National Geographic's Animals

Social Studies [] - Virtual Field Trips for Kids takes you to meet fascinating people from all over the world. New educational, kid-friendly episodes are uploaded every two weeks. Included are links to fun websites and our [|Learning Corner] with follow-up questions. [] - You are the historian investigating the first Thanksgiving.

[] [] - News and more for young people. [] - Our research-based and standards-aligned free educational math games and language arts games will engage, motivate, and help teach students. Click a button below to play our free multi-player and single-player games! In the future we'll add features enabling you to save records, tailor content for differentiated instruction, and pinpoint student problem areas. [] - Wonder Rotunda is a virtual theme park designed to spark curiosity and open the eyes of youngsters to the wonders of our world. Kids are transported to the Great Barrier Reef, to the African Serengeti, to a Costa Rican Rainforest and to the Moon aboard Apollo 11. They can travel through the human body, run their own business or take a VIP Tour of Washington D.C. THERE IS A FEE OF $45.00 PER YEAR!

Apps you want your child to have MATH [] Ansel and Clairs Adventures in Africa. (Ages 4-9) Cost ($1.99)  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">SAS Flash Cards (Free) SAS Flash Cards for the iPad help you practice and memorize routine math problems in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Brain Tuner Lite (Free) Brain Tuner Complete ($2.99) Ace Multiply (Free) 3 in 1 App. Design to look like a classic wooden board game. Fun by itself or challenge friends in a group setting. MathBoard ($3.99) MathBoard is for all ages from kindergarten (with simple addition and subtraction problems) to elementary school where learning multiplication and division can be a challenge. You can control the range of numbers you want to work with, the amount of questions you want to answer and even assign a time limit per quiz. MathBoard will make learning math fun. Math Attack (.99) Practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in an arcade game format. Blast the correct answer out of four before they hit the ground. This is an iPhone app, but will work on the iPAD. Brain Pusher Elementary School Edition (.99) Brain pusher is aimed at elementary math students in grades 1-4. Successfully Learning Mathematics Grade 3 ($1.99) 3rd grade mathematics – for many primary school students, this is already a little more difficult. Freddy the vampire can help! In his castle, learning mathematics turns into a lot of fun. Numerous exercises from areas like numbers up to 1000, calculating with magnitudes or mental arithmetic ensure that a given student, in the shortest possible time, will be able to improve his or her performance in the primary school subject mathematics. 3rd Grade Curriculum Topics Calculation with time, Numbers up to 1000, Calculation with magnitudes, Surface and body shapes, Written addition and subtraction, Addition and subtraction up to 1000, Multiplication and division, Mirroring, Mental arithmetic, Working with matters to puzzle over Warp Factor ($1.99) Warp Factor is a fun new way for students to study the important mathematical concept of factoring. Successfully Learning Mathematics Grade 4 ($1.99) 4th grade mathematic is already really something and already constitutes a challenge for many students. Practice first, then play - This is the motto of Freddy the vampire. In his vampire castle, he has various tasks in store: Numbers up to 10,000, written and calculating up to 1 million, multiplication, division, geometry, mental arithmetic, and more. 4th Grade Maths (.99) This app is a great app for teaching maths to your little 4th grader. It also has a quiz to evaluate his/her math skills. The quiz also has a timer to make sure the kids answer the questions in the right amount of time. It also has a score and tells them how many are correct/incorrect and marks the correct answers in green. This app is an effort to learn maths an easy way. this app has a 'times table' matrix which makes learning 'times table' so much easier. In addition to this, it also has an 'Addition' matrix which makes the kids do additions in their brain once they know the pattern. FunLearn for Fifth Grade ($1.99) FunLearn for Fifth Grade tests speed and proficiency in math.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Reading <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">K12 Timed Reading Practice Lite (Free) Lets readers in grades K-4 practice fluency, the ability to read smoothly and quickly. The paid App (1.99) will give more stories and features.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Vocabulary <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">4th-6th Grade Vocabulary (.99) A good vocabulary is essential to your child’s future. SuperKids Vocab provides a fun and easy way to master the words they will need to know in school and beyond.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Grammar <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Grammar Jammers Elementary Edition Grades 3-6 ($2.99) Catchy animated songs and rhymes make English language arts exciting. The following topics are covered: adjectives, adverbs, capitalization, conjunctions, contractions, nouns, prepositions, pronouns, punctuation, sentences, and verbs.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Science <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Elementary Science 9 to 11: I know that! Quiz for Grade 4 ($1.99) A fun and easy way to increase your knowledge of science.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Social Studies <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">States and Capitals (Free) Free version includes only the first 13 states. For all 50, you pay .99.