Sites for Younger Children

• A to Z Kids Stuff (free lessons and activities for toddlers, pre-schoolers, and school-age)
• ABCTeach (grades Pre K-4; free printable worksheets for every subject area and need; 100 thematic units; links to more lesson plans and teaching tools)
• ABC Match (interactive activity from ReadWriteThink)
• Alfy - The Web Portal for Kids (grades Pre K-3)
• All About Me for Preschool
  http://www.preschooleducation.com/ame.shtml
  
• Arthur's Website
• Billy & Maria - Weather Coloring Books for Children
• Berit's Best Sites for Children
• Book-Pop (ages 3-7; hear stories and books read)
• Boowakwala.com (coloring, games, animated books, mazes, puzzles, more)
  Boowa & Kwala, an UpToTen.com Site (Online children's songs, crafts, & more; ages up to 6)
• Chateau Meddybemps (grades K-8; children, parents, teachers work together; parent/teacher guides; choose Learning Games to browse by skills; named one of the best sites for phonics by IRA)
• ClassBrain: Pre-K - K, Grades 1-3
• Clifford the Big Red Dog
• Coloring.Com
• Counting Change (Concentration, Matching, Flashcards)
• Creative Pre-K (preschool daily lesson plans for honds-on, creative teachers)
• Draw and Color with Uncle Fred
• Earlychildhood.com
• Early Childhood, Primary, Parenting
• Early Learner
• Education Station (many activities)
• Edupuppy (many categories from special ed to standards to parent resources)
• Enchanted Learning (preschool and kindergarten activities)
• Etch-a-Sketch
• Everything Preschool (themes, lesson plans, alphabet ideas, coloring pages, more)
• First-School Preschool Activities & Crafts (pre-K-2; hundreds of activities organized into themes; print-ready activities. book recommendations, craft ideals, links, more)
• FirstGov for Kids
• FunSchool
• Gigglepotz Early Childhood Resources
• Interactive Phonics and Word Study Center (Memory activities of bugs, fruits, planets; Alphabet Zoo; Everyday Words; Teacher Notes link on left side)
• Jan Brett (coloring pages & activities)
• JigZone
• Kid Info for Young Children (dozens of links to games, activities, magazines, stories, puzzles, & more)
• KIDiddles
• Kindergarten/Preschool Bulletin Boards (creative suggestions to use throughout the school year, adapting as needed for other units and themes)
  Kindergarten: Children First; a Curriculum Guide for Kindergarten (comprehensive)
  
• Kindergarten Connection from Carol Gossett
• Kindergarten from TeacherNet (lesson plans throughout the school year)
• Kindergarten Resources from Ottawa-Carleton District (resources with cross-curricular coverage and thematic learning units; link to kindergarten tracking templates)
  
• Kindergarten: What Every Student Needs to Know (rubrics, screening tests, word lists, and standards)
  
• Kindergarten Skills from the BBC (also explore "Ages 4-11" button)
  
• Kindergarten: Getting Students Connected (WOW! online learning games; food groups, shapes, math fun, patterns, the five senses, colors, more)
  
• Kindergarten Resource Collection for Teachers (EXTENSIVE collection of links and activities)
• KinderTeacher.com (presented by 2 kindergarten teachers in Huntington Beach)
• Kiz Club (all areas; printable sheets and flashcards)
• Lesson Planz.com (select from the grade level tabs across the top)
  
• Lil' Fingers (stories, games, coloring pages, holidays, & more)
• Little Animals Activity Center from the BBC (excellent; online learning games in all content areas)
  
• Mighty Book (ages 2-12; narrated books online)
• Mrs. Petersen's Preschool Page
• Perpetual School.com (activities, arts, crafts, learning activities, lesson plans)
• Playdough Recipes
• Poems, Songs, & Fingerplays (numerous resources here for planning your first week back to school, with songs, chants, poems, nursery rhymes, and fingerplays)
  
• Preschool by Stormie (check the categories or scroll down to Website Index)
• Preschool Library (strictly for the preschool and kindergarten set, but elementary students will find their own treasure trove of stories, activities and reading lists by following the link to Elementary Library from any of the topic pages)
  
• Preschool Education (endless resources)
• Primary Games.com (EXCELLENT; categories include TIME, MONEY, and MUCH more; a must-see)
• Rosemary Wells (grades Pre-K-2; children's author)
• SEDL: The Five Senses (a wonderful five-senses unit for preschool and kindergarten teachers)
• Shapes (Etch-a-Sketch)
• SpeechTeach (great site for parents having children with speech difficulties)
• SchoolHouse Printables (great printable worksheets in ALL categories of early learning)
• The Activity Idea Place (3400 activity ideas for early childhood)
• The Best Kids Booksite (300 storytime topics, 3000 craft projects, fingerplays, songs, more)
• The Chalkboard (the preschool-K place; wonderful resources)
• The Ideabox
• Time - Set the Clock
• Tin Snips (special needs, preK, kindergarten)