Pre-Kindergarten Web Sites
Pre-School Reports and Resources for Parents
- Born Learning: Born Learning is a public engagement campaign that helps parents, grandparents, and caregivers explore ways to turn everyday moments into fun learning opportunities.
- Early Childhood Iowa: This web site was created to provide FREE, objective, accurate early care, health, and education information for families in Iowa. Browse the database for great resources or take a look at the Early Childhood A to Z section for topics such as child care, health and safety, child development, learning to read and write, parenting, pregnancy, and many others.
- Getting School Reading in Iowa: This guide is for families and early care, health and education providers caring for children who will be attending kindergarten in Iowa.
- Helping Your Child Become a Reader: This resource is helpful for parents as they prepare their child to read.
- Helping Your Preschool Child: This resource is helpful for parents as they prepare their child for preschool.
ABC's
- ABC Adventure
- The ABC Game
- ABC Order
- Alphabet
- Alphabet Action
- Alphabet Games and Number Games
- Alphabet Letter Sing Along Songs
- Alphabet Online JIgsaw Puzzles & Activities
- Animal Alphabet FlashCards
- Best Books for Teaching About ABC Books and the Alphabet
- DLTK's Alphabuddies Alphabet Activities
- Inkless Tales: Animated Alphabet, Online Stories, Games, Songs and Learning Fun!
- Learn the Alphabet
- Letter Lifter
- Letter TV Songs
- Letters (Playbox)
- Letters & Numbers
- Penguin Alphabet Book
- Pronunciation of Lettters - Literacy Center Education Network
Art and Music
- Animated Song Books & Story Books for Children – Puppy Readers
- Children's Songs & Lyrics from Kids' Music Town
- First-School Preschool Activities and Crafts
- Gayle's Preschool Rainbow - Activity Central
- Idea Box: Kids crafts, games, recipes, activities and more!
- Kids Music, Children's Music - Free MP3 Downloads of Kids Songs
- Kids-R-Crafty!
- KinderArt - Seasonal Arts and Crafts for Kids Holiday Crafts and Special Days
- Making Music From Scratch
- Pre-K Art Ideas - PreKinder
Centers
- The Basics of Centers - TeacherVision
- Centers and Circles Time
- Centers | The Cornerstone
- Classroom Organization - Centers & Workstations
- Developmental Centers (Hubbard’s Cupboard)
- Literacy Centers
- Pre-K Now Resource Center Virtual Classroom Tour
- Preschool and Kindergarten Reading Literacy Centers
- Centers and Circles Time
- Centers | The Cornerstone
Coloring Pages
- Alphabet Coloring Sheets
- Coloring online, painting games
- Coloring Pages for Kids
- Coloring4all: Online coloring pages
- DLTK's Coloring Pages
- Haring Kids - Interactive Coloring Book
- How to Create Coloring Book Pages Using Your Very Own Photos! | Photojojo
- Simple Shapes Coloring Pages
- Zoo Coloring Pages
Games
- Activity Pad
- Digital Digits: Creative Ideas for Finger Plays (by Shelly Sanchez Terrell) – Teaching Village
- Educational Games, Play and Learn - Arcoiris
- FunBrain Game Finder
- GameGoo - Educational Games
- Games For Children Ages 1 to 5
- Games For Children Ages 6 to 9
- Kids Website with online games, playworlds, coloring, stories for preschoolers, with arts and crafts and activities for kids to do with parents. Ziggity Zoom
- Language Arts
- Movement Activities & Games for Elementary Classrooms
- PBS Kids
- PBS Kids Sesame Street
- Play in Preschool: Why it matters
- PreK Fun
- Preschool Printables File Folder
- Preschool Worksheets and Preschool Games
- Puzzles and games in the preschool classroom
- Science
- Social Studies
- Up to Ten
Math
- Math Games
- IXL - Pre-K Math Practice
- Math and Language Arts Skills Builders
- Math - Hubbard's Cupboard
- Math Links - PreKinders
- Math Mats - Cover Up Games
- Pre-K - 2 - Number & Operations Manipulatives (National Library of Virtual Manipulatives)
- Starfish Theater
Printables and Worksheets
- FamilyFun Printable Games (Download Printable Online Games)
- Free printable preschool worksheets to help prepare your child for school. Preschool worksheets
- Learning Games from the Kidzpage
- MES English - Free Printables for Teachers - Free flashcards, printable games, free worksheets, printables, phonics, clipart, projects, ebook
- Montessori for Everyone - Free Downloads
- Picture Book Maker
- Play2learn Printables
- Preschool Printables
- Preschool Printables: We're here, so you can get back to what's important!
- Preschool Worksheets and Printables | Education.com
- Printable Car Activities (Mom’s Minivan)
- Printable Games (About)
- Printable PreK and K Worksheets
- Teaching Resources - twinkl, worksheets, lesson plans, activities
Reading
- The Best Web Sites for Helping Beginning Readers
- Children's Online Story Collections - Vermilion Parish
- Children's Storybooks Online
- DIBELS - Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills
- Get Your Preschooler Ready to Read | Scholastic
- Guided Reading and Reading Games with Roy the Zebra
- How to Enhance Pre-Reading Skills - eHow
- Kindersay - Preschool Learning
- Learn to Read (Star Fall)
- Lil' Fingers Storybooks Read a storybook and play games with your toddler
- Literacy Center Education Network
- Mother Goose Rebus Rhymes-Enchanted Learning
- My Fairy Tales Page
- My Phonological Awareness (Phonics Page)
- My Story Telling Page
- myRebus – make you own rebus from what you type
- Read Today - pre-school reading, writing and coloring activities for kids
- Reading Rockets: Webcasts and Teleconferences
- Rebus Stories – abcTeach
- Rebus Stories, Hidden Pictures® Puzzles & Crafts
Education World ® - Star Fall: Learn to Read - teaching comprehension and phonics
- StoryBots Classroom features a library of content that includes 150 videos, 90 books, and most recently, a full suite of classroom tools and standards-aligned kindergarten math games and activities.
- Storynory Free Audio Stories for Kids
- Teaching Reading - Reading Resources
- Ways to Build Pre-Reading Skills - FamilyEducation
Thank you to the CybraryMan for sharing many of these websites.
This page was updated 10/3/16