Once again, it's time for Santa, Rudolph, candy canes, gift-giving, trimming the tree, and renewed family traditions. For many, remembering Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanza are most important. The holiday season is here at last. 

During this holiday, please include a great book entitled, “The Polar Bear Express”.  You may reserve a copy from the local library. Upon reading and discussing this book with your child, you can go to the web sites below and choose one or all follow-up activities for this book.  In addition, your youngster may enjoy and sharpen his or her academic skills that are in lined with the Virginia’s Standards of Learning.

Polar Express:
http://pdl.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/polarexpress/flashsite/

http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/thepolarexpress/pdf/polarpartymaze.pdf

http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/thepolarexpress/pdf/polarpartyltrsanta.pdf

http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/thepolarexpress/pdf/polarpartycolorsheetcond.pdf

http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/thepolarexpress/pdf/polarpartyreadinglog.pdf

http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/thepolarexpress/pdf/polarpartycolsheetboy.pdf

http://polarexpressmovie.warnerbros.com/media_photos.html

http://polarexpressmovie.warnerbros.com/media_games.html

Science:
Recycling
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/barnabybear/games/recycle.shtml

http://dnr.metrokc.gov/wlr/wq/groundwater-animation.htm

Sun and the Earth

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/9_10/earth_sun_moon.shtml

http://www.engineeringinteract.org/resources/astroadventure/flash/concepts/sun.htm

Social  Studies

Martin Luther King
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/mlk/news/index.asp?article=previews#

http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Holidays/MLK/MLK.html

Math

Fractions
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/cross_the_river/

Ordinal Positions

Patterns
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_184_g_1_t_1.html

Skip Counting
http://www.ictgames.com/fairyfog.html
http://www.tvokids.com/framesets/play.html?game=51&
http://www.abcya.com/connect_the_dots_bear_2s.htm
http://www.abcya.com/connect_the_dots_pig.htm

Addition and Subtraction
http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/SumSense/sumadd.html

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/SumSense/sumsub.html

http://www.mathsyear2000.org/magnet/minus3/sumtox/index.html#

http://www.toonuniversity.com/flash.asp?err=513&engine=12

Estimation
http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Estimate/estimate.html

Story Books
http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html#yc

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htm?f

Reading

http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade_k_1/high_fre/hifreq74.htm

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_1st.htm

Vowels
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/picturematch/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/longvow/poems/fpoem.shtml

http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/flash/vowels/index.htm

http://www.haelmedia.com/html/mc_p3_002.html

Blends

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/clusters/blender/index.shtml

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/ears2.html

Rhyming Words
http://www.quia.com/mc/65870.html

Sight Words
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/in_the_bag/index.html

Punctuation
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/language_arts/goforgold/content_builder/dswmedia/g1c26/nadia.htm

 Just a reminder, please help your child be successful with the word list below: