Kindergarten
Links
Sites about Chicks and Chickens
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A story by an 11 year old girl about her life on a chicken farm. http://www.mda.state.mi.us/kids/stories/farmlife/chickens/index.html
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Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. The site has still photos of chicks hatching and also a short video of a chick hatching. http://msichicago.org/exhibit/chick/index.html
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Shows detailed drawings of the 21 day growth of a chick. http://chickscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/explore/embryology/
- During the Spring of 1999, two classrooms at Yankee Ridge participated in Illinois Chickscope. Room 130 and Room 5 made predictions, collected data, measured, wrote and drew pictures about their observations and hatched eggs in their classrooms. Here are some of the results of this project. http://www.cmi.k12.il.us/Urbana/yr/yrchick.html
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Alphabet animals –an online alphabet slideshow: http://www.infostuff.com/kids/a.htm
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An alphabet book written for a young child by his father: http://www.pacificnet.net/~cmoore/alphabet/index.htm
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Links to tons of other sites that would be useful for parents and teachers of young children as well. (activities, stories, games and television show links)
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Link to Children’s Television Workshop. Can link to Sesame Street: http://www.ctw.org/
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Link to different art activities: http://www.crayola.com/
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Links to many preschool and kindergarten games: http://www.funschool.com/php/games/games.php?section=g2
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Links to various crafts for kindergarteners: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/
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Link to a picture dictionary: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionary.html
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Links to various games: http://members.tripod.com/~myschool/numabcmain.htm
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Links to all the various PBS shows: http://pbskids.org/
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Johnny Appleseed and Apples Web page which has links to thematic units, poems, songs, projects, and information.