TEACH YOUR EYES TO BE WISE
1. Hidden Pictures
This site will help your child develop those brain/eye coordination and orientation skills he or she will need to use when learning to read. For children who are just beginning to read, these activities can develop skills they need WITHOUT the pressure to read.
2. Picture Sudoku
Fill in the grid using the nine pictures. When you finish, there should be only one of each picture in a row, column, and 3X3 grid.
3. What's Wrong?
Can you find all of the odd, weird, or wacky things in this picture?
TELL ME A STORY
1. Storyline Online
This is an online streaming video program where Screen Actors Guild members read children's books aloud to kids
2. TumbleBooks
Here's a great place to go to have books read to you. Check out the great stories.
3. We Give Books
You can share books from this bookshelf with your little ones using any electronic device. The original book and artwork have been copied to the screen for you.
ALPHABET WORK
1. Alphabetical order
Use this website to practice putting capital letters in ABC order
2. Alphabet Dot to Dot
Use this dot to dot format for a different way of practicing ABC order.
3. Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Matching
Match upper- and lowercase letters to add color to a picture.
4. Alphabet Sliders
Slide the pieces of the picture into the correct sequence to hear the letter name and its sound.
READING
1. RAZ Kids
Here's your place to read books that are just PERFECT for you to practice reading. You can listen to books, read books to yourself or aloud to your parents, and even send me stories you have recorded so I can hear them that day online! Collect stars to decorate your RAZ rocket.
2. Starfall
On this website, children can practice the sounds that words make, and can read stories and play word games.
3. Fry Sight Word Activities
If you use this site with the test result sheets I send home to you, you will be able to help your child practice his or her sight words right on the computer. There are MANY choices of how you wish to do this--you just have to select the group of words your child needs to practice. You can give a "test" once you think your child is ready to be checked on that group of words, and the program will tell you how he or she did. You can even print a copy of the test results and send it in to me.
4. Sight Word Bingo
This is another site which will help children practice their recognition of sight words.
SPELLING
1. Spelling City
This neat program called Spelling City will let you practice your spelling words AND play games with them! Have fun learning to spell!
2. Fry Sight Word Activities
You can use this site to help you practice spelling those sight words of yours. Have fun!
LANGUAGE ARTS
Capitalization
1. Capitalization Sports and Other Games
Practice your skills with finding the sentence of four that contains all of the correct capitalization by selecting from these possible game choices: Outer Space Aliens; Super Soccer Taker; Rock, Paper, Scissors; Super Ping Pong; Wanna be a Billionaire; Super Baseball Hitter; Super Golf Striker; and Super Basketball Shooter. There is also a program that helps you understand the questions and answers, and there is a non-game test you can take if you wish.
2. Magical Capitals
Visit "Magical Capitals" to practice putting capital letters where they are needed in English sentences.
3. I know That--Punctuation Paintball
Opportunity to practice those capital letters at the beginning of sentences, and punctuation at the end. Fun paintball game!
4. Bitesize Literacy
Practice all kinds of Language Arts skills with this website. We have phonics skills, rhyming words, abc order, spelling, pronouns, joining words, similar meanings, punctuation, and making sentences.
Punctuation
1. Penguins On Ice
You can choose from three different games. If you choose "Make a Sentence", you will need to put the words in the correct order to make a sentence that makes sense. In "Which Mark?", you will need to pick the correct punctuation for each sentence. Don't worry--the sentences are read to you. Finally, if you use "Make It Interesting", you must find and use the correct adjective or adverb that makes the sentence more interesting.
Parts of Speech
1. Sheppard Software Games
Visit this site to find several games to practice identifying and using the different parts of speech.
Contractions
1. Contractions Game
With this game, you can practice making two words into a contraction.
Story Writing
1. Carnegie Library Storymaker
With this program, you can write your own stories with our without the help of the computer. Once you "publish" your story to the Carnegie Library, you can print a copy out for yourself. Have fun!
2. Storyjumper
Here is another site where you and your child can create stories, and the final result can be made into a hardcover book for about $24.95.
SCIENCE
1. Sheppard Software Games
Follow this cool link to take you to some really nifty science activities!
SOCIAL STUDIES
1. Primary Games for Social Studies
These are things to do in Social Studies for first graders.
2. World, Continents and Oceans practice
This site will let your child practice visually associating a continent or ocean with its name and location.
GENERAL MATH
1. I Excel (at Math)
This program will allow your child to practice 146 different skills that are part of the first grade math curriculum. If your child is able to be successful with these skills, the computer will "bump him up" to the next grade level (in our case, 2nd grade) to practice the next most difficult level.
2. National Library of Visual Manipulatives
This is a math website that has lots of different kinds of activities, and has tasks from K-12 grade!
3. Interactive Math Skills
This master site connects you to LOTS of different math games and activities sorted by GRADE LEVEL.
4. AAA Math
Another master site for math skills great for a first grade student.
5. Apples4 the Teacher
There's LOTS to do on these "pages", but the site is a little difficult to navigate without an adult's help.
6. Learning to Use a Number Line
The children should use this site to practice how to use a number line for addition problems.
7.Ten Frames Game
The children can access this site to practice their visualization of number content. It will help them build their basic number sense for numbers under 20, and will strengthen skills needed to perform "mental math".
NUMBER SENSE
1. Sheppard Software Games
Use this site to get lots of practice with the early number stuff like counting, odd and even numbers, number order, simple additio.n, simple subtraction, fractions, time, money
2. ABCya Math
There are many things offered at this website. You can back up and do the K Math, if you think your child needs reviww, or press on to do First Grade Math. The page comes up with Reading/ Language Arts at the top of the screen, so you will need to scroll down a little to find the available math. The best programs for number practice on this site are:
a. Connect the Dots 1-20 Practice using the numbers from 1 -20 in their correct order
b. Counting Fish Look at the fish on the screen. Count how many there are, and select that number from the choices available.
c. Number Bingo Find and click on the correct number on the Bingo card as it is read to you. Win your matches, and play harder bingo cards!
d. Numerical Order Reassemble the number cards in their correct order. Starts easy, but gets MUCH harder.
a. Connect the Dots 1-20 Practice using the numbers from 1 -20 in their correct order
b. Counting Fish Look at the fish on the screen. Count how many there are, and select that number from the choices available.
c. Number Bingo Find and click on the correct number on the Bingo card as it is read to you. Win your matches, and play harder bingo cards!
d. Numerical Order Reassemble the number cards in their correct order. Starts easy, but gets MUCH harder.
3. Hanging Shirts on the Washline
Hang out the wash in the correct numerical order.
4. Using Five Frames
At this site, your child uses his or her number sense to fill a 5-frame according to directions. Five frame knowledge helps your child develop a concrete number sense. Enjoy!
5. Odd and Even MonkeyDrive
In this game, the children steer the monkey's car into barrels with the correct type of number (odd or even) that is written on the car. They must jump over other obstacles in their way.
6. Bitesize Maths
At this site you can choice to practice addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, number ordering, number sequences, place value, length and width, telling time, 2D and 3D shapes, and organizing data.
7. Gamebone (100 number chart)
Practicing finding a number on the hundreds chart when no written clues are available can be both challenging and fun! It builds a LOT number skills, though. Enjoy!
NUMBER LINE WORK
1. Line Jump
Practice using a number line to help you calculate the correct answers for these addition and subtraction equations.
BASIC ADDITION SITES
1. ABCya Marble Addition
Use the marbles on the screen to help yourself do the addition problems. Each level gets a little harder.
2. Froggy Addition
Contains addition game with birds dropping balls or try the timed game of aliens landing.
3. Math Lines
In this game there will be lines of balls with numbers on them. You can shoot balls to add new balls to the line. when the balls you shoot and the balls beside it add up to 10, these balls will be destroyed. You can also destroy a group of same numbered balls with only one ball. When you destroy all of the balls you can proceed to the next level. If the balls reach the hole, then you lose the game.
4. Number Twins
Try to match the numbers that make up a given sum (6, for example, could be made by 2 and 4, 1 and 5, 3 and 3, or 0 and 6) as quickly as you can. It's fun, once you get the hang of it, and it really helps you practice those addition facts!
BASIC SUBTRACTION
1. Balloon Pop Subtraction Game
Help the bee solve the simple subtraction problems by popping the right number of balloons.
2. Counting Back Method of Subtraction
Counting down using the number line to subtraction problems.
3. Farmer Fred's Pumpkin Patch
Run a pumpkin farm while practicing your subtraction skills.
4. Cross out Method of Subtraction
Practice crossing out pictures to prove the subtraction facts.
FACT FAMILY PRACTICE
1. EZ Addition and Subtraction Families
Plug the numbers and symbols into the right spots to make up the two addition equations and the two subtraction equations that make up each fact family.
PLACE VALUE
1. Double Digit Math Addition
This site lets you practice those double digit problems using the computer.
2. Tens and Ones
This site lets you "read" bags of tens and loose ones, and create the corresponding double-digit number. If you are right, the sun shines and your score goes up by one. If you are wrong, there are thunderclouds and you are asked the question again. This site does not work with every browser.
3. Play the Bongos
Play the bongos and make one-, two- and three-digit numbers.
4. Place the Penguin
Fun game that lets you place penguins on the number grid to form number grid to form numbers out of tens and ones, or hundreds, tens, and ones.
5. Catch the Tens with BT Bear
Help BT Bear try to catch ten blocks in a row to form ten sticks. If you catch too many, the bear will drop them, but if you don't catch enough, you can't make a ten stick.
FRACTIONS
1. Cross the River
Help the little jelly bean man make it across the river by hopping from stone to stone. He jumps successfully from one stone to the next when you supply a correct answer. But get an answer wrong, and your little man will fall into the river!
2. How to Write a Fraction as Part of a Whole
This is a "back door" into the NLVM website, which lets kids build fractions and see what they look like. This site does not work with all browsers.
3. Name the Fraction Shown
Through this "back door" into NLVM, the student works to name the fraction shown.
4. Make a Fraction
This site lets you practice making different fractions.
MEASUREMENT
1. Curious George asks. . . How Tall?
Use nonstandard measurements to measure a variety of things.
2. Time to Move Measurement
Move the fish and decide to which tank it would be best to move them.
TELLING TIME:
1. Clockwise Time Game
Three different levels lets the student practice time to the o'clock (Lev. 1), to the fifteen minute intervals (Lev. 2), or to the five minute interval (Lev. 3).
2. What time is it? from Primary Games
This site asks the user to match the digital time to the analog clock shown.
3. Telling the Time (12 hour or 24 hour clock)
Use this site to practice writing the time shown on the clock. It allows the student to work on his or her understanding of what a.m. and p.m. mean, and also offers the chance to work on military time (with the 24 hour clock).
4. Stop the Clock!
In this game from Oswego you have to drag the times to match the analogue clocks. There are five to match. When you've finished, click Stop the Clock to check your answers. The image on the left links to the o'clock game, but there are also games including 30 minutes, 15 minutes, 5 minutes and 1 minute intervals and even a 24-hour clock version.
MONEY:
Money:
1. ABCya! Money Bingo
On this site, your child can practice adding coins at many different levels, from pennies to dollars. The coins look like clipart, though. They do not look authentic.
2. Counting Coins with Turtle Diary
Learn and practice coin recognition, counting, and adding in this fun game. You can learn money counting using quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies.
3. Counting Money from Math-Play
Might seem a bit overwhelming at first, since it asks kids to total large amounts of money right from the start, but it is made much easier by having a part of the screen which tracks the amount of money selected so far. The next game, Adding Money, presents even more of a challenge to those advanced learners!
4. Mr. Nussbaum's Cash Out
This game encourages your child to learn how to count out change needed to be given to a customer. There are supports available for those children who would find this task to be hard otherwise, and there are also several levels of difficulty.
ADDITION WITH REGROUPING
1. Lesson on Regrouping
This site walks the kids through how to do an addition lesson that requires them to do regrouping. There are not activities to do, but it does walk them through the process.
2. E-Lab Addition of Three Digit Numbers
Provides practice with regrouping conjunction with a worksheet also available on this site. It walks the kids through the steps involved with regrouping using base ten blocks.
3. Dositey--learning to regroup
The children will be walked through how regrouping works on this site.
4. Dositey addition regrouping train
This site gives the children a chance to practice what they have learned about regrouping.
SUBTRACTION WITH REGROUPING
1. Subtracting Two-Digit Numbers with Regrouping
Take a train ride through the subtraction of multi-digit numbers. The problems are on the large cargo bin, and the signs tell you what to do to answer the problem correctly. This is a great site to use when you are JUST BEGINNING to learn subtraction with regrouping.
MULTIPLICATION
1. Carl's Cookie Capers
Learn how addition and multiplication are related.
2. Farm Freak
Beginning multiplication practice by fact families.
3. Fish Shop
Beginning multiplication practice.
4. Penguin Jump
Beginning multiplication practice with a TIMED feature.
5. Cone Crazy
Beginning multiplication practice
PROBABILITY
The probability game
Though probability is not a skill MOST first graders learn, our children have had a chance to learn it. This game will give them more practice with the terms certain, impossible, equally likely, likely, and unlikely. Play it with the bag (as shown) or with the spinner (by clicking on the lower left). Have fun!
