Ms. Parsley's First Grade Class

Little Explorers by Enchanted Learning Software

This is actually a picture dictionary with links to hundreds of carefully chosen children-friendly sites throughout the world. Available in French, German, Portugese and Spanish.

Online Children's Stories

Here you can find many children's stories that can be read on the internet or downloaded, some from well-known published authors and others available only online.

First Grade Backpack-Reading

At this site are links to Alphabet stories and activities, Phonics activities, stories to read online, spelling actitives and much, much more. This is a site you will want to bookmark and visit again and again!

Animal Alphabet

Animals for each letter of the alphabet, a poem, and some information about each animal. Available in a standard text version as well as with real audio sound with animated gifs. You can also take a quiz about the animals. A fun site to visit.

Bedtime stories

Here you will find well written, beautifully illustrated stories online, classics as well as newer stories. Definitely worth a look!

Antelope Publishing

This site has E-book available for purchase, including Classics, Picture books, Story books, fantasy ands much more.

Childrens Stories.com

Holiday stories that you can read or have read to you online.

The Mother Goose Page

Every Mother Goose Rhyme imaginable can be found here.

Children's Storybooks Online

Site includes books to read, sounds, mazes, riddles and coloring pages.

Just Me and My Dad

One of my personal favorite stories by author Mercer Mayer

ABC Order

Fun and interactive site to help young children to learn ABC order.

Links for Tots: First Steps online

There are a lot of fun, learning links on this site, including ABC recognition, beginning books online, coloring activities, games, and some fun quizes you can take to see what you know and what you have learned.

Alphabet Action

Here you click a letter to hear it's name spoken and to see a picture of something that has that letter as it's beginning sound.

Little fingers Shockwave Game Parlor

This site has a number of interactive games for Pre-K through 1st grade, including ABC order, sorting, color recognition, and much more. Requires shockwave plug-in.

Learn to Read with Starfall.com
Check out this wonderful interactive site. The Starfall learn-to-read program was created to meet the needs of the emergent reader by incorporating rhyming games and high-interest books that teach phonemic awareness (sounds in words), phonics, decoding skills, and comprehension. The program is designed to instill confidence and enable the child to proceed as quickly as possible to a balanced reading program.

BEC Computer Lab Resources
Here you will find a list of tried and true interactive web sites that students enjoy visting over and over.

LearningPlanet.com
Check out this interactive site. You'll find a concentration style memory game, alphabet and counting games, crossword puzzles, word searches, and more. (You must have Shockwave installed on your computer.)

Thunk.com
This cool site has its own secret code machine. Generate a secret code and share it with your friends!

Fun Brain
This site will keep students, parents, and teachers busy for hours! It includes games to sharpen your math and language arts skills. Have fun!


The Idea Box
Teachers, parents, and children are going to love this site! It has lots of activities including crafts, songs, and chats.

PBS for Kids
Includes Arthur, Teletubbies, Kratts' Creatures, and more!

Stories, Writing Activities & Games:

Reading is Fun (R.I.F.)

Summer Reading Book Log - Book It!

Education Place www.eduplace.com

A wealth of worksheets and online activities

 

Print and Learn for Kids www.brobstsystems.com/kids/

Offers downloadable and printable worksheets, sorted by grade level.

 

Reading Adventure www.bookadventure.com/

A free reading motivation program for children in grades K-8.

 

Get Ready To Read www.getreadytoread.org/

Information and resources on early child literacy, including a screening tool and skill-building

activities for children.

                    

MATH HELP

Math Links for Kids

On this page you will find links to activities, games, puzzles and much more that will help you with you math skills. Click either on the Bear on the left or on the underlined words.

      

Math Learning Activities and Games
	Play Math Journey	Click here to practice 20 different math activities including: addition, subtraction, multiplication division, rounding and much more.
	Mathemagic tricks	"Mathemagic" Tricks to learn and use to AWE your friends. The easy to learn tricks described here are all based on simple mathematics and not on magic.
	Math Games	Includes assorted Math Games such as, math facts quiz, brain teasers, word problems and math baseball
	Math Word Problems	Although this Math Word Problems site is advertised for grades 2 and 3, there are a number of activities appropriate for first graders as well. Take a look!
	Math Baseball	Choose your game and choose your level. Then step up to home plate and play Math baseball
	Interactive Math	Click here to access a variety of Interactive Math Activities. Includes puzzles, matching, arithmetic games and many other links to math related sites. This site is definitely worth a look!!!
	Funbrain	This links you to FunbrainClick your age and level and then connect to lots of math games including Tic Tac Toe Squares, Connect the Dots, Addition, Subtraction, Measurement and much more.
	Funschool.com	Funschool is a site jam-packed full of interactive, educational games. Click on grade level or on puzzles and games. HAVE FUN!!!
	Math Goodies	Math Goodies is a free educational web site featuring interactive math lessons, homework help, worksheets, puzzles, message boards, and more! We have over 400 pages of free math activities and resources for students, teachers, and parents.
	A+ Math	The web site Aplusmath was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively. Included here are such activities as games, flashcards, math word find and a homework helper. A real WOW site!
	Math Games	From Kindergarten Connection, here are several Math games, including addition, dominoes and links to other lesson plans
	Billibear	For the younger set, here is the Billibear for Kids site. There's lots here. For math there is counting. A really kid-safe site!
	Learning Math Games	Click here to find a site full oflearning games, puzzles and mazesBe sure and take a look because there's lots here!
	Math for the Fun of it	During summer vacations, on rainy days, while waiting at the doctor's office, or on a stroll through the neighborhood learning never ends. Children can explore some fascinating mathematical possibilities in the world around them every day. Children will be learning math and have fun while they are learning! The activities in this section can be done anytime and anywhere. Parents!!!! Take a good look at this one!
	Many Math Topics	Here is a math site with a wide variety of problems for all grade levels. Everything from addition to place value to money to measurement can be found here. Great for higher level thinking as well. It's called aaa math!
	Math Games Online	This Math Games Online site is jam-packed with games according to grade level, strategies, a workbook for K-6, puzzles, arcade games, card games, sports games and more. Parents..check it out first for levels.
	Math Resources	This site has EVERYTHING!!!Nancy Donohue's Math Links will connect you to an enormous number of math links for all levels!!! At the bottom of this page you will be able to connect to many other education links. This is a graet site!!
	Yahooligans Math Games and Puzzles	The Yahooligans Games Site has games and puzzles, even links to puzzles you can make.
	appukids math and study helps	The Appukids Site on Study Help for Math has lots of fun math games by grade level as well as links to many other math sites.
	allmath: Math Site for Kids	Allmath.com is a math site for kids that includes such things as math flashcards, games, math helps, articles and many other resources
	AAA Math	AAA Math is and extensive site where you can find hundreds of pages of Basic Math Skills, interactive practice on every page, and challenge games on every page. Includes evels K through 8. Be sure to look this one over!!!!

Favorite Authors and Fun Sites

Curious George
Junie B Jones
Amelia Bedelia
Cam Jansen Site
Jan Brett
Gail Gibbons
Arthur's Home Site
Clifford the Big Red Dog
Kevin Henkes
Magic School Bus
Magic Tree House
Robert Munsch
Berenstain Bear Country
Steven Kellogg

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