Sue M. Glander
An interactive website that contains a variety of science topics that fit the first grade curriculum.
Students can create their own snowflake and display them in the art gallery.
Children can choose books at different levels to practice reading and vowel sounds. Excellent!
 
Academic Content Standards Guides
Academic Content Standards Guide for parents of children in grade 1.
 
Language Arts
Read the riddle and guess the animal.
Students identify what belongs in each of the places listed (farm, restaurant, store, home, and more)
Students identify what belongs in each of the places listed (farm, restaurant, store, home, and more)
 
Manipulatives
 
Math - Basic Facts
Add the numbers on the red balloons and then click the green balloon having the right answer.
Interactive fact practice using an addition facts grid. A susrprise picture is revealed at the end.
Count Us In - Game 8. Subtration facts to 10 in a slow paced bowling game format.
Count Us In - Game 8. Subtration facts to 10 in a slow paced bowling game format.
Find the missing addend.
Throw the dart to get the target sum. Good game for practicing doubles facts.
Add numbers to reach the target number.
Addition fact practice. Choose one addend for all problems or select mixed addends.
Select the answer to a subtraction fact (up to 20) to reveal a mystery picture.
Practice addition facts on the Snakes and Ladders gameboard.
Practice addition facts on the Snakes and Ladders gameboard.
Practice addition facts on the Snakes and Ladders gameboard.
Practice simple addition and subtraction. Show the number fact and the frog will hop along a counting line to assist with seeing the combinations.
 
Math - Geometry and Spatial Sense
Find shapes everywhere.
Narrator asks the user to help find a given shape in a picture.  User clicks all shapes in the picture, a count is given until all shapes are located, i.e. first picture contains 12 triangles.
Online interactive and manipulative pattern blocks.
Displays a gray figure surrounded by a variety of colored shapes.  User must click, drag and drop the colored shape onto the corresponding gray shape.  When shapes are placed correctly an animal picture appears and the sound the animal makes plays.
 
Math - Money
Interactive game. Select coins which make the amount of money needed.
Click on the coin combinations below that you would like to practice.
Drag coins into a container to create the amount of money shown. Amounts can be over $1.00.
 
Math - Number Sense
Practice with base ten pieces to learn your place value.
Online hundred chart. Drag transparent counters to cover numbers. Good for creating number patterns and visualizing patterns of multiples.
Frogs and Ladders is a number ordering game which challenges the player to place random numbers in order. Prediction and probability are keys to this game. (Grades 2-6)
Presented in an appealing game format, students try to find a hidden dogbone. They are given a blank hundred chart and must locate a given number of dogbones within an allotted amount of time.
Can you guess what number Chuckles is thinking of?
Can you make a bigger number with the digits you are given? GAme format.
Drag the number tiles to the correct place on the number track. (Number sequencing)
Use a hundred chart to locate numbers and for adding. Grades 1-2.
Locate the ones, called units on this site, tens and hundreds that make up a given number. Grades 1-2.
Type in the numeral that represents the amount of items grouped by 10s and ones.
Jump to the rock (10) and then to the rocket ship to escape the monster. Teaches bridging through 10 when adding a single digit number.
 
Math - Patterns and Algebra
Can you help Digit open the safe? To do it youll need to crack the patterns.
Fill in the missing piece from each patterned sequence. Uses shapes, numbers, or letters.
Help find the 3 object pattern in a grid
Use pattern block pieces to create unique patterns.
Guess the correct pattern sequence of shapes. An interactive game (two difficulty levels) similar to Mastermind.
Pattern matching game. Starts easy (Kdg.), but more difficult levels may involve mentally rotating shapes to locate matches.
 
Math - Time
Read the time in words, then stop the clock when the hands are in the matching position.
Create a face for Smiley Clock by telling the correct time. Tell time by picking one from three choices. The clock gains eyes, nose, mouth and hair if you select the correct time.You must scroll down the page to find the game.
Match the time on the clock to the digital time.
This two player game reinforces telling time to the hour and half-hour.
 
Poetry
More poetry for children of all ages.
 
Reading
Simple story sequencing activity. Non-readers can listen the words in each part and the finished story.
 
Reading - Audio Books
Listen and read along - Grade K
 Click on the sentences to have them read out loud. 
Online story to read. Primary level.
Check out this Web site to find short folktales for students to read. The site contains -- in addition to other stories -- a dozen folktales from around the world. Appropriate for ages 6-12, the tales include student-created illustrations, comprehension questions, and free writing assignments.
Collection of stories to read online.
 
Reading - Early Literacy
Interactive storybook for early readers.
Interactive Storybook for early readers.
Interactive storybook for early readers.
 
Reading on the Web
Easy reader stories online include fiction and non-fiction, play fables and more.
 
Science
A listening activity to learn about various science topics
 
Science - Animal Adaptations
How fast can you match up animals adaptations? Are you ready to find out? Play this game to test yourself.
Build a fish by choosing the characteritics of body parts and coloring that allow the fish to live in certain habitats.
Interactive activity to locate camouflaged animals in different habitats.
What is animal adaptation and how are animals adapted to where they live? Click on Investigate the Facts.
 
Science - Ecology
Play the game to find out how quickly you can reach the end of the resource trail by identifying which resource is used to create an object.
Online story about recycling in cartoon format. Easy reading level.
Sort the plastic, paper, and glass items into the correct box. Grade 1
 
Science - Matter
How can you change a liquid into a solid or a solid into a liquid? Come find out! Click on CHANGE IT.
Use this interactive site to explore the properties of matter.
Interactive site to check how solids and liquids change as they are melted or cooled.
 
Science - Plants
Explore the trees, plants, animals and insects in a woodland environment. Audio will read all text. Excellent closeup pictures. Shows seasonal changes of the environment.
Have fun learning about why trees are important.
 
Science - Seasonal Changes
Look through the window to see the weather outside. Then dress Caillou appropriately for the weather. Interactive. Grade 1.
 
Social Studies - Communities
Our Neighborhood is presented in the form of an interactive map. Students click a building on the map -- such as the library, for example -- to find out about a community helper who works in that building. The activity includes six helpers, with only about five sentences about each, but the information is written at a level appropriate for 3rd grade or below.
This easy-to-navigate game matches job descriptions to pictures of community helpers. Students read a sentence, such as, I deliver mail to your house. They then must click one of six pictures of community helpers.
 
Social Studies - Economics
Economics lesson. Students learn that Community Helpers provide a service for their neighborhood.
First Grade economics unit website.
Learn about money and banking.Grades 1-3
Click on interactive activity and activity for online interactive activities for students.
First Grade Economics Unit website.
This lesson teaches students about scarcity and choice: Scarcity means we all have to make choices and all choices involve costs. Not only do you have to make a choice every minute of the day because of scarcity, but, when making a choice, you have to give up something. This cost is called oppportunity cost.
First Grade Economics Unit
 
Social Studies - Maps
This interactive adventure engages children in a story-based scenario that shows overhead views. Good introduction to understanding of map views.
Use positional words to locate Iggy on a map. Grade 1
 
Stories
Choose a story to listen to.
 
Word Study
Child sees the word spelled correctly, then letters are mixed up and child must put them in order again.
Help the tooth fairy find synonyms. Grades 1-2.
 
Word Study - Letter Name
In this Clifford site, student choose a vowel to place between two consonants to make a real word. Letter Name - short vowels. You can choose to have directions read aloud. Words are pronounced as they are made.
Whirlyword is a fruit machine that makes 3 letter CVC words.
Word Maker provides a simple, engaging way for students to generate dozens of different words by first choosing an ending (for example -an, -ed, -at, -op) and then adding a beginning letter or blend. When a correct word is created, the word is stored in a Word Bank where students can read and review their words.