Mrs. Diederich
 
Book Clubs
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Earobics
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Math
A variety of math skills and concepts can be reviewed on this site!
Choose from any of the first grade concepts to build your math skills!
Count to connect the dots. A variety of levels makes this site challenging for everyone!
Practice adding and subtracting. Ladybugs with dots help to visualize amounts or use a counting on strategy.
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.
After Okta hides some bubbles under a shell, he then either adds more bubbles or takes some away. Students have to determine how many bubbles are left under the shell.
A variety of math activities designed for whatever level you are working at now.
A variety of activities from easy to more challenging to develop math skills
Fill the missing number in on the hundreds chart.
Select the 2 cards and the operation wich will equal a given number.
Move a slider along a number line the required number of spaces forward or backward. Fun graphics.
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)
 
Math - Addition
Challenge yourself with these math games. There are flashcards and worksheets you can print out and use too!
Add the 2 pairs of numbers in the bottom level to fill in the gaps in the middle level. Add the numbers in the middle level to find the number at the top. then check your score.
Interactive fact practice using an addition facts grid. A susrprise picture is revealed at the end.
Two player game. Adding 2 digit number and a 1 digit number.
Interactive, timed
Select the answer to a subtraction fact (up to 20) to reveal a mystery picture.
 
Math - Basic Facts
Practice basic subtraction facts. Untimed.
Practice simple addition and subtraction. Show the number fact and the frog will hop along a counting line to assist with seeing the combinations.
A tic-tac-toe style game in which players pratice arithmetic facts while trying to get five markers in a row.
 
Math - Money
Interactive game. Select coins which make the amount of money needed.
Drag coins into a container to create the amount of money shown. Amounts can be over $1.00.
Children look at realistic picture of coins and enter the total value shown on the calculator. Excellent reinforcement of identifying coins and determining their values.
 
Math - Number Sense
Build your number sense by using five frames.
Visualize numbers and practice recognizing numbers quickly.
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.
Combining and partitioning numbers using the ten frames.
 
Math - Time
Perfect for learning to tell time to the hour and entertaining to young students.
This two player game reinforces telling time to the hour and half-hour.
 
Poetry
More poetry for children of all ages.
Click on a category and read poems related to that theme. Enjoy!
 
RAZKids
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RazKids Diederich
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Reading
Stories, plays, and nonfiction to read and interact with as you go through the different activities.
All About Me, Art Gallery, and more!
Games focus on a short or long vowel sound. Drag a letter to match the picture. Has sound and animation. Letter Name Stage.
Help Clifford find the missing letter in these CVC words.
Many different ways to respond to literature.
Click on Kids -> Animals A to Z to read about many different animals.
 
Reading - Audio Books
Science stories for kids to read online.
Choose a story to listen and read along.
Read along with Mem Fox and stories she wrote.
Listen along to stories written by Robert Munsch.
Simple story sequencing activity. Non-readers can listen the words in each part and the finished story.
Collection of stories to read online.
 
Reading - Early Literacy
Have some fun while building early literacy skills!
Interactive storybook for early readers.
Interactive Storybook for early readers.
Interactive storybook for early readers.
 
Science - Animal Adaptations
How do animals meet their needs for oxygen, climate, food, water, and shelter? Play this game to learn.
 
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.
Explore a virtual city to see many places and ways to recycle. Great for an ecology unit.
 
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 - Soil
Find out how earthworms help the soil.
 
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.
 
Social Studies - Economics
Students have the opportunity to complete an interactive activity that teaches them about the providers of goods and services.
See how chocolate is made through these videos and photographs.
Learn about money and banking.Grades 1-3
This site offers ideas about how students and families can volunteer in their communities
Review concepts of goods, services, and producers using the internet to locate examples of each. Learn about three kinds of resoucrces necessary to produce goods and provide services.
A classic rhyme, Simple Simon, introduces students to the concepts of consumers and producers. Interactive activities involve students in distinguishing between consumers and producers.
Take a virtual tour to see how milk is produced.
People are consumers and producers. Discover the many different examples of each in interactive learning activities.
 
Social Studies - Maps
This interactive adventure engages children in a story-based scenario that shows overhead views. Good introduction to understanding of map views.
 
Word Study
Drag the vowel combinations into the words to make a correct spelling. Can you do it fast enough?
Choose the small words you can make from a big word. Letter Name Stage.
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.
 
Word Study - Within Word
What sound can you hear in the middle of the words that Jim is making?
Ten colourful poems with animation, audio and activities - featuring Daisy the snail, the toad and the goat, and friends.
Ten vowel patterns, (some r-controlled). Given a word with a blank in the middle, select missing vowel pattern. Picture clue also provided.
Look carefully at the cards to see if they match. When you see a pair click Snap! But dont get Snap happy - if you get it wrong, you lose a point. Use the slow/fast slider to increase the challenge. Faster is harder but you get more Snaps!