First Grade Websites:

• Counting Down - [from 100] next number if counting down - read the green section to review, scroll to the blue section for a practice game
• Space Hopscotch - Count forward from 6 to 24 by 2's and then count backward from 24 to 6 by 1's.
• Spooky Sequences - One of the ghosts is missing a number. Click on the numbers along the bottom to enter the right number in the sequence. one digit numbers (by ones) | two digit numbers (by ones) | three digit numbers (by ones) | counting by twos | counting by fives | counting by tens | backward by ones | backward by twos | backward by fives | backward by tens
• Super Sequencer - (forward only) Input the starting number of a sequence, the increment (amount of change), and then select the speed with which the next numbers will be displayed. an your students predict the next number?

• Get In Line - [this link opens on a new page] explore ordinal positions (Author - Sandi King)
• Match Cardinal and Ordinal numbers - click and drag
• Match Cardinal and Ordinal numbers - concentration style game
• Ordinal Balloons - click on the balloons and put them the right carts
• Ordinal Numbers - [spanish language] put them in order. [this link opens in a new window]
• Practice Ordinal Numbers - [scroll down to the orange section to practice] name the ordinal
• Twelve Cats in a Row - [this link opens in a new window] eleven of them are black, you pick which ordinal number describes the orange cat

• Analog Clock - (whole class activity) You call out a time and ask a student to set the clock.
• Clock Craft - Make a simple paper clock that you can use to practice telling time (from Enchanted Learning)
• Clock Program - Start with either an analog or a digital clock, then set the other clock to the time given on the first clock.
• Draw Hands - free worksheets from Math Slice, time intervals from 1 hour to one minute
• Kid Klock - use pull down menus to select the time you would like to see on an analog clock
• Identifying Time to the Hour
• Stop the Clock - match digital time to analog clocks, or written time, by dragging the digital clocks, or written time | to the nearest hour | to the nearest half hour
• Tell Time - free worksheets from Math Slice, time intervals from 1 hour to one minutes
• Telling Time - Players must drag the digital displays to the matching analogue clock (telling time to the half-hour). All against the clock of course! Other times : (fifteen minute increments) (five minute increments) (one minute increments) - For whole class instruction there is a clock available (digital or analog) which can be advanced by increments)
• Telling Time Practice - Drag the hands of the clock to show the correct time. (some of these may be a bit hard)
• Time To Go - [this link opens on a new page] tell time to the half hour (Author - Randy Russell)
• Time to the Hour - a concentration style matching game, match digital and analog clocks
• Time Quiz - Practice half hour skills
• Worksheet Generator - Telling Time ; You decide on the variables; students tell the time or draw the hands on the clock face, time increments from half-hour to one minute, and answer sheet.

• Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes - an alphabetical index to a very large number of familiar texts to use for recitations.
• Rebus Rhymes: Mother Goose and others - (from Enchanted Learning) - more familiar texts to use for recitations
• Stories Online - online reading resource links - uses Guided Reading levels as an indicator
• Story Time - Five stories; Cinderella, Firebird, Arabian Nights, Rumplestiltskin, and Ranik the Elephant. There is an online version, or (if you download and install Microsoft Reader) you can hear the story read to your students.

• Blending words together- Blender says word and student must choose the beginning sounds and ending sounds separately to be blended together. This site is from BBC and makes it a bit difficult for some children to understand the words.
• Blending words together- - Football players blend beginning sounds and ending sounds together to produce the word. See if your student can figure out the word before the two players collide!
• Handwriting For Kids - Practice sheets for K and 1st grade writing. Sheets include single letters, letter blends, common words such as days of the week, months of the year,number words, color words and much, much more!
• Phonics-Word Builder – Three dozen different combining sound activities are available in the following categories; abc’s, short vowels, long vowels, other vowels, beginning consonants and final consonants. Word parts are read individually, blended, and then followed by a sentence accompanied by an illustration. Ignore the registration screen that pops up, select Maybe Later to go directly to the activity.
• Poem Pack - Ten colorful poems with animation, audio and activities - featuring Daisy the snail, the toad and the goat, and friends. Read it, Hear it, search for sounds, and find words concentrating on vowel blends.
• See 'N Spell - [this page opens in a new window - close that window to return to this list] Students click and drag letters into the box to spell the words that correspond to the pictures. A very good activity with many skills such as plurals, long vowels, short vowels, blends and digraphs.

• Free Phonics Worksheets -free phonics worksheets to assist in learning phonics rules for reading from Rock 'N Learn
• Practice with Initial Consonant Blends - matching exercise with initial consonant blends
• Two Letter Ending Consonant Blends - multiple-choice exercise
• Study Dog - Samples of the Study Dog program; Alaphabet trace, rhymes, vowel blends and spelling.

• And Then... - Look at each picture, and then underline the sentence that tells what will probably happen next. (K-2)
• End the Story - Cut out the pictures on the bottom of the page. Decide which picture goes with each story. Paste the pictures on the page. Color the pictures. (K-2)
• Follow the Clues - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
• Little Blue and Little Yellow - this lesson plan is designed to be used with the first of Leo Lionni’s picture books. Practice at predicting is one of the activities included. (K-2)
• Story Board - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included)
• Use Predictions to Help Kids Think Deeply about Books - Predicting involves more than trying to figure out what happens next. As kids find evidence to form hunches, they also ask questions, recall facts, reread, skim, infer, draw conclusions, and, ultimately, comprehend the text more fully. (K-2) Charting Predictions
• What Will Happen Next? - Look at each picture. Draw what you think will happen next (K-2)

• Kinds of Concept Maps - examples of four major categories of concept maps
• Graphic Organizers - from Enchanted Learning
• Graphic Organizers from Education Place
• Index of Graphic Organizers - from Inspiration
• Instructions on how to use Excel to create a graphic organizer
• Tips on Making Your Own Concept Maps

• Build a Sentence - Drag scrambled words to create a sentence.
• Scrambled Sentences - Drag the words in the correct order to create a sentence.
• Can you make sense of a sentence? - drag the words into the correct sentence order.