Ms. Callentine's 1st Grade Class...WILD about learning!


Reading & Language Arts Links

First School Years

A great resource for all kinds of literacy activities, both printable and online

Laura Numeroff's Website

A favorite author (If You Give a Pig a Pancake etc.) and some of her ideas for getting kids reading and writing for pleasure

Tumblebooks

Online stories, games, puzzles, book reports and more!  The username is "herrera" and the password is "books"

Mouse Cookie Books

All kinds of games and activities based on the popular "If You Give a...." series

Harper Collins

This site has games, contests, and favorite stories available for listening!

Starfall

Learn to read (easier)

Starfall

It's fun to read (harder)

Starfall

I'm reading (hardest)

Children's storybooks online

Illustrated children's stories for kids of all ages

Word Sorting game

Many word lists to be sorted into word families...great for beginner reading practice!

PBS kids - Arthur

Join Arthur and friends in the discovery of difficult concepts like "fact" vs. "opinion."  Be sure and explore all of PBS kids!

Word Builder

At this site, you can practice building all kinds of words.

Punctuation

A challenging game with excellent practice editing sentences for correct capitalization and punctuation.

Storybear

Online stories which can be read, heard, or both!

Phonics games

This site has great practice for blends, cvc words, and long vowels!

Math Links

Addition and subtraction games

Little Animals Activity Centre offers a variety of interactive games (math and otherwise).

Number line math

Good practice for using the number line to add or subtract.  4 levels of difficulty!

Set the clock

Practice setting time to the minute...beat your best score!

Telling time

Practice setting the clock to the hour.

Shopping with coins

Great practice choosing items to "buy" and selecting the right coins to do so!

Counting coins

Help the bear count the right amount of money.

Odd or even

Practice recognizing odd or even numbers to 30.

Place value

Practice using e-manipulatives to identify 2-digit numbers

enVision Math

Log in to work with the new HISD math materials!  All my students have individual accounts; please find the user id and password information for your child  in the link on the printable resources page page. 

Science Links

Funschool

We love this animal classification game!

Fossweb

Interactive, practical science activities.  Be sure to try Air & Weather and Solids & Liquids as well as all the rest!

Cool Science for Curious Kids

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute invites curious kids to explore biology...on screen, off screen, and in between!

Science games and puzzles at Scholastic

Here you'll find games, puzzles and quizzes related to life science.

Brainpop, Jr.

Many free video clips and interactive lessons!

Social Studies Links

Geography games

Be sure to try the USA puzzle and the Continents puzzle!