Buttsfirstgraderesources

[|Starfall] -- This is a great source for reading activities for all levels of beginning readers. It provides fun and educational reading activities.
 * First Grade Language Arts:**

[|Toon University] -- This site is filled with language arts games for 1st and 2nd grade students. The games work with teaching opposites, alphabetizing, inferences, punctuation & capitalization, and abbreviations.

[|Between the Lions] -- This page is based around the PBS children's show __Between the Lions__. There are links to games, stories, videos, and downloads.

[|Seussville] -- This is a great site to use on Dr. Seuss Day, or any other day! It provides various activities that correspond with great Dr. Seuss books.

[|Poem Pack] -- Various interactive poems that feature different long vowel sounds. Each poem also includes teaching activities.

[|Create your own play] -- Students get practice at creating characters, dialogue, and writing their own story.

[|Writing a Friendly Letter] -- This link takes you to a slideshow that could be used to walk students through writing a friendly letter.

[|Word Build] -- This is an interactive writing activity that helps students build words by focusing on changing the beginning sound to build new words.


 * First Grade Math:**

Many of the activites listed below go along with lessons in the Everyday Math series. They are all SmartBoard activities and they will have to be saved.

Chart to use when teaching students to add to parts to get a whole

Chart to use when teaching frames and arrows

Activities to help teach using the number line to add/subtract

Activities and charts to help teach even and odd number patterns

Chart to help teach the addition number model

Review activities for Everyday Math Unit 1

Collaboration of daily activities that cover the calendar, days of the week, days of school, place value, and weather

Chart to assist in the lessons introducing coins

Interactive dice and game board for the Dice-Roll and Tally game

Number-line Squeeze (Monster Squeeze) - Interactive game to help students with more than or less than practice