Murdock Technology Night
K and 1st Grades Websites

 Presented by Jeannemarie Eskridge and Susann Peck

American Library Association – Great Websites for Children Search

http://www.ala.org/gwstemplate.cfm?section=greatwebsites&template=/cfapps/gws/default.cfm

Use this website to search for websites for children.

 

Flashcards

http://abcteach.com/directory/basics/flashcards/a_to_z_flashcards/

If you are looking for flashcards you can print off of the computer, try this website.  It even has D’Nealian font.

 

RIF Reading Planet

http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/

This site is dedicated to young readers with numerous reading activities

 

StarFall

http://www.starfall.com/

There are letter and reading activities.  Your child can read on-line books.  If he/she does not know a word, just click on the word and the computer will tell your child what it is.

 

Young Writers’ Workshop K-1

http://www.meddybemps.com/9.700.html

This website provides parents story starters to help their children learn to orally tell stories – a first step in writing stories.

 

NIEHS Pages for Kids

http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/home.htm

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences offers science activities for children of many ages.

 

Story Place

http://www.storyplace.org/eel/eel.asp

This website has stories, print-out activities, and theme-related reading lists

 

Primary Games

http://www.primarygames.com/

Links for Science, Math, Social studies and Language Arts plus more

 

Phonics and Spelling On-line Activities for Kindergarten

http://www.saxonpublishers.com/activities/games.jsp?grade=0&subject=1

Great for kindergarten

 

Math On-line Activities for Kindergarten

http://www.saxonpublishers.com/activities/games.jsp?grade=0&subject=0

Great for kindergarten

 

E-Manipulatives

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/manip/mn_k.html

Houghton Mifflin sponsors this website.  If you search around the site, you can find games for K and 1st.

 

Literacy Center

http://www.literacycenter.net/lessonview_en.htm#

This website has basic letter, word, number activities geared more toward the beginning of kindergarten.

 

NASA

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/home/

NASA has a wonderful website that they update often.  There are online books and sometimes they are read to the child.  Since the website is updated often, something you may be going back for could have been replaced.

 

GameGoo

http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/gooeyhome.html

Phonics and reading activities.

 

 

 

Magic Keys

http://www.magickeys.com/books/

On-line books at different levels.  Has one book that the computer reads to children.

 

Education for Kids

http://www.edu4kids.com/

This website drills students in Language Arts and Math.  The website calls it on-line flashcards.  Many activities are free.  Some are for members.

 

Kidsites

http://www.kidsites.com/

This site provides links to educational and fun sites for children.

 

Compass Learning Odyssey

http://www.childu.com/sampleactivity.html

This is a fabulous website with many language arts, math, science, etc. activities.