FIRST GRADERS
I have created a place to find resources for reading, writing, math, art, science, social studies and even social and emotional to use at home. Hope you enjoy what the resources I put together. Have fun exploring!
Authentic Learning Experience:
BrainPOP Jr.is a comprehensive website where students can search for specific videos and activities that are categorized by subject, grade, and Common Core Standard. Short engaging videos are used to introduce content topics using age-specific language to supplement or enhance instructional lessons learned within the classroom. Activities on the BrianPOP Jr. website help guide students through activities that include literacy, math, science, or social studies-based activities, quizzes, concept maps that demonstrate an understanding of the curriculum. Students learning about the Next Generation Science Standard on how plants and animals use their external parts to help them survive could watch videos on the various types of animal habitats. They could watch a specific habitat video like “Freshwater Habitats” and they will be able to explain what type of animals live in each habitat, what they look like, and how they can survive in that habitat. Students will be able to draw an example of the habitat to demonstrate their mastery of understanding of the standard.
Developmentally Appropriate Practice:
Brainpop Jr. provides students a diverse age-appropriate selection of engaging instructional material for students to learn literacy, math, science, and social studies content to enhance classroom lessons. The website is a tool for students to help explain complex concepts, introduce new topics, review lessons, and provide effective strategies for different learning styles to provide multiple opportunities to build on foundational learning skills. After watching the video “Freshwater Habitat” students are able to demonstrate comprehension by expressing verbally why freshwater habitats are important and how they can be protected. Activities within the BrainPOP website are differentiated to allow all leveled learners to actively practice components of lessons in order to progress towards academic success.
Standards:
(1-LS1-1)Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs. The student understands and applies reasoning skills to conduct research, deliberate, and form and evaluate positions through the processes of learning concepts of Civics, Economics, Geography, and History.
Authentic Learning Experience: English4abc is an engaging Youtube channel where primary age learners can engage in age appropriate and songs and videos that help reinforce concepts of letter names, sounds, and develop and understand phonemic awareness. With the use of engaging songs and animation students are able to identify and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words. It is a useful resource for children to build phonological awareness picking up on sounds, syllables and rhymes in the words they hear in the songs on the videos. Children can choose the short vowel a video on from the English4abc Youtube channel to help them associate the letter symbol “a” and the appropriate short vowel sound it makes, even when there is more than one sound.
Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Singing is great way to get kids rhyming and a great resource to help focus on other kinds of phonological and phonemic awareness skills. English4abc videos provide access to developmentally appropriate resource for primary grade learners that encourages learners to practice phonemic and phonological patterns to recognize key words and develop fluency. When a child watches the short vowel a video from English4abc they build a strong phonemic awareness and begin sounding out unfamiliar words become easier.
Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.2 indicates that first grade students should be able to demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes) and mastery of phonological awareness. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3 indicates that first grade students should be able to show mastery in Phonics and Word Recognition and be able to apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
in decoding words.
Authentic Learning Experience: GoNoodle is a student resource that provides access to various videos to get students engaged, focused, and learning all at one time. This resource would be great to utilize for Brain Breaks in between instructional lessons. Students are able to engage in a variety of videos that are a fun songs with dancing, rhyming, stretching or practicing self-regulation skills like breathing and mindfulness. This website is useful to help students reset and transition into the next activity. Educators can choose the video “Get Back on Track” video on the GoNoodle website to help students transition coming back from PE class to homeroom to help regain focus. This gives students the opportunity to manage their active bodies and get them to a calm state for learning.
Developmentally Appropriate Practice: There are lots of different video choices students can choose from within the GoNoodle website that can help children identify and/or express their social or emotional feelings. The Koo Koo Brothers have provided students with different methods to help with calming down, self regulation, breathing, and emotionally connecting videos that help provide positive support and help develop a responsive classroom environment. Most of the videos on GoNoodle would work well for brain break activities, transitions, or morning meetings. Watching the “Get Back on Track” video students are able to interact with a short GoNoodle video and have a chance to practice their inquiry and thinking skills in social emotional competency in an authentic way and be able to reflect how they can utilize the new strategies when they are approach conflict or problems in the classroom.
Standards: Social Emotional learning standards indicate that students should be able to demonstrate self-awareness and have the ability to identify their emotions, personal assets, areas for growth, and potential external resources and supports. They need to be able to demonstrates the skills to manage one’s emotions, thoughts, impulses, and stress in constructive ways. Go Noodle allows students to respond to movement to a variety of stimuli that helps them develop an awareness of personal and collective identity that encompasses strengths, areas for growth, aspirations, and cultural and linguistic assets.
Authentic Learning Experience: Fun Brain is a free online website that was created for students in Pre-K through 8th grade and offers numerous games, books, and videos that help develop skills in math, reading, literacy, and problem-solving skills. Each game, book, and video is tagged with key subject areas and skills, such as addition, fractions, vowel sounds, and shapes to help make it easier to navigate. Fun Brain’s games help students build on what they have learned in class and help them develop new skills in reading, math, and problem solving. Students can read age appropriate, engaging e-books that are at their reading level like “Judy Moody Gets Famous!” or “Stink” The Incredible Shrinking Kid” that align with helping students develop reading stamina and identify character traits with Common Core State Standards. Math games like Cake Monster help students read and write numerals and understand that numbers can be represented with objects, on a number line, or with a written numeral.
Developmentally Appropriate Practice: The Fun Brain website is a supplemental tool that assist student learning in building mastery of reading, literacy, math, and problem solving skills. Content on the website are separated by grade level to help efficiently locate the books, games, and videos that will most help their students. Students in first grade can access developmentally appropriate material to provide opportunities to build on skills they have already learned. Animated and ebooks available on Fun Brain help young learners develop skills needed to identify craft and structure to explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types. The math games available on the website like Cake Monster and Math Baseball help first-grade learners practice ways to extend the counting sequence and identify objects with written numerals.
Standards: Washington State Common Core Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.5 indicates that first-grade learners should be able to explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types in reading. First-grade students should be able to extend the counting sequence and count to 120 starting at any number less than 120. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.NBT.A.1 says that students should be able to read and write numerals and represent a number of objects with a written numeral from 1 to 120.
Authentic Learning Experience: SciShow Kids is a YouTube video channel that explains scientific concepts in an engaging and interactive way that young learners can understand. Students watch videos on various scientific topics about the human body, the earth and sky, geography, plants, animals, bugs, technology, and engineering and perform experiments to enhance the learning experience. Students in the first-grade can watch the videos Hibernation and Animals in Winter Coats to help provide background knowledge to the variety of animals that hibernate in the winter and understand what hibernation means and why it is important. Students can learn important information on the topic to help provide tools needed to build on in classroom discussions, peer explanations, and a deeper understanding of the topic.
Developmentally Appropriate Practice: SciShow Kids helps students understand complex scientific concepts and walks them through the scientific inquiry process by asking essential questions and engaging them in interactive videos, investigations, and experiments. Topics that are available on SciShow Kids Youtube Channel meet Next Generation Science Standards for first-grade learners that simplify explanations for complex science topics in a kid-friendly manner while keeping your students engaged through their visual components. Students watching videos on Hibernation and Animals in Winter can make connections to the video and information they learned from the videos to help strengthen their learning and understanding of how animals use external parts of their bodies to survive.
Standards: The Next Generation Science Standard 1-LS1-1. states that first graders should aim to be able to use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs. The lessons on SCISShow engage first-grade scientists in activities geared towards reaching these goals.
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Authentic Learning Experience: Starfall is an interactive website for preschool and primary age children that have learning games, video clips, and online stories that engage student learning. Students can play a selection of interactive reading and math games that teach and allow them to practice Common Core State Standards. Starfall allows students the opportunity to play online games that teach them how to read and understand math concepts through phonics and number sense. Children are able to practice reading skills through phonemic and phonological awareness and develop math sense by measuring length using non-standard units, like blocks and crayons, from one end of an object to the other to compare measurements. Children are able to direct their own learning and engage in activities within the website that appeals to their interest. They can access activities that give students clear engaging examples of phonic and number patterns in action to help make real world connections, like playing a make a word game with the phonic pattern “an” to build words they are familiar with or base ten practice games to compare numbers.
Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Starfall is developmentally appropriate for first grade learners because it engages them in several reading and math games at the primary level and is designed for them to complete independently. Their learning is scaffolded through with explicit instructions on how to play games and modeling on how to navigate to move within the website. Students are given an appropriate amount of challenge within the games to help develop mastery while boosting student confidence and providing positive support. Children can select games from a wide range that practice skills that are Common Core focused are math and reading curriculum.
Standards: Washington State Common Core Standards indicate that in Grade 1, instructional time in mathematics should focus on four critical areas: (1) developing understanding of addition, subtraction, and strategies for addition and subtraction within 20; (2) developing understanding of whole number relationships and place value, including grouping in tens and ones; (3) developing understanding of linear measurement and measuring lengths as iterating length units; and (4) reasoning about attributes of, and composing and decomposing geometric shapes.
Washington State Common Core Reading Standards state that primary grade standards are directed toward fostering students’ understanding and working knowledge of concepts of print, the alphabetic principle, and other basic conventions of the English writing system.
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