Welcome to Mrs. Herman's 1st Grade Class 
Here are a few websites that might be helpful for you and your child.
SITES THAT WILL HELP IN CLASS
READING/LANGUAGE ARTS SITES
http://www.storylineonline.net/
Celebrities read online to the children.
JustOneMoreBook.com
This website offers a variety of book choices for kids with various interests.
PBS Kids
The mission of this site is to help kids learn key reading skills, including alphabet, word families, spelling and reading comprehension, through interactive online games, activities and more!
Starfall
Starfall.com is a free public service to teach children to read with phonics. It is a great site for beginning readers.
Storytown
In order to use think central for Storytown, you will need to enter our state, school district and school as well as your child's username and password sent home from school.
Study Island
This is a program was purchased by EPSD to provide children with PSSA practice. Students log into Study Island by using their first and last name for the username (firstnamelastname@wesc) and the password "read".
Earobics
This program is for students with an assigned password from the administrator.
SPELLING SITES
AAA Spell
Practice your spelling words with this website.
Spelling City
This website can test, teach, or allow you to play a game using your spelling words! All of the word lists for the year are uploaded to the website. Just click the Spelling City link above, find your list, and start studying. You can also download handwriting practice sheets with your words in cursive! The vocabulary lists are first, so you must click pages 2 and 3 to get the spelling lists.
MATH SITES
Learning Coins
Learn about the coins and the value of each one.
Counting Money
Practice using coins and bills to count different money amounts.
AAA Math
Practice math concepts that are appropriate for first graders with this website.
(This site also offers practice activities for other grades as well.)
CoolMath4Kids
Cool Math 4 Kids is a math site specially designed for what kids like and how they learn! Math really CAN be fun and really CAN be easy to learn.
Harcourt Math
This site matches math chapters we are working on in class. It is also home of "That's a Fact."
Mathslice.com
Get free math worksheets to help you practice the skills taught in class.
OTHER FUN SITES
FOSSWeb
FOSSWeb is the official site for the inquiry-based FOSS
(FULL OPTION SCIENCE SYSTEM) science curriculum. A place for support, resources, and fun activities.
Funbrain or Iknowthat.com
Both websites offer free games designed for practicing literacy and math skills.
KidsClick
This site is a web search created by librarians. You can find just about anything here!
Wikispaces
This site has fun activities that go with our Storytown reading series lessons.
BrainPop Jr.
The log in is epsdwesc and the password is owls. Have Fun!
