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1. Sheppard software has a variety of place value games. Here is another of their "Fruit Shoot" games. @http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/placevalue/fruit_shoot_place_value.htm

and others: 2. @http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/menus/place_value.htm Lots of choices and challenges for all students.

3. Base ten blocks
4. Base ten block addition

5. Base ten block subtraction Keep an eye on your location bar. You may have to enable Java on your machine to run these activities.

@http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/6_7/grouping_materials.shtml

@http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/characteristics_materials.shtml Liquids and solids.

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@http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skill_builders/measurement_math_first_1st_grade.htm all kinds of measurement activities. Many are in inches but there are metric activities available, for instance ====== @http://www.softschools.com/measurement/games/ruler/centimeter_ruler/

Bake an alien cake.
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2. Last week grade ones and twos worked together to solve these riddles. The right angles clues were tricky but with the projector we made a "right angle checker" and solved every one of them. []

3. Many problems to solve including geometry and math of all kinds that are fun to solve in an easy to use format. [] []

[] Place value practice in a fun format.

[] More advanced place value practice in a game format.

[|http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_152_g_1_t_1.html?from=topic_t_1.html]More from our old friend the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives. We'll be using this one in class a lot. Choose the base ten block links for valuable practice.

Howtosmile.org is a collection of science and math activities from science museums from all over. There are many fun and engaging activities, investigations and experiments that the children will love. The site is free but it does require registration. [] Word families. There are all kinds of word families to make online.

There are also many other valuable activities at the readwritethink.org site. Produced by the International Reading Association, there can be some American content but no ads (the reading foundations do advertise themselves, but there are no popup ads for products), memberships or fees and they obviously try to create meaningful learning and practice activities.

Hee are some samples.

[|http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/]

Picture match offers short vowel practice.

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[] http://mrssmithgrade1.weebly.com/links-for-students.html There is a wealth of useful resources for engaging extra practice here. It makes me think that I should organize my page!

= [|www.k12reader.com/first-grade-spelling-words/][]. = [] This is an easily customizable arithmetic practice game. [] I got a real kick out of some of the questions to think about.

[] [] http://www.learningplanet.com/stu/index.asp?tab=1 math practice for all levels in engaging game format.

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[] (click on the red dots for activities instead of the headings) [] Learning Disabilities Association of Ontario. Early math: Bugabooloo shoes [] a great place to begin for grade ones.

Try out Fruit Splat and Popup math at [] There is fun practice for all on this page.

Sheppard Software number line activities. We have been using number lines to calculate, to build counting and counting on skills. Here is one example we have used in class. []

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http://www.factmonster.com/math/flashcard.html?op[0]=addition&level=1 Math fact practice. Very helpful in problem solving.

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