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These are my 62 favorite first grade websites. I sprinkle them in throughout the year, adding several each week to the class internet start page, deleting others. I make sure I have 3-4 each week that integrate with classroom lesson plans, 3-4 that deal with technology skills and a few that simply excite students about tech in education.

Here’s the list:

1. Aesop Fables—no ads
2. Audio stories—read by actors
3. Audio stories—speakaboos
4. Alphabet—Kerpoof Letters
5. Alphabetic order
6. American Symbols
7. Build a Neighborhood
8. Breathing earth– the environment
9. Brown Bear Typing
10. Childhood Stories
11. Classic fairy tales
12. Clifford
13. Clocks
14. Clocks II
15. Comic Builder
16. Create a story
17. Dino Fossils then and now
18. Drag and drop skills
19. Edugames at PBS
20. Edugames from BBC
21. Egyptian Madlibs
22. Fairy Tales and Fables
23. Games that make you think
24. Geography—find msg around the world
25. Greece-Rome—Winged Sandals
26. Groundhog Day
27. Hangman
28. Healthy food game
29. Internet safety
30. Kerpoof
31. Keyboarding—Hyper Spider Typing
32. Kid’s videos
33. Make a Face
34. Make Believe Comix
35. Make your own Story
36. Make another story
37. Map game
38. Math Games
39. Math/LA Videos by grade level
40. Mighty Book
41. Money flashcards
42. Money—counting
43. Mouse skillsMr. Picasso Head
44. Museum of Modern Art
45. Music with Hands
46. My Online Neighborhood
47. Number concepts
48. Number Order
49. Online typing practice
50. Pharaoh’s Tomb Game
51. Plants—life cycle
52. Puzzle
53. Science websites
54. Shapes, colors, letters, numbers
55. Starfall
56. Stories for children
57. Stories from PBS
58. Talking Pets
59. The Magic Schoolbus
60. Where is Santa?
61. Wild on Math—simple to use
62. Word games—k-2

Do you have any to add?

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Jacqui Murray is the editor of a technology curriculum for K-fifth grade and author of two technology training books for middle school. She wrote Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy midshipman. She is webmaster for five blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, a columnist for Examiner.com, and a weekly contributor to Write Anything and Technology in Education. Currently, she’s working on a techno-thriller that should be ready this summer. Contact Jacqui at her writing office, WordDreams, or her tech lab, Ask a Tech Teacher.