Here are some great educational links that will be helpful for your student throughout the school year!
Abcya.com - http://www.abcya.com/ Abcya.com is a great site that offers free educational kids computer games and activities for elementary students to learn on the web. Grade level lessons help in areas like math and language arts. All educational games are free and are modeled from primary grade lessons and are enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn.
Storyline Online - http://storylineonline.net/ Actors read favorite stories out loud. Everything read aloud is captioned on the bottom.
Starfall - www.starfall.com Games, songs, videos and printables that teach a variety of reading skills.
PBS Kids - http://pbskids.org/lions/ Tons of favorite show sites to choose from. Their fun games, stories and catchy songs teach things such as blending chunks, diagraphs, the double e sound, long vowels, and the two sounds made by c.
Sesame Street - http://www.sesamestreet.org/ This is not just for preschoolers! 1st graders love the silly videos that teach the grade-level skills like the sounds "Sh" and "ow", math skills, science, healthy habits and learning Spanish. You can search by subject and age. The videos are very short--perfect for transitions or mini-rewards. This site also has games and printables--perfect for working on those early skills at home.
RazKids - http://www.raz-kids.com/main/Login A great reading website! There are leveled books specific for your child. Each book comes with a quiz. Once they read the book and pass the quiz, they can move on to the next book. Children can move up levels once they have successfully read all the books and passed all the quizzes at their current level. Teacher Username: (Coming Soon!)
Think Central - http://www-k6.thinkcentral.com Fill in the correct information from the pull down menu. Be sure to click "save information" so you don't have to to this every time. The username is your child's six digit school id number (if you need this let me know). The password is tiger.
Dreambox & Istation: a letter will go out explaining this, please let me know if you have any problems.
Google drive can be accessed through the DSISD homepage. Students are expected to be able to log on to their account after the first few weeks at school.