California has joined more than 40 states in adopting the Common Core State Standards. Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are an updated set of curricular standards that have been developed with the intention of unifying curricula and standards across all 50 states. Schools in California will teach to these standards beginning with the 2014-15 school year. To learn more about the CCSS, click on the link. http://www.corestandards.org/
This California Department of Education site provides the frameworks for each academic content area for each grade level. http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/
This website offers Open Court vocabulary support and corresponds with each thematic unit and reading selection. http://www.pcsd.k12.ny.us/projects/open_court/1st%20Grade%20Contents_files/slide0001.htm
This website provides excellent resources and additional links to each of the first grade themes in Open Court. http://www.opencourtresources.com/teaching/index.html
This link takes you to activities that tie in directly with our Open Court units. http://blackboard.aacps.org/portal/tconnect/_elem/Grade%201/indexfirst.html
This website contains social studies games/links that correspond with each of our units to challenge your student. http://www.harcourtschool.com/hss/
This website will link you to activities/games associated with our English Language Development (ELD) program, Avenues. http://www.hbavenues.com/unitSelect.asp?letter=B
You can log into this website to access all of the leveled readers in the database. http://leveledreaderdatabase.macmillanmh.com/lrdb/search.form
Starfall is an educational website that provides extra practice with phonics, phonemic awareness, decoding, and reading. http://www.starfall.com
Internet4classrooms provides links to sites in all content areas. It is a helpful parent site. http://www.internet4classrooms.com/
This educational website offers many learning/interactive games for first graders. http://www.pbskids.org
This educational website offers many fun learning games for first graders. http://www.abcya.com
This teacher-created website provides literacy games for your first grader to gain additional practice with important literacy skills. http://www.teachers.cr.k12.de.us/~galgano/dibel2.htm
This website provides free worksheets by grade level. http://www.tlsbooks.com/
This website provides free reading comprehension worksheets. http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/1st-comprehension.html
This website provides free math worksheets, particularly timed drills. http://www.math-drills.com/addition.shtml
This link takes you to a site where your student can practice 100's of math skills on the computer. http://www.ixl.com/
This is another math practice site for your student. http://www.coolmath4kids.com/
This website has both reading and math games for extra practice. http://www.funbrain.com/
This website provides free worksheets on grammar. http://www.stickyball.net/grammar.html
This is another website with many free worksheets for extra practice. http://www.kidzone.ws/
This website allows you to improve your student's handwriting with additional practice. http://www.handwritingworksheets.com/
This link will show you and your student the specific titles in our school library for which quizzes are available for the Accelerated Reader (AR) Program. Scroll down to Herburger Elementary. http://www.readthebooks2.com/rtb/aliens/rtb_sacramento/frog/XSchools.php
This link provides many math worksheets for extra practice as well as flashcards for addition/subtraction that can be printed. http://www.mathplayground.com/
This is another link for math which provides practice opportunities on the computer with many first grade skills, such as place value. http://www.aaamath.com/
This website allows you to make math worksheets for your student. http://www.mathmaster.org/
Your student can practice math facts. http://www.mhschool.com/math/2009/ca/assets/factdash.html