Learning Games and Activities
These Links will help reinforce the skills that are being taught in the
classroom. I recommend that you review the websites before having your child
use them. Please sit with your child to help them understand how to use the
site before you allow them to practice alone.
Thank you for supporting your child's learning.
Reading Readiness:
Develop Reading Readiness Skills through these fun
interactive games and stories.
Starfall
Identify Letters:
Learn to identify letters by clicking on the letters in the bowl of soup to
spell words that answer silly riddles.
Between the Lions/Alphabet Soup Game
Identify Letters:
Learn to identify letters by singing the ABC song and filling in the missing
letter as it comes up. You will be given 3 choices.
Between the Lions/ABCD Watermelon Game
Identify Capital Letters:
Identify the Capital letters by seeing and saying their names.
Literacy Center/Capital Letters Games
Identify Lowercase Letters:
Identify the lowercase letters by seeing and saying their names.
Literacy Center/Lowercase Letters Games
Match Capital to Lowercase Letters:
Identify capital and lowercase letters by saying their names and matching them.
Literacy Center/ Capital and Lowercase Letters Games
Identify Letters:
Learn the names of letters and how they are formed by saying their names and
watching them being written.
Literacy Center/Writing
Identify Letters in Various Fonts:
Learn to identify letters in different fonts by capturing and naming them with
your hot air balloon. This game also improves fine motor skills through mouse
practice.
Between the Lions/Sky Rider Game
Identify Letters and Their Sounds:
Learn to identify letters and their sounds through this fun matching game.
Between the Lions/Monkey Match Game
Identify Letters and Their Sounds:
Learn letters and their sounds with these fun to construct puzzles. In
addition to the puzzles there are videos to go along with each letter that
name and show real pictures of things that begin with the target letter.
Between the Lions/Theo's Puzzles
Letter/Sound Knowledge:
Increase letter/sound knowledge by Pouncing on the word that matches the sound.
Between the Lions/Pounce Game
Beginning Sound Match:
Look and say what each picture is, and then select the pictures that match the
target sound by putting them in the box. You can also print your list if you wish.
Clifford/Sound Match
Identify Beginning Sounds:
Learn the beginning sounds of words by selecting the correct letter out of a
choice of 3 for each word.
Between the Lions/Fuzzy Lion Ears
Sound Sort:
Sort the words that start with the same sound into the correct box.
Clifford/Letter Match Game
Vowel Sounds:
Learn to hear the vowel sounds inside CVC words by selecting the chickens that
contain the target vowel sounds.
Between the Lions/Chicken Stacker Game
Vowel Sounds/Spell Color and Shape Words:
Learn vowel sounds and how to spell color and shape words.
Literacy Center/Words Games
Vowel Sounds and Blending CVC Words:
Practice learning your vowel sounds and blending by placing vowels inside of
incomplete CVC words to make a list that you can print.
Clifford/Make a Word Game
Blending Sounds into Words:
Help the football players at Blending Field crash together to make words.
Between the Lions/Blending Bowl Game
Rhyming:
Play with rhyme through this fun and engaging game.
Between the Lions/Dub Cubs Game
Vocabulary Building:
Increase your child's vocabulary through this visually exciting game.
Between the Lions/Word Play Game
Vocabulary Building:
This game will help your child understand the difference in words that contain
-er and -est such as cold, colder, coldest.
Between the Lions/Best Trampolini Game
Vocabulary Building:
Help Synonym Sam find the correct synonyms that describe how her dog Rufus is
feeling.
Between the Lions/Synonym Sam's Lab Game
Vocabulary Building:
Increase your child's vocabulary by learning words that mean the opposite. It
will make you very hoppy to play this game.
Between the Lions/Hopposites Game
Reading and Comprehension:
Read along with and build comprehension skills with these interactive stories.
Tumblebooks
Reading and Comprehension:
Listen to stories read by famous people, discuss the story, and have fun with
the activities that are included with each story.
Storylineonline
Reading and Comprehension:
Listen to a variety of beautifully read stories. This is a good opportunity to
discuss characters, setting, plot, lessons learned, etc. with your child.
Storynory
Fine Motor Skills:
This link will help your child improve his/her fine motor skills. Encourage
your child to stay within the lines while coloring. Developing control will
help improve your child's handwriting. There are also some pages that
encourage creative writing and thinking skills. Just select the page you want
and print.
Between the Lions/Leona's Coloring Pages
Handwriting:
Help your child improve his/her handwriting by creating worksheets geared
towards your child's specific needs.
Kidzone/Handwriting Tracers
Listen and Follow Directions/Mouse Practice:
Listen and follow multi-step directions to help clean up the attic. Listen
close as the directions can be tricky. This game will also help with fine
motor skills through mouse practice.
Between the Lions/The Messy Attic
Keyboarding:
Learn keyboarding skills with this fun program from the BBC.
BBC Keyboarding
Classification:
There has been a flood and the books have gotten all mixed up. Please help the
lion put the books that go together on the right shelves.
Between the Lions/Flood Game
Identifying Shapes and their Words:
Learn shapes and their words by saying their names and playing matching games.
Literacy Center/Shapes Games
Identifying Numerals/Matching Numeral to Number/Number Words:
Learn to identify numerals by clicking on and saying them, match number to
numeral with a matching game, and numeral to word with a matching game.
Literacy Center/Numbers Games
Life Science Research:
Read about your favorite animals, watch videos about them, listen to the
sounds they make, and then share what you know. This is a great way to
encourage your child to carry out research with you or on his/her own.
Pebblego
Life Science:
Learn about animals in the zoo through these challenging games.
San Diego Zoo Kid's Games
Life Science:
Learn more about how these gentle giants live, move, and feed. I
got to experience them first hand by swimming with them in the Caribbean.
Whale Sharks
Science and Social Studies:
Explore our world with National Geographic.
National Geographic for kids
Social Studies:
Discover many interesting facts about our presidents, their pets,
our government, and our nation's capitol.
White House