The 1st grade students need some colorful and images based worksheets to enhance their learning activity. Hence we have given here a PDF with worksheets to

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Friday was our “Lucky Day”. All day long we did activities that were centered around the theme of {LUCK}. Here we are showing off our “Lucky Headbands”. To get us started we read Fluffy’s Lucky Day by Kate McMullan. Then we did a little pre-writing activity to get us thinking about what might happen to us if we had a lucky day just like Fluffy. Everyone had to finish the writing prompts about what they would eat, find, play, see, get and have on their Lucky Day. Then we divided into small groups and shared our ideas. Next, we turned our ideas into a book and wrote complete sentences about four events that would happen to us if we had our {Luckiest Day Ever}. It was so much fun to read each child’s book. Before heading to lunch we read a story called Lucky Tucker by Leslie McGuirk about a dog named Tucker who had a very lucky day. Then we wrote stories about a lucky day we have really had. During math we even did a lucky lesson. We did a little research to try and prove that there are more green clover shaped marshmallows in a box of Lucky Charms than any other shape. We began by dividing our box of Lucky Charms cereal into 22 bowls. Then we sorted the marshmallows by shape and recorded how many of each kind we had. Next we graphed how many of each shape we had and used our graph to answer some questions. Finally we combined all of our data and made a class tally mark chart to see if we had more clovers than any other shape. Unfortunately we ended up with a few more rainbows.

I can't believe we've already completed Week 3!! MFW 1st Grade has been awesome thus far. I wanted to share our ABC Scroll with everyone. Please feel free to ask questions if you have any. Rainbow finishing up coloring the pictures... Ladybug wanted to color, too. Almost done... We glued together the pages and attached the dowels with Scotch tape. All ready to Rock n' Roll! (pun intended) The Finished Product! It looks legit to me! Rainbow wanted to show off her ABC Scroll...she's so proud of it! She insisted I share this one...for dramatic effect, I'm sure. Happy Scrolling!!!

This FREE literature-based unit study introduces students to 16 different countries and cultures around the world.

President's Day Activities This week we are studying President's day and we are celebrating George Washington and Abraham Lincoln's Birthdays. We started out with the movie Getting to know Abraham Lincoln (click below for a preview) and a song we also did a movement activity where we started out small and grew taller and taller like Abe Lincoln. Getting to know Abraham Lincoln Here is the Presidents Song we sang. Last week we also learned about Abraham Lincoln. We talked about how tall he was and I decided this would be a great estimating and measuring project. The first thing we did was have the kids all estimate how tall they thought Abraham Lincoln was. After that we measured how tall he actually was, and drew him paper. The kids were so excited to see how tall he was and wanted to see how tall they were in comparison. They got to lay down and we measured with the measuing feet. The kids counted the feet and inches on thier own and I recorded their answers. When all the kids got a chance we hung him up on the wall and even the teachers were able to record their heights! We made George Washington and Abraham Lincoln lapbooks to review all we learned about president's day. www.homeschoolshare.com We made George Washington and Abe Lincoln portraits for the covers of our lapbooks. The kids drew their own faces! I was impressed!! :) We made log cabins out of sticks. For snack I bet you can guess what we had....Log cabins!! We used a graham cracker for the base and cream cheese for the glue. A few of the kids used a small pretzel for the window! So creative! I have also done this with the pretzel rods and peanut butter. Our math activities this week are all about money math! We learned about the quarter and we counted by ones to 25 and counted by 5's to 25. Also we sorted money and made money patterns. The older kids did basic money adding and matching sets. (sorry I didn't take pictures of our math activities) For art we will make quarter and penny rubbings, Lincoln and Washington portraits, Cherry tree handprints with tissue paper cherries and cherry pie baking. For the cherry pie you just put cherry pie filling in a 9X13 pan and put bisquits on top of the pie filling. Dap the top with butter and bake at 350 for 20 min. I will post pictures later this week. On Wednesday we will do a science experiment with pennies. What liquid will clean a penny best?? Our languge lessons will be based around our first 25 sight words on president silloettes and the "ig" family as in wig. I am excited about the wig ideas I have this week, I have about 15 wigs I am bringing to school and the kids will get the opportunity to sort CVC words and if they rhyme with wig they will run and place them under their wig. The read aloud book we are reading this week is: Abe Lincoln at last We will finish the week by making powder wigs and acting out a president's day poem as I read it. Here is my February Pinterest Board for more President's day ideas! Kidzone Teacher Mama Feb Pinterest Board Like most Americans, I truely admire the integrity and hard work these great men have done for our country. They set a standard that is hard to come by these days. I think it is important to teach children about the high standards that were so important to these men. I want my children to have a good example to model. I hope you found some ideas you can use in your classroom or at home with your own kids.

Hello Again Everyone! I wanted to quickly share our upcoming Reading/Social Studies Integrated Unit.The next couple of weeks will be focused on some of our presidents. We put together a little unit to help celebrate George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and February is the perfect month to learn through reading about these historical figures! Here are a couple of pics from our unit! Make a tricorn hat! A fun hands on visual!! Hope this helps you make some integration with your curric!! For this quick little unit, CLICK HERE!! Have a fantastic rest of the weekend!! Joyfully! Nancy

Hello Again Everyone! I wanted to quickly share our upcoming Reading/Social Studies Integrated Unit.The next couple of weeks will be focuse...

Learn all about coins with your kindergarten and first grade students using these four coin worksheets! The four most common coin values are included: quarter, dime, nickel, and penny. Each worksheet asks students for the value of each coin in cents and how many are needed to make $1.00. In the middle of the worksheet is a word tracing section, and at the bottom of the coin worksheets students can color, count, and add the value of the coins. Penny Worksheet Nickel Worksheet Dime Worksheet Quarter Worksheet

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This My Father's World First Grade review covers all of the subjects taught in the complete curriculum. Look for more My Father's World reviews, too!

If you are wanting to teach kids about countries around the world this is a fun, free printable to teach kids about 18 countries - perfect for preschool, kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd gr

MFW: Learning God's Story 1st Grade Curriculum I'll be sharing the way I've organized our curriculum below. It's still a work in progress. Going through everything has gotten me very excited to begin this new chapter in our school year. We were all so excited when we receive our curriculum in the mail. Started organizing the curriculum by placing a tab for each week in the Teacher Manual and in the Student Workbook. Put all the student worksheets into page protectors for each week. It also has a tab to be used to move to which ever week we are, pretty to hold our place, same for the bible reader and notebook. In the teacher notebook I've placed some cursive worksheets and some extra practice worksheets for Kanani to use. Will continue using the Cursive Formation flashcards for more practice, I place each flashcard in a clear page protector also. Kanani will be practicing more sequence patterns with her sequence cards. I found these at one of our local thrift stores. Also included in the teacher notebook is a copy of the attendance chart, and the art pictures. I've placed each picture in its own page protector as well. We'll be using A to Z flashcards from our Kindergarten curriculum to continue to practice on her handwriting in our salt tray. Another thing in the teacher notebook is the pattern animals book, which I took apart and placed each page in its own page protector. We will also continue to use our Pattern Block set by Melissa & Doug. We'll practice our reading and spelling using word boards one (top) from Melissa & Doug and the other (bottom) from Classic Wood. I laminated the expanded form cards and the 100 chart, since I'm sure we will be using them a lot. The main reason I laminated the 100 chart is so she can practice writing her numbers over and over again. Place a tab in the math book to hold our place in the book, I like using tabs better than bookmarks. Bookmarks tend to fall out of the book easier. In the teacher manual the student was suppose to color the pictures as we reach that part of the timeline. Kanani is not to keen on coloring, she's always prefered to draw or paint her picture. Went ahead and colored each picture then I laminated the sheets for better durability and then placed them in a zipper pouch to keep them in till we need them. TOP LEFT PIC: Here is a look of our wall by CoCo cage's (Cock-a-tiel). There are two pocket holders (not sure if that is what they are called....lol). The red one has the ABC chart which I laminated, color chart (mostly for review), it also has some cards of her name for her to practice spelling out her name. The blue one has number cards from 1-120, great way for her to practice putting her numbers in order and great for skip counting. Next to that is the days of the weeks and weather cards which I found at Target. Under both of these is the 100 chart and the calendar that came with the curriculum. TOP RIGHT PIC: Has our reading chart and Bible book list. BOTTOM LEFT PIC: By Larry Boy's cage (Bearded Dragon) is our calendar and a book shelf that holds some board books, blocks, color jars, and sequence toy by Melissa & Doug. BOTTOM RIGHT PIC: In this book shelf we have our salt tray, some school supplies, bananagrams tiles, science materials, some of our sensory supplies, paint, kinetic sand, art supplies and abacus. It also hold all the materials that came with the deluxe curriculum. Here is a closer look of the microscope and test tubes we use. The top right picture is our box of "The Beginners Bible" cards. On our other shelf it holds two globes, the blue one talks about different parts of the world and animals in each part. I laminated our calendar which we went ahead and colored ahead. Kanani will move the clothes pin depending on which month we are on. Top right picture is what's next to the book shelf, which are some sensory bins (rainbow rice, rainbow pasta, moon sand, stamps, sensory tools, tissue paper pieces, and flash cards). On this shelf is all our curriculum materials: teacher workbook and notebook, student notebook, bible reader and bible reader notebook, all our science books, art book, devotion books, and much more. Found a blog of someone who has done MFW 1st grade before and they made memory versus cards plus worksheets for each week starting with week 3 and on. The link to her blog is Grafhaus Christian School there you can print out the versus and worksheets. This is our supple station: It holds all our art materials, school and office supplies, math activities, lace and trace boards, bingo games, geoboards, magnet activities, puzzles, small books, and many other buckets with different activities used mostly during quiet time. Top left picture is our kitchen area and on the wall is her "My magnetic responsibility chart" by Melissa & Doug. I had actually put it away and haven't used it in awhile, really thought she had out grown it. The other day she asked for me to please hang it up for her again. The top right picture are 3 bins: Left holds the kids dinosaurs, the middle one are wooden blocks, and the right one hold animal figures. Bottom two pictures is the easel with one side being a chalkboard and the other side being a magnetic dry erase board. This is in our hallway we call it our Geography wall. The top two show how it looks at an angle. Middle left picture is a poster showing where different animals live, middle right is a landscape poster. Bottom left picture is the U.S. placemat and Continent placemat, the bottom right is a closer look of our map. We use this wall a lot and the kids love identifying and looking for different places on the maps. I ordered a laminating machine this year since last year I paid more to get things laminated then if I would have bought my own laminator. Got to say I am very happy I made the decision to buy one. It has worked great so far. I ordered mine from the Wal-Mart website which they delivered to a nearby store so it was free shipping. Here is a look into some of the ways I've organized things for our next school year in 1st grade. We are all very excited about our next adventure with My Father's World. I'll be posting after finishing each week. As I finish each post I'll be updating this post with a link to each week completed which I'll place below. PREVIOUS POST MFW: God's Creation from A to Z (Kindergarten) WEEKLY POST Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 Week 16 Week 17 Week 18 Week 19 Week 20 Week 21 Week 22 Week 23 Week 24 Week 25 Week 26 Week 27 Week 28 Week 29 Week 30 Week 31 Week 32 Week 33 Week 34

Games make learning fun, so print out and play Superhero Memory to learn contractions. Who knew grammar could be so exciting?

During the month of April, EARTH MONTH (yay), I will "attempt" to post all of my current repurposed and recycled art projects. I'm a big fan of using repurposed items in my art projects and in daily life as well. What a great month of learning and getting into good habits! Newspaper Abe This has been one of my most simple, collaborative, kid art murals made with elementary kids, but for all ages! I love the fact that we used the portrait of Honest Abraham Lincoln (one of my favorite presidents), repurposed newspapers, crayons, a permanent marker, and of course... almost 80 1st graders! And... you can make your own newspaper art in a smaller form with your preferred portrait/s! Be creative. (We actually completed this near Presidents' Day, but this is my life. Art projects are one story, posting them is another!) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Here's my quick tutorial: (measure, cut, screw, spackle, sand, clean, gesso) Materials for Wood Canvas: 1" x 2"s masonite board, 1/4" thickness flat head screws, size 6x3/4 spackle gesso (Depending on your desired size will also determine how much of each material you will need.) *Instead of making your own wood canvas you can use a pre-stretched canvas board, any size. Materials for Newspaper Abe: transparency sheet (and a projector) newspapers permanent marker crayons Mod Podge plastic wrap Use transparency and overhead projector - free images from openclipart. Tape newspaper seams together on the back side, trace, and fill in image with permanent marker on the front side. On the back side, graph and number the amount of squares or "shapes" you want. I made a small model on another paper, labeling all of the outside squares just in case I was confused later-it helped! Cut the newspaper and then color each square with crayons. Be creative! (pattern art, theme art, color schemes, shapes...) Reassemble your shapes back together. Apply a little more than a thin layer of Mod Podge to your canvas. Carefully lay your colored squares on the Mod Podged area. Lay plastic wrap over the Mod Podge newspaper squares to help smooth out. Stack books on top so the squares dry flat and do not curl. This helps protect the artwork and books. Dry time as directed on bottle. Repeat until complete. Helpful Tips: Instead of adhering square by square, tape 2 rows together at a time, only using a small amount of tape on the reverse side. Then adhere on the canvas two rows at a time. This helps make sure everything will line up and it's fast! During each drying wait, wrap & seal your brush up in plastic wrap (so it won't dry out or have to clean it several times). Make a funny face! I see mine! Honest Abe. Good person. Good president. Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. We've added to our collection! Go here to see our newest additions: George Washington and Thomas Jefferson Join my exclusive email list for my upcoming Candice Ashment Studio shop! I do NOT SPAM! You won't be sorry when you get the SUPER SECRETE SALES & SNEAK PEEKS! Thank you for stopping by

Guided Math in Primary Classrooms The Daily 3 and Guided Math are a small-group approach to learning mathematics, just like we meet with students daily during Guided Reading, we meet with students…

Use these first grade spelling puzzles and worksheets to keep spelling practice interesting and fun!

Easy spring word search for 1st grade with 20 hidden spring words. The spring activity worksheet doubles as a coloring page with cute spring animals for kids to color. Free printable pdf with answers.

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So, this week I was standing around scratching my head thinking, "Golly, what on earth am I going to do for literacy centers next week?" And, of course I'm thinking this as I'm surrounded by PILES of stuff I've accumulated but never seem to use. So, I got to thinking: Why don't I use all of my extra stuff to make reading centers? Two birds, one stone, right? I can't say that what I came up with is too terribly brilliant, but I thought I'd share a couple of activities anyways just in case you're knee-high in extra supplies too!!!!! Unifix Cube Compound Word Building Here's how it works: Program unifix cubes with compound words. Write each smaller word in the compound word on a different color of unifix cube. Then, put the cubes for each compound word into a baggie. Whenever you use the center, kiddos just come and grab a baggie of cubes and build a compound word. By having each smaller word in the compound written on a different color of cube, kiddos can figure out the compound word without being overwhelmed. It also helps them break the compound word down into its two components. Here are some example words written on the cubes. Finally, you can have your kiddos write the words they build on this recording sheet in a word sentence. I'll be doing compound words with my higher kids. For my lower kiddos, I'll just throw a bunch of letter cubes for a certain sight word into a baggie, and they'll have to unscramble the letters in the baggie to build a sight word. Then, they'll have to write the sight word on a recording sheet and use it in a sentence. Pattern Block Vocabulary This center is SUPER SIMPLE. And, who doesn't need a little bit of simplicity in their life? So, to make it just get some pattern block picture templates (I got mine from my FABULOUS and LOVELY co-teacher Mrs. Enge). Then, write vocabulary words or sight words you want kiddos to practice on each shape blank. This center is designed as a game to be played in pairs. To play, students grab a pattern board and a tub of pattern blocks. Then, they take turns trying to cover up all of the spaces on their pattern picture with blocks. To cover a space, a student has to say the word on the space AND use it in a sentence correctly. If they can do those two things, they can cover the space. The first kiddo to cover their entire picture wins. Oh, and did I mention how excited I am that it is THE WEEKEND?!?!?!? WHOOOOO! Can you say Pajama, Bible and Star Trek marathon? FAB-U-LOUS. I am so excited. Have a WONDERFUL weekend!!!! Mrs. Thiessen

Here are a few things I made for my class to work on next week. Part, Part Whole and Fact Family Practice: ...

These handy FREE Music Note Flashcards are a great way to help kids of all ages practice identifying music notes. Perfect for music education or piano.

Display Abe on the class bulletin board or have each student make their own Abe character.

13 Printable Preschool Calendar Worksheet Pages in a PDF download. Here is what you get! 13 Printable Preschool Calendar Worksheet Pages. Teach your child daily the month, day, date, and weather. Perfect to use laminated with dry erase markers. All 12 months and 1 blank month. This download prints 13 pages. These calendars were designed by Annette Sutherland, owner of Teach At Daycare, Handcrafted Curriculum, in Arkansas City, Kansas.

BOOM! Sink the ships in this free printable, Hundreds Chart Battleship math game to help kindergarteners counting with 100s chart.

Celebrating President's Day can be so much fun with these 21 easy presidents day activities and crafts for kids. I've got free printables and templates for George Washington wigs, Abraham Lincoln's hat, cabin crafts, President's Day crafty food, and so much more! When is President's Day? When is Presidents Day? Presidents' Day in 2018 is on Monday, the 19th of February. In the United States, Presidents Day is always celebrated on the third Monday of February. Presidents Day is a federal holiday officially designated as George Washington's Birthday on February 22. While the holiday is officially Washington's Birthday, it has

Find it here.February 12th is Abraham Lincoln's birthday.It is the perfect time to encourage reading informational text, pulling key facts from the text and then writing about them. I also like to us

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