Hello Everyone! One wonderful perk about the 15 hour drive home? I was able to put the finishing touches on my Landforms unit. This unit is coming up in our curriculum, so I'm glad I had time to organize and put everything together. This mini unit includes almost 70 pages of learning centered around exploration of landforms. There are some social studies activities (of course), some ELA (abc order, vocabulary, antonyms, written expression), some math, and a couple of craft connections. I hope you can use even a small part of this. Here are a few pics of the unit. Landforms book inspired by AIMS curric. Unit includes patterns! mystery picture includes clues with mixed math practice If you are interested, please click here for your free unit! Well, spring break is almost over. I have missed my kids so much!! Can't wait to see them! But that's going to have to wait one extra day as I have jury duty tomorrow. Thank goodness for a wonderful substitute teacher who just so happens to be a dear friend. My kids are in good hands!! Next up? Natural resources and geometry units! Stay tuned!! As always, thanks for taking time to take a peek! I appreciate each and every one of you!! Take care! Joyfully! Nancy

ALL ABOUT EARTH Get ready for a month filled with so many fun activities to teach your kiddos all about our planet Earth . I teach this unit in April so it coincides with Earth Day. I’ve loaded up this blog post post with read aloud book ideas, free videos you can share with your students,

Help your child learn the basics of reading a map with this simplified county map. He'll color and circle the different items that appear in the map key.

Free activity worksheets, printables and resources for children in preschool, pre-k, kindergarten and first grade. Prekindergarten Education Resources

Here's a great geography worksheet that doubles as a coloring page! Your child will get to practice reading a simple map of a park.

ALL ABOUT EARTH Get ready for a month filled with so many fun activities to teach your kiddos all about our planet Earth . I teach this unit in April so it coincides with Earth Day. I’ve loaded up this blog post post with read aloud book ideas, free videos you can share with your students,

I'm linking up again for Five for Friday with Doodlebugs Teaching. This week was all about the Earth. 1. We learned about landfor...

First Grade Homeschool Curriculum for History and Geography. I have first grade homeschool curriculum for history and geography. Out of all the grades to begin choosing homeschool curriculum, first grade is really overwhelming. Not from the point that

These map skills worksheets are so much fun for young learners. Use this interactive mini-reader to help reinforce your student's understanding of maps, globes, cardinal directions, land, water and more! This map skills book can be used across several lessons and is perfect for whole group, small group or center activities. Each page has information about map skills and tasks for students to complete to help them show their understanding of the topic. Map Skills included in this interactive reader: - Maps vs. Globes - Cardinal Directions - Map features - Compass Rose, Map Key - Water and Landforms - Using map skills to create maps Please check the previews for more details of what is included in this map skills interactive reader. Thank you for stopping by! ******************************************************************************** Your students will love this fun Map Skills SCOOT or Write the Room and Map Skills Digital Activities for Google Slides Do your students love interactive readers? Check out more here: Interactive Readers for Math, Science and Social Studies ******************************************************************************** Customer Tips: Be the first to know about my new discounts, freebies and product launches: • Click HERE to follow or look for the green star next to my store logo and click it to become a follower. You will now receive email updates about this store. ☺ How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: • Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. I value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom so I can create more for you. ☺ *****************************************************************************

Help children develop their ability to decide if something is true or false. (Possible or Not Possible)

Get these adorable October First Grade Worksheets for your classroom today. Fun, educational, and easy to print and use. You don't want to miss these!

Hello Everyone! Another quick share today. I am working on 2 huge events that are consuming my extra time---but are both so worth while. I'm on a hunt today for about a hundred old rusty horseshoes!

Hello Everyone! What a great day to start a study on clouds!! Dark clouds this morning releasing a deluge of rain! By 1:00 beautiful clear sky with just a few cirrus clouds! Perfect example of our ever changing skies. I'll share our Cloud Unit in a second, but first I wanted to show some pics of our whole group math lesson. We are continuing our study of place value. After all the activities we did last week, it was time to see how all of this fits in relationship to other numbers. I pulled out our bigger than life 100 board and handed out some mystery picture clues. Each clue described a number in place value (tens and ones). The kids took turns putting their cards on the number for which their clue stood. When we finished putting all the clues down, a cloud was revealed! Use your imagination! It looks like a cloud, right??? The kids loved working together to create it!! I'm not even sure they realized they were growing their number sense!!! I did put together a little integrated cloud unit. We are going to try to get most of this in this week!! The unit also includes some poetry, another science activity and more!! You can get it if you click HERE!! Stay tuned for more cloud fun later in the week! Until then, have a wonderful week!! Thanks for stopping by for a peek!! Joyfully! Nancy

" This project ties into first grade economics - the understanding that people are producers and consumers in a community; and, that people trade to obtain the goods and services they want and need."

Children will refer to a map, a key, and a compass rose to answer eight questions in this colorful map-reading worksheet.

Students can travel across the globe without leaving the classroom. Check out these fun geography lessons for any grade and curriculum.

I can hardly believe our second week of school is almost over! I know most of you are going to start soon so I wanted to share what we have been up to this week: learning all about rules and laws! I used several activities from my new Rules & Laws unit. We started the week off reading the short book I wrote in the unit: Next, we talked about examples of rules and laws. We learned that rules are things we follow to keep us safe. Laws are rules that all people in a community must follow. We brainstormed examples of each and the kids filled out webs: The next day we read one of my favorite books, David Goes to School. The kids read along with me and we laughed a lot! I then gave the kids a sheet where they chose a rule, illustrated themselves following the rule and also what would happen if no one followed that rule: (helping others) (clean up my room) (pick up books) The next day we talked about how there are different rules depending on the setting (school, home, playground, etc.) The kids worked on a rule book where they had to write and illustrate a rule for each setting: (Don't run from school) (Raise your hand) (Listen to your Mom) (No throwing rocks) (Sit down and do not stand up) Today I read them one of my favorite books about rules: Please Play Safe! Penguin's Guide to Playground Safety. We just got a new playground so this book was a perfect way to review safety on the playground. Finally we created a class book about why we need rules: (we can stay safe and we can't be mean) (we could be safe and work and make us happy) (it helps us be safe) (something bad could happen) We had a great time learning about rules! If you liked these activities, check out my unit by clicking on the picture below! First two people to comment will get a free copy! Don't forget to include your email!

Help your child practice reading a map and using the cardinal directions. See if she can interpret the different parts of a map.

Test your understanding of simple fractions with a multiple choice quiz! Download to complete online or as a printable!

Plenty of interactive ideas and activities to teach landforms for kids. Find videos, worksheets and even experiments to help.

Download a 9-page set of printables to go along with the book Papa Piccolo.

Help children make the connection between addition and subtraction with this appealing worksheet!

Free Printable social Stories Worksheets is a great way to teach your students how to capture social media. Students will be able to use a visual method of capturing posts, along with audio and text posts to create a story about a person's life. This story can be made by everyone from a little child to an adult, but will still have the same format.

Learning about Norway for kids with these free printable Norway Mini Books to read, color, and learn for kids of all ages.

Children will learn how to identify and use a compass rose, including finding a compass rose on a map, and using it to find both cardinal and intermediate directions.

Now that your child has mastered numbers and counting, it's time to kick it up a notch with our first grade math worksheets. Teach your child math. Set students up for success in 1st grade and beyond!

(Click on any photo to be taken to the resource) You are going to LOVE this unit. It’s easy to implement, it’s comprehensive, #representation, and your students are going to walk away with a great foundation of important social studies skills. We lay the foundation in literally every other academic area, social studies shouldn’t be […]

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Happy Sunday. I'm linking up with Collaboration Cuties to share a favorite text to use with social studies. One of my favorite social studies books is Mapping Penny's World by Loreen Leedy. This book is very similar to Me On the Map by Joan Sweeney (another favorite). In this book Lisa learns about different types of maps. She uses her dog Penny to complete a mapping project. I love this book because of the illustrations, the in depth explanation of maps, and because it is part of a series of three books that feature Penny (Measuring Penny and It's Probably Penny). My first graders love all of these books. Below you will find a freebie to use with Mapping Penny's World. Students can draw a maps of their bedrooms and create a key to go with their maps. Click on the picture below if you would like a copy. The clip art is from Scrappin Doodles. I highly recommend Mapping Penny's World and all of the other Penny books for your classroom library. The stories are cute, the information is abundant, and your kids will really enjoy them. For more tried and true recommendation head on over to Collaboration Cuties and check out the other Must Read Mentor Texts for social studies. Thanks for reading and have a great week.

Hello Everyone! Hope you're having a joyfilled day!! I wanted to share my "Me and My Community" social studies mini unit with you. If you are one of my kiddos reading this, have mom or dad print it off for you and get busy!! :) We've done many of these activities already, but it is still a great summer time filler! The unit contains 30 pages of poems, drawing and writing activities, anchor chart activities, a mini book for kids to make, citizenship, community workers, map skill activities, and much more. I have loved having time to organize it. Don't you love summer for just that reason? Here are a few pics of what is included! Unit contains three poems An 8 page mini book for kids to make Our "Me on the Map" anchor chart Craft Connection Inspired by finallyinfirst.blogspot.com :)  Mini poster  "What will you be?" anchor sample- unit contains all 4 cardinal directions and a compas rose Since you are part of my community, here's your free 30 page printable unit. Click Here! Hope you can use a least a bit of this!! I can't wait to use it again this fall!! Have a great rest of the day! Joyfully! Nancy

Learn about Japan for Kids with this printable book to read, color, and learn about Mt Fiji, charming gardens, and sushi without leaving home!