We love Apple Day Stations in first grade! Check out these apple activities and ideas for Apple Day in your classroom!
My favorite first grade Back to School Activities in my classroom! These are my go-to activities for the first week of school!
My favorite first grade Back to School Activities in my classroom! These are my go-to activities for the first week of school!
Happy spring and happy Friday! I'm currently on spring break and really enjoying the time to relax with my family! Life has been busy, especially with an almost 15 year old. I thought life was busy when she was younger, but it seems to get busier as she gets older and has an even busier school and social life! It's been a while since I've last blogged and I have lots to share with you. I just love these extra worksheet sets. They are perfect for extra practice in math, and I use them a lot during my intervention time. During intervention my kiddos are either reading with me individually, or working independently. You can check this set out {HERE}! You can check out all themed sets {HERE}! If you'd like a preview of what's inside this set, here is a little spring addition/subtraction freebie. Just click the picture below to download! Last week The Moon was our reading theme. Our main story in our core reading program was Kitten's First Full Moon. Our small group reading books were nonfiction books about the moon. We completed lots of moon activities throughout the week and read several fiction and nonfiction moon books. If your looking for a great moon phase activity, I found a lunar cycle wheel that on TpT. I modified it a bit and my kiddos couldn't wait to take their wheels home and look at the night sky! You can find it {HERE}! My kiddos also each made models of the earth and Moon's orbit. With my support, and completing these in two steps, they turned out great! Most importantly, my first graders have a great tool to help them understand the earth and moon's orbit. You can find this awesome freebie {HERE}! Below are a few freebies I made. The moon facts booklet was a choice activity that I incorporated into my intervention time. My kiddos could write their own facts that they learned about the moon, or write facts from two of the moon anchor charts that were hanging on our classroom. I also created a moon themed math worksheet. My class needed a little extra practice and review on adding tens, so I created this worksheet for extra practice. You can check out both of these freebies by clicking on the pictures below. Here are just a few of the books that my class loved listening to during our moon week. Night Cat isn't really about the moon, but it was about a cat at night and there is a full moon. It was a perfect book to read after reading Kitten's First Full Moon in our core reading program. If You Decide To Go To The Moon was a FABULOUS book! My first graders were so captivated by this story and enjoyed every page! The Moon by Thomas K. Adamson was a perfect nonfiction book, with simple text and simple facts for young readers. I'm sure most of you have already celebrated your 100th day of school, but here are some freebies for you to tuck away until next year :) We celebrated our 100th day of school during the third week in February. Here's a 100 word booklet and a subtracting from 100 worksheet that my kiddos completed on our 100th day! The 6 page booklet has 100 spaces for words and took a few days to complete. My kids found words around the room and wrote them in their booklets. I used this booklet as a choice activity during our intervention time. The math worksheet was a great review during our math time. Click on either picture below for both downloads! Also during the third week of February our first graders attended a presentation about our flag. Local members from our VFW came and presented about our flag and each first grader went home with their own flag and flag stand. This was the perfect week to learn about American Symbols. I checked out several books from the library which my kids and I could read from during the week. I also made this cute anchor chart that I found {HERE}. If you'd like pictures with labels to create your own chart, or to display in a pocket chart, just click one of the pictures below. You can also download a flag facts worksheet as well. Both freebies are included in one download. Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you have a great end to your week!
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We love Apple Day Stations in first grade! Check out these apple activities and ideas for Apple Day in your classroom!
We love Apple Day Stations in first grade! Check out these apple activities and ideas for Apple Day in your classroom!
Teach kids about the 6 simple machines with a handy, free printable booklet featuring information, pictures, and examples of each.
We love Apple Day Stations in first grade! Check out these apple activities and ideas for Apple Day in your classroom!
We love Apple Day Stations in first grade! Check out these apple activities and ideas for Apple Day in your classroom!
We love Apple Day Stations in first grade! Check out these apple activities and ideas for Apple Day in your classroom!
We love Apple Day Stations in first grade! Check out these apple activities and ideas for Apple Day in your classroom!
We love Apple Day Stations in first grade! Check out these apple activities and ideas for Apple Day in your classroom!
A Great Chance To Wear This Outfit For Student Who Come Back To School To Study After Summer Vacation, They Will Be Happy When Wear This To Celebrate Their First Day Of School, Perfect For Student And Teacher Who Are Going To Class Studying. Little Miss Pre-K Girl on the first day of school or back to school for preschool, kindergarten, pre-k, 1st, 2nd, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th grade, 7th grade Middle school, high school.
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The last day of kindergarten is here! Grab this free last day of school crown template that is perfect for those future first graders!
We love Apple Day Stations in first grade! Check out these apple activities and ideas for Apple Day in your classroom!
We love Apple Day Stations in first grade! Check out these apple activities and ideas for Apple Day in your classroom!
We love Apple Day Stations in first grade! Check out these apple activities and ideas for Apple Day in your classroom!
Need tips for launching guided math centers in your 1st grade classroom? I'll show you step-by-step how I launch my math rotations in 3 weeks
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Believe it or not, the frozen continent of Antarctica is home to rich and varied wildlife. How many arctic animals can you child name?
We love Apple Day Stations in first grade! Check out these apple activities and ideas for Apple Day in your classroom!
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Do you want to teach growth mindset in a simple and meaningful way? This product contains a collection of Growth Mindset worksheets designed for first grade or kindergarten students. Included you'll find: * Read the text, trace and copy the sentence, then answer the question (3 pages) * Trace and copy the sentence, then color the picture (3 pages) * Color the words in the sentence, copy the sentence, then color the picture (3 pages) * The Power of Yet (2 pages) * Growth Mindset/ Fixed Mindset (2 pages) Happy teaching! Dana's Wonderland
Right before the break I had my first grade kids do a number spree. I am very happy to report that we did VERY well, but some of us got snagged up on that little fellow number 110.
Not sure what to teach the first week of 3rd grade? Here's what we did!
For a Forest or Camping themed classroom: Find activities, crafts, snacks, and more ideas than you can use for your Preschool, Kindergarten, or First Grade class and students. Plus FREE DOWNLOADS!
We love Apple Day Stations in first grade! Check out these apple activities and ideas for Apple Day in your classroom!
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Self Control Counseling Lesson - This self control classroom counseling lesson plan will help students in grades 1-2 understand what self control is and what self control looks like, sounds like, and feels like. Students learn ways of demonstrating self control and then practice during a yoga movement break and partner turn taking activity. What's included: Detailed, scripted lesson plan (color and BW) Visual aid (color and BW) Whole class sorting activity (color and BW) Individual student fortune teller handout (color and BW, blank and pre-filled) FAQS: Q: Do I need extra materials? A: You'll need your favorite self control read-aloud, like Clark the Shark or What If Everybody Did That? You'll also need scissors, writing utensils, and coloring utensils. Q: How long will this take? A: I did this lesson in a 45-minute block with my first grade students. All students are different. Q: Can I use this in small groups or with an individual student? A: Absolutely! Find more self control resources here!
These all about me, back to school art activities for kids are engaging icebreakers. Encourage creativity and build community during the first week back
Hey everyone, I hope you're all having a great Thursday. I'm happy to announce my GIVEAWAY winners! Congrats to Crystal and Marybeth! Thanks to EVERYONE who commented! I've been making some practice sheet here and there for different things and haven't got around to posting them. So I thought I'd post them now. This is very random and I hope you can use them either now or next year. I used these to introduce 'How to Writing'. They are also a great sequencing review. Click HERE to download. We've been working on counting to 120. So here are a few practice sheets. There are 4 'Fill Ins' and 4 'Start and Stop'. Click HERE to download. This is a little game I re-made. Now it goes to 120. My kiddos LOVE playing it. Click HERE to download. Thanks for stopping by. I hope you've found something you can use in your classroom. Come back tomorrow for news of my upcoming SUPERBOWL SALE!
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I recently shared our first grade curriculum plans and now we'll talk about scheduling! We haven't begun year one yet, so I can't tell you how the following schedule is working. These are my plans for the year, including a schedule of what and when we'll read the AO readings and a daily schedule/routine for getting all the work done. First, the schedule of readings. I've only done this for term one so far. At first, I wanted to schedule certain readings for certain days. For example, Our Island Story would be read on Mondays, Paddle to the Sea on Tuesdays, etc. But. I remembered that I am one who, if we miss say, the scheduled reading for Monday, would probably get a little irritated and it would throw my whole week off! Thankfully, I came across the idea of looping. Instead of assigning certain readings to certain days, I put the readings in the order that I would like for us to read them, and we'll just go down the list during our reading times each day. So, my books are in the following order: Our Island Story Aesop for Children Paddle to the Sea The Blue Fairy Book 50 Famous Stories Retold Just So Stories Burgess Bird Book Parables of Nature Herriot's Treasury for Children D'Aulaire books (I'll discuss the Shakespeare readings below.) I wanted to mix up the readings a bit so that 1) the history readings are spread out (this will probably be more helpful when there's more of a mix of World and American history in the coming years), and 2) we're not reading books from the same category all at once, like all of the literature readings at the end of the week, for example. I am planning to have at least two times set aside throughout our days in which to do our readings. At the beginning of the week, during our first AO reading time, we'll read from the first book, Our Island Story. Then, barring no scheduling havocs, we'll read from Aesop for Children in the next time slot. If we happen to miss Aesop, we'll pick it up the next time we read, even if it's the next day, and we'll just keep going from there. This way everything stays in order. We have to make it through the whole list before starting at the top again. Here's my document for checking off the readings (here is a link to the pdf file): Each week we'll just work our way down the list, marking off as we go. I'll keep this handy throughout the term, maybe on a clipboard or something. This grid came from the AO year one 36-week schedule page. I downloaded the word document, then copied and pasted the rows for term one into a new document. I rearranged the rows so that the books are in the order that I want to read them. A few notes: ~ I moved around a couple of the readings: "Prince Darling" and "Toads and Diamonds" from The Blue Fairy Book, and "Only One Woof" from Herriot's Treasury. You can see at the bottom of my table where they were originally. I moved them in order to keep a maximum of 8 readings per week (the two Aesop readings per week count as one since they're short). ~ For Paddle to the Sea I'm going to use Charlotte Mason Help's (CMH) schedule of this book which means reading Paddle in term one, then reading two chapters of Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography per week in terms two and three. That's why Paddle is different from the original AO schedule. ~ AO only has half of the Burgess Bird Book scheduled for the whole year; one chapter every other week. I've heard so many people talk about how the book is so wonderful and just flows if you read it from beginning to end that I've decided we'll read one chapter each week with a plan to finish the whole thing (which will take longer than 36 weeks - we may begin it a few weeks early and finish it a few weeks late). ~ See the Shakespeare row at the bottom with the asterisks? I plan to begin a "morning" time routine (I hope to keep you updated with our morning time plans throughout the year) consisting of Bible and poetry readings, memory work, possibly Spanish, and a read-aloud or two. On the weeks that Shakespeare is scheduled, I'm planning to read that as the read-aloud during morning time. Addy (4) won't be required to sit in during this, but I would love for her to. It seems that most families read Shakespeare together, so I think this would be a nice way to do that. ~ I mentioned in my first grade plans post that I'm not planning to read Trial and Triumph this year, so that's why it's missing. Still with me? I hope! Now on to the daily schedule! At first I made a schedule with the actual times that I wanted to do everything throughout the day. So for example, morning time would be from 8:30 to 9:00, math from 9:00 to 9:15, writing from 9:15 to 9:30, then a break for 20 minutes, etc, etc. But. Like I said earlier, if I did this kind of schedule and we got behind, then I may or may not get a little irritated and it would throw the whole day off! Instead, I'm going with a routine rather than a schedule. Things are in order, but it's not so particular that we have a certain time of the day for each subject. Here is the weekly schedule checklist I made for term one: I'll print this off each week so that I can check off each item and make any notes that are needed. I may keep this on a clipboard with the readings schedule from above. A few notes: ~ Notice how I did not assign the actual days of the week: Monday, Tuesday, etc. I put day 1, day 2, and so forth, so that if we miss Monday because of sickness or something, then Tuesday turns into day 1. ~ The first block for each day is morning time, which will probably be during or right after breakfast. Bible is first because I definitely want Addy involved for that, but after that she is free to go if she wants. ~ I put the subjects in the order in which I would like them to be accomplished during the day. So once we're done with morning time, we'll probably break for morning chores, then come back and Izzy will start with math. Writing practice is next, followed by one of our AO readings from above, then reading instruction, then the second AO reading. If we have to take breaks, we have to take breaks. Of course, I would love to get this all done together, maybe with a short break or two, and be done before lunch. But, if we only get math, writing, and one reading in before lunch, so be it. Sometime after lunch we'll continue with reading instruction, then the second reading. And then she'll get to recorder practice at some point during the day! ~ You'll also notice that next to each subject is a number in parenthesis, for example Math (15). That's the estimated amount of time that will be spent on that particular subject. CM was an advocate for short lessons, and I agree with that, so we will be staying close to those numbers. ~ Bible: AO has certain Bible selections to be read each week, but I am doing something different. I'm going to be using the selections at Penny Gardner's website, with two days of Old Testament readings and two days of New Testament readings, then a chapter from Wisdom and the Millers on Fridays (I mean, day 5!). We'll probably just go down the list on her website, but only keep the readings to around 10 minutes per day. ~ I plan to "do school" four days per week with the fifth day being a day of enrichment. We'll still have a morning time, but instead of all the academic-y stuff, this is when we'll do our art and music studies, drawing lessons, handicrafts, and nature studies...aka the fun stuff :) I'm not planning for us to do everything listed every Friday. I mentioned in my previous post about how I plan to rotate these subjects. We'll see how it goes. And I hope to keep you updated! Whoo! That's my plan and I'm *hopefully* sticking to it! Have you made your schedule for the upcoming year? If so, I'd love to hear about it! Maybe I'll glean some good ideas :)
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