I wanted to stop by today and share some a few of my “go-to” activities during the first week of school to build our classroom community and set expectations for […]
Let's take a little peek in a day in first grade! I love my job and working with the kids, tap to get some tips and tricks you can use too!
Teaching silent letters can be so much fun! In my classroom, we call these letters ghost letters! It really helps the kids learn the sounds. To begin, we make a list of all the words we can think of! At first, the kids will usually give words that just start with n or r, instead of words with kn or wr. But they quickly get the hang of it! Sometimes I even draw ghosts around the letters on the board or in their books. I LOVE when they even draw them on words they find! :) We sort words and highlight those spooky little letters. We play games to practice reading words with ghost letters. This Roll & Read helps build fluency AND practices those words. The kids always love this fun little book. They read a ghost letter word. Read a sentence with that word. Then create their own sentence. They get pretty creative with these! Then we end with a fun little mini craft. :) As a class, we brainstorm words with kn, wr, mb, and gn. They we add them to our own spooky little ghosts. They'll remember those ghost letter forever!!! Hop over and check out this fun pack!
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I hope you all had yourselves a VERY merry little Christmas. Andy and I are at his sister's house in Nashville for a few days visiting wit...
Teaching silent letters can be so much fun! In my classroom, we call these letters ghost letters! It really helps the kids learn the sounds. To begin, we make a list of all the words we can think of! At first, the kids will usually give words that just start with n or r, instead of words with kn or wr. But they quickly get the hang of it! Sometimes I even draw ghosts around the letters on the board or in their books. I LOVE when they even draw them on words they find! :) We sort words and highlight those spooky little letters. We play games to practice reading words with ghost letters. This Roll & Read helps build fluency AND practices those words. The kids always love this fun little book. They read a ghost letter word. Read a sentence with that word. Then create their own sentence. They get pretty creative with these! Then we end with a fun little mini craft. :) As a class, we brainstorm words with kn, wr, mb, and gn. They we add them to our own spooky little ghosts. They'll remember those ghost letter forever!!! Hop over and check out this fun pack!
What is PBL? Project-based learning is an approach in which students explore real-world problems and challenges to acquire a deepe...
Music class is an active, engaging, and joyful experience! This is especially true when our musical activities are grounded in creative and intentional teaching strategies. One of the most important teaching strategies has to do with teaching the difference between steady beat and the rhythm of
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Today I'm giving a glance into my first day of school lesson plans, from TK - 5th grade. In the first day of music class, students are arguably the most attentive they will be all year. This puts a unique pressure on the first day's lesson plan to set the tone for the rest of our time together.
Howdy! I am Mr. Greg from The Kindergarten Smorgasboard. My real name is Greg Smedley-Warren. I have been teaching for 11 years. I spent a year teaching fifth grade, two years in second grade and am now in my 9th year in Kindergarten. Kindergarten is my passion and my calling but honestly, that wasn’t how it started. When I was moved to Kindergarten (not voluntarily!) I called my mommy and cried. But on the first day, I fell in love and knew that Kindergarten is where I belonged. I have remained in Kindergarten ever since. I plan to never leave the classroom as the kids are what drive me to continue my growth as a teacher and person.
Homeschool Teacher - Lesson Plan & NewsletterOctober 24, 2007 History On this day in 1788, Sarah Hale, writer of Mary Had A Little Lamb was born. Sarah has also been credited as the “Mother of Thanksgiving”. Read more about her here: http://www.quiltersmuse.com/sarah_josepha_buell_hale.htm Reading Read Mary Had A Little Lamb here: http://homeschoolingk.blogspot.com/2007/10/mary-had-little-lamb.html Handwriting Lamb starts with the letter L. Practice writing the letter L. http://www.first-school.ws/t/alpha_tracers_dn1/bible/lamb.htm Phonics Sheep has a double e sound. Practice reading these other words with the same sound: http://kiddyhouse.com/Phonics/chartsheep.gif Math Practice your addition with this Mary Had a Little Lamb math worksheet: http://www.gardenandhearth.com/Homeschool-Worksheets/Homeschool-Worksheets-PF/Reading/Mother-Goose-Nursery-Rhymes/Mary-had-a-Little-Lamb-Math.htm Don’t Forget the Math Challenge! http://homeschoolingk.blogspot.com/2007/10/math-challenge-october-24.html For more Free Homeschool Lesson Plans http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HomeschoolteacherlessonplansKto3/ (k-3) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/homeschoolteacherlessonplans/ (4-8)
Practice major standards every morning in a fun, consistent format which promotes independent work! Easily differentiate for your students with two levels of the morning work pages provided. These morning work pages include practice of addition, subtraction, missing addends, weather, date, seasons, skip counting, letters, colors, shapes, capitalization, end marks, and beginning sounds. Your students will love to say their names with the affirmations each day and have fun with the seasonally themed practice. Each month spirals and builds so that your students can be confident and independent while new standards are slowly revealed. You will love the spiral review, consistent, no prep pages, and the differentiation that will make your life easier. Go over each box on the page with your students daily until they know the format. You will need to model and directly teach for a few days to a few weeks. Students should then be able to work on these independently so that you are free to take attendance and do other important morning tasks. September Morning Work includes: 21 no prep morning work pages* 21 no prep differentiated morning work pages* Morning work Hints Pages New Digital Option for Google Slides-links are included in the PDF for you to make copies of the new digital activities to your Google Drive You may also use the new Easel Activities if you prefer your students to write on the digital page. After purchase, click "Create Activity" on the top, right of the page. For more information on how to use Easel by TpT CLICK HERE. What teachers are saying: "This morning work is perfect! It is engaging for students and encourages a variety of practice. This builds student independence and supports a review of first grade concepts." Michelle L "I started using these this year for morning work with my first grade students. They are great! It took a few days for them to understand how to do them, but now they are just doing amazing! They are great quick reviews for the students and spot checks for my strugglers." Michele M *The differentiated pages include regular addition and subtraction. The higher level pages have missing addends instead of regular addition and subtraction *These morning work pages are intended for first graders, but you might find these helpful for review in second grade, for advanced kindergarten students, and for students in special education and ESL/ESOL classes. You might also like: First Grade Morning Work Mega Bundle Fall First Grade Morning Work Bundle September First Grade Morning Work October First Grade Morning Work November First Grade Morning Work Terms of Use This resource is for your personal classroom or homeschool use only. You may not share this resource with others. You may make copies for your class and use it in your classroom only. You may use it in Google Classroom or a similar site that is only available to your students and does not have public access. You may not distribute this to other teachers, your grade-level, parent, school or district (or share with anyone else.) You may not add this to a website or share it in any other form. If you purchase this under a license like School Access or other, those terms apply. If you have questions, please email me at [email protected]. Additional licenses are available in my store for a discounted price! Follow me for the latest new products and updates Find me on: Facebook Pinterest Instagram
Preschool through 3rd Grade NO PREP Packets! February is such a FUN month! Kids LOVE Valentine's Day and using that holiday to teach core skills and
The first day of school is full of so many things: anticipation, wide-eyes, school supplies, new faces, maybe a few butterflies. And I...
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Here is a sheet for scholars to practice comma use in dates.
The first day of school is full of so many things: anticipation, wide-eyes, school supplies, new faces, maybe a few butterflies. And I...
Happy ALMOST Friday, y'all! What's the weather like in your neck of the woods? I've seen so many people posting about snow days and crazy Arctic
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Want to see my day in first grade? Our day in first grade is long! We have extended hours from 730-330 so we have plenty of time to teach what we need to get our first graders on grade level. I thought I would share a little about a day in our life: Before school: […]
Use these six back to school activities packet to get to know your students and support them to get to know each other.
Today I am brining you the perfect combination of back to school ice-breakers and games for those first days of school! Back to school is a crazy time and we all want to hit the ground running. There are routines and procedures to teach and we are ready to get to them the second those kids walk in the door. Building community and getting to know
Test corrections are a great way to help students learn from their mistakes. Click to see how I use test corrections in my classroom!
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
It’s my first day of school! I love this time of year, all fresh starts and possiblities! Team builder games are one of my favorite things to do in the classroom during the first few weeks …
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Teach capitalization rules with this simple activity for kids in first, second, and third grade. This free game is engaging and fun.
February Printable Packet - First Grade Literacy and Math This packet is also available in a DISCOUNTED BUNDLE Also available: February Printables - KINDERGARTENMarch Printables - FIRST GRADE Check out the preview! :) This is a "no prep" printable packet that can be used as a whole-group activity, centers, morning work, homework, review, etc. Included: Literacy: *R-Controlled Vowels (cut and paste) *Writing Prompt "I think love is..." *Writing Prompt "I am a good friend because..." *Sentence Scramble *Punctuation Situation *Noun vs. Verb Sort (cut and paste) *I Can Edit (editing sentences for spelling, capitals, spaces, punctuation) *ABC Order (cut and paste) *Read and Match (pictures to simples sentences) *Is it a Sentence? *Digraph Sort (ch and sh) *Digraph Sort (wh and th) *"Ten Things I Love" (list writing prompt) *Friendly letter writing template *A Good Friend Always (list writing) Word Wall Cards: *20 Valentine's Day Vocabulary Cards Math: *Valentine Graphing *Terrific Tallies *I can Compare! (heavier/lighter) *I can Compare! (taller/shorter) *Sweetheart Ten Frames (1-20) *Even/Odd Number Sort (1-20) *What Time is it? (hour - draw hands) *What Time is it? (hour - read clock) *What Time is it? (half hour - draw hands) *What Time is it? (half hour - read clock) *Add it Up! (True or False - addition facts) *What's Left? (True or False - subtraction facts) Emergent Reader: *Hooray for 100 Days! *8 pages *interactive pages with a writing prompts You may also be interested in my other: Printable Packets ****************************************************************************** Please consider leaving feedback for FREE TpT credits and following my store for updates on new units, sales, freebies, and more! :)
I made it through the first week and what a time we had! I have 22 students this year, but 5 of them were out on the first day! The second day I had 5 students out again, but I had a student come who had been sick the first day, and one was gone for a dental appointment. The third day I had 5 out again and on Thursday the one who had a dental appointment for two days came back and another student who just got back from vacation showed up! So by Friday I had 19 students with 3 that are still on vacation! Our state went to the year round system two years ago and it has not been a good schedule. We have many families that travel in the summer and don't come back until September!! So needless to say as I was trying to train all the rest and had students trickling in not knowing what to do and having to repeat myself many, many times! But overall it was a great week. This is a cute lively bunch who seem really happy to be back in school. They laugh at my goofy jokes and give me hugs all day long:) Things that I loved this week. My new clip chart! The kids loved this!! Over half the kids in my class are surfers and they thought this was the greatest thing ever!! It helped me focus on the positive and they all wanted to get to Cowabunga soo bad!! My dolphin magic wand!! I used this to get attention and we practiced alot!! It's such a soft, nice sound and they were quiet instantly when they heard it! Click on the wand to go to their site:) My New Rug What a time saver!! I love how they come sit down in their spot and there is no arguing about where to sit! My new book bags I feel so organized and they look so nice with matching numbers where they should hang. My word wall We added a few important words and I love that I can just write it on the board. My new students:) They really are cute and such pleasers this year:)) Things That Didn't Go So Well Our new schedule The whole school is implementing RTI and we have an intervention block the last half hour of school. We have also been given a new daily schedule after 7 years of the same one. I was off the whole week and running late for everything. Every night I went home exhausted and felt like I hadn't accomplished anything!! My classroom printer I am lucky to have a laser printer in my room and have depended on it for two years now. Well it is not connecting to my laptop and I have not been able to print anything from it, so all my parent letters will be a week late:( And I still have not found my Bulletin board letters!!!???I just don't know where to look?? I ordered new sets in May with my classroom money, but guess what?? The order was never placed because the money was just released!!! So many of the items I was depending on I do not have:( Okay I will stop whining now and end with our fun Friday activity. I love to have cooking projects in my class. I call it cooking but we never use heat. I have done this since I began teaching in Kindergarten 20 years ago!! Since our first science unit is life cycles of plants and animals I start off the year making fruit salad. Homework on Thursday night was to bring in a piece of fruit. I can't believe the spread we had this year!! I have Never gotten a pineapple before, lol! I have a recipe that we read together, then I call 3 kids back at a time to cut up their fruit and place it in the bowl. We go over rules of washing hands, not licking the knives, no sneezing on the food and no licking our fingers. I cut up the apples and core them and they do the rest with a plastic knife. The rest of the class decorates their recipe page, and then works together on a fruit word search. I usually do a graph of "What is Your Favorite Fruit", but I just didn't have it together this year!! I keep their recipe page and we place it into our cookbooks (that I will have a parent make later). After everyone cuts up the fruit we mix it up, talk about good manners, serve everyone, and all eat together. Even the teacher eats some:) The kids love it and always look forward to the next project:) Here is the recipe page and the cover I use for our cookbooks. Just click on the picture to grab it in Google Docs.
Today I'm giving a glance into my first day of school lesson plans, from TK - 5th grade. In the first day of music class, students are arguably the most attentive they will be all year. This puts a unique pressure on the first day's lesson plan to set the tone for the rest of our time together.
Long VowelsLong Vowels Reading Passage FREEBIE is a free sample of "ALL-IN-ONE READING PASSAGES."This no prep long vowel reading passage is the perfect addition to any primary classroom. It can be used for skill practice, reading comprehension, fluency, cold reads, assessment, homework and more!Thi...
Happy Friday! (Don't you just love the summer when you forget what day it is?) I am linking up with Cara from First Grade Parade and her weekly Favorite Pins Friday to share some of my recent Pinterest finds! Favorite School Pins: Completely agree, although I do love the Target Dollar Bins this time of year :) :) :) Love this chart from Using My Teacher Voice for the first week back to school! Favorite Style Pins: Chevron nails? Yes, please :) Currently obsessing over polka dots and chambray! This color combination takes my love of all things teal/turquoise and brightens it up! Love it :) Favorite Quote Pins: Yup! My besties, teammates, and husband probably think this is my personal motto ;) This is *by far* my most favorite quote If you don't already, be sure to follow me on Pinterest to see a whole bunch more! Have fun checking out the rest of the great finds over at The First Grade Parade! ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ I am *EXTREMELY* excited to announce a new collaborative blog I am a part of for 2nd and 3rd grade teachers!! Owl-ways Be Inspired is filled with some of your most favorite 2nd & 3rd grade bloggers and we are all so excited for the opportunity to collaborate and share with you! Best part? There is a gigantic Grand Opening Giveaway that started today filled with a *ton* of back-to-school goodies! Head over right now to check it out and be sure to follow us on Bloglovin', Facebook, and Pinterest! Have a wonderful weekend, friends!!
