Digital literacy centers for kindergarten and 1st grade to practice ELA skills. Students practice word families, blends, rhyming, syllables, digraphs, vowel sounds, and more! Digital Literacy Centers for Kindergarten Easy and quick-prep digital literacy centers are here! You can easily infuse technology into your classroom or use these centers during distance learning. These engaging ELA activities are available as PowerPoints. This way, you can access the center activities on a ... continue reading...
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Math Centers for Numbers to 100
Learning how to work with numbers can be stressful to students. Often, this is due to how many numbers there are and all of the different skills to learn. However, math is everywhere in life, so it is vital for students to have a strong understanding. To build this understanding in a stress-free environment, the Number to 100 Math Centers will be incredibly beneficial! These centers will help ensure that when working on numbers to 100, students are supported through enjoyable yet rigorous ... continue reading...
Inferring with Primary Students: The Case of the Missing Toy Sack
Inferring with Primary Students: Christmas Inference Detectives Activities for Kindergarten and First-Grade Inferring with Primary Students: Kindergarten and First-Grade Inferring is an important comprehension skill for young readers to have and I love giving them lots of practice with this skill. We infer each week with the story we are reading, but I also like to give them opportunities to infer outside of the text. Inferring is just putting clues together and using that voice inside ... continue reading...
The Gruffalo Lesson Plans | Reading Comprehension for K-2
The Gruffalo lesson plans for K-2. Engaging 5-day lesson plans with differentiated reading response, vocabulary, sentence study, and a craft for this fun story! The Gruffalo A clever mouse outsmarts some woodland animals who want to eat him with the story of a Gruffalo. Little does he know, a Gruffalo is real and loves to eat mice. Your students will love this award-winning story! Through our engaging lesson plans students will strengthen their reading comprehension skills and have fun ... continue reading...
Oceans of Fun!
I got up bright and early this morning and drove 2 hrs. in search of the perfect wedding dress for my daughter Taylor. SUCCESS! But, I'm one tired mamma so this is going to be a super quick post! We just started our ocean unit. Nothing gets boys excited more than sharks! (okay...maybe dinosaurs...but they still LOVE sharks too). We used interactive writing to label the parts of a shark. Comparing sharks and whales. Schema Chart Writing ... continue reading...
Common Core Standards Organization and Wishy Washy!
I've had a lot of questions about how I organize my Common Core Standards and Essential Questions. I display them on posters which are hot glued to ribbon. The standards are attached with velcro so that they are easy to change in and out. (Please excuse the bad picture above. The standards shown are from the 1st grade set. Notice that the clipart images match the standard and that the essential question clipart also matches. This helps the little ones who can't read understand the ... continue reading...
FREE Spine Labels for Binders: Getting Organized!
This is a throwback post that I did awhile back about getting our Guiding Readers units organized. Since this post, I've had quite a few requests to make matching spine labels for the Writing and Math units. So HERE YOU GO! Sorry, it took me so long! We also have a Free Year-Long Curriculum Map for Kindergarten and First Grade. (Scroll to the bottom of this post to grab the map and spines) If you want to read the throw back post carry on! If not, Happy Organizing. ... continue reading...
Leonardo the Terrible Monster Reading Lesson Plans for K-1
Leonardo the Terrible Monster reading comprehension lesson plans with student response activities. Print and teach lessons to engage your students in reading! Leonardo the Terrible Monster This story by Mo Willems is one of my favorite stories to read, especially in October around Halloween. If you are not familiar with this book, it is about a monster named Leonardo. Leonardo is not a scary monster, no matter how hard he tries! He does some research and thinks he finds the perfect little ... continue reading...
Engaging Readers: Getting it ORGANIZED!
Hey There! Happy Hump day! We've had a few questions about how we organize our new Engaging Readers units so I thought I'd do a quick blog post to show you! These are the supplies I used to organize mine. I used a 1" binder sheet protectors Binder pocket (one pocket holds all four books) ziploc baggies Clear packing tape Printables for the spine and fronts of sheet protectors click HERE to get yours. First, I put our cutie patootie cover (thanks to ... continue reading...
CHIT-CHAT! This n that!
This is another poem that I use at the beginning of our Mental Images unit. I read the poem the first time for enjoyment and then I read it slowly a few times while the kids drew their Mental Image. Our dragonflies... these turned out beautiful. I forgot to take a picture of their writing. Our story elements chart. Going Buggy Glyph. I've had a lot of emails asking me about my schedule and how I ... continue reading...
Alphapalooza 2 Phonemic Awareness & Phonics Fun!
“The two best predictors of early reading success are alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness.” -Marilyn Jager Adams We spend a lot of time working on Phonemic Awareness and Phonics skills in kindergarten and first-grade, so we want to make sure that we create games and activities that will hold the interest of our students. My goal is to create activities that the students will want to come back to over and over again. Here are a few of the activities that are included ... continue reading...
Valentine’s Day Centers! Love, Tweet Love!
The Littles LOVE these center activities! They are a great way to reinforce the skills we've been working on and the kids don't even realize they are actually working! :) Key to My Heart For this center they have to match the key to the heart it belongs to by making sums of 10. I always made a sums to 20 version for my Littles who need to be pushed a little more. Monster Measurement This Littles measure the monsters using the heart rulers. Then, they record their measurements ... continue reading...
The Best Digital Sentence Building Activities for Kindergarten
Digital sentence building activities that are preloaded to Seesaw for distance learning, or use of technology within your kindergarten classroom. Sentence Building A few months ago, I posted about a sentence building activity that makes a wonderful literacy center. With the changing times, I teamed up with Deedee Wills to convert the activity into a digital format. You can check out the previous blog post showing the printable version here: Sentence Building Activity OR, keep ... continue reading...
18 Virtual Field Trip Ideas for Early Learners
A list of 18 virtual field trip ideas for kindergarten and first-grade students. This collection of ideas consists of videos and interactive virtual tours. Virtual Field Trip Ideas Here are a few ideas for you to send home to students or show your own kiddos at home! Have fun with these virtual field trip ideas for early learners. #1 San Diego Zoo Check out live videos of animals. There are games, coloring sheets, and craft ideas, too! #2 Polar Bear ... continue reading...
Printable Files for Busy Teachers FREE File
Printable files for busy teachers? You got it! I know you are busy! Sometimes we reach a time in the year when our planning time is at a premium. Perhaps you are knee-deep in assessments or you have an unexpected absence and you need to create sub plans. That is when I am thankful for a few printables that I can use in my classroom. I created these worksheets (eek... sort of a bad word) with those times in mind. As a practice, I know that worksheets offer the least amount of ... continue reading...