25 Back to school read alouds to pick up and share with your primary students to calm their nerves and create a few laughs. Back to School Read Alouds Are you getting ready to go back to school? Maybe planning the first week of school? Then this list of back to school read alouds is just what you need! You and your class are sure to enjoy these lesson-learning, diversity-filled, alphabet-listing, and just plain fun, read alouds during the first few weeks of school. #1 The King ... continue reading...
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Phonological Awareness Digital Activities for Kindergarten & 1st Grade
Phonological Awareness digital activities to practice rhyming, syllables, letter sounds, word concepts, onset & rime, and sounds in words. Phonological Awareness Digital Activities Interactive phonological awareness digital activities for Boom Learning, Seesaw, and Google Slides are here! Students will love practicing foundational skills to support their learning and development towards reading success. From rhyming to syllables to sounds in words, you can feel confident that students ... continue reading...
Alphabet Recognition and Fluency Activities for Kindergarten (FREE FILE)
Alphabet recognition and fluency activities. Fun activities and ideas to help your students master letter identification and sound during whole group, small group, and centers! Alphabet Recognition & Sound Alphabet recognition practice starts on day 1 of kindergarten and it consumes a lot of our time during the first several weeks of school. It is our focus because it is essential. With a strong foundation in letter recognition, students have an easier time learning the sounds ... continue reading...
Playdough Learning Activities for Kindergarten and 1st Grade
Playdough learning activities for kindergarten and first grade. Students have fun practicing letters, initial sounds, and numbers to 30 with these hands-on learning mats. Playdough Learning Activities If you're a kindergarten or first-grade teacher, chances are, you use playdough at some point throughout the year! Sometimes having playdough for students to play with when they first arrive is a good way to calm those beginning of the year nerves. What's even better is when they are learning ... continue reading...
15 Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Videos for Kindergarten
Phonological and Phonemic awareness videos for kindergarten. Syllables, CVC words, vowels, digraphs, and more! Fun and engaging videos for your classroom! Phonological & Phonemic Awareness Videos 15 fun videos your kindergarten students will love! These phonological and phonemic awareness videos make great "attention-getters" when you're teaching a new skill. They are also perfect for a quick movement break throughout your day that supports learning! #1 The Big Pig Song: ... continue reading...
African Animal Activities and Lesson Plans for Kindergarten & First Grade
African animal activities that are perfect for a zoo unit! Your students will love learning about African animals with these nonfiction book activities. Engaging reading lessons about lions, giraffes, elephants, and meerkats. African Animal Activities Are you ready to begin a unit about animals in kindergarten or first grade? Maybe you are focusing on zoo animals, too? These African animal activities are just what you need to keep your students engaged and excited about an animal unit of ... continue reading...
Cookie Detectives Engaging Learning Activities
Student engagement will be through the roof, with the Case of the Missing Cookies! September kindergarten and first week of school activities for first grade. Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar? This is a fun rhyme to practice as a part of your first week of school activities. Students love hearing their name and hearing the names of their friends. This fun rhyme has been used for generations because it gets kids engaged! They love the repetitive chant as they ... 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...
Phonological Awareness Lesson Plans for Kindergarten & First Grade
Phonological awareness lesson plans and digital slides to make daily instruction simple! A systematic way to teach students to decode and spell words. Phonological Awareness Lesson Plans What if I told you that your students could develop into confident readers and writers who can decode and spell words, with just 10 minutes of phonological awareness instruction each day? Would you be running to get in line to find out how? As a teacher, I would be the first one there! Phonological ... continue reading...
Interactive Digital Math Games for Kindergarten & First Grade
Digital math games to practice skills that meet K/1 math standards. These fun games are available in PowerPoint and Google Slides. Digital Math Games I am so excited about these digital interactive math games! I always love it when students can practice skills while playing a fun game. It is such a great way to engage students and get them excited about learning. Students practice various kindergarten and first grade math skills that align with K/1 standards. From counting and ... continue reading...
Explore Holidays Around the World in Kindergarten and First Grade
Holidays around the World! Travel around the world and learn about 10 different celebrations. PowerPoints, anchor charts, writing responses, and a fun Holidays around the World craft! Holidays Around the World Studying celebrations and different countries around the world is always fun with little learners in kindergarten and first grade. It is so neat to explore different cultures and beliefs in various countries. In my Holidays Around the World unit of study, students have fun learning ... continue reading...
American Symbols Activities and Resources for Kindergarten & First Grade
American symbols activities and resources. Informational texts, anchor charts, crafts, science experiments, emergent reader, math games, writing activities, and more! American Symbols Activities Teaching about American symbols can be lots of fun and students learn about important pieces of our history! These lesson ideas and resources are perfect for engaging students in the study of American symbols. Chit Chat Messages: American Symbols Chit chat messages are perfect for shared ... continue reading...
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Activities & a Freebie
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Activities for Back to School. Kindergarten and first-grade classroom ideas with a Chicka Chicka Boom Boom directed drawing, science, and writing! Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is simply one of those books that is perfect for back to school time. See how we use this book throughout the week! Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Activities: Reading Ideas I always seem to start the year off with Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, I bet you do too! But just because it is the ... continue reading...
FREE Kindergarten Common Core Recording Sheets for Assessment
If you already have my Organization Station Unit {Click on the picture above if you want to check it out} Then you know how I feel about Simplifying and keeping all of your records easily accessible. The unit includes several of my forms that I use throughout the year. I created Common Core Standards recording Sheets to use when you assess your little ones and I just finished the Kindergarten version. You can download it for FREE by clicking on the link below. I hope ... continue reading...
Reading Rubrics for the Primary Grades
These reading rubrics for primary grades are great for kindergarten and first-grade reading! These assessments and scoring guides are great for guiding your lessons in reading comprehension. If you've used our Engaging Readers units then you probably already use the Rubrics that come with each unit, but questions about assessments are one of our most commonly asked questions so we will talk about that in this blog post. Reading Rubrics for Primary Grades: Reading ... continue reading...
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