First Grade Teaching Ideas

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Apple season is here and we're ready for ALL the apple love... apple turnovers, apple butter, and of course applesauce! Homemade applesauce is so easy to make with kids, especially if you use a slow cooker like a Crockpot. This recipe uses four simple ingredients and only takes 4 hours to cook. You can start it in the morning and have warm cinnamon applesauce right after lunch! To make the experience a little more standards-based, give each student their own step by step, how-to cookbook! (K-1) Making Applesauce With Preschoolers, Preschool Applesauce Recipe, Applesauce Homemade, Easy Applesauce, Slow Cooker Applesauce, Crockpot Applesauce, Cinnamon Applesauce, How To Make Applesauce, Applesauce Recipe
Easy Applesauce Recipe for Kids
Apple season is here and we're ready for ALL the apple love... apple turnovers, apple butter, and of course applesauce! Homemade applesauce is so easy to make with kids, especially if you use a slow cooker like a Crockpot. This recipe uses four simple ingredients and only takes 4 hours to cook. You can start it in the morning and have warm cinnamon applesauce right after lunch! To make the experience a little more standards-based, give each student their own step by step, how-to cookbook! (K-1)
We love small group activities that make learning fun! These one-page literacy games help us engage children who often don't want to come to small group, much less practice skills they're already having a hard time learning. But once the kids have played the games a few times with an adult, they're ready to introduce into a reading or word work center for more independent practice with friends. In the end, our students ask to play these games over and over again... come check out some more! Activities For 1st Graders, Fun Reading Activities, Ccvc Words, Word Work Centers, Bell Work, Literacy Games, Small Group Activities, Reading Games, Phonics Games
Reading Games for First Grade Classrooms
We love small group activities that make learning fun! These one-page literacy games help us engage children who often don't want to come to small group, much less practice skills they're already having a hard time learning. But once the kids have played the games a few times with an adult, they're ready to introduce into a reading or word work center for more independent practice with friends. In the end, our students ask to play these games over and over again... come check out some more!
Back to School Word Searches
Are you looking for back to school word searches for your students to do as an all year activity? These 8 kid-friendly word searches are perfect for 1st day of school, open house, meet the teacher night, morning work, early finishers, testing, and more! Each word search is themed!
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Book Racks for Magnetic Whiteboards
Magnetic Book Racks for classroom whiteboards
a green book with writing on it next to a red binder that says, printing 2 by 1 how to make a portable word wall and spelling journal
Printing 2 by 1 {Spelling Journals}
Printing 2 by 1 {Spelling Journals} - quick and easy tutorial
Immerse your class in all things batty! Extend the learning from J. Cannon's book, Stellaluna. Math centers, literacy centers, phonics sorts, printables, logic challenges, and more! #stellaluna #phonics #phonicssorts #literacycenters #rhymingwords #mathcenters #kindergarten #1stgrade #2ndgrade #bookextensions #printables #literacy #vowelsounds #consonantblends #tangrams #bats #logictaskcards #computation #mathjournals #taskcards #venndiagrams #vocabulary #primaryteachers
STELLALUNA EXTENSION ACTIVITIES
Immerse your class in all things batty! Extend the learning from J. Cannon's book, Stellaluna. Math centers, literacy centers, phonics sorts, printables, logic challenges, and more! #stellaluna #phonics #phonicssorts #literacycenters #rhymingwords #mathcenters #kindergarten #1stgrade #2ndgrade #bookextensions #printables #literacy #vowelsounds #consonantblends #tangrams #bats #logictaskcards #computation #mathjournals #taskcards #venndiagrams #vocabulary #primaryteachers
classroom management and disliping - setting up a classroom for success
How to Set Up Your Classroom for Success
Are you a brand new teacher nervous about classroom management and discipline or a veteran teacher looking to improve the way you are managing student behavior? You may not realize it, but creating a climate of positive classroom discipline begins with setting up a classroom for success!
an organized classroom library with bins full of children's books and pencils
Monday Motivation: Classroom Libraries
Monday Motivation: Classroom Libraries - Teacher by the Beach
School safety drills are so important and, though they're probably not our favorite topic to talk about, we need to prepare children for a variety of emergencies they may encounter over the course of the school year. This set of resources focuses on four school safety drills that are common in many schools: fire drills, tornado drills, earthquake drills, and lockdowns. Activities have also been included to help the details stick. Before you wrap up your back to school planning, come take a look. Topic To Talk About, Topic To Talk, School Planning, Topics To Talk About, School Safety, Fire Drill, School Plan, Kindergarten Teaching
School Safety Drills
School safety drills are so important and, though they're probably not our favorite topic to talk about, we need to prepare children for a variety of emergencies they may encounter over the course of the school year. This set of resources focuses on four school safety drills that are common in many schools: fire drills, tornado drills, earthquake drills, and lockdowns. Activities have also been included to help the details stick. Before you wrap up your back to school planning, come take a look.
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Free Phonics Reading Passages
These phonics passages have it all, reading, fluency, comprehension and phonics skills. and more. They are perfect for guided reading small groups, whole group or one on one intervention. Students love reading the stories again and again and all you have to do is print! Get free printable silent e worksheets here.
Election Day is coming up. Everybody is talking about the issues and kids want to participate in some way. But many don’t fully understand and they wonder, “What is voting all about?” This topic is on our social studies radar, so finding Election Day activities has made its way to the top of our to-do list. In this blog post for 1st and 2nd grade teachers, we share our favorite books, resources, and ideas for this season of voting, including a tried and true favorite... holding a mock election! Second Grade, Social Studies, Activities For Kids, Tried And True, To Do, 2nd Grade, Teaching Ideas, To Do List, Favorite Books
Election Day Activities for Kids
Election Day is coming up. Everybody is talking about the issues and kids want to participate in some way. But many don’t fully understand and they wonder, “What is voting all about?” This topic is on our social studies radar, so finding Election Day activities has made its way to the top of our to-do list. In this blog post for 1st and 2nd grade teachers, we share our favorite books, resources, and ideas for this season of voting, including a tried and true favorite... holding a mock election!
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Lace a Sight Word Activity
Turn boring flashcards into a multisensory activity to engage your students as they learn to read sight words that you are currently working on. You can use any list of words to adapt this activity to match your students skill level. Lace a sight word activity is simple to set up and fun for children to complete. via @dabofgluewilldo
four matching puzzles with letters and numbers to match them
Easy to Prep Back to School ELA Activities - Sharing Kindergarten
Letter and Sound Puzzles with a Back to School Theme
no prep phonics crafts for kids
Phonics Crafts
Are you trying to find fun phonics activities that aren’t phonics worksheets? These phonics crafts are the perfect addition to your phonics lessons, centers, or review! With every craft, students will have the opportunity to practice the target skill in a hands-on way that includes cutting, pasting, identifying, and reading words with the target skill.