Game: Great way to learn 10s and 1s place!
Posters for Types of Sentences!
Easter Literacy and Math Activities
Easter Literacy and Math!
Bring Easter into the classroom while practicing first grade skills! In Easter Literacy and Math Activities you will find all printable Easter themed pages, with fun games, sight words, addition, subtraction and more!
Game: Great way to learn 10s and 1s place!
Posters for Types of Sentences!
Morning Work!
And much more!
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Easter Literacy and Math Activities
Game: Great way to learn 10s and 1s place!
Posters for Types of Sentences!
Easter Literacy and Math Activities
The Dot by Peter Reynolds Activities
The Dot is about a little girl who is not confident in her art abilities, but her teacher finds a way to encourage her to create!
In this book companion, you will find everything you need to help students with growth mindset, understand the plot, including games, vocabulary, fluency, phonics, comprehension strategies, color by sight word, and even a comprehension test with answer key! The Dot is written by Peter H. Reynolds.
Introduce vocabulary from The Dot with this fun game!
Players take turns to pick a vocabulary card. The student must read the word. The adult leader can discuss the meaning of the word, and make a sentence. Then the student can roll die and move that many spaces.
If the student cannot read the word, then he or she cannot roll the die. "Lose a turn."
First player to the "End" wins!
Practice fluency with this fun game!
Roll the die, pick a sentence in the book, and read like...
With this book companion, your entire reading block is planned!
Readers' response!
Play Stomp with the vocabulary cards!
For more activities to help your students with this great read, click here!
The Dot by Peter Reynolds Activities
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In this book companion, you will find everything you need to help students with growth mindset, understand the plot, including games, vocabulary, fluency, phonics, comprehension strategies, color by sight word, and even a comprehension test with answer key! The Dot is written by Peter H. Reynolds.
Introduce vocabulary from The Dot with this fun game!
If the student cannot read the word, then he or she cannot roll the die. "Lose a turn."
First player to the "End" wins!
Practice fluency with this fun game!
Roll the die, pick a sentence in the book, and read like...
With this book companion, your entire reading block is planned!
Readers' response!
Play Stomp with the vocabulary cards!
For more activities to help your students with this great read, click here!
The Dot by Peter Reynolds Activities
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Robin Wilson First Grade Love
2D Shapes and 3D shapes!
My math stations this week are so much fun! I almost feel guilty to pull out the blocks, but it is our standard we are covering this week! Yay!!
These are the stations!
Station 1: 2D shapes! The leader goes over each shape and helps students call it the right name. Then allow them to make a picture or structure with the shapes! We are covering trapezoid, square, hexagon, and triangle this week!
Stations 2: 2D This is one of my favorite ways to teach any concept! It is called the "Unboard Game." I lay out the blocks, grab some dice, a few place markers and go! Students roll the die, and name the shape! If they get it wrong, they must return to the previous spot they were on. Play until someone wins or time is up! Whoever is closer to the end, wins! This is a popular game in our room!! (I use this game with any concept! Nouns, addition, subtraction, anything!)
Station 3: Online game with shapes.Shapes! A Geometry Activity
Station 4: 3D Shapes! Go over each shape and the work with the students to build something! Who can resist building?
For more shapes! Check this out! Shapes 2D and 3D
We do have station 5! It is our school's math online connection to our curriculum! Iready, if you are interested!
These are the stations!
Station 1: 2D shapes! The leader goes over each shape and helps students call it the right name. Then allow them to make a picture or structure with the shapes! We are covering trapezoid, square, hexagon, and triangle this week!
Stations 2: 2D This is one of my favorite ways to teach any concept! It is called the "Unboard Game." I lay out the blocks, grab some dice, a few place markers and go! Students roll the die, and name the shape! If they get it wrong, they must return to the previous spot they were on. Play until someone wins or time is up! Whoever is closer to the end, wins! This is a popular game in our room!! (I use this game with any concept! Nouns, addition, subtraction, anything!)
Station 3: Online game with shapes.Shapes! A Geometry Activity
Station 4: 3D Shapes! Go over each shape and the work with the students to build something! Who can resist building?
For more shapes! Check this out! Shapes 2D and 3D
We do have station 5! It is our school's math online connection to our curriculum! Iready, if you are interested!
Twister Math and More!
I found a new and exciting strategy to add to my math centers!! Twister! Ok, so... We needed to learn shapes.
As I was shopping at our local thrift store, I came across the game, Twister!
So here is what we did! We used dry erase markers and drew a triangle, rectangle, circle, and hexagon randomly on the twister spots! The leader (my awesome student-teacher) spun the spinner because you will see the students can't spin when they are all twisted!
First student: After teacher spins, "Put your right hand on a yellow triangle."
Second student: After teacher spins, "Put your left foot on a blue hexagon."
Third student: After teacher spins, "Put your right hand on a green circle."
Fourth student: After teacher spins, "Put your right foot on a red rectangle."
First student: After teacher spins, "Put your left hand on green circle" and so forth!
When a student falls, he/she is out. We then sent them to practice math facts on their computer.
I realized that we can use this for sooo many other things, like math facts, "Put your left foot on the sum 9."
Sight words: Put your right hand on the red word "like."
Spelling words: Put your left foot on the blue word, "first." Spell it!
The leader just has to call one of the shapes, sums, or words in the spot of the color landed on.
Our students loved it!! I hope you can use this to add fun to a station in your class!
As I was shopping at our local thrift store, I came across the game, Twister!
So here is what we did! We used dry erase markers and drew a triangle, rectangle, circle, and hexagon randomly on the twister spots! The leader (my awesome student-teacher) spun the spinner because you will see the students can't spin when they are all twisted!
First student: After teacher spins, "Put your right hand on a yellow triangle."
Second student: After teacher spins, "Put your left foot on a blue hexagon."
Third student: After teacher spins, "Put your right hand on a green circle."
Fourth student: After teacher spins, "Put your right foot on a red rectangle."
First student: After teacher spins, "Put your left hand on green circle" and so forth!
When a student falls, he/she is out. We then sent them to practice math facts on their computer.
I realized that we can use this for sooo many other things, like math facts, "Put your left foot on the sum 9."
Sight words: Put your right hand on the red word "like."
Spelling words: Put your left foot on the blue word, "first." Spell it!
The leader just has to call one of the shapes, sums, or words in the spot of the color landed on.
Our students loved it!! I hope you can use this to add fun to a station in your class!
How we Celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. in First Grade!
First of all!! I love, love, love the stories of Martin Luther King, Jr. I love what he represented! Freedom for all! Freedom to speak, to walk, ride a bus, eat, sleep, and just live in our country with peace and justice for all! With my love of these freedoms, I wanted to share with my 'littles' the beautiful story behind the *I Have a Dream* speech!
So, with that, we just finished a week of celebration of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. in our first grade classroom!
We started the week by hearing about his life and me telling the story. I showed pictures and read the story to my students on our large Smart screen in our classroom!
So, with that, we just finished a week of celebration of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. in our first grade classroom!
We started the week by hearing about his life and me telling the story. I showed pictures and read the story to my students on our large Smart screen in our classroom!
We learned about his dream and then unscrambled part of the famous speech in our interactive notebooks!
The next day, we started practicing our reader's theater. I gave each of my 26 students a part. There were parts that worked for my lowest all the way to my highest. We practiced this play 2 times a day for 3 days! This is only the first page! I actually split the narrator parts into 2 to 3 places so that more of my students could get a part! There are parts for 27+ students! :)
On Friday, we put on the program for our Kindergarten friends, and our First grade friends! My students were stars in their little play!
What brought tears to my eyes were their little voices that ended the play,
"I have a dream that my four little children, will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
If you are interested in these activities,
What do you do to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.?
How to help your child pick the right level for reading!
Teaching children to pick a book that is their appropriate level for reading can get tricky. But allowing them to pick their own books gives them higher motivation to read. I personally would much rather read a book about a British posh family, sipping tea in the parlor, with princes and princesses than basketball rules or game stats! I am sorry if you love basketball, I am sure you are a lovely person. Haha...You may rather read basketball. That makes the point of letting students pick their own books! The problem comes when they want to read so badly and quickly, they pick Harry Potter when they have trouble sounding out /c/ /a/ /t/.
Teaching the JUST RIGHT method with the help of Goldilocks has made it so much easier for me and for my students. You know the story, but I will recap to help explain.
Goldilocks comes to an empty house and finds porridge that belongs to Papa Bear. It is too hot. Then she finds Mama Bear's porridge and it is too cold. Last, she finds Baby Bear's porridge and it is JUST RIGHT.
Then she goes into the living room and finds 3 chairs. Papa Bear's chair is too hard, Mama Bear's chair is too soft, but Baby Bear's chair is JUST RIGHT. (She breaks Baby Bear's chair, but we won't discuss that.) Lol...
Goldilocks then heads to the bedroom and finds Papa Bear's bed is too hard. Mama Bear's bed is too soft, but Baby Bear's bed is JUST RIGHT! It is so comfortable that she falls asleep. I am drama mama with this. I snuggle my arms, smile a lazy smile, and look all cozy when I say JUST RIGHT.
Day 1
1. Tell the students that it's their lucky day! They are going to learn how to pick a JUST RIGHT book! I then draw the words in bubble letters at the top of an anchor chart, 'JUST RIGHT' Books.
2. Explain that some books are TOO HARD. Some books are TOO SOFT OR EASY. Some books are JUST RIGHT!
3. Then say, "I am going to read a book that will help to explain about a little girl that chose furniture that is TOO HARD, TOO SOFT OR EASY, but finally she found a bed that is JUST RIGHT.
4. Read the classical story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. I pause after each time Goldilocks finds the JUST RIGHT object and make a big deal by saying, "Boys and Girls, she found the JUST RIGHT porridge, chair, or bed. Drama mama here!!
5. At the end of the book explain, "There will be times you find books that are TOO HARD and TOO EASY. You need to be like Goldilocks at the end of the story and find books that are JUST RIGHT!
Day 2-Read another book or really the same one, with explanation of JUST RIGHT mentioned above. Add to the anchor chart, TOO HARD: I don't know 5 or more words. (Draw a hand.)
Day 3-Read another Goldilocks book or you could re-read the same book several times.
Add to the anchor chart, TOO EASY: I can breeze through. I am done too quickly.
Day 4-Read yet another or the same book.
Add to the anchor chart, re-emphasizing, JUST RIGHT: I might not know 1 or 2 words, but can read most words understand what I am reading.
6. I found several books at the library about Goldilocks and the Three Bears. So, I read one each day of the week. Each day, I recapped the JUST RIGHT concept and had the students repeat back to me when she found the JUST RIGHT object.
7. When students actually sit down and read, ask "Is this JUST RIGHT?" Listen to them read to check. Have them go back and pick another book if it isn't JUST RIGHT.
Here is a list of the Goldilocks books I read.
I hope this helps you! How do you teach students to pick a JUST RIGHT book?
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