Do you struggle with how to get started? Writer's Workshop in kindergarten and first grade classrooms is one of the most powerful components. In Writing Workshop in kindergarten and first grade, students are encoding words that come from their thoughts and feelings, which is a much easier skill than decoding. Successful writers become successful readers! So, how do you get started? The answer is simple. Just jump right in!! I usually start at the beginning of the ... continue reading...
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Centers for Kindergarten | Math and Literacy Activities
These centers for kindergarten are perfect for Spring! Printable and easy to prep centers for students to practice math and literacy skills. Centers for Kindergarten Center time in kindergarten is a time for students to develop and practice various math and ELA skills. We want center activities to be engaging and serve as an independent activity for students. During literacy and math centers, teachers are typically working in small groups. This should be a time, teachers can focus on their ... continue reading...
Write the Room Literacy Activities for the Entire Year!
Write the room literacy activities for kindergarten and first grade. 80 sets of word cards with differentiated response sheets! Beginning sounds, word families, nursery rhymes, and more! Write the Room Center Literacy Activities Do you have a write the room center in your classroom? These literacy activities are so great for students to get up and move around, especially when they can do it and learn at the same time! This is one of those literacy activities that are easy to ... continue reading...
The Best Digital Literacy Centers for Kindergarten & 1st Grade
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...
St. Patrick’s Day Math and Literacy Activities
Wouldn’t it be nice to find a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow? While it is not actually possible, the excitement this would cause is coming alive in the classroom! However, many students are looking forward to building leprechaun catchers or pinching people not wearing green during St. Patrick's Day. No matter what the excitement is over, it will be essential for teachers to create engaging St. Patrick’s Day Math and Literacy Activities. By doing this, student excitement for St. ... continue reading...
Back to School Ideas: Sentence Building | Literacy Center for K-1
Check out these engaging back to school ideas to teach your students about sentences and their parts. This color-coded resource is perfect for K-1 literacy centers. Sentence Building Activity Writing a complete sentence can be a tricky task in kindergarten and first grade! This build a sentence activity is a great resource to add to your literacy centers. It provides students with support in developing complete sentences, making this activity one of my essential back to school ... continue reading...
Walruses, Literacy Centers and Guided Reading, oh, my!
We made these adorable walruses from my Arctic Animals unit today. I love how they all turned out so unique. Our penguins are still fishing on our bulletin board so the herd of walruses won't be hung up until next week when we use them to decorate our polar bears and walruses venn diagram. I will post a pic next week when they are all hanging. So, I've had some questions about how I do Literacy Centers.This is a picture of my Literacy Center board. The pirates on ... continue reading...
What are the Other Kids Doing? {FREEBIE} Literacy Centers and Guided Reading
As I'm traveling and presenting this is a question I get A LOT! What are the Other Kids Doing while I teach small groups? So I thought I'd spend a week or two going through some of the things that my kids are doing while I teach small groups. Let's start with the basics. As I'm teaching small groups my kids are working at centers. This is my center rotation board. It helps me manage where my students are working each day. The first row of pirates shows the name of my groups. I ... continue reading...
Calendar Time: Building Math and Literacy Skills!
Building math and literacy skills takes time and LOTS of practice. So I like to build in practice during our calendar time. We know when we start the year, our students come in with a variety of skills and prior experience. Some students start kindergarten with a year of "school" already under their belt ready to hit the ground running. While others start the year a bit overwhelmed. I love seeing all of my students progress, but it is especially exciting to see my little newbies take ... continue reading...
Hang on! Christmas Break is almost here! Ho-Ho Endings Literacy and Math Freebie
This Ho-Ho Endings Literacy and Math Freebie is free in my TPT store. Just click on the picture below. Need some Print and Go activities? This unit is 25% off through tomorrow. Enjoy the Sweet Sums Freebie from this unit by scrolling down. Click HERE to download the Sweet Sums FREEBIE from December in a Snap! If you need some last minute crafts or center activities then you will want to check out my ELF CAPADES unit. It is my favorite Christmas ... continue reading...
Pirates, Free Literacy Center Downloads and Pete the Cat
This is how I manage my literacy centers. The pirates ship was made using styrofoam sheets and paint. You can buy the sheets at most craft stores. You draw your shape onto the sheet and then cut it out with a hot wand. Super easy! The little pirates are birthday party invitations that I bought at Target. Each child is placed in a group...pirates, anchors, pirates ships, jolly rogers or maps. So you can see that today the pirate ships will complete the activities at the abc center and then ... continue reading...
Veteran’s Day Math and Literacy Activities
I just added my Veteran's Day resource packet to Teacher's Pay Teachers. You can view it here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Veterans-Day-Math-and-Literacy-Activities ... 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...
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...
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