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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Fun Name Activities for Early Learners | Crafts and Interactive Charts!
Name activities for early learners. Students will have fun practicing their names with these math and literacy activities that are great for back to school! Name Activities Is it back to school time for you? Well... are you (at least) thinking about back to school? These fun crafts and interactive pocket chart activities are perfect to practice names and have fun doing it! They also make ADORABLE bulletin boards for the first few weeks of school! Here are a few math and literacy ... continue reading...
Gingerbread Fun and Freebies
Gingerbread Fun Classroom activities for kindergarten with a free file. Math, literacy, crafts, and more! Kindergarten holiday play ideas too! Gingerbread Glyphs These are our Gingerbread glyphs. Aren't they cute? I love activities that incorporate reading, math AND fun! The kids cut all of their own pieces so they all turn out unique. This is the book that goes along with the glyph. Glyphs are a great way to incorporate collecting and analyzing data. NOTE: Some of the pictures ... 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...
Bats, Bats, Bats! Bats Math and Literacy Fun and what’s coming up….
My sweet friend, Erica Bohrer told me about this song on YouTube. You can click on the picture to view it. My kids LOVED it! Click on the dice in dice picture if you are interested in purchasing them. They come in a set of 72 so you could easily split the cost with another teacher. Here's what's coming up in my classroom. Veteran's Day ... continue reading...
Snowman Math and Literacy Fun!
This unit is PACKED full of 16 fun reading, math and writing activities! Some of the activities included in this unit are: An original story written by me. Picture and sentence phrase cards for your students to rebuild the story in a pocket chart or on the floor. This is a great center activity. The sounds of /ow/ word sort. The students will sort the words on the sorting mats and then record them on the recording sheet. This is a great activity to help your little ... continue reading...
15 Fall Videos for Kids | Great for a Primary Classroom
Fall videos for kids! Use these fall videos to teach about leaves, pumpkins, bats, owls, and spiders during your fall-themed lessons. Fall Videos for Kids It's Fall Y'all! Autumn is such a fun time of the year in the classroom and even out of the classroom. With the weather getting cooler and the leaves changing colors, it gives you a special kind of feeling! During the Fall season, we oftentimes teach about the falling leaves, pumpkins, bats, spiders, and owls as we lead into Halloween. I ... continue reading...
Halloween Activities for the Primary Classroom
Halloween Activities for the Primary Classroom October is a great time to add a little bit of kid-friendly spooky fun in the classroom. This Halloween unit is packed full of fun themes and the best part? They all match state standards! Spooky fun & learning, all in one! Halloween Glyph Glyphs are a fun way to teach your students how to create and analyze data. For this Frankie Friend Glyph, your students will build a Frankie craft based on their answers to ... 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...
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...
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