I was disappointed in these materials - I have been teaching 1st grade and was looking for new information and ideas to begin the year rather than continuing to use what my colleagues had used for the past 25 years and I didn't find those ideas in this book. It is well written and designed but most of the activities are not appropriate for 1st graders at the beginning of the year. The handwriting spaces are too small, very few of my kids come in able to compose whole sentences as a response to hearing a story, or can they compose a narrative about what they did over summer vacation. Buy this if you have an extra $12.95 or some space on your shelf to fill.

Great product! The pages were very well organized and presented very well. The only thing I would have liked different is more ideas on how to change/adapt things for different socioeconomic situations (I'm at a low income school and some of the ideas were not sensitive to that). Really great ideas over all though! Thanks!

I was just expecting more for $12.95