I am currently a fifth year teacher in a small rural school district just outside of Madison, WI.
I teach first grade, which I absolutely love. You never know what will happen each day with those little kiddos and that's what makes it exciting and fun!
23 different sets of addition and subtraction math fact fluency flash cards for math workshop practice and a set of number sequencing cards with numbers 1-160. These flash cards provide great math fact fluency practice for students. I have my students use these flash cards when they finish something early or as a warm up to our small group work! Fact Fluency Cards Include the following sets: - Making 10 Facts - Making 20 Facts - Doubles Facts - Plus One Facts - Plus Two Facts - Plus Three Facts
This simple, no frills math fact fluency set is perfect for math centers, fact fluency interventions, and your early finishers! The addition and subtraction math fact fluency cards are great for 1st grade classrooms. This set includes addition and subtractions facts 1-10 (20 sets of practice cards). I copy these cards on bright cardstock, laminate them, and put them on a ring. Students solve the math facts using dry erase marker! Simple and effective! For more "no frills" practice, check out my
This includes 200+ pages of no frills and easy to prep math activities and materials for early number sense and fact fluency. They are perfect for math centers, early finishers, interventions, etc. Games, flash cards, number puzzles, sorting cards, and more! All of these materials are staples in my math instruction. You may also be interested in the following literacy and math bundles available in my TpT store: First Grade Literacy Centers Full Year BundleFirst Grade Math Centers Full Year Bundl
This poetry unit works great in 1st grade or 2nd grade and has everything that you need to teach poetry to your students. It includes shape poems, couplets, alliteration, acrostic poems, color poems, cinquain, haiku, and word poems. Included in this unit:-Mentor Texts -Comprehension Lessons -Poetry Notebooks -Poetry Inspired Art Projects -Writers’ Workshop Materials: example poems, first draft pages, final copy pages, a poetry book cover, and an About the Poet page for the following types of po
This 1st grade writing prompts and portfolio activity makes a perfect first grade writing center. Each week, students respond to a pre-determined writing prompt including narrative writing and story writing. It is great writing practice for students! It is also a great way to keep a running check on their writing progress.... Great for assessment! Just three-hole punch the edge and stick in a binder for each student! Each writing page contains the writing prompt question and a writing checklist
This telling time game is great practice for telling time to the hour and half hour. In the activity, students practice telling time as they play the bingo game. It includes 25 different bingo boards and 24 bingo calling cards. Play as a whole class or with a small math intervention/enrichment group (depending on your grade level). This is a great way to practice telling time and my students love it!
These decoding practice cards have students use the decoding strategy of chunking letters and sounds together when reading. It is the perfect activity for decoding words practice using chunking. The decoding activity includes three sets of cards and over 50 total cards. Laminate the cards and have students circle sounds and chunks. Students write the chunks under the words in dry erase markers! I use these as an intro to my guided reading groups and my students use them for independent and partn
This Build a Sentence activity includes 60 word cards: nouns, verbs, adjectives, along with prepositions, conjunctions, and articles. Print each part of speech on a different color, cut apart, and allow students to build sentences. The set includes a printable for students to write their sentences on. Use this as an independent work on writing or word work activity. You could also use this activity whole group in a pocket chart! You may also be interested in the following literacy and math bundl
This growth mindset and kindness bulletin board idea is a great activity for any classroom and makes for great classroom decor. Students color the growth mindset and kindness posters, making a perfect bulletin board or hallway decoration. Each quote focuses on spreading kindness or instilling a growth mindset. We LOVE spreading kindness in our classroom and our school community. After having a burst of inspiration before school one morning and I hand-lettered these 12 kindness quotes. I had my s
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TEN "no frills" math games for number sense!! Great for fact fluency as well! This set of math games is a perfect addition to my math instruction! These games are simple and easy to implement when I have a few extra minutes during my math block! I created these for my first grade classroom but these games would also be appropriate for kindergarten and your second grade students in need of math intervention! All of these games are black and white to save on ink! Print them on colorful cardstock t
These math and writing 100th Day of School activities for 1st grade are fun for the classroom. The 100th day of school activity pages include the following activities. - Count to 100 by 2s, 5s, and 10s - Do 100 math problems - Roll a dice 100 times - Flip a coin 100 times - Make something with 100 pattern blocks - Write your name as many times as you can in 100 seconds - Fill tens frames with 100 snacks! - Write a list of 100 word family words - Write about the world in 100 years - Answer silly
This bundle has 19 sets of themed math centers for 1st grade math (over 100 centers). In my first grade classroom, I like to keep math as interactive as possible! Most centers include an exit slip. These centers were designed for first grade but would be appropriate for most advanced kindergartners and intervention/review for second grade students! I have used ALL of these centers in my classroom and they are a hit! Themed centers include: Apples, Insects, Fall, Halloween, Monster Math, Thanks
Two fun, easy number writing books!
Help your students develop number fluency! These simple books help students develop a sense of place value and help them practice number writing and sequencing skills! Students write numbers from 1-1,000 in the first book and 1,000-2,000 in the second book.
After my students finish a page, I check their work and then have them practice some oral counting, starting at random places on the page. Students receive a "ribbon" for each page (100 numbers) that they
This simple, "no frills" math fact set is perfect for math centers, fact fluency interventions, and your early finishers! This set includes multiplication facts 1-10. I copy these cards on bright cardstock, laminate them, and put them on a ring. Students solve the math facts using dry erase marker! Simple and effective! For more "no frills" practice, check out: Fact Fluency Addition and Subtraction Practice CardsFact Fluency Flash Cards and Number Sequencing Cards for Math WorkshopMath Games for
This Number of the Day sheet helps students to develop number sense by helping students to think about a number in a variety of different ways. This handout is intended for numbers 1-100. In this activity, students are asked to... - solve number sentences - determine if a number is even or odd - determine what is one more and one less, ten more and ten less - fill in tens frames - draw tally marks - make that amount using coins - identify the number of hundreds, tens, and ones It could be used a
Welcome to the first of many writing centers that I am creating for my first grade classroom!
I am on a mission to make writing more fun and interactive for my kiddos and one thing that young children love is making lists!
In this year-long writing center bundle, you will find materials for a "list-making" writing center including 17 task cards (+1 title card)and 1 unique list writing sheet for each month of the school year.
Total of 153 task cards and 9 different list making writing sheets.
Simple, easy to read, 120 number grid!
My students use number grids all of the time in my classroom. We needed a "no frills" resource with big numbers! Here it is!
Please leave feedback! Enjoy!
FIRST GRADE MATH CENTERS FULL YEAR BUNDLE!
If you like this center, you may also like my First Grade Math Centers Growing Bundle. Check it out! It is a GREAT deal if you regularly use math centers! The bundle will include OVER 100 centers when it is finished!
This bundle has 10 first grade literacy centers for each month of the school year, September to June (5 centers for June). These were made for the skill level of 1st grade students during each month. I use these centers as word work in my Daily 5 rounds. They could easily be used in literacy centers, small groups, partner activities, etc. My students have about 15 minutes to complete their word work so these centers were designed with that time-frame in mind. Each center also comes with an exit
Perfect for your first graders (or advanced Kindergarten or intervention second grade)! Simple, no prep math practice book with a cute Baseball theme! 8 pages: 1- Cover 2- Part-Part-Total 3- Missing addend addition 4- Subtraction 5- Adding multiples of 10 6- Frames and Arrows (continuing a number sequence) 7- Number grid puzzles 8- What's My Rule? problems Simply print back to back and staple along the middle! Enjoy! This mini math book is available in my complete Mini Math Books Bundle! Click
Here is the first half of my first grade sight words and phonics spelling practice. Included are 11 weeks of spelling lists featuring short vowel spelling patterns and the pre-primer dolch words. I use these from mid-September through winter break.
Each spelling list includes:
- the spelling list cover page
- handwriting practice with spelling words
- sentence writing
- word sorting
- ABC order
- a set of word list cards for classroom use
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I am currently a fifth year teacher in a small rural school district just outside of Madison, WI.
I teach first grade, which I absolutely love. You never know what will happen each day with those little kiddos and that's what makes it exciting and fun!
Teaching style
I always try to make this as interactive and fun as possible for my kiddos!! Keep them moving, organizing, reasoning, explaining, and they are ALWAYS hard workers! We are busy, busy, busy!!
My own education history
Bachelors in Elementary Education with an emphasis in Language Arts from University of Wisconsin- Madison. Go Badgers!
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