Miss Weiss' Firsties and FunTastic Firsties

This resource pack is a great addition to the new reading series. It includes a weekly "Pop Words" sight word sheet to send home with students. This is a fun way for students to practice sight words at home. It also includes sight word cards to use for a word wall or to make various sight word games. There is also a, "I have, Who has" game to review sight words in class.

This pack includes a high frequency word test for the end of each unit.

This pack includes a word search for each week of the new Common Core Standard reading series from McGraw Hill, Reading Wonders. The word searches include the spelling words and high frequency words for the week. This is a great review before tests, morning work practice, or a fun Friday activity for the kids. Enjoy!

This pack includes weekly reading newsletters to send home to parents to keep them informed of what their child is learning each week. The newsletters include the high frequency words and suggestions on ways to practice the words, spelling words and suggestions on how to practice the words, essential question for the week, comprehension skill and comprehension strategy for the week. I send these newsletters home on Fridays so parents have a little extra time to practice the spelling words and

This pack includes a sight word find and graph page for each week of Unit 1 through Unit 6. This is a fun activity for the students to practice reading their sight words and practice their graphing skills. You can also have the students practice writing the word in the block in place of just coloring in the block on the graph. My kiddos love this activity!!!

This is a beginning noun and verb picture sort. This can be used at the introduction of discussing the difference between noun and verbs. This activity is good for 1st and 2nd grade. Cut apart the pictures and have students sort them into the correct column. This can be used for a whole class activity or at a station or center.

This pack is very similar to the original Home/School Connection Letters but this one includes a letter for each week with all differentiated level spelling lists. This will help you differentiate your classroom to best help your students. This pack includes weekly reading newsletters to send home to parents to keep them informed of what their child is learning each week. The newsletters include the high frequency words and suggestions on ways to practice the words, spelling words and suggesti

This pack includes a Find a Friend game for each week's high frequency words and includes review words from the previous week. This goes great with the Kagan activity: Hand, Pair, Share. Great way to get your kids up and moving around the room while practicing their high frequency words.

This is a great way for students to have a fun way to practice memorizing their subtraction facts. Each day students have an adult at school or an adult at home time them as they say the answer to each addition fact on the page. They do this four nights out of the week. By the end of the week the students will reach the finish line in record time! There are also flash cards to go with the set. There are two different sets of race car facts, one up to 10 and one up to 20. Example: 10-5 and 20

This pack goes along with the McGraw Hill Reading Wonders Common Core program. This is a great pack for Daily 5 (word work), stations, or just an extra addition to the series. The students practice their high frequency words by writing the words in pencil, highlighter, crayon, and rainbow write it. The beginning weeks there are only a few words so I left blanks at the bottom for students to pick words they feel they need to practice. My kids love these activities, hope your kiddos do too! E

This pack includes posters for each week to display the essential question in your classroom. This will help you stay on task and help you incorporate the question into each lesson.

This pack goes along with the McGraw Hill Reading Wonders Common Core program. This is a great pack for Daily 5 (word work), stations, or just an extra addition to the series. The students practice their high frequency words and spelling words by writing the words in pencil, highlighter, crayon, and rainbow write it. The beginning weeks there are only a few high frequency words so I left blanks at the bottom for students to pick words they feel they need to practice. My kids love these activ

This is a great pack for the month of November! In this pack you will find the following items: -Turkey Trot Word Sort (sort real/nonsense words) -Turkey ABC Order (put groups of words in abc order) -Turkey Sentence Scramble (put the word cards in the correct order to make a complete sentence)

This is a great way for students to have a fun way to practice memorizing their addition facts. Each day students have an adult at school or an adult at home time them as they say the answer to each addition fact on the page. They do this four nights out of the week. By the end of the week the students will reach the finish line in record time!

This pack goes along with the McGraw Hill Reading Wonders Common Core program. This is a great pack for Daily 5 (word work), stations, or just an extra addition to the series. The students practice their spelling words by writing the words in pencil, highlighter, crayon, and rainbow write it. My kids love these activities, hope your kiddos do too! Enjoy! :)

This pack is very similar to the original Home/School Connection Letters that I created, this pack includes the Approaching Level and Beyond Level spelling words. This will help you differentiate your classroom to meet the students needs. This pack includes weekly reading newsletters to send home to parents to keep them informed of what their child is learning each week. The newsletters include the high frequency words and suggestions on ways to practice the words, spelling words and suggestio

Here is a great activity that can be used as an extra activity during class time, stations, or centers. Students spin the spinner, move that many spaces, and then sound out or read the word. You can make the game more difficult by requiring students to read the word and use it in a sentence.

Students have a blast with this silly word sort. This is a great activity to use as a station or center. Students sound out and read each word. They sort the words into two categories, Earth words which are real words we use on Earth or Mars words that are nonsense words.

This is a game for students to practice their math facts. You can time the class as they play I have, Who has so they can see their progress as they better memorize the facts. The student with the star card starts the game by reading the card. Students call out the answer that they have and then read the next math fact. This game keeps the whole class involved because they have to calculate each fact to see if they have the answer.

This is a fun activity to improve morale at work during the month of October! Includes Boo sign to hang outside your door and directions for everyone. Print out enough Boo signs for everyone in your school. I usually start 2 Boo treats going to get through everyone at our school, we have about 50 staff members. I usually buy the plastic pumpkins from Wal-Mart and fill it with tissue paper and throw in some treats and fun little Halloween items. I place the directions and Boo signs in both p