This set of Back to School Activities for the First Day of First Grade will not only save you time as you prep for the beginning of the school year, but it will also engage your first graders in meaningful and fun activities. It's the perfect set to use the first day of school, and will for sure make the first week of school a blast!Teachers love how engaging and simple these activities are to prep, all while getting to know their students and building classroom community. There's so much going

I have dissected the 2nd grade Common Core Standards and created a resource that is perfect for assessing your students in reading! The reading graphic organizers included in this download will provide formative assessments that are ideal to show mastery for standards-based grading.Each graphic organizer highlights the specific vocabulary from the standard and some standards even have up to 6 different graphic organizers to target each specific part of the standard. Nothing is left out of this r

Looking for a fun, meaningful, and engaging way to teach your students about inferencing this winter? This activity is perfect to do during the chilly months, or even in the weeks leading up to Christmas break since your students will be drawing conclusions from Snow Day clues! Your students will enjoy getting to investigate, infer, and make predictions based on various clues and evidence. A detailed lesson plan is included to help making planning this activity a breeze! By investigating "Snow D

Guided Reading KINDERGARTEN BUNDLE: Levels A-EThese Guided Reading Curriculum units are full of student activities and teacher materials that you can use to support your students in their journey to reading. Use these materials to plan and implement effective guided reading lessons that target their exact needs at each of the specific reading levels. Everything is here for you in a neat, organized package! No need to sift through materials to figure out what to do. All you will need to supply

Read aloud lessons and activities for the whole year at your fingertips!Kick your read aloud up a notch or two with focused, planned-out lessons all ready for you to print and teach. Each page includes an intro to prepare students for their learning and higher level thinking questions with the page numbers of where to stop in the text.WANT THIS ALONG WITH A WHOLE YEAR'S WORTH OF READER'S WORKSHOP LESSONS? LOOK HERE!Overview:• 70 one-page lessons easy to print and use (also great for subs!)• Each

This Earth Day packet is filled with meaningful and FUN Earth Day activities. Your students will be Earth Day gurus in no time! Grab this 68-page activity packet just in time for Earth Day! In this packet you will find:True/False Movement Motivator Activity (with real pictures) - For this activity, students are presented with real facts about the number of materials being wasted. "Don't Be a Litter Monster!" story - This is an original story written to teach students about reducing, reusing, and

Get your little learners excited about opinion writing with this super cute crayon craftivity! Use the suggested texts "Red Is Best" and "The Day the Crayons Quit" with this 10 day unit on constructing an opinion! Each lesson includes all of the necessary materials. Your kiddos are sure to be engaged as you complete this persuasive letter to their favorite color/colour! Both American and English spellings are included. WHAT'S INCLUDED AS OF APRIL 2018: - 10 Day Lesson Plan - Crayon Craft

I have dissected the 2nd Grade Common Core Standards in Math and created a resource that is perfect for assessing your students! The quick assessments included in this packet will provide formative assessments that are an easy form of documentation for standards-based grading.Each quick assessment highlights the specific vocabulary from the standard and some standards even have up to 4 different assessments to target each specific part of the standard. NOTHING is left out of this resource pack!

First day of kindergarten! It’s the first day of school! What do I do?! Whether it’s our first or fifteenth time teaching kindergarten, we ask ourselves this question every year! After many years of tweaking my own first day plans, I have put together this easy-to-use pack of detailed, and most importantly, realistic first day of school lesson plans and activities that are suitable for the first day of kindergarten wherever you teach. Included you will find 100% editable lesson plans, photo

Engage your students with this unique first day of school activity where students "investigate" the teacher and make inferences based on what they observe in the classroom. This kinesthetic activity is the perfect way to mix things up on Day 1 and set the tone for an engaging, student-centered year. If you want your students to get MOVING around the room, COLLABORATE with their peers, engage in INQUIRY-BASED learning, and practice INFERENCING + CRITICAL THINKING skills, then the "Investigate the

This poetry unit for first and second grade gets students writing both form and free-verse poems as they let their creativity fly!My students love to write poetry as a break from our traditional writing units. They really buy into the "no rules" aspect of free-verse poetry and when I show them different examples of poetry, they tend to take off and make many different writing pieces. I hope you and your students have as much fun as we do with this one!In this unit:Teacher Examples for each type

This resource is an in-depth reading unit of Stellaluna, by Janell Cannon. It includes both printable and digital versions. It also includes detailed lesson plans for ten reading comprehension and language arts lessons. Reading lesson topics are listed below. Skill lessons include vocabulary, word work, grammar, and writing. These high engagement lessons are beautifully presented in two teaching Power Points and two Google Slides presentations. Literacy centers, assessments, and a culminating f

Are you teaching Bossy R soon? This AR activity will help you teach AR bossy R to your kindergarten and first grade students. Teaching Bossy R AR R controlled vowels has never been more fun than when you get your pirate booty in gear to teach with the help of Pirate Mark! Of course, Pirate Mark throws out lots of "aaarghs!" which help your kindergarten and first grade students learn to read and write /ar/ words with ease. This activity is skill-based, high interest, and loads of fun!AR R Contro

This is a wildly popular first day of school activity. It has been downloaded over 40,000 times. This lesson begins with handing students a marshmallow and telling them if they wait until after the presentation on classroom procedures they can have a second one. Whether they eat it or wait is their choice. I have included a template PowerPoint and google slide deck that includes all of the necessary beginning of the year procedures that need to be taught to students. After the presentation

Spice up your lessons with this Titanic Pack! Students practice identifying and using nonfiction text features in natural context. They'll also compare multiple accounts of survivor stories. Just like all of my other activity packs, these lessons are FUN, extremely high-interest, organized, RIGOROUS, and ready to teach today! *NOTE* - This product is included in my Spring Bundle. Purchase the bundle to receive an exclusive Easter Mini-Pack! Your students will: Construct an 11 page "book" in t

These EDITABLE formal lesson plan templates are perfect for writing in-depth lesson plans that you can put in a teaching portfolio, use for student teaching, turn into administration, or just use to keep yourself organized!THIS PRODUCT INCLUDES:■ Editable Google Docs templates■ 70 layout options■ Editable text (change the text, font, size, and color)■ Multi-page user guide■ Tutorial video___________________________________________________________________________These templates are FULLY editable

This Common Core aligned 3D Shape Mini Book will make a fabulous addition to your 3D shape activities! Students will love identifying and sorting the shapes. They will also use their descriptive writing skills to describe and identify each shapes attributes. In each individual mini-book you will find: *"My 3D Shapes Mini-Book" Cover Page *6 Shape Pages where students will identify and sort the shape and real word example of the shape. They will also write a description of it. The shapes include

It's the first day of school! What do I do on the first day of First Grade? Whether it’s our first or fifteenth time, we ask ourselves this question every year! After many years of tweaking my own first day plans, I have put together this easy-to-use pack of detailed, realistic lesson plans and activities that are suitable for the first day of First Grade wherever you teach. Included you will find 100% editable lesson plans, photos from my classroom on the first day, printable lists of routi

Feelings and Emotions is loaded with fun activities to teach your students about all about feelings. It includes posters/cards, a graph, feeling wheels, write the room, and real feeling photographs. These exciting activities will help you build a caring classroom community of learners who will support each other all year long! The activities have a page of teacher tips and/or photographs to help you create the activity easily. You can use these activities as arrival activities, center activit

Looking for a fun way to engage students in making predictions?! The Candy Corn Bandit was designed as a high-interest activity to support making predictions for students in kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. It is not Halloween-specific, so it can be used during the fall months in many classroom settings. DID YOU KNOW?! The Candy Corn Bandit is included in the MONEY-SAVING October Fun Pack bundle!In this lesson, you will take your class on a hunt to find a missing treat in the classro

Young readers must be taught to apply skills and strategies to help them comprehend, make meaning, and draw conclusions. This author study is designed to introduce the importance of “making meaning” while reading. Throughout this unit students will begin to ask the question, “What do good readers do?” as they apply imperative reading skills to aid in making meaning from the text. Each story includes a lesson plan, focus skill/strategy worksheets, comprehension questions, activities, and a craft.

Are you a new 1st grade teacher, or do you need some fresh first grade activities for the first week back to school? This 1st grade back to school resource includes everything you need to have an amazing first week of first grade. These first grade activities include editable back to school letters, open house forms, editable lesson plans for the first week of first grade, and tons of printable first grade activities! Here is what you will receive in this first grade back to school product: An e

Number conversations can be built into your daily schedule as short, daily exercises aimed at building number sense. Number sense is the ability to understand numbers and quantities, to use numbers flexibly, and to perform calculations mentally. According to research, students in the United States lack number sense. Traditionally, students have relied on rote algorithms to complete math problems, without really understanding what they are doing. Students who have strong number sense can solve pr

Poetry for shared reading? Absolutely! Each poem of the week is perfect for you to use with your kindergarten or first-grade students. These poems are set to a familiar tune that your students can sing along with. Easy fluency practice that is both fun and engaging. These daily shared reading poems are back-to-school themed. Your students will love these poetry lessons! You will love how easy they are to use.Rhyming, rhythm, and song are all a part of these kid friendly poems. HOW THESE POET