Creatively Teaching First

Make Dot Day an unforgettable experience in your classroom with this engaging resource inspired by "The Dot" story by Peter H. Reynolds. These activities are perfect to help students express their creativity, build confidence, and understand the powerful message of making their mark. Inside, you’ll find: ✅ Reading response activities for The Dot story ✅ Art projects and templates for students to create their own dots ✅ Hands-On Math with Dot candy ✅ Bulletin board ideas to display st

Word problems can be tricky! These visuals will help your students while they solve math word problems! I have included posters and bookmarks for two word problem solving strategies, CUBES and UPS Check. C- circle key numbers U- underline the question B- box key words E- eliminate the extra information S- solve and check U- understand P- plan S- solve Check All posters and bookmarks come in color and black and white!

Students will love learning and practicing place value through these hands on math work mats for place value to 1,000. Each place value mat includes 8 numbers in standard form, a place for students to show or model the number (open space, and a hundreds, tens and ones chart), a place for students to write the number in expanded form, and a place to write the number in written form. Math manipulatives (hundreds, tens, and ones) are included as well!

This Easter Egg Math Craft is the perfect way to engage students in hands-on learning while celebrating the holiday season! With the numberless word problems included, it can easily be differentiated to fit your student needs. Students will solve addition word problems by using base ten blocks and decorating a spring egg, making it the perfect spring math craft! Teacher prep is super simple! Simply print the egg, grass, and base ten blocks on desired paper. Each student will get one egg, one

Students will love learning and practicing their math word problems through these hands on math work mats. There are 30 numberless word problems included. Plus editable boxes to add your own word problems! Numberless word problems are perfect for differentiation. The Math Work Mats provide space for students to use a variety of problem solving strategies. There is space for students to draw a picture, use a ten frame, a number line, part-part-whole, number bond, write an equation, and write a w

This Math Toolkit is perfect for guided math or math workshop! The toolkit contains items perfect for your little learners in the primary grades! What is included in the toolkit? 1. Math Toolkit Labels (small and large) 2. Math Bookmarks -Number Line (0-10, 0-15, 0-20, 0-100) -Open Number Line -Five Frame -Ten Frame -Two Ten Frames -Addition Frame -Subtraction Frame -Number Words up to 20 -Days of the Week and Months of the Year -Coins -Shapes (2 Dime

This Rainbow STEM Activity is a perfect way to engage your students this St. Patrick's Day or any day during the Spring season. Students can complete math problems to earn their colored cereal pieces OR students can just simply create their rainbow! My students used play dough, pipe cleaners, and colored cereal pieces to create their rainbow, but you could supply your students with anything your wish. Students will have to solve each math box to earn their colored cereal pieces for their rainbo

Students will love learning and practicing place value through these hands on math work mats for place value to 100. Each place value mat includes 8 numbers in standard form, a place for students to show or model the number (open space, and a tens and ones chart), a place for students to write the number in expanded form, and a place to write the number in written form. Math manipulatives (tens and ones) are included as well! PLACE VALUE WORK MATS FOR… •numbers up to 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70

These Station Expectation posters are a great way to teach and display expectations and procedures for your stations. All posters are editable for you to add in your own expectations and procedures. You can add in your own iPad app icons by copying and pasting from the internet. App pictures are not included to due copyrights. Each poster has room for procedures, routines, teacher jobs, and student jobs. Titles Included: writingread to selfread with someonesight wordsword workworking with word

This is a FUN and ENGAGING way for students to understand 2D and 3D shapes through hands on learning! Students build 2D and 3D shapes using toothpicks and playdough (can use marshmallows or other candy)! Students will learn to understand a shape's properties by recognizing sides, flat surfaces, edges, and vertices. Please see the preview for everything included! Materials Needed: Maker Space Work Mats Shaper Maker Cards Tooth Picks Playdough (marshmallows or other candy work well too) Dry Erase

This Spring Math Cut and Paste Packet has many math skills perfect for students in grades 1-3 and requires NO PREP! Cut and paste worksheets are engaging and interactive and are designed to make learning fun through a hands-on approach! This pack includes the following cut and paste worksheets: -single digit addition -adding three single digit numbers -two digit addition without regrouping -two digit addition with regrouping -adding three two digit numbers -three digit addition without regroup

Are you ever in a rush to gather last minute sub plans? I know I am! Can you get your hands on the book, Santa's Stuck, written by Rhonda Gowler Greene? All you need is the book and this no prep packet! Just print, copy and you are ready to go! This packet contains 23 activities for reading, writing, word work, grammar, math, science, and health that will keep your kids busy all day (or a couple of days)! A daily schedule, detailed lesson plans for the activities, and an over of activities are a

Students will love learning and practicing their subtraction facts through these hands on math work mats for subtraction within 20. Each subtraction mat includes 8 subtraction problems, a place for students to solve the subtraction problem (open space, ten frames, a number line and an open number line included), a place for students to write the equation, and a place to find the answer! Math manipulatives are included as well! SUBTRACTION WORK MATS FOR… •-0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 •doubles and near do

Students will love learning and practicing their addition facts through these hands on math work mats for single digit addition. Each addition mat includes 8 addition problems, a place for students to solve the addition problem (open space, ten frames, a number line and an open number line included), a place for students to write the equation, and a place to find the answer! Math manipulatives are included as well! ADDITION WORK MATS FOR… •+0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 •doubles and near doubles •mixed

Expectations for Manipulavies will allow you to establish your expectations while letting your students play and learn! I can’t tell you how many times I have failed to let my kids PLAY with our math and literacy manipulatives and materials prior to using them for instruction and practice. For many years, I told my students what they can and can not use our math and literacy manipulatives and materials for. Even after long talks, I still had students who would play with these tools. I finally th

Are you ever in a rush to gather last minute sub plans? I know I am! Can you get your hands on the book, Fletcher and the Falling Leaves, written by Julia Rawlinson? All you need is the book and this no prep packet! Just print, copy and you are ready to go! This packet contains activities for reading, word work, math and science that will keep your kids busy all day (or a couple of days)! -Reading Fill in the Blank Comprehension story vocabulary Beginning, Middle and End Story Structure: Chara

Learning Objective Slides are based on the Common Core Standards for first grade. The slides have all Common Core Standards for reading, language, writing, and math. The standards are written in "I can" format. I have included a science and social studies slide as well. You can type in your own objectives for those two subjects. Editable slides are also available for each subject. You are able to add in your own objective. The bottom two boxes are designed to allow teachers to customize the slid

Students will love celebrating Valentine’s Day by visiting The Valentine Sweet Shop! Students can select and buy treats from the shop. There are a variety of differentiated activities included that will keep your students busy during Valentine's Day! What is Included? shopping list (2 types included) The Valentine Sweet Shop Menu LEVEL 1 (color/BW) sweet treats flip cards LEVEL 1 The Valentine Sweet Shop Menu LEVEL 2 (color/BW) sweet treats flip cards LEVEL 2 The Valentine Sweet Shop Menu LEVEL

Make place value spook-tacularly fun this Halloween with this hands-on Pumpkin Place Value Craft! Your students will love building their own pumpkins while practicing tens and ones — perfect for reinforcing place value.Students will love creating a face on their pumpkin using place value blocks. Students can use the tens and ones to create a cute, spooky, or silly face on the pumpkin. Once they are finished, students will complete the place value form. Attach to the pumpkin for a fun Hallowe

With these activities and worksheets, students will learn and practice skip counting to 1,000 by 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's! Students will be able to recognize and continue number patterns to 1,000. The activities can be used at independent math stations or a small group. Pattern rows and missing card numbers are split into two groups; skip counting to 100 and skip counting to 1,000. There are 75 skip counting/pattern rows and 6 student worksheets included! To assemble : Print the number pattern ro