Holly Murray

Everyone is ready for a little fun and laughter by the time spring rolls around, and one of the most fun days for practical jokes is April Fool's Day. This is a spelling test unlike any your students could have ever prepared for! Test comes with a teacher-only copy with instructions, spellings, pronunciation guide, and a sentence for every word. The hardest part will be keeping a straight face!!!

Reduce first day jitters as you affix these adorable "go home" stickers on each child. • Complete it with their name and your name in the event that the child is hard to understand by a bus driver or other school staff, they will know who to contact if needed • A line is available to write the bus number as well. No stress on you at dismissal time • Children's end-of-the-day transportation is easily identified at a glance • No searching through files, forms, or piles on your desk! **********

Here is a fully-correlated math assessment for first grade students. Based on the rigor of the new Common Core standards for math, this assessment will let you know what skills your students have mastered and what skills they need further instruction on. This assessment is designed to be given three times a year so that you can chart their growth during their first grade year. Every standard in the Common Core is assessed. Most answers are in red beside the question on the assessment for fa

Want to help your child master adding one and adding zero to a number in an exciting way? Throw out those boring flash cards and download this Power Point! Full of graphics and animations with time built in to explain the rules, this Power Point is sure to be a crowd-pleaser! At the end of the show, the facts go even faster (1 second show and tell). Improve automaticity with your students or children at home, and listen as the slide show cheers your students on! *****************************

Use this activity to have some in-depth discussions about making decisions with your children. Students create a cube and are given task cards on which is written a situation that they might face. Students roll the cube and if it lands on the smiley, they must think of a smart decision that they could make given the situation. If it lands on the "trouble" side, they must think of a decision that would be a poor decision. This teaches children to think about possible decisions and practice th

Here is a 10-page, 2-week unit for first grade that can easily be adapted for K or 2nd. Included are lessons on the following topics: • Similarities and differences in families (including traditions and cultures) • Comparing school rules and parent rules and recognizing the importance of rules • Family traditions and holidays • Responsibilities and why it is important to work together as a community • The family tree • How decisions may affect others whether we mean them to or not • How to m

We often have our students complete memory books of their year as an end of the year gift from us to them (check my TPT store for this product), but often don’t have a way to remember each of our students. Use any combination of these sheets and have students fill them out and return them as an at-home project or set aside some time for them to complete their page in class as a keepsake for yourself. These pages will help you remember your students in a special way and know to some extent thei

Use this cube pattern to create your own personalized cubes. Simply insert a text box into the pattern. Use it for rolling numbers, shapes, money, letters, rimes, choices, anything you need. Simple pattern for the youngest crafters to use with ease. *************************************************************** Related Products: Common Core Quick Cards CCGPS Math Formative Summative Assessment First Grade First Grade Social Studies Plans 2 Week Unit Family, Choices, Needs and Wants A

Everything you need to begin school is right here! Thirty-one pages of teacher-made activities, gifts, ideas, and explicit directions - ideal for beginning teachers or to get put a fresh-spin on opening week. Includes: • Open House/First Day Gift Tag (p.3) • 3D Desktop Personalized Name Pencil (p.4) • Deskplate w/alphabet line, number line, skip counting, vowels, sight words, days, months, 99 chart, right/left (p.5) • Car/Bus Rider Name Tags (p.6) • Car/Bus Rider List (p.7) • Magic Playdou

These are Dot Cards that I created for numbers 4-12. There are two sets of Dot Cards per page to reduce the number of copies needed. Designed to correlate with Common Core Math for first grade - "Making Sets of More, Less, Same" Task. See my product "Making Sets of More, Less, Same Recording Sheet" for the remainder of this task including directions for the game.

Need a name plate that students can really use? Here it is! Loaded with all of the basics - an alphabet line showing proper letter formation and order, a number line to 20, 99 chart with fives and tens highlighted, skip counting by twos, fives, and tens chart, labeled left and right hands, days of the week and months of the year, and a list of common sight words. Also a picture reminder for students to write their name and date on their paper, and a graphic as an incentive to dream big. So mu

This is a lesson plan for the Read Aloud book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorist. Included in the plan are instructions for a paper bag hook, modeling of a comprehension strategy (plot), questions from a variety of DOK (Depth of Knowlege) basis, Think Alouds and Fast Scaffolding (current researched-based trend in teaching read alouds), a comprehension strategy review, tier 2 vocabulary word instruction, and a sentence composition for the conclusion. T

This is a Powerpoint presentation that correlates precisely with my First Grade Social Studies Plans 2 Week Unit Family, Choices, Needs and Wants lesson plans. Easily adaptable for Kindergarten and Second Grade. Included are slides on the following topics: • Circle Map interactive activity "What is a family?" (spaces available to type into the map while PPT is being shown) • A poem with animated photographs, an interactive double-bubble map for comparing/contrasting similarities and differe

Dear Teachers, Thank you for your purchase of the Adding and Subtracting One and Ten Chart. Developing mental math skills in children and helping them understand the patterns found in math is a stepping stone to faster, more accurate problem solving. It is my desire that these scaffolded sheets will help your students grasp the concepts of adding and subtracting tens and ones from any given number through successful repetition. In this set of sheets I have included 99 and 100 reference charts

This power point is an opportunity to review 5 sets of high frequency words (also known as Dolch Words or Sight Words). The second slide allows the teacher to choose which list to review (Pre-primer, Primer, First grade, Second grade, or Third grade). Once a selection has been clicked, the slide show begins. Each word is shown for approximately 1/2 a second and then students are cued to say the word. The slide show continues then when the teacher clicks for the next word to be revealed. Wi

Use this form to help parents find ways to volunteer in the classroom. Parents have a variety of options including working with small groups of children, one-on-one with them, cutting out items, and pulling and sorting workbook pages. There is also a space available for parent volunteers to write in how they would like to help and an option for choosing not to help at this time. At the bottom of the page is a list of days that they can circle as well as times (and the subjects taught during e

Use this reading log to see at a glance the number of books your first grade (insert any grade) child has read. Built in options: parents read book to child, parents read book with child, child read book independently - parents simply initial applicable choice. Also is a place for ZPD range at the top for guiding student's book choice, and a place to write the AR level and score. Books 1-26 available on this page. I have another resource for reading log pages to continue the series (up to 546

Looking for a creative way to get to know your students? Use this fantastically fun frog glyph! Included in the PDF is a page that has easy-to-read student directions (2 sets on a page) with picture clues to help them understand if they are struggling with reading. Also included are two copies of complete frog parts - to make a jumping or sitting frog all on one page. Finally, there is a class graphing opportunity to tie in a little mathematics with the following directions and art activiti

Here is a rhyme to help students understand the proper formation of tally marks. At the bottom is an opportunity for them to practice their newly-learned skill. Keep it in a sleeve protector at their desk and they can pull it out during down-time to occupy themselves while still learning! *************************************************************** Related Products: Common Core Quick Cards CCGPS Math Formative Summative Assessment First Grade First Grade Social Studies Plans 2 Week Uni

Print these pre-made cards and use them to make assessing your first grade child on the rigorous Common Core math standards a breeze! Use them over and over again as students show you what they can do and demonstrate mastery of each standard in the new common core. This set is designed to accompany the Common Core CCGPS Math Formative Summative Assessment for First Grade that you can find in my store or by clicking here. The assessment was created to be given three times a year to make instru