Learning Beacon

Reading passages for 10 countries around the world, venn diagrams for each passage, and travel papers to record their findings and use for continued research. The kit also includes post cards to write home about their trip for each country and a hands on craft to make artifacts from each country. Map and travel stickers to map your journey and a suitcase to store your artifacts.

Kindergarten and 1st grade phonics pattern games. My FabFirsties love to learn through play. These games are the perfect way to have your students practice skills they’ve already learned to help their fluency. They can be printed for easy use. We prefer to use our iPad screens as a game board. Students just grab game pieces, a friend, and dice. As students are engaged in their games you can also pull students in small groups for some guided practice or intervention. We suggest linking your class

Investigate the life cycle of a plant while observing a flower grow in your classroom. This kit includes reading passage, mini investigation book, art connections, and STEM activities to deepen learning for your students.

My students gain a deeper understanding of math concepts when they have things to work with hands on in centers or teacher lead. This hundreds chart with both numbers and number words can be used for whole group or center work. I suggest copying the numbers front to back with the number words. My students lay out the number words with a partner then turn them over to check their work. If the numbers are in order they successfully completed the task.

Dive deep into the water for an ocean adventure with your students. This unit contains 20 reading passages, organizer to gather facts, writing pages, and STEM activities. Engage your students in this high to low tech activity that contains both paper and digital opportunities for your students. Digital activities included use YouTube, green screen, QR codes and more.

Students can practice making words to go along with the weekly spelling pattern. We have word wall spelling tests. I say common word wall words and the students have to look for the word on the word wall and copy the spelling correctly. This helps my first graders correct the spelling of was each year. Comes with a blank page to add your own patterns.