Ms Firstie

This colorful PDF presentation includes the name, attributes, and real world examples of six 3D shapes including cube, cone, sphere, rectangular prism, cylinder, and triangular prism. Incorporate these slides when introducing 3D shapes to your sweet class!

Do your students need more guidance in organizing their facts learned from a nonfiction text? Look no further! Students can use this resource for help organizing their thoughts, modeling their understanding of nonfiction text features as well as guiding their next steps. Students must not forget when they finish a book, they don't toss it to the side for the next. Fiction and nonfiction alike, they need to investigate what happened so well that they could retell it to a friend.

Do our students truly understand why we celebrate specific holidays? Allow students to complete this activity whole group or independently at the end of the unit. This activity lines up with the TEKS "I can explain the significance of various community, state, and national celebrations."

Have you ever taught your students how to retell across their fingers for a fictional story, like the characters, setting, BME? When I transitioned from fictional stories to nonfiction, I noticed students attempt to touch and tell their story across their fingers. Unfortunately, it does not always work this way. So, I created an ideal anchor chart to model retell during nonfiction read alouds and lessons! The idea is that with repetition, students will be able to visualize and/or create this in

This is a great sorting activity to wrap up a unit on appointed vs. elected officials! This assessment would reveal students understanding of content taught.

What teacher does not have a checklist/to-do list on their desk? Our littles need this structure, too! For a middle of the lesson teach point, pass out or provide a place in the classroom for these checklists. Students can take responsibly for their writing. When in small groups, you (the teacher) can also circle a check or "x" for what is present or still needs improvement before publishing.

Ready...set...RESEARCH! This activity allows students to search safe online platforms such as PebbleGo to learn more about United States (U.S.) symbols. This activity could be used for the U.S. or your specific state!

This scavenger hunt is best completed on SeeSaw! Upload this PDF to your class SeeSaw, provide instructions and off students go. This could be completed as an intervention to simply identify insects on a learning walk or as homework for an extension that students find the insect and draw the life cycle of each one.

This sort has several benefits! To name a few, students will work on their cutting, pasting and sorting skills as this should be completed independently. Another benefit is the opportunity to check-in with students based on their current knowledge and understanding of this unit of study. These results could help guide your small group interventions and extensions.

Are caterpillars inching across the jar sitting on your desk? Students LOVE this time of year! As you discuss the different types of life cycles, have students review using this tool. You can print this resource or attach it to SeeSaw for students to draw a picture, label and instantly share learning with parents!

It is so fun to allow your students to share their voice and learning! My firsties have studied all about good citizenship and historical figures. Students cut out this template, use construction paper to create a body, and then speak into the Chatter Pix App on their iPad to share about their historical figure. The PDF provided has two pages: (1) face template and (1) example page using Abraham Lincoln for students to write their learned information on paper. It is so special for parents to the