We studied endangered animals so this could be edited for a different topic but teaches children how to plan what information they want to included while writing an essay, or for us it was just a book in first grade! This way they knew what they wanted to display on each page.
Create goals for your students with these cards. Tape them to a writing folder in a ziplock bag so they are reminded of uppercase/lowercase letters, punctuation, etc.
During our telling time unit, we teach how the calendar helps us tell time. This is a calendar attached to some questions to teach students how to tell time.
Each morning we have 5 centers in first grade and this is one of them. We edit it each week to review lessons we learned in the week before. It incorporates math, reading and writing.
Children can use different markers/colored pencils/crayons and write their sight words 5 times each with different colors. Makes a fun sight word center for the little ones.