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Scoot is a fun, engaging, active game that kids love to play again and again. This download contains 4 variations of scoot games to practice or reinforce making combinations of 10 - such an important skill in first grade! Please click the PREVIEW button above to see the cards included. The variations are: ten frame, simple number, missing addend & spinner. Do them separately or mix it up for more of a challenge. Each set contains 24 task cards. If you have more than 24 students you could make

These upper and lowercase letter matching puzzle cards are perfect for a literacy or word work center, or a guided reading activity, to reinforce this important letter recognition skill. Students will match the letters to a picture with that beginning sound. Two skills in one! Cards with color and black and white pictures are included. The black and white version look great printed on colored card stock. Just print, laminate and cut and you're good to go!

The Book Club was designed to help teachers and students go deeper and extend learning during whole group read-aloud time. Each pack contains 5 mini-lessons (about 15 minutes each) to be spread over 5 days. These lessons also work really well as reading workshop mini-lessons. The edition goes with the book Enemy Pie by Derek Munson. This is a great one to use at the beginning of the year to help students think about how to make friends, but it would work at any time. The pack includes: - det

Hand signals are a great classroom management tool for the elementary classroom. What’s even better, is that it takes minimal prep. and minimal effort from you, dear teacher. Just print off the posters you prefer (two versions are included: with or without pictures), hang them in your room and teach your students how to use the hand signals. Also included is decorative lettering to print and hang with your posters, and a cheat sheet to place somewhere you can't see the posters well or leave i

Scoot is a fun, engaging, active game that kids love again and again. This freebie contains 1 scoot game to practice, reinforce or even assess combinations of 10 - such an important skill in first grade! Recording sheet also included. **This freebie used to contain 4 variations on the scoot game. However, this violated TPT freebie guidelines which states that freebies shouldn’t be more than about 10 pages. This is still more than 10 pages but much closer… So I’ve added the other games as a pai

**UPDATED 4/3/16** Now includes 20 word wall activities!! Fonts and graphics also updated. This product contains 20 great word wall activity sheets that can be used all year round with any word wall. Once we have a decent number of words on our word wall I introduce one new worksheet a week until my students know exactly what to do on each one. The sheets are kept in a binder in our Word Work center and the students work independently or in pairs. I find that these are great with helping stud

Sometime students just don't quite finish that piece of writing or word search or precious piece of art {!} - so what do they do with it? In my experience, stuff it in their desks! Fast forward 3 weeks and they can't find their Math book because there are SO MANY crumpled pieces of paper shoved in on top of it. Enter, the 'Under Construction' folder. Students keep this folder in their desk to store any unfinished work that they want/need to keep for later. Periodically I do a quick desk check,

**Updated 06/01/16 with new fonts and graphics. If you already own it download the new version for free! My first graders always LOVE to play bingo with letters, sounds and sight words, and since they were having a hard time remembering addition facts to 10, I came up with this fun activity to practice - they ADORE it! They ask to play almost everyday, what more could I ask for?! This product contains 2 bingo games with 8 different boards for each game. Instructions are included. This game wo

Five classroom rules posters with editable text* so you can create class rules that suit your classroom, school and teaching style. Also includes an editable, printable student booklet where students can write or draw about each rule to consolidate and demonstrate understanding. This is a great tool to send home so parents are also aware of the classroom expectations. *The clip art and backgrounds are not editable due to clip art usage rules.

This set of simple, colorful number posters includes tens to 100, plus 1000. It is intended to show how numbers are related and how numbers are grouped into units of 10 in our number system. Also included are 2 place value posters, one showing place value to the 100s and the other to the 1000s. There are two versions of the 100 poster, one showing 10 ten rods, and the showing a 100 flat.

A couple days after introducing word problems I found that my firsties were making weird mistakes. It wasn't that they didn't understand the questions, they were mis-reading or guessing the number words! I felt SO bad that I'd accidentally set them for failure...woops! So, I made these handy-dandy cheat sheets! I gave them to all my kids so no one felt picked on, they had a blast coloring them in and now they keep in with their math books and refer to them as and when needed. I made them in b

After the success of my addition to 10 Bingo, I went ahead and made subtraction within 10 to go with it! Bingo is a great, simple and fun game that kids love to play over and over, and it works with almost any skill. They won't even realize they're practicing math facts! You can find my other Bingo games here: Addition to 10 Bingo Doubles Bingo

Simple but stylish alphabet posters with a black and white chevron background to compliment any classroom theme. I have included two options for vowels: one with black text and one red. The posters are one to a page, letter size. Print two to a page if you want to save wall space in your classroom. Click the preview button above to see all the posters included before purchasing. If you like this product please check out my co-coordinating alphabet products: Alphabet Posters: Bright Chevron

A simple way to work on basic comprehension skills after reading. Kids choose 4 questions to answer about their story. Both fiction and non-fiction sets are included. The activity can be completed during whole group, small group or independent reading time. It would also work really well as a more meaningful alternative to a reading log for homework. The CCSS covered are included at the top of the pages for your reference. These are first grade standards but the activity would also be appropri

Do some (or all?) of your students zone out during calendar time? Do they sit passively while just one calendar helper actively engages in the learning? I created this Calendar Notebook packet to solve exactly that problem with my own students. With Calendar Notebook each student is actively engaged in calendar time and responsible for their own learning. There are so many important skills and standards that we cover in calendar time, we can't afford for some students to miss out. The notebook

This pack contains 5 fun center activities/games for reinforcing place value concepts. I've included teacher directions to help you get set up & directions for students that they can use at the center (after you've introduced it first, of course!) I also included color and black & white versions of the student recording sheets. The activities are: - Race to 120 (practicing writing numbers to 120) - Pairs matching game (recognizing and counting tens) - Build-a-number (using base ten cards) -

After the success of my Addition to 10 Bingo game in helping my kids learn those facts, I decided to also create a Doubles Bingo game for my classroom. This download includes game boards for practicing doubles facts and doubles + or - 1 facts. There are 2 game options within each skill. In game 1, students use boards with the sum. The teacher calls doubles facts and students find the correct sum on their board. In game 2, students use the boards with facts and the teacher calls the sum. This is

Does your weather unit need a little updating? A boost? Some fun? This pack is just for you! 30+ pages of crafts, activities and printables. Low prep for busy teachers. Topics included are: - Weather vocabulary - Weather tools - Clouds - Rainbows Also includes vocabulary & word wall cards. Happy teaching! Post Edit: I don't know why the thumbnails appear fuzzy, I can assure you the download files are not fuzzy!!

Display these posters in your classroom to inform your students, and classroom visitors, of your learning objectives for the day. I’ve found they help to avoid the constant questions: “What will we do in math? in science? in writing?” Simply print, laminate and display. Each day you can write an objective, lesson outline or activity for each subject using a dry erase marker. Wipe clean at the end of the day and you’re ready for tomorrow’s objectives. I have found these super helpful in my own

Save 20% by purchasing the bundle over buying each product individually. This bundle contains everything you need to create a co-ordinated classroom alphabet scheme. The font and graphics match across the bundle to help your little learners make connections. PLUS I've included an bundle exclusive freebie: Interactive Dictionary, which also co-ordinates with everything else in the bundle. Check out the preview file to see exactly what's included. If you don't need everything that's included y