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Objectives – Students will work together or individually to decide what they want to grow in their garden based on their favorite recipe. Students will decide how much land they will need to raise animals and grow crops. They will find the perimeter and area of each piece of land they use to raise their animals or grow their crops. Students will need to also do research to figure out what time of year their vegetables and herbs should be planted. They will figure out grow times of plants and est

This product can be used to get your students familiar with using Bloxels and completing simple math tasks at the same time. You will find 4 lessons for skip counting by 2's, 3's, 5's, and 10's as well as a lesson about adding multiple numbers together. Students will be expected to build a character using Bloxels cubes and game board. Then, students will complete the math task and write about the strategy or strategies their group used to solve.

Slime Scientists: A Hands-On Scientific Method STEM Adventure! Make science FUN, messy, and meaningful with this engaging half-day STEM lesson designed just for primary learners! In this interactive activity, students become real scientists as they explore the scientific method through trial-and-error slime making. Perfect for 1st grade classrooms, this lesson guides students through asking questions, making predictions, testing ideas, and reflecting on their results—all while creating slime

During this game, students will practice telling one more, one less, ten more, and ten less than a given number. This game can be used during Envision's Topic 9: Comparing and Ordering Numbers to 100.

This activity can be used for fact practice with any numbers. There is one activity ready to fold and laminate where students must find addition sentences that add up to ten. Students will place paper clips or clothes pins (whatever you have handy) on the sentences that match each card's answer. There is also a blank template for you to make up your own answer and sentences, based on the standards and skills you're teaching at the time. Once you have filled out your cards, you can fold them and

Overview: This project would be perfect for zoo field trips or after animal research projects. Animal Feature Cards: Use these animal feature cards to introduce the project. Copy each page on a different color and use them in rotations. Students can match them and when they’re finished, they can play memory with them. Zoo trip: Students will observe, ask questions, and collect information and pictures about two different animals from the zoo that live in different habitats. When they return to

This is an entire year's worth of spelling morning work. These morning work packets go along with the new Scott Foresman Reading Street series for 1st grade. There are also 4 review lists included. We pulled the review lists words from the 75 1st grade sight word list. The SF reading series suggests using 12 words (10 spelling and 2 vocab), but our 1st grade team chose to keep our word list at 10. Each packet includes 4 days worth of spelling morning work practice. On Monday, students will write

I use this in my Daily 5 math writing station. This set is good for 60 school days of math writing. It promotes higher level thinking and students enjoy the challenge. Skills covered in this set are: coins & money, estimating, addition, graphs, fractions, measurement, compiling and analyzing data, writing story problems, mental math, subtraction, beginning multiplication and division, geometry, and probability.

Here are all my Scott Foresman Reading Street 1st Grade Bump! & Read, Spin, and Write Games for Units 1 - 5. These games can also be purchased individually. These are two games I use weekly to help my students practice spelling and vocabulary words. These games correspond with the Scott Foresman Reading Street series for 1st grade. The first game is called Bump! In this game, students must read and use spelling or vocab words in a complete sentence. I ask my students to write them down and have

This is a fun coupon book where students can fill in their own coupon ideas for mom for Mother's Day. There's also a list of ideas you can give students to choose from if they're having trouble thinking of their own.

This is a fun math activity for students that practices skip counting, addition facts, subtraction facts, number models, multiplication facts, dividing by 2, and various multiples of one digit numbers. Teacher Directions: Students will work in pairs or independently to solve the challenges posted around the room. The teacher will set a one minute timer for each round. After the timer goes off, students will freeze and count how many correct answers they got in their challenge before moving to

These are two games I use weekly to help my students practice spelling and vocabulary words. These games correspond with the Scott Foresman Reading Street series for 1st grade. The first game is called Bump! In this game, students must read and use spelling or vocab words in a complete sentence. I ask my students to write them down and have their partner check for correct punctuation and capitalization. The second game is called Read, Spin, and Write. In this game, students spin one spinner and

You will find 7 different sets of Language Arts Sorry! game cards. All you need is an old (or new) Sorry! board or you can print out a template online for a Sorry! board and make your own. Skills sets covered in this bundle are: ee/ea sound, bossy r, ue, eu, and ui sounds, oy/oi sounds, ful/ly endings, compound words, and au/aw sounds. I recommend printing these cards out and laminating them so they last longer. Students play this game just like Sorry! and will follow the game directions on ea

This is a station to use with small groups. Students can practice reading soft/hard c and g words and use them in sentences.

Within this project, students will practice and show their understanding of collecting data, using the data to create a line plot (or bar graph), identifying and counting coins, double digit addition, fractions, skip counting, solving word problems, subtraction and persuasive writing.

The Pokemon epidemic is back and students are obsessed! This Pokemon inspired game will allow students to create their own Pokemon card, and write about it. Then, students will be able to have a math battle with the card they created. Students will be asked to "morph" with another friend, but their goal is to have the highest damage number when combined. Students will have to travel around from friend to friend to figure out who they can morph with to have the highest damage number. You could ad

These are two games I use weekly to help my students practice spelling and vocabulary words. These games correspond with the Scott Foresman Reading Street series for 1st grade. The first game is called Bump! In this game, students must read and use spelling or vocab words in a complete sentence. I ask my students to write them down and have their partner check for correct punctuation and capitalization. The second game is called Read, Spin, and Write. In this game, students spin one spinner and

These are two games I use weekly to help my students practice spelling and vocabulary words. These games correspond with the Scott Foresman Reading Street series for 1st grade. The first game is called Bump! In this game, students must read and use spelling or vocab words in a complete sentence. I ask my students to write them down and have their partner check for correct punctuation and capitalization. The second game is called Read, Spin, and Write. In this game, students spin one spinner and

You will find 24 different spelling lists (10 words on each) that follow 1st and 2nd grade language skills. Skills covered are: Short vowels, long vowels, y endings, beginning and ending blends, plural endings, past tense verbs, bossy r, comparative endings, ay/ai, ea, oa/ow, igh/ie, compound words, ful/ly endings, ow, ou, oo, oi/oy, aw, and prefixes. You can use these as spelling lists for your whole group, or as challenge lists for friends who need something extra.

Students will describe Angry Birds after watching a short video about them. Then, students will get to create their own Angry Bird with special powers and tell about it. Students will then be asked to write a persuasive argument as to why Rovio (the company that created Angry Birds) should choose the bird the student created for their new video game.