Veronica Schmidt

Graphic organizer for main idea and details. Visually displays how details support the main idea like the legs on a stool.

Students identify the Pigeon's opinion and reasons in the story "Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late" by Mo Willems. Students then write a letter to the Pigeon to persuade him to go to sleep. Planning page and writing paper included.

Can be used for math centers. Students practice measuring crooked paths with cubes or paperclips and writing number sentences.

Worksheet where students write or draw what they are lucky for that they can do, what they are, and something they are lucky to have.

Fact families graphic organizer with large printable dominoes. Can be used as stations. Fits well with the 1st Grade Everyday Mathematics Lesson 7.1.

Graphic organizer for students to use to ask questions before, during, and after reading. Includes a column for students to determine if their question is thick or thin.

Students write about what they would do if they were a bat. Ask students to consider where they would live, what they would do, and what they would eat.

Students will compare humans at the beach to the bats in the book "Bats at the Beach" book by Brian Lies. Students will be provided a Venn Diagram graphic organizer with fact strips to cut and paste.

Cause and effect activity based off the Pixar short "For the Birds". Includes lesson plan and worksheet.

Includes sections for: name, birth/death date, picture, education, family information, career, major accomplishments, and interesting facts

Students identify 3 family traditions and write about 1.

Color each item a different color. Count and graph your results.

This lesson provides the students with the opportunity to learn about some of the problems happening and how some people’s basic needs are not being met in the world around them and how they can help. Uses the Kid President video "3 Questions to Change the World" to explore the questions: What are you not okay with? What do you have? What can we do about it?

Template for biography book.

Used in dry erase pockets. Students practice addition and subtraction fact extensions with pairs of ten, multiples of 10, and same addends.

Book for social studies unit on bodies of water, landforms, natural, and man-made. Goes along with the Landform and Bodies of Water PowerPoint.

Students can use this worksheet to find find the authors purpose of the books in their book bins. They will write the title of the book under the purpose they determine it to be.

Color each item a different color. Count and graph your results.

Graphic organizer for 5 senses adjectives. Students brainstorm adjectives and write them in the boxes on the organizer.

Students color boxes different colors for taste, touch, hear, see, or smell adjectives.