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Indoor recess? Gloomy weather? Increasingly complex concepts to learn? Students snapping at each other? The middle of winter is also the beginning of the second half of the school year and students may be stuck in a rut or acting out a bit. Here are some tried and true ideas
A quick positive note can mean so much to a student! These classroom notes for students are an easy way to recognize good behavior, hard work, kindness, and other accomplishments throughout the school day. My students often ask if I have any “nice notes” ready to go! I use these
Helping young students learn healthy habits is an important part of supporting the whole child. This First Grade Health Booklet, “I Can Be Healthy”, includes engaging health and wellness activities for primary students that introduce important topics like personal hygiene, exercise, nutrition, and taking care of our bodies. These printable
Alphabet poems are a fun way to help young learners practice letters and sounds! These alphabet poems for each letter AβZ are perfect for building letter recognition, phonics skills, and fluency through shared reading in preschool, kindergarten, and first grade. Plus, they’re funny and kids love them! How I Use
The end of the school year is such a busy and sometimes stressful time for students and teachers! Changes to schedules, celebration events, special activities, strong emotions, and more take up time and can throw off your usual classroom routines. That’s why I LOVE our End of the Year book!
After 20+ years of teaching, I’ve done a lot of different things for reading homework. I stopped doing reading logs several years ago because I didn’t feel it was meaningful. Sometimes, families were just rushing to write down book titles to get “credit” for homework, instead of focusing on the
Decodable readers are a great way to help beginning readers put their phonics skills into practice. With simple, targeted text, students can practice decoding words, build fluency, and gain confidence as readers. In this post, Iβll share easy and effective ways to use decodable readers in your first grade classroom.
We have a lot of fun with this each year and I always look forward to it! It’s a fun way for my students to focus on the changing spring weather and to track what they observe each day. They get so excited to check out the weather at recess
HAPPY NEW YEAR!! πππ I look at the first few days back with my students as a “soft-start” and here are some of the things we do during that first week! We all need time to get back into the routine, me included! I’ve got a great pack of FREE
How does a Reward Catalog work? Well, let me show you one of our favorite things in 1st grade! The great news is, you can use a Reward Catalog with any management system that you already have in place, it’s low-maintenance, and it can be low cost and/or FREE for