Practice Makes Perfect, AKA Lesley Boatright, is an Early Childhood/Elementary Education teacher from Southwestern Pennsylvania. After graduating college, she moved to South Florida, where she taught kindergarten in the Palm Beach County School District for 8 years. She has been teaching in the parochial school system for 18 years now, first at kindergarten, and currently in a first grade classroom. Lesley has also taught 2nd and 3rd grade Spanish and 4th grade social studies.
Practice Makes Perfect, AKA Lesley Boatright, is an Early Childhood/Elementary Education teacher from Southwestern Pennsylvania. After graduating college, she moved to South Florida, where she taught kindergarten in the Palm Beach County School District for 8 years. She has been teaching in the parochial school system for 18 years now, first at kindergarten, and currently in a first grade classroom. Lesley has also taught 2nd and 3rd grade Spanish and 4th grade social studies.
Morning Work First Grade Math, Phonics, Language Arts, Writing contains weeks 1-30 of my 30 week morning work/homework series. I designed my Morning Work series to use in my first grade classroom based on the skills in the language arts and math curriculum for the year. I designed the Morning Work First Grade series to be made into a booklet that the children will assemble to work in at the beginning of the week and continue to work in throughout the week, or you can print out individual sheets for each day.
In this download, you will find 180 days worth of morning work/homework that covers:
*revising sentences to fix ending punctuation, sight word spelling errors, and/or capital letters at the beginning of the sentences.
*identifying nouns, verbs, and adjectives
*working with short a, e, i, o, and u, blends, digraphs, and long a_e, long o_e
*working with vowel pairs to make words
*filling in missing numbers to 120
*comparing numbers using greater than/less/equal to to 90
*addition and subtraction facts to 20
*working with fact families
*telling time the hour and half hour, solving word problems with time
*identifying 2D shapes by their attributes
*grammar skills capital letters, proper nouns, end punctuation, verb tense agreement, and plural and singular nouns
*responding to a writing and drawing prompt.
*short "e" using "ea" vowel pattern
*compound words
*pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters
*double digit addition with no regrouping
*syllables
*double digit addition and subtraction with no regrouping
This beginning of the year resource includes a bulletin board header and All About Me Poster. In addition, there are several back-to-school expansion activities, including mini-me dolls to make and display with the back-to-school posters, and follow-up math and language arts activities to do in the first week back to shool.
In this download, you will get:
*directions
*back to school bulletin board title
*back to school All About Me poster
*back to school Meet Your Classmates activity
*Birthday tally sheet
*birthday graph
*Data analysis worksheet
5 spelling resources to help improve retention of spelling words. Spelling challenges I use during arrival time to get the children settled and focused for a day of learning. These spelling activities are a great way to squeeze in a little spelling review during the week. Also includes spelling test sheets in three different styles, one that includes a space at the bottom to write sentences using the spelling words, and one that does not include the space at the bottom and one that is not numbered and an extra homework/morning worksheet.
These spelling activities also include a roll-the-dice homework/classwork practice chart for a new twist to reviewing spelling words.
Display these word bank posters to supplement your regular word wall with seasonal words your young writers can use as a reference.
In this download, you will get 10 monthly posters with June/July and August/September combined. Each poster is four pages carefully aligned so you can assemble them into a 17x22 poster.
Also included for each month is an 8x10 poster to run off for table or individual use or to place in student writing notebooks.
A compact and efficient way to have your students participate in and log their summer reading. Help slow the summer slide with this free resource. You may upload this document to Google Docs and give the parents of your students the link so they can download and print the pages they need, or copy and pass out the summer reading log and book report forms and send them home with your students.
There is also a bonus sight word game for parents to play with their children over the summer. I have included lists for all the Dolch sight words, so parents can make the cards they need to practice with their children over the summer if they wish, or you can make them to use at school.