This great back-to-school resource will allow you to quickly train your fast finishers what to do when they have finished their assigned work. In this file, you will get: *directions for printing and assembling board *suggestions on where to find the spinnable magnetic arm *alternative arrows with suggestions on how to use them in place of the magnetic arm *an editable PPT file for you to put in your own activities and matching pictures.

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

Learn about the moon using the informational text. Make the phases of the moon craft activity to illustrate what you've read about the moon. Perfect for first and second grade. One of my personal favorite science projects, this would make a great addition to a science interactive notebook. After studying about the phases of the moon, the students can make this moon clock to show the different phases of the moon and the order in which they occur. The circular clock also reinforces the idea of cycles in nature. This download includes: *A nine-page booklet that teaches about the moon phases and some basic moon information *Directions *Pieces to make the clock *A finished sample You need to supply brads and paper plates.

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.

Learn about The Creation. Read The Creation story, create a timeline of The Creation, and write about The Creation while creating this engaging lapbook. Incorporate reading and writing into religion class. Then create a stand-up triarama showing God’s Creation. Perfect for primary students. Engaging and creative way to learn about The Creation. *components to create a lapbook out of construction paper or a file folder that reiterates The Creation *follow-up activities including writing activities and a triaroma craft activity

A wonderful prayer to start the day and literacy activities to go along with the prayer. In this download, you will get *Directions for use *A 17x11 poster of the prayer for sharing with the class *An individual prayer worksheet to read and color for each student *Sentence strips for displaying in a pocket chart *Pictures to go along with the sentence strips *A foldable booklet with the words for the children to illustrate *A differentiated reflective writing response sheet.

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

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.

Google™ compatible Math. Practice automaticity with the basic facts to 20 using this Google Slides™ resource. In this download, you will receive a PDF file that gives you links and directions to access your Google™ paperless resource. Perfect for use in Google Classroom™! The digital resource includes Google™ slides directions and 136 slide flashcards.

Google™ Math. Practice basic addition within 20, double digit addition with no regrouping, and double digit addition with regrouping in your Google™ classroom on your SMARTBoard with the whole group, or as a center. In this download, you will receive 3 PDF files that give you links and directions to access your Google Drive™ paperless resource. Perfect for use in Google Classroom™! The digital resource includes 3 Google Slides™ interactive games, 3 Google Slides™ recording sheet, and directions for printing out recording sheets if you prefer to have children record their answers or to use with the whole group for whole group engagement. Or forget the recording sheet and make it a mental math game!

Prepare for Christmas using an interactive Advent story and craft and a Jesse Tree activity. Includes a PPT file for projecting the Advent story on the board as you read it.. In this download, you will get: *Instructions for assembling the book *Language Arts Common Core correlations *An 11-page book for the teacher to read and discuss with children *an interactive answer sheet for the children to respond in drawing or writing to answer the questions posed in the book *the pieces to make an Advent wreath craft. *a PPT file that includes just the story portion for the children to refer to as they answer questions. It also includes the question sheet so you can project and fill in the answers at the conclusion of the story. *A Jesse Tree project that shows the lineage of Jesus

Communities and community helper resource to teach about communities, community helpers, and geography. Includes communities vocabulary posters, a foldable interactive booklet and a cute craft that helps children understand how their communities relate to the larger world around them, posters to teach 8 common land forms, an interactive match the word and definition to the land form activity, and a create your own land activity along with a rubric for grading for your convenience. Also includes a community helper riddle puzzles activity booklet.

Seasons -- use the intrigue of Santa through the Seasons to introduce your little learners to the idea of seasons. In this download, you get: *A flip booklet with nonfiction reading passages about the seasons. *text-dependent comprehension questions about each passage *a writing activity relating self to the reading passages *thinking maps for each season *A leveled reader about Santa and what he likes to do in each season in color and black and white *A foldable booklet with clues about the season, and children color to "dress" Santa for the season

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.