First Grade Teachers

Let's talk about the three main number sense topics in first grade: place value, comparing numbers, ordering numbers on open number lines!

Make vowel teams activities explicit & effective with structured vowel teams reading passages designed for small group instruction. These vowel teams worksheets & decodable readers kindergarten, first grade, & second grade students can successfully read build fluency skills & reading confidence. Target ee vowel team, ea vowel team activities, & ay vowel team activities through engaging vowel team lessons aligned to Science of Reading lessons. Perfect for literacy centers & reading small...

Most schools require learning standards and objectives to be posted where both students and staff can easily see them. To help you get started, I’m sharing free focus wall posters that make an easy bulletin board, along with simple, realistic ways to use them in your classroom! Easy to manage, simply print and laminate then write and wipe to change your learning targets each week.

As the end of the school year gets closer, it's important to keep students motivated and engaged in their learning. But with summer just around the corner, it can be challenging to maintain their focus. (Truth be told, it's even hard for teachers to maintain their own focus. Beach, anyone?) No worries. We've got you covered with some fun ways to keep kids going strong until the very end!

April is National Poetry Month (although I think we should be reading poems year-round) and I'm here with my favorite poetry books for kids in first and second grades. If the thought of reading (or worse yet... teaching) poetry is nauseating, I get you. Most of us can remember a time (likely in high school) when we were assigned poems that didn't make sense and then called out to interpret them in front of everyone, knowing we had no idea what they meant.✋Been there... but not anymore. Come...

If you know a kid who's obsessed with space, come check out this blog post! In it, I share our favorite picture books and informational texts for young children. There's even a printable science library made just for first grade readers. This interactive collection helps kids understand how day and night happen, the reason the Moon seems to change shape, and why Earth has seasons. If you're working your way through the first grade NGSS, this post is for you! #SpaceActivitiesForFirstGrade...

Planning a field trip can be a lot of work, especially for a group of kindergarten or first grade children. But a well-planned trip is something special everyone will remember for some time. Help children feel prepared for their day away from school with these field trip readiness and reflection activities for K-1 kids. It includes posters reminding children to return their permission slips, wear their student ID tags, be safe while riding on the school bus, and more. When you return from...

Strengthen decoding skills with long vowel clip cards & engaging CVCe centers for long vowel activities kindergarten. This bundle includes CVCe worksheets, CVCe games, CVCe puzzle & CVCe word puzzle activities that reinforce long vowels through hands-on practice. Students build fluency with long a activities, long i activities, long o activities, & long u activities using long vowel worksheets & a long vowel booklet. Perfect for literacy centers, phonics rotations, & phonics small groups.

Looking for meaningful science enrichment? These weather STEM challenges help students apply what they learn about weather, seasons, and storms through simple engineering activities perfect for centers, enrichment, or STEM blocks.

FREE First Grade Writing Prompts!

Are you looking for ways to make your phonics lessons more engaging? Try gamifying your phonics activities and get your students up and moving! Here are five fun games to play with any phonics posters that will reinforce reading skills and make learning fun!