DIY Kleenex box (math) games. Each child has a box they fill with math tokens. Number cards are on the side for practicing counting, etc. Can also color sort, etc.
Show me the Evidence sentence starters. Put in writing notebooks as a reminder. This site (Oscar Learn, Oscar Teach!) has lots of great stuff!
Small world and construction areas next to each other will compliment each other and extend the possibilities of play
I pulled out one of our favorite books Aliens Love Underpants. I also incorporated a writing activity in which the students wrote about things that they really liked about first grade. Check out the pic below!!!
The Seven Domains of Early Childhood Development with activities to promote each domain from I Can Teach My Child
data collection - blank ones for my students. They love to ask questions and describe their data findings
5 Steps to Fighting Off Writer's Insecurity - fighting that little voice inside your head can be difficult sometimes. Read about some techniques that can help you get rid of you writer's insecurity....AND your overactive inner critic.
Engineering Challenge:Can you build a car, powered by gravity, that can travel at least 100 cm without turning?Materials: (per classroom)Cardboard sheets and/or empty cardboard tubesStraws Assorted Scrap PaperMisc. craft items (beads, buttons, pipe c
“My pastor was my rapist.” An Alabama pastor is accused of raping, torturing, and sexually abusing multiple children, including the rape of a 9-year-old girl on her father’s grave.
Most of the time students understand the parts of a division problem when it is written on way but change the format of the problem and YIKES (forgotten).
