First Grade Common Core ELA Assessments

As teachers, we need easy go-to assessments!! Trying to find the right assessment for a specific standard can sometimes take hours to find. I know being a First Grade Teacher myself the mundane task of finding just the right one that you can use year after year for the standard

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2nd Grade Common Core ELA Assessments

I have taught 2nd grade for 20 years and I know that having great assessments at your fingertips is a must. As teachers, you want to spend your time teaching not hours and hours on the web looking for exactly the right assessment or review practice for your students. Our

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Characters and Setting- Engaging Lesson Ideas

I love teaching story elements like characters and settings in first grade. Why are story elements so key at this age? Well, I have come to realize over the years that if I want to make good writers, learning story elements along the way helps them bloom into wonderful authors.

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Leaf Graphing- Great Hands-on Fun!!

Trying to come up with hands-on activities for graphing can be challenging- so we wanted to create something that would be easy, fun, and engaging for our students and yours. Our kiddos loved this activity and yours will too. Leaf graphing is fun and engaging for all ages.   Leaf

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Johnny Appleseed Day Activities and Fun

Last month our classes celebrated Johnny Appleseed Day. This is the first time my classroom has done this and the day was filled with great fun with learning activities and apple snacks.I asked my kiddos if they had ever heard of the name Johnny Appleseed. Most of them had not,

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Compound Words

Compound words are a staple standard skill of learning in 1st and 2nd grade. In 1st grade, students are learning and beginning to recognize and understand simple compound words, such as airplane and toothbrush. Then in 2nd grade, students progress to more complex compound words by learning that they are

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FOLD on the BOLD – New Resource for the Classroom

  We are so excited to introduce our new line of teacher resources called  Fold on the Bold for  Kindergarten, First Grade and Second Grade Monthly Packets These resources are FILLED with meaningful, hands-on and engaging resources that make learning FUN while all the while letting the student self check and monitor

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Fun and Easy Valentine’s Day Activities for K-2

WILL YOU “BEE” MY VALENTINE? Will you “BEE’ my valentine? Just print, color, and glue. These make the cutest valentines for your kiddos to give someone special. We display these on our bulletin board and the students take them home after our Valentine’s Party. Valentine’s day activities V.I.T. Club members

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Polar Express Activities

Hope everyone is doing well. This year seems to be just flying by. Maybe it’s because I have such a great group of kiddos this year. They are truly a blessing. Next week, we will be having our Polar Express Day in our room. We are so excited!!!! I have

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Back to School Freebie

  BACK TO SCHOOL WORD MATS Did you think we fell off  the side of the Earth??????     Well, summer has been a very busy family time for us. We went on vacation this summer to the beach. This was my husbands and daughters first time to see the beautiful ocean. It

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2nd Grade Common Core Math Assessments

 I am so happy to have finished our 2nd Grade Common Core Math Assessments Packet! It’s a brand new product!! This packet is SO easy to implement and requires absolutely NO PREP!  Just PRINT the pages and TEACH! There are 160 student assessment pages- that is actual student pages- use them for practice

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