1st Grade Activities

Do you need engaging brain breaks or bell ringers? These mindful listening activities are an easy way to include music appreciation in any classroom or homeschool.

Just print and cue the music! Students begin listening and interpreting what they hear and feel. The music is available on YouTube or your favorite streaming services. There are no wrong answers, and no musical training is required. (great for sub plans!) There are five differentiated listening sheets included for each piece of music.

Featured Music

1. Morning's Embrace, Joseph Schwantner

Learning Objectives

• increased knowledge of popular composers
• familiarity with a variety of musical periods
• ability to recognize, and engage with, popular pieces of music
• identify different instrument sounds
• social-emotional exploration of feelings and moods within the music
• creative expression by drawing and choosing colors related to a musical theme

Differentiated Listening Sheets

• Mindful Listening - students draw a scene inspired by the music and select meaningful keywords that describe their listening experience
• Emotions & Weather - lots of emotions and weather to choose from and color
• Checkboxes - an easy-to-follow checklist page that features emojis, instruments, colors, and more
• Color A Carnival - which ride or activity best matches the music? Don't forget to choose a snack and a prize!
• Listen and Color - lots of drawing/journaling space with meaningful keywords to choose from

Embark on a 12-month musical journey through time with the Classical Journey Bundle! ♬

Add a touch of mindful music to any season, holiday, or composer unit study. With over 150 categorized classical pieces, the Classical Journey Bundle offers an engaging printable for every occasion. Each month unlocks a curated selection of themed classical music pieces, perfectly paired with a holiday or season!

These Thanksgiving vocabulary wheels are so much fun to practice Acción de Gracias in Spanish. The wheels are easy to set up and keep students engaged in learning. They can be used with the whole class, small groups, centers or partners.

The objective of this activity is for students to practice their listening skills by recognizing and finding the Thanksgiving vocabulary in the wheels.

This resource has

Two color wheels: one without words and one with words

Two b&w wheels: one without words and one with words

One blank wheel

One vocabulary list

One page with pictures

The vocabulary included is: yo doy gracias por, mis papás, mis abuelos, mis mascotas, mis hermanos, mis amigos, mi comida, mi casa, mi escuela.

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Need a not-so-spooky option for Halloween? This five-design Halloween Coloring Placemat set has you covered! Perfect for early elementary (1st, 2nd, 3rd grade), this product includes five different themed placemats each with their own word search, maze, word scramble, tic tac toe, and coloring! Ready to print and use, the placemats come in both letter and legal paper size, with answer keys included!

Perfect for before and after school, indoor recess, snack time, class parties, early finishers, home school, and more!

36 fine motor skills activity cards for improving hand strength, pencil grip and handwriting.

Within your classroom you can either have these out as occasional tasks or you can have a 'Funky Fingers' table set up permanently within the room with a new task set up either each day or each week.

Printable support resources included for fine motor skills activities:

• Gingerbread men to tweezer buttons onto
• Large numbers to place sequins on
• Hole punch activity
• Jellybean jars
• Geoboard number templates
• Gumball machines
• Muffin tray templates
• Tags for padlocks and keys
• Pompom ice creams
• Pompom pictures
• Numbers for threading

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Teach children the important story of forgiveness and love with this fun "Prodigal Son Spinner Craft." Perfect for Sunday School, Christian classrooms, and homeschooling, this craft helps kids understand the story of the Prodigal Son in an engaging way.

Product Details:

• Title Page: Features the Bible verse, "But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him." - Luke 15:20 (NIV)
• Six Spin Pages: Each page shows a key moment in the story with a matching Bible verse and a simple summary.

1. The Younger Son's Request
2. The Son Leaves and Spends Everything
3. The Son Becomes Needy
4. The Son Decides to Return Home
5. The Father's Welcome
6. The Celebration

• Black and White Options: Lets kids color and personalize their craft.
• Easy Assembly Instructions: Clear steps to help kids and teachers put together the spinner wheel.
• Educational and Fun: Helps kids understand the story while having fun creating their own spinner.

This "Prodigal Son Spinner Craft" is a great addition to your teaching tools, helping kids learn about forgiveness and love in a meaningful way. Ideal for Grade 4, it combines learning with creativity, making it perfect for your Bible lessons.

Tracing and Writing Alphabet Letters Handwriting Practice Worksheets: This “Tracing and Writing Alphabet Letters Handwriting Practice Worksheets” is an interactive and engaging product that is designed to help your Pre-k & Kindergarten Students to help them with alphabet letter formation. This Product will help students to learn alphabet letter while practicing with writing and tracing the uppercase and Lowercase letters.

PRODUCT FORMAT

This product is available in PDF format and contains 26 Worksheets.

HOW THIS PRODUCT HELP STUDENT

This product will help student to:

a. Learn and practice alphabet letter while practicing writing and tracing the uppercase and Lowercase letters these practice worksheets.

b. Building their basic ELA foundation in order to prepare them for higher grades.

WHERE TEACHERS CAN USE THIS PRODUCT

The teachers can use this product in a variety of ways:

a. Classroom activities

b. Homework

c. Group Activities

d. Test Preparation

WHAT CCSS STANDARDS THIS PRODUCT COVERS

This Product “Tracing and Writing Alphabet Letters Handwriting Practice Worksheets” is aligned with Common Core standards of Math:

FINAL WORDS

Overall “Tracing and Writing Alphabet Letters Handwriting Practice Worksheets” contains variety of activities for engaging your students. This product is aligned with Common Core standards. This product will help your students to strengthen their basic alphabet letter concepts while practicing writing and tracing the uppercase and Lowercase letters. Overall this product would be a great Addition to collection of your ELA resources.

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Engage young sports enthusiasts with this exciting "Match the Sports Equipment" matching game! This set features 20 popular sports with their corresponding equipment, perfect for Pre-K to Grade 2. Each page includes one card with a sport icon (like soccer, basketball, or tennis) and another card with its matching equipment (such as a soccer ball, basketball hoop, or tennis racket). Teachers simply print and cut each page down the middle to create two decks of cards, allowing students to practice matching each sport with its essential gear.

This interactive activity promotes visual recognition, memory skills, and introduces sports vocabulary in a fun and hands-on way. Ideal for centers, group activities, or independent play, this game is a perfect addition to any classroom!

What's Included:

• 20 Sports Cards (featuring sports like soccer, golf, and baseball)
• 20 Equipment Cards (featuring items like a soccer ball, golf club, and baseball bat)
• Simple, easy-to-cut format for creating two decks of matching cards

This adorable Thanksgiving Turkey Craft provides a meaningful activity for students to express gratitude and reflect on what they appreciate. This engaging Thanksgiving activity allows students to sincerely thank the important people in their lives. Simply make copies of the pages and have students cut and assemble the craft. They can write their expressions of gratitude on the turkey’s feathers, dedicating messages to their school, family, and friends. There’s also an extra feather where students can thank someone or something of their choice.

This resource not only serves as a wonderful classroom decoration but also delights families who enjoy reading their children's heartfelt messages. Enhance your Thanksgiving celebrations with this creative craft activity that fosters a sense of appreciation and connection among students.

This resource includes:

• Turkey: Thank You to My Friends
• Turkey: Thank You to My School
• Turkey: Thank You to My Family
• Turkey: Thank You to ________
• Turkey Feathers With Writing Line
• Turkey Feathers Without Writing Line

Happy Thanksgiving Day!

Hola Teachers!

This is a 25-page resource for Spanish teachers, perfect for beginner learners or native speakers.

It includes:

• Five fall-themed short poems, each accompanied by a vocabulary sheet for students to cut and paste key vocabulary.
• The resource offers three differentiated versions of each poem:
  • a reading version for highlighting rhyming words,
  • a cloze activity for completing the poem with key terms, and
  • a tracing activity for practicing key vocabulary. Ideal for engaging young students in seasonal language learning.

Poems included:

• El árbol de manzanas
• La calabaza
• Las hojas
• El Día de Gracias
• El Día de Brujas

Could your students use extra practice with ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION FACTS? These SPRING THEMED PART PART WHOLE CARDS are perfect for math centers, math talk/number talk, and small group lessons. Help students build a strong math foundation by understanding the relationships between addition and subtraction.

SIMPLIFY YOUR TEACHING LIFE

⭐build addition fluency

⭐build subtraction fluency

⭐build flexible thinking

⭐practice missing addends

⭐perfect for Number Talk/Math Talk lessons

⭐great for Math Centers

WHAT'S INCLUDED

24 Part Part Whole Task Cards in color (1/2 page size)

24 Part Part Whole Task Cards in B&W (1/2 page size)

24 Part Part Whole Task Cards in color (full page size)

2 Teacher pages with ideas for use

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Target sentence production, expanding MLU, & subject-verb agreement for singular and plural nouns with this Math in Speech Therapy language FREEBIE! Use these teaching scripts, task cards, and No-Prep worksheets to expand students' language in a grammatically correct way while using their math curriculum.

All SLPS know how much language is embedded in our students' math lessons. Students are often prompted to answer questions verbally while learning new concepts. We know that our students with speech language impairments often have difficulty with this and need greater support.

This resource solves that problem! Help students to participate in their classroom lessons through repeated practice of these concepts. While they are learning to count in their classroom, we can also help to accurately produce the sentences. Teaching these concepts while using numbers and math concepts allows for quicker generalization into the classroom.

Included in this resource:

• 1 Teaching Script for "is" and "are" use for numbers 1 & greater

• 1 Teaching Script for "is" and "are" use for numbers 0 & greater

• Task Cards/Flash Cards can be used to drill concepts to improve retention. They can be paired with motivating board games. These task cards include:

  • 14 Objects in frame of 5 Task Cards
  • 14 Math Cubes of 1-10 Task Cards
  • 12 Objects in frame of 10 Task Cards
  • 12 Which one has ____? Task Cards
  • 12 Counting within Pictured Scenes Task Cards

• 2 Sentence Frames - sentence frames to use as a guide with task cards

• NO PREP Worksheets to extend learning, engage students, and improve generalization of concepts

  • 4 There is/There are Subject-Verb Agreement Worksheets

Check out this 189 page Quantitative Concepts in Math resource!

Consider using this Before & After resource for students who need more help!

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Excellent Resource for Mixed Groups

Grammar & Syntax: Elicit complex sentence production

Vocabulary: Stating categories, similarities and differences

** Perfect resource for Teacher Observation or Speech Therapy Observation**

Printable activities for the story Bill and Pete Go Down the Nile written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola. This story is a fun way for students to be introduced to Egypt and just a few of thing which can be found there including sarcophagus, pyramids, sphinx. Printable worksheets include:

1. 10 question multiple choice quiz

2. Printable definition sheet (with pictures)

3. Drawing page of the trip down the Nile Bill and Pete take

4. Coloring sheet.

Interested in other great children's stories check out:

We Are the Gardeners

The Boy Who Changed the World

The Littlest Snowplow

A transition is the changing from one activity to the next. If they are not planned in advance, transitions can be difficult, resulting in unhappy children and misbehaviors. The activities in this packet can help to make your daily classroom transitions much more successful. Many of these also make great "brain breaks" for your students.

Over 40 transition ideas are broken down into six sections:

“What’s coming up next?”

“Let’s Go!”

“Quiet and Calm”

“Get the Wiggles Out”

“Waiting Times”

“Clean-Up Time”

Introducing our Action Verbs Picture Cards – a straightforward tool to evaluate your students' language abilities.

Ideal for educators working with deaf or hard of hearing students, speech therapists, special education teachers, and preschool instructors. These versatile cards offer various teaching opportunities: from practicing pronouns and describing actions to building complete sentences and acting out activities!

They're particularly beneficial for supporting students with significant needs, making them valuable resources for both special education classrooms and inclusive settings in general education."

What's included:

- 17 pages of verb flash card in pdf. (included 135 verbs-refer to thumbnails for full verb list)

- 5 pages reading race in pdf (refer to thumbnail for sample sheet)

>>>> HOW TO PLAY HOW TO PLAY

Your students will play this game with a partner.

They will take turns being the reader and the recorder.

The first student will read as many words as possible in 30 seconds (you can choose to increase the time).
The other student keeps track of how many words were read in the allotted time and records the number.

The students will continue to take turns to improve their reading fluency and accuracy.

TeachShare H2- verb flash card

Fun, engaging book activity:

This project is a fun way to keep students engaged in reading leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday. You can establish this activity by reading the book "Balloons Over Broadway" by Melissa Sweet. This helps students understand the concept of Balloons at a parade.

Teachers can determine whether students will decorate an actual balloon or just designing a balloon. Instructions are included for both activities.

A question booklet containing questions about character and setting is provided. Students will make real world connections between their character and themselves. There are three versions of this booklet each with its own type of handwriting lines.

Students will love showing off their creation in a class parade!

What's included:

• Teacher instructions.
• Supply list.
• Links to supply inspiration.
• Two versions of the student directions.
• Balloon design template.
• Tags for display.
• Character and Setting Question Booklet (3 handwriting line versions)

How is this product useful:

• Engaging activity before a holiday.
• Students will use their creativity.
• Links to make getting supplies easier.
• Questions help students make real world connections.

This Thanksgiving Cinquain has students create their own Cinquain using the month of November, Thanksgiving, or Autumn as their topic. The worksheet has examples of Cinquains and how to write a Cinquain. This is a fun poetry activity for your students.

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Bring winter fun to your classroom with this Penguin Hat Crown Craft! With this fun Hat Crown Craft for preschool and kindergarten, kids can cut and color the Penguin and headband shapes or use the included pre-colored options for a quicker activity. This adorable, winter-themed craft encourages creativity and helps children practice fine motor skills. Ideal for winter lessons, animal-themed units, or simple classroom fun!

What's Included :

• PAGE : 14 PAGES
• FILES : PDF FILE
• SIZE : 8.5'' x 11'' Inches

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Create a fun and educational 2D Turkey Math Shapes Craftivity perfect for kindergarten kids this November! This engaging Thanksgiving-themed activity combines art and math, allowing young learners to practice recognizing and creating 2D shapes while building their own turkey craft. Each child will assemble a colorful turkey using circles, triangles, squares, and other basic shapes, reinforcing geometry skills in a hands-on, holiday-inspired way. Ideal for developing fine motor skills, shape identification, and creativity, this turkey craftivity is perfect for classroom or homeschool November activities.

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These educational flashcards in PDF format provide a practical and innovative solution for learning mathematics. They allow users to print the cards easily and use them anytime. Specifically designed to be flexible and user-friendly, they feature an attractive design and helpful content that meets children’s needs in learning arithmetic operations.

THESE ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION FLASHCARDS FEATURE:

• 235 Printable Flash Cards for Easy, Normal and Hard Differentiation
• Self-checking Flash Cards (answers are on the back of cards)
• Flash Cards are 3.5 x 5 for Storing in Task Card Boxes
• Math Standards Aligned for K-2 Math
• Math Facts Reviewed: 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, 7s, 8s, and 9s

Product Description: Self Portrait Template | Monthly Name Writing Practice

Engage your students in a creative and reflective activity with this Self Portrait Template paired with Monthly Name Writing Practice! This versatile resource is designed to promote artistic expression, develop writing skills, and encourage self-awareness in students, making it an ideal addition to your classroom routine.

Why Teachers Love It:
This Self Portrait Template | Monthly Name Writing Practice resource is perfect for building routines that encourage personal growth and skill development. Students love drawing their portraits and seeing how their handwriting evolves over time, while teachers appreciate the insight into their students' interests and progress.

How to Use:

1. Introduce the activity at the beginning of each month.
2. Encourage students to reflect on their interests, draw their self-portraits, and practice writing their names.
3. Compile the completed worksheets into a portfolio to showcase growth at the end of the school year.
4. Use the worksheets as bulletin board displays or for parent-teacher conferences to highlight student development.

What’s Included:

• 12 monthly self portraits ( 2 options)
• 1 yearly book cover
• 1 flexible-use self-portrait worksheet
• 2 All About Me worksheet options

Whether you’re teaching pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, or early elementary grades, this Self Portrait Template | Monthly Name Writing Practice is a must-have resource for fostering creativity, self-discovery, and skill-building in your students.