A Primary Teaching Blog
We have been working on our fluency here in first grade! It’s about that time of the year that we can all read, but we REALLY need to work on our intonation and fluidity! Enter this AMAZING APP Sock Puppets! First we PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE! We love to use these Reader’s Theater Plays from A Teeny Tiny Teacher! Here’s an… Read More
A guest post about writing read alouds. Hi friends! I’m Kristen from Where the First Graders Are! I am so excited to team up with Jen and share with you three of my favorite picture books for teaching writing. I have to say that I love teaching writing more than any other subject. I love it because there is never… Read More
Join me and my bloggy friends on our TpT Hop as we give you an opportunity to win a $100 TpT gift card! Here’s how it works: 1. Follow my store to start HOPPING 2. Check out my TpT banner and collect the letter 3. Click on the banner to hop around to the other TpT sellers, collect all the letters… Read More
I’m obsessed with Target Dollar Spot erasers. Aren’t we all? We walk in, get sucked in right away to the Dollar Spot, and what do we see? These sweet little baggies full of cute erasers. Do we know what do to with them? No. Do we care? No. I thought to myself, I probably have AT LEAST 3 baggies per… Read More
Let’s talk about search engines. How often do we search Youtube for videos or Google for images and hope nothing inappropriate pops up while you’re trying to share a quick something with your students on the fly? GUILTY. With technology being front and center these days and common core taking us deeper into research, we are in desperate need for a… Read More
Pink Tiara Cookies by Maria Dismondy is a great book that teaches the social skill of kindness. “Bullying” is a huge problem in schools (see why I don’t like using the word “bully” HERE). What happens when your best friend starts hanging out with someone else? Jealousy, that’s what! Kids are very good at excluding others. Dismondy does a great… Read More
This year I wanted to start our measurement unit out with a fun inquiry. I created a very simple, yet very effective measurement inquiry. It took about 10 minutes and the kids completely got where we were headed. This measurement inquiry is for the first grade common core standard 1.MD.A.1, ordering 3 objects by length. I asked each table (6… Read More
Is your elf here? Do you have an elf in the classroom? Will you be getting one this weekend? I hope your answer is YES YES YES. Because you need one {affiliate link}. Monday, she arrived in a cold box straight from the North Pole {aka my freezer}. We voted for a name after we read a note from Santa telling us we’d… Read More
As Thanksgiving comes to an end, the hustle and the bustle of the Christmas season begins. I hope you get to slow down and reflect on the all the blessings you have in your life. Some of my favorite teacher-bloggers are coming together to say we are THANKFUL FOR YOU during this holiday season. Join us on our TpT Hop… Read More
Hi teacher friends! It’s Emily from Polka Dots Please. I’m super excited to be teaming up to share some fabulous books for teaching little ones about history! Here’s my recommended list of history read alouds for the primary classroom. This book teaches about segregation and the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement through the eyes of Rosa Parks. Moments throughout Rosa’s… Read More
