This alphabet uppercase letter matching activity has preschool, kindergarten, and 1st grade children match 26 letter cards to a game board. A practice page and answer key are included for easy letter recognition fun.
These Thanksgiving flash cards give preschool through 2nd grade children 18 self-checking picture and word cards for building holiday vocabulary. A card list answer key is included.
These Circle Cut Outs will quickly give you templates for classroom decoration or student activities.
This finding 10 more 10 less activity helps 1st and 2nd grade children use a hundred chart to find 10 more and 10 less. Practice page and answer key included.
This go green recycle activity helps preschool to 3rd grade students sort everyday items into paper, plastic, metal, and glass, with a practice page and answer key included.
This rhyming words matching activity lets PreK to 1st grade children match picture cards that rhyme, like cat and hat. A practice page and answer key included.
These birthday flash cards help preschool to 4th grade students learn 24 party words like cake, candles and presents. Fold-over picture cards, a practice page and an answer key are included.
This 9 pieces blank puzzle activity lets preschool through 3rd grade children draw a picture, cut out nine easy pieces, and build a puzzle to keep or give as a gift.
Children put wordless picture cards in order and tell the story in this pictures tell stories sequencing activity for preschool to 1st grade, with a practice page and answer key included.
This subtraction as an unknown addend activity helps K through 2nd grade students solve subtraction within 20 by matching each fact to its addition fact card. Answer key included.
These US states black and white flash cards help 1st to 5th grade students name all 50 states by their shapes, with easy fold-over cards and an answer key included.
This sequence of events activity helps preschool, kindergarten, and 1st grade children put picture cards in order and retell stories with first, next, then, and last. An answer key is included.
This number matching puzzle activity has preschool, kindergarten, and 1st grade children count ten-frame pictures and match them to numbers 1 to 10. An answer key is included for quick checking.
These sports flash cards help PreK to 3rd Grade students name 18 sports from pictures of their gear, with an answer key included, to grow everyday vocabulary.
This triangle cut outs activity has children sort 12 shape cards and cut out big triangles. Made for Preschool to 2nd Grade, with an answer key included for quick checking.
These Donut Cut Outs quickly give you templates that can be easily cut and applied for classroom decoration or student activities
This barn cut out activity lets PreK to 3rd grade children color, cut, fold and glue a 3-D paper barn, roof and silo, then stand six farm animals beside it.
This key details activity gives K through 3rd grade readers 12 question cards to use with any book, plus a recording sheet and practice stories. Answer key included.
Using this42 Pieces Blank Puzzle, students put together puzzle pieces to create a larger picture to build critical thinking and problem solving skills.
Play this singular plural noun go fish activity with 1st through 3rd grade students to match one and more than one with -s and -es. Answer key included.
The year reading takes off
First grade is a year of huge growth, especially in reading. Kids blend short vowel words, learn digraphs like sh and ch, add blends and silent e, and build a bank of sight words. In math, they add and subtract within 20 using strategies like making ten: 8 + 5 = 8 + 2 + 3 = 13. They learn tens and ones, count to 120, tell time to the half hour and measure length. In writing, kids put together complete sentences with capitals and end marks. The best moment is when a 1st grader reads their first whole book aloud to you!
First graders learn best with hands-on practice and lots of quick, happy repetition.
Have kids bundle straws or craft sticks into groups of ten with rubber bands. Show 34 as 3 bundles and 4 loose sticks, then fill in the counting tens and ones page. Kids see why the 3 means thirty.
Why it works: the U.S. Department of Education's guide for teaching elementary math recommends moving from hands-on objects to drawings to numbers.
Try it withCounting Tens Ones WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Hand out a short decodable story like Ben and the Eggs and have kids read it to a partner. Then they answer the questions on their own. It checks phonics and understanding in one quick shot.
Why it works: pulling an answer out of memory makes it stick far better than rereading it, one of the strongest findings in learning research (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withBen and the Eggs Phonics Reading Comprehension Story Worksheet - Short Vowel E SoundAssessmentsOpen it →Give a short adding and subtracting within 20 page three times a week instead of one big page on Friday. Short, spread-out practice builds fact fluency that lasts into 2nd grade.
Why it works: short practice spread over several days beats one long session, according to a large review of learning research (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withAdding and Subtracting Within 20 WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →First graders love to move, sort and play.
WorksheetsLine up stuffed animals and follow ordinal directions: "Give the third bear a hat!"
Open Ordinal Number Directions Worksheet →
WorksheetsKids sort nouns into person, place and thing piles, then add a word of their own to each.
Open Noun Sorting Worksheet →
WorksheetsKids hunt the room for things with sh, ch and th: shoe, chair, thumb!
Open Digraphs Word List →Teacher favorites right now: Alphabet Uppercase Letter Matching Activity, Thanksgiving Flash Cards and Circle Cut Outs.
Most 1st graders can read simple books, decode short vowel words and blends, read many sight words, add and subtract within 20, count to 120 and write complete sentences.
Many schools aim for about 100 high-frequency words, often the first 100 Fry words. Every school's list is a little different.
Read together every day, let your child read easy books to you, and practice sounding out words. Five minutes of sight word practice helps too.
They learn counting on, making ten, doubles and using number lines. These strategies help kids add and subtract within 20 without counting on fingers.
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