The Letter A Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Baby Shark Alphabet Song (Animated Music Video) will help students learn letter names and sounds by listening to the catchy lyrics and colorful video.
The Alphabet Songs Collection - Classic will help your kids gain a better understanding of letter names and sounds by listening to these ABC Songs.
The Alphabet Songs Pack - Animated will help support your visual learners gain a better understanding of letter names and sounds by listening to this song.
While listening to the Seasons Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about the seasons of the year while listening to a catchy song. Here we go, oh, seasons of the year! Your kids will be singing this song about the seasons over and over. Bring joy into your classroom with…
The Letter B Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Letter G Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Alphabet Song (Animated Music Video) will help students learn letter names and sounds by listening to the catchy lyrics and colorful video.
Using the Counting By Fives Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 5s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
The Letter M Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Letter E Song teaches the short E and long E sounds, uppercase and lowercase letter e, vocabulary words with e, and letter E handwriting practice.
The Seasons Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about the seasons of the year. This is a fun way for kids to learn the seasons. With this seasons song, your kids can learn about Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. While listening to the Seasons…
The Mammal Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about mammals. This animated music video teaches that mammals breathe air with lungs, are warm-blooded, have fur or hair, give birth to live young and feed their babies milk. While watching the Mammal Song, students learn…
The Letter D Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
While watching the Water Cycle Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about the process of the water cycle by listening to the repetitive lyrics loaded with key vocabulary.
The Letter F Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
Crack the egg with the letter E! This animated letter E song helps preschool, kindergarten and 1st grade kids recognize E and e with the Funzies and a catchy chorus.
The I Song (Animated Music Video) will help students recognize the sight word I when it is repeated, spelled, and used in sentences put to a catchy tune.
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: the brain holds on to what it meets again and again over time; spaced practice was rated among the very best methods (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: Letter A Song (Original Music Video), Baby Shark Alphabet Song (Animated Music Video) and Alphabet Songs (Classic Video Collection).
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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