Poems for first grade

This is a primary blog with ideas for teaching grades kindergarten, first, second and third grade.

fall poem/song for preschool, kindergarten, first grade *free printable!*

Let’s talk, shall we? As many of you already know, I have a passion for Reader’s Theater. It is, hands down, THE BEST WAY I have found to practice meaningful, purposeful, and engaging fluency practice in my classroom. Now. You might be thinking what I first thought when I heard about Reader’s Theater. So the ... Read More about Reader’s Theater in the Primary Classroom (with a FREEBIE)

Hello Everyone! I'm going to start of today with a little picture. This is one of the chimneys on my house! Last week we got struck by lightning in the middle of the night!! It totally fried most of our electronics, pool equipment, garage door opener, one of the air conditioners, and probably more, let alone it scared the jeepers out of us!!! We are still discovering things that don't work. But!!! No fire! The house is still standing! Praise the Lord, we are all safe. It could have been…

Hello Everyone! More Daily Five stuff! :) "Read to Someone" is a component that my firsties love!! We practice over and over how it should look and sound. We practice sitting EEKK style, reading quietly, sharing, asking questions, etc. Many ask what my kids read during "Read to Someone." Most of the time they are sharing books from their book baskets, but at least once a week, they read poetry together. We build a collection of poems in a folder starting from day one of first grade! Many of…

This post will share some jelly bean things we have been doing this week in KC kindergarten. This is an excellent book called How Many Jelly Beans? Each page shows you an amount of jelly beans and on the last page, there are a million jelly beans. The kids LOVE this book. Special thanks to my friend Laura, who shared this book with me. Here are Some Jelly Bean Math Problems Shared Reading This is a poem we have been learning about jelly beans. here for downloads by KG

Before the days of the Science of Reading, I loved me some Shared Reading. And after learning more about how our brains learn to read, I had to be

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