Year 1 morning activities

This blog has great suggestions for soft starts in the classroom. A "soft start" is a morning classroom routine that offers students a choice of activities (instead of bell work or morning work) before the formal learning begins for the day. A soft start helps each student ease into the day, while providing teachers time to interact with students. You will find tips and fun activities for kids in kindergarten and 1st grade as they head back to school. #ClassroomRoutines #SoftStart

Learn how to set up a paperless morning work routine in your classroom!

Morning work tubs have been part of my classroom for a few years now, and this teacher is completely sold! Now that my morning work is hands-on and paperless,

✨ Sophie | Year 1 Teacher on Instagram: "✨ Tricky Word Rainbow ✨ I’ve been noticing that the children still need to work on their spelling of the year one words, so what better activity than this one to help them practise? 🌈 The children in my class love rainbows and they’re always so good at filling out these word rainbows! ✏️ There are specific words that I wanted them to focus on rather than them all writing “a”, “me”, “my” (some children always try to get away with doing the shortest…

Discover active and alternative ideas to morning work to create a soft start to your day. Use a morning choice board during arrival time to give preschool, kindergarten, and first grade children open-ended choices to start their day. Activities include building, sketching, yoga, writing news, reading books, puzzles, writing in a journal, telling a story and more. For easy set up, place materials in tubs or bins and set them on tables for kids to enjoy upon entering the classroom each…

Start your day with morning tubs for morning work. There are so many benefits to starting your day with some activity time. It gives your students a chance to work on math skills in a fun way and it gives you a chance to do all the things needed in the morning. Click to read my number 1 reason for using morning tubs for morning work.

Lots of fabulous ideas to build the classroom community and also develop literacy skills first thing in the morning! Love these ideas from Hilary at The Primary Planet. . .