Morning activities year 1

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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…

✨ 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…

A Morning Tub is a great early morning alternative that offers a play-based opportunity to explore, create, and build social skills.

Note: This post was previously published under the name “Kindergarten Morning Activities”, but I’ve since renamed them as “Morning Kits”. The activities and supplies needed are the same! During the summer of 2020, it became clear that traditional morning tubs were not going to be an option for many teachers that school year for a ... Read more

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,

Reading and writing numbers to 20 in words. Continuous provision in ks1

Learn how to set up a STEM based paperless morning work schedule in your elementary classroom.