Contraction Conversation Hearts

Contraction Conversation Hearts

This post contains affiliate links. Contractions can be pretty tricky for first graders to nail down!  To make it fun and give my students a bit of scaffolding, I created this free Contraction Conversation Hearts literacy center. Since the “matching” hearts are the same color, the focus is less on students knowing the matches, but…

Postcards for Free Writing

Postcards for Free Writing

This post contains affiliate links. Almost every day, my first grade students have a writing “job”.  We might be starting a week-long writing project, responding to prompts, adding a new entry into our independent journals, or we could be doing some sort of writing craft!  I like to mix it up, but regardless, my students…

Unicorn Spin and Graph Freebie

Unicorn Spin and Graph Freebie

This post contains affiliate links. My first graders are OBSESSED with our mini erasers from Target… maybe even more than me!  Is that even possible???  But really, during indoor recess, they just want to sort them, stack them, and put them in piles! To harness all this eraser love, I created this Editable Unicorn Spin…

Fix Em Up Sentences

Fix Em Up Sentences

This post contains affiliate links. Each day, my first graders complete a few hands-on literacy activities during our reading rotations.  Students get to choose what they work on, and I even have some kiddos who take centers home a few nights a week to do for fun with their families– it melts my teacher heart!…

Farm Animal Sentences

Farm Animal Sentences

This post contains affiliate links. After four weeks of school, my first graders are finally able to work independently during Reader’s Workshop while I teach Guided Reading groups!  Whew! To help my kiddos practice matching “what they see to what they say,” I created this fun and low-prep literacy center! Since my kiddos are working…