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  • Fall into Learning with Your Guide for Thanksgiving-Themed Resources: Kindergarten, First, and Second Grade

    Fall into Learning with Your Guide for Thanksgiving-Themed Resources: Kindergarten, First, and Second Grade

    Celebrate the fall season with our Scarecrow-themed educational resource! From connecting the dots to coloring and even word searches, these engaging worksheets cover it all – making learning an autumn adventure!

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  • Halloween Fun in the Classroom: Kindergarten, First, and Second Grade

    Halloween Fun in the Classroom: Kindergarten, First, and Second Grade

    Transform your literacy lessons into a spook-tacular adventure as you infuse the Halloween spirit into reading, writing, and center activities. Whether you want a full day of Halloween fun or just a sprinkle of spooky in your regular plans, this pack has you covered with a range of engaging activities!

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  • Free Halloween Printable Book and Writing Activity

    Free Halloween Printable Book and Writing Activity

     This post contains affiliate links.   The Activities: Print a copy of this free Halloween book (focusing on double consonant words) for your classroom library or Halloween center!  Then, have your students write about what their teacher should wear for a costume! Getting Ready: To print the free book (and have the pages in the…

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  • 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…

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  • Magnetic Letters Center for All Year

    Magnetic Letters Center for All Year

    This post contains affiliate links. When I teach my first graders in guided reading groups, we almost always start out word work with magnetic letters.  I have my metal stove burner covers prepped ahead of time with magnetic letters so all my students have to do is “pull down” the letters needed to make a…

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  • Penguin Letter Identification Freebie for B D P & Q

    Penguin Letter Identification Freebie for B D P & Q

    This post contains affiliate links. My first graders are really starting to take flight with their reading and writing, but I’ve noticed lately that some of my kiddos still haven’t quite made it over that tricky B/D and P/Q “hump”. Because I’m somewhat obsessed with centers, I whipped up this quick and easy letter identification…

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  • Color Word Clip Cards

    Color Word Clip Cards

    This post contains affiliate links. Clip cards are quickly becoming one of my favorite types of learning activities!  They are super easy to prep, and students know exactly what to do with them! These Color Word Clip Cards are a great way for kids to practice the reading strategy “Does it look right?” when learning…

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  • My Classroom Tepee and Other Fun Reading Spots!

    My Classroom Tepee and Other Fun Reading Spots!

    This post contains affiliate links. WE GOT A TEPEE!  That’s in all caps because I think I love it as much (maybe more?) than my first graders do!  Anyways, we got the tepee through a very generous donor who is a friend of mine.  I babysat her daughter while I was in college and she…

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