One of the Common Core standards for first grade is “Use common, proper, and possessive nouns (CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.1b).” In order to use these types of nouns, kids have to first know what they are. This worksheet I made will help with that. Students should match a common noun with its proper noun counterpart.
Click here for the common/proper noun matching worksheet: Common-proper noun match
I take every opportunity I can to promote friendship among my students. I encourage lots of compliments and positive thoughts. So when Valentine’s Day comes around, I really push the friendship idea! When I saw this idea, I thought it was fabulous! Run off a bunch of copies of this page and let your students give compliments to each other!
Click here for the free printable Valentine notes PDF: Lovely Friend Hearts
This month is Black History Month. I’ve put together a worksheet that goes over some of the main and significant events in American history relating to civil rights. It involves some reading comprehension and subtraction of dates to answer the 9 questions at the end. I recommend giving this to upper grades (5th or 6th grade).
Click here for the printable PDF: Civil Rights Movement Timeline Worksheet
Another holiday means more effort to keep kids focused on learning! Why not use this free printable language arts Valentine’s activity to disguise grammar review and poetry?! Click here for the PDF: Grammatical Poetry- Valentines Day
Here’s what the page looks like:
Click here for more grammatical poetry!
Looking for some fun Valentine crafts to do with your class? Check out these ideas:
Click here to see an awesome collection of Valentine animal crafts!
Give kids a bunch of pre-cut hearts and let them make something creative. (source)
Make a 3D heart wreath using strips of construction paper and ribbon (source).
I absolutely love this idea. I’ve done two other worksheets with this same idea (click here and click here to see them) and I’ve found it to be really successful. It’s super important to get kids familiar with the hundreds chart. Hopefully children will be so familiar with it that they can make their own hundreds chart on a piece of scratch paper during a test (since kids don’t get a printed hundreds chart on their standardized tests).Click here to see my third 10 more that/10 less than hundreds chart worksheet: hundreds chart- more than- less than OWL
These animal crafts were too adorable not to share. They would be way fun to make after studying animal environments, using them as a basis to teach adjectives or characteristics, etc.
Lion made with a paper plate and noodles! (source)
Chick and bunny printables. Great for spring and Easter! The website’s in Bulgarian, but if you click on the image, it takes you to the printable. Hooray for Google Translate! (source)
Cardboard tube octopus. Love it! (source)
As teachers, we encourage kids to become readers. I just recently learned that the first Saturday in February is National Take Your Child to the Library Day! Most public libraries do something to mark the occasion. Check with your local library for details. Take the opportunity to promote this in your classroom and community so we can improve literacy in our society!
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