This week our first grade spelling words have taken a new direction. For the first four weeks of school, we were learning word families. Each week we had five words to memorize and a fluency passage to read. At the end of the week, we took a test over those five words and a practice sentence utilizing the words. This
Are you looking for classroom posters you can put up to inspire your first grade students to improve in various areas of their education? All of these posters were designed at 8.5″ x 11″ so they could be hung up on bulletin boards or placed in a students reference binder. Check back frequently as new posters will be added throughout
During a fishing trip this weekend with our daughter, my husband and I were discussing how we could improve her journal writing assignments in first grade. One of the things she is struggling with is understanding when she’s putting words down on paper that they need articles, nouns, and verbs, along with proper capitalization and punctuation. This is all very
I never dreamed I’d be homeschooling my first grade student. In fairness, I’m doing virtual school. But my child only gets 30-60 minutes of instruction a day from the teacher, and the rest of her education falls on me. In the last five weeks I have taken a crash course on everything from how to teach number bonds and improve letter
