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What’s New in the New Year? My January Newsletter

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What Does My December Look Like?

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Owl Lessons… a Non-fiction Unit to see WHOOO knows their Text Features

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Spiders…EEEK! Guided Reading with a Purpose Week 9

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Halloween Fun with Main Idea and Details

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Batty Week Guided Reading with a Purpose Fact or Opinion

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Community Helpers Guided Reading with a Purpose: Text to World

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Text to Self Connections with Me and My Family Guided Reading with a Purpose

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Friendship & Retelling GRP Week 2

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Using Google in my First Grade Classroom to Build Phonemic Skills

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First Week of School with Rules and Routines

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Guided Reading with a Purpose Building Strategies One Week at a Time

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Do your students need a friendly reminder about li Do your students need a friendly reminder about listening? 👂

This engaging SEL unit is perfect for morning meeting and helps students learn how to be better listeners through fun stories, discussions, and activities. Students will travel to the Town of Listening, solve real life scenarios, and learn why listening is such an important life skill.

With ready to use digital slides, printable activities, and interactive passport fun, everything is done for you. Just project and teach. It’s the perfect low prep way to build strong listeners and a positive classroom community.

👂Comment listening or SEL and I will send you the link.

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💛 Want to build a KIND classroom community? This e 💛 Want to build a KIND classroom community?
This engaging companion to A Little Spot of Kindness is the perfect way to model positive behavior and create a caring classroom environment.

Students will explore real-life kindness scenarios, reflect on their actions, and practice being thoughtful classmates.�From sorting activities and writing to crafts and discussion cards… it’s all meaningful and easy to use!

The kindness jar incentive system is a simple (and powerful!) way to encourage positive behavior all year long.�Plus, the posters, bulletin board pieces, and class displays help keep kindness front and center every day.

This resource is perfect for whole group, centers, morning meeting, or SEL lessons.
�Everything you need to build respect, empathy, and a classroom family your students will love. 💛

Comment kindness or spot for the link! ✨

“Such a wonderful companion to A Little Spot of Kindness! The activities are engaging, easy to use, and perfect for World Kindness Day or any SEL lesson. My students loved them and it sparked great conversations about being kind!”

“My students loved reading A Little Spot of Kindness and doing this activity to follow.  I had all students in grade K-2 do the activity during guidance class.”

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🕵️‍♀️✏️ Who took the missing pencils? Your student 🕵️‍♀️✏️ Who took the missing pencils? Your students will love becoming classroom detectives as they work together to solve this exciting Back-to-School Mystery!
Students complete 9 engaging tasks to earn clues and discover who took the pencils, when they took them, and where they hid them. Along the way they'll practice important skills like CVC spelling, rhyming, ten frames, shapes, place value, greater numbers, and more.

This resource includes a video introduction, student detective journals, clues, crowns, awards, a digital Google Slides version, and a fun pencil craft to wrap up the adventure. It's the perfect way to build classroom community, review skills, and create excitement during those first weeks of school!

Comment MYSTERY or PENCIL for the link! 🕵️‍♂️✏️🔍

“I absolutely loved doing this at the beginning of the year with my firsties! Great way to get going on content and build classroom community!”

“This was a great way to start the school year. It helped me get an idea of who can work well together, what skills they could do independently, and give them a refresher of skills they learned the previous year. It was a lot of fun!”

“This resource was exactly what I needed to make reviewing ELA and math skills both fun and meaningful for my students. “

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☀️ Ready to wrap up the year with some summer lear ☀️ Ready to wrap up the year with some summer learning fun? ☀️

This nonfiction summer unit is the perfect way to keep your students engaged while reviewing informational text skills right before summer break! With a 12-page mini reader, a real-photo digital book, and tons of hands-on comprehension activities, your students will build background knowledge and become “summer experts.” From research and writing to word work and an adorable popsicle craft, this resource is packed with everything you need for meaningful end-of-year learning!

Comment SUMMER or SUN and I’ll send you the link!

“These seasonal resources are great because they really delve deep into each season and they come with loads of information and activities. My students had a great time learning about summer!”

#firstgraderoars #nonfiction #endofyearactivities #firstgradefun #primaryteachers

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✏️ I'll be honest... grammar used to be one of my ✏️ I'll be honest... grammar used to be one of my least favorite subjects to teach. That all changed when I created these simple, structured units with daily I do, we do, you do lessons that make planning easy and learning fun!

My students looked forward to the weekly story, catchy educational song, interactive slides, hands-on activities, and the culminating craft and sort each week. Best of all, the predictable routine helped students build confidence while mastering important grammar skills.
Here's what teachers are saying:

⭐ "This resource is incredibly well-designed and engaging for students, making it a fantastic addition to any classroom."
⭐ "This is an amazing resource for really helping students understand nouns. I love that the daily routine incorporates some of the same activities each day so it is predictable for students to follow along with."

Comment NOUNS and I'll send you the link! 📚✨

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Giraffes Can’t Dance is one of the sweetest storie Giraffes Can’t Dance is one of the sweetest stories for helping students celebrate being different and finding their own strengths. 🦒

Gerald teaches students that everyone has their own beat and that believing in yourself makes all the difference. It is the perfect story for building growth mindset, confidence, and kindness in your classroom.

This companion pack includes comprehension activities, writing, vocabulary, word work, math games, and an adorable giraffe craft with bulletin board letters. It is a meaningful and engaging way to help students connect to the story and believe in themselves.

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