Free 1st Grade Activities (by date, oldest first)

This is just one page of my St. Patrick's Day Math Packet! Using this page, students will cut out the pictures and finish the AB and ABB patterns with fun St. Patrick's Day clip art from CK Clipart.

Students will read and sort words based on common vowel pair sounds ea, ai, and oa. Visuals are added as prompts to help the students remember the sounds.

We hope you enjoy our FREE Autumn Mindfulness Hunt. Get outside and connect with nature! Download our FREE Autumn Mindfulness Hunt now!

Ask the children to use this worksheet to to record what they SEE, HEAR, SMELL and FEEL as they walk outside on a nice Autumn day.

Recommended sequence

1. Review the 5 senses.

2. Take a moment to tune in, breathe, and just be.

3. Give instructions for how to quietly be in the outside world, using keen observation and a relaxed mind to fill in this chart.

4. Give plenty of time for students to draw or write their findings.

5. Come together as a group and find out what people observed and any impact it had on them.

Tips for your mindfulness nature walk

1. Walk at a natural, slow pace. Take your time to take in the beauty of nature around you. Look around you. Notice the trees around you. Are they starting to change colors? Are they losing their leaves?
2. Take in deep breaths through your nose. Shift your awareness to your smell. What do you smell? Does it smell earthy? Do you smell the leaves around you?
3. Listen. What do you hear? Are there animals bustling around? Do you hear the leaves crunching underneath your feet?
4. Pick up a few leaves. How do they feel? Are they starting to decompose? Are they crunchy? What color are they?
5. Shift your attention back to walking. Feel the physical sensation of walking. One foot up, one foot down. Notice your feet touching the ground. How do you feel?
6. At the end of your walk, pause and take a moment. Stand still and take in a deep breath. Take a look around and notice your feelings.

Here is a free coloring page from inside our first hard-copy workbook – a mandala! Mandalas provide a way to relax and find focus. Enjoy our free printable and check out our workbook and other products here on TeachShare or on our website.

Use this tracker each day to keep track of healthy habits! This tracker counts quiet time, healthy food choices, elf care, rest, gratitude, and more! There is also spaces to draw or write in other habits you want to keep track of.

Get moving with 5 minutes of yoga every day! Kids Yoga Day is held on the first Friday in April and was founded to bring the powerful benefits of yoga to children. Join us in a 5-minute yoga routine with our free Kids Yoga Day sequence poster!

A love meditation for children

This is a great way to work on first sound fluency and letter sounds!

Whether you are practicing phonological awareness, orthographic mapping, or tapping sounds in words when you read this mat is perfect! For some kids, phonological awareness is hard to hear and they need a concrete method in breaking sounds apart. This helped my students to break words apart when writing or practicing phonological awareness!

I am giving away one of the lessons from my Beginning Reader Phonics lessons! I used 95% Phonics, Wilson Fundations, and the Science of Reading to create these beginner reader lessons! This first lesson works on segmenting and blending CVC words with vowel a.

Included:

Detailed Lesson Plan

Phonemic Awareness

Letter Tiles

Introduction to reading words

Introduction to writing words

High-Frequency Word Page; the

Use it for small groups, early finisher activities, or centers! My kids always beg to play this game!

This freebie includes the first set which has the first 13 words on the Zeno word list. I teach the 107 Sight Words because they are the most narrowed-down list of the most commonly used words in texts. It is important your child can read these words quickly and accurately for success in reading! 

Included:

• Go Fish Rules
• Set 1; first 13 sight words on the Zeno Word List
• Total of 52 cards
• Endless amounts of fun!

*Prep time is needed. I suggest you print these on card stock and laminate them for more durability. Printing on normal paper will work too! Print the set of cards and cut them out!

For all 107 words buy the bundle!

107 Zeno Sight Word Game BUNDLE

Want to try before you buy? Download this freebie for a preview of my Label the Parts series. Practice scissor skills or handwriting with these no-prep, label the picture printables. This preview is of the Bird's Nest from Label the Parts - Spring.

All of the Label the Parts sets are great for labeling centers, writing centers, young learners, ESL students and more. Each picture has a cut and paste version or a fill-in version for differentiated learning and both a color and a black and white version are included. Use the black and white version to add a coloring component to the worksheet!

*Label the Parts series*

Label the Parts - Fall (including holidays)

Label the Parts - Winter (including holidays)

Label the Parts - Spring (including holidays)

Label the Parts - Summer (including holidays)

Label the Parts - Insects

Label the Parts - Animals

Label the Parts - Objects

Label the Parts - Life Cycles

All Label the Parts sets are available in a bundle. Buy the Label the Parts - Bundle and save 20%!

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Looking for other fun activities?

Colorful Owls - Trace, Color & Build

Colorful Pumpkins - Trace, Color & Build

What Belongs? Cut, Sort, Paste Activities

Dinosaur Math Puzzles - Numbers, Words, Tallies & more

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This cactus themed Color by CVC Word freebie is a preview of our full size Color by CVC Word units. This freebie comes with a "short a" puzzle featuring the words cat, mad, jam, and pan. Students can use the picture clue puzzle or the word clue puzzle. In the picture clue puzzle, students look at the picture of the word and then find the corresponding word to color. In the word clue puzzle, students have the CVC word to look at and find the matching word to color. No prep! Just print and go.

**This freebie comes with short a only, but the full units come with all five vowel families, each in two difficulty levels for 10 puzzles total.**

You can find all of the themed Color by CVC Word units here

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Check out my other CVC activites:

*all of my CVC activities use the same words and images for cohesive learning*

CVC Blending Cards - 85 Words with and without pictures

CVC Word Family Rearrange Puzzles -

85 Words

Seasons Color by CVC Word Bundle

CVC Word Memory Game

More coming soon...

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Why not try before you buy? Check out this free preview of the Fall Morning Work for Kindergarten and 1st Grade unit. The full unit is a set of fall themed morning work that's full of fun and quick activities! With count and match, ten frames, number bonds, mazes, connect the dots, rhyming words, word sorting, and labeling, there's plenty of variety. As a homeschooling mom, these are perfect for those days when I need just a few extra minutes between breakfast and the school day to make a cup of coffee and gather my thoughts without the kids losing focus! This pack is geared towards kinder and 1st graders and has many different skill levels throughout. To adapt the typical morning work for homeschoolers, I've added Saturday and Sunday to the days of the week and removed the usual date section since many homeschoolers don't work every day in a month. No wasted paper! Included *in FULL version*: [this preview includes 3 pages] -18 full color pages with day of the week, weather, and season, plus additional activity/activities -5 full color pages with two half-page activities on each for a total of 10 activities -Black and white versions of all full color pages for easier printing *Total of 28 activities included* ***************************************************************************** Looking for other morning work packs? Fall Morning Work for Preschool Fall Morning Work for Kindergarten and 1st Grade Fall Activities for Older Kids Winter Morning Work for Preschool Winter Morning Work for Kindergarten and 1st Grade Winter Activities for Older Kids Spring Activities for Older Kids ***************************************************************************** Before you go... Follow me to be the first to know about discounts, sales, and new products! Get credit to use on your next purchase • Leave feedback for any purchases you've made and TeachShare will give you a credit toward your next purchase! Plus, feedback helps me make better products tailored to what my customers are looking for. *****************************************************************************

Try our Roll and Cover games for free with this freebie download! Students practice counting, adding, and subtracting with these fun, fishing themed roll and cover games! Comes with one full set which includes five versions of the classic roll and cover game: roll and count the dots, add one, add two, subtract one, and roll two dice and add. Use erasers or your favorite markers/chips to cover the numbers!

This is a great way to try the games out before you buy a full set of our Roll and Cover Games. This freebie comes with an example of each of the five kinds of game boards that are included in each full resource unit.

These are great for classroom math centers or for homeschoolers to add to their gameschool collection. Low prep...just laminate and add dice!

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Looking for other roll and cover games?

Roll and Cover - Fall

Roll and Cover - Winter

Roll and Cover - Spring

Roll and Cover - Summer

Roll and Cover - Back to School

Roll and Cover - Community Helpers

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Adaptive Book with a theme of Aliens! This set includes an adaptive book with visual support and an adaptive book without visual support for 2 books. The pictures are adorable & engaging.

Adaptive books are a valuable tool to use with students. While the books do require some prep work such as printing, laminating, cutting and velcro; they can be used again and again! They are highly motivational for even the most reluctant learners. Each book has 8 removable picture icons to choose from. You can easily adapt by sharing less options with your students.

Shapes featured in the Alien books: square, rectangle, star, heart, triangle, oval, circle, rhombus

Need additional shape practice? Check out my other Adaptive Books with a shape them! They will provide fun and engaging opportunities to learn & demonstrate understanding of shapes! Grab them all in the bundle and switch out your materials throughout the seasons!

Fall Shapes total of 6 Adaptive Books apple themes, scarecrow, acorn, pumpkin

Christmas Shapes 5 Adaptive Books (present, tree, gingerbread, candy, reindeer)

Shapes in Adaptive Books - Growing Bundle

Do you love adaptive books & want a lot of options for your students? Then, check out my growing bundle! Now is the time to grab this bundle, as I am making many additional sets that will be included! 

Growing Bundle! Adaptive / Interactive Books for Special Education.

Thank you so much for checking out the Adaptive Aliens Shapes Books! If you want to see more, check me out below! 

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6 File Folder Games

File folder games allow students opportunities to learn to through play. Communication and appropriate interactions are important skills they will need throughout life.

This set provides 6 different activities, however they each follow the same general rules, expectations, and idea. I use this with my kiddos that need practice turn taking, losing (students may lose a desired game piece), cooperation, following directions, matching and so much more. The games are easy in nature, however highly addictive for the competitive kids. This allows for opportunities with students in differing abilities.

The themes for the games are:

Fill the Wagon

Make a cake

Buggy Day

Laundry

Moon Walk

Ice Cream

Rules (some differences in games - this example is the Fill the wagon rules).

Contents & Prep:

• Print/Laminate 1 mat per person, use a expo marker to personalize wagons.  Each player will collect their items in their wagon.
• Print and laminate 4 dogs, 4 flowers, 4 ice cream, 4 bubbles, 1 book, 1 leaf pile - place them in the middle of the game board. 
• Print the game board and glue/laminate to a file folder
• Print and prepare dice (or use your own dice)

*For easy storage of game pieces attach an envelope to the back of the file folder prior to lamination.  Make a small slice in the lamination to release the top of the envelope.  Attach velcro to close.  

Object:  Be the first to collect all the items except the leaf pile in your wagon.   If you have the books or the leaf pile and someone else lands on it you have to give it to the other player.  

Choose your player:  Once you have chosen your player, place them on the board any spot will do!

Directions:  

1. Roll the dice and move your player.
2. Collect the pieces as you go and place them in your wagon.   You may only get one of each item!  
3. The first person to collect 1 dog, 1 flower, 1 ice cream, 1 bubble and the books wins!

For 2-4 players

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It is time for Valentines! Enjoy the holidays with your students as you prepare them for a valentine party and discuss feelings.

Book 1: Read a story about valentines party with your students. They will answer comprehension questions & select the correct answer from a choice of 8 picture icons.

Book 2: Read the story with your students. Each feeling has a situation: "I can't wait for the party. I feel excited!" or "My stomach hurts. I feel sick".

Heart feelings pictures: 8 picture cards with a heart feeling & identify the feeling. Included feelings: excited, worried, sad, jealous, surprised, sick, angry, happy.

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Introduction to Wordle! This is a print and go activity with multiple levels as students develop skills. The playing mats can be reprinted and used again and again as so many different words can be created.

Begin with 3 letter words -

Level 1 - Students can use the alphabet to guess letters in your chosen word. You will mark (red, yellow or green) once students have guessed.

Level 2: Students will use a letter bank (10 letters) to make CVC words. You will again mark the students guesses.

Wordle mats with 4 letter words -

Level 1 - Students can use the alphabet to guess letters in your chosen word. You will mark (red, yellow or green) once students have guessed. (These are great for digraph, or consonant blend practice!)

Level 2: Students will use a letter bank (12 letters) to make 4 letter words. You will again mark the students guesses.

Wordle mats with 5 letter words -

Level 1 - Students can use the alphabet to guess letters in your chosen word. You will mark (red, yellow or green) once students have guessed.

Level 2: Students will use a letter bank (12 letters) to make 5 letter words. You will again mark the students guesses.

Have fun!!

Spring Short Vowel CVC - Word Blending, Segmenting & Building

Word Ending Digraphs - ge/-dge

Word Ending Digraphs - ch / -tch

Are you looking for an easy way to improve student behaviors? This is a fun, easy, print and go activity.

I use the secret missions with my students. Simply print the packet, cut out, and post the missions in your room (be sure to cover each mission with a "secret mission" card".

Then the magic begins. Each morning during your morning meeting time chose a kiddo to uncover a mission. Discuss the mission, the importance of it, what it looks like. I generally have a secret task force who also watches for the behaviors. Then when your children are "caught" they earn a party point/tally/ball (whatever reinforcer you use) for your class. Currently my kids are working to earn hot chocolate with toppings.

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