If you’re planning a winter theme in your classroom, these resources will incorporate meaningful lessons for your K-3 students.
First Grade Writing Prompts for January is a fun and engaging resource to teach get your students writing every day. Use alone or create the perfect 1st Grade Writing Journal with the activities in this resource. Help your students grow as writers with these First Grade Daily Writing prompts and activities designed for the month of January. Each day students will have a short writing prompt or activity to help them improve on key writing skills. January skills focuses on adjectives and describing. These activities are perfect for your January morning work, exit tickets, center activities, writing center, small group instruction and intervention! Not all activities are winter themed so they are easy to use at other times of the year too! This makes is easy to differentiate for the needs of your students all year long!
Use as a writing journal each month to have documented growth in your students' writing. They will love seeing how far they have come in the year and parents will love this wonderful writing keepsake.
First Grade January writing objectives include:
•Week 1 – different kinds of adjectives
•Week 2 – describing characters
•Week 3 – describing setting
•Week 4 – describing problem/solution
Daily Writing Prompts and Activities is available for the ENTIRE YEAR! Based on your school's curriculum you might find that you need to mix and match skills for your students. Here's an overview of the skills for each month:
September – the objective is foundational skills of letter formation and writing words
October - the objectives are to be able to identify and write the missing letter in a word; writing lists; transition words; and labeling Halloween pictures.
November – the objective is to be able to make and write sentences This month only has 3 weeks of booklets to accommodate Thanksgiving holidays. The last week uses Thanksgiving pictures to write sentences.
December - the objective is to use transition words and combine sentences. This month only has 3 weeks of booklets to accommodate Christmas holidays. The last week uses Christmas pictures to sequence events.
January - the objectives are to learn and use adjectives; and story elements (character, setting, problem, solution).
February - the objective is for the students to write a story using last month’s story elements. Valentine’s Day prompts are included for the second week.
March – the objective is to write opinions and give reasons why.
April – the objective is to write a paragraph using a paragraph frame.
May –the objective is independent writing. Prompts are provided each day.
Your students will love reviewing and practicing their beginning digraphs with these fun and engaging center activities, digraph games and digraph worksheets. This resource focuses on the CH digraph, SH digraph, TH digraph and WH digraph. These activities, worksheets and games are perfect for independent practice, small group teaching, word work centers, homework or morning work. This 67 page resource is filled with great digraph practice activities.
This Digraph Resoruce Includes:
- Digraph Anchor Charts and Posters
Hands-On Digraph Activities:
- 4 Build a Snow Globe Cards
- 24 Clip It Cards
- 24 Build the Word With Magnetic Letters
- Pocket Chart Sorting Activity
Digraph Games:
- Matching - Memory Game
- Spin the Digraph Game
- Digraph Dominoes
Digraph Worksheets:
- Three snowman digraph coloring sheets
- Digraph Flip Book
- Worksheets that Coordinate with the other activities and games
Display the poster in the classroom for students to use as a visual aide.
All games/activities use the same 24 pictures so your students will easily and quickly learn to be independent.
Your students will love learning about winter with this fun and action packed Winter Unit for Kindergarten and 1st Grade. This unit starts with a non-fiction read aloud that introduces students to key vocabulary related to winter. A student reader is also included so students can practice reading on their own or in small groups. Coordinating center activities are also included. There are a lot of fun things to do in the winter. Your students will enjoy reading and learning about them. This unit has everything you will need for your literacy lessons.
This Winter Unit Includes:
• A read aloud for you that introduces the concept of winter and some vocabulary.
• A sample anchor chart and whole group lessons for action words.
• A student reader that shows action words in winter.
• Action word picture and word cards for matching
• Winter word wall cards
• 8 build the winter word cards
• Write the Room activities (3 levels)
• A cover and student writing page template for a class book.
The printable resources come in both color and black & white so you can print the ones you want.
Glyphs are fun and engaging activities that work on many key reading and math skills! Engage your students in learning with this Snowman winter themed glyph. Students will practice reading and following directions as they create their snowman glyph. Then amp up the learning by using the glyphs to allow your students to practice reading charts (a glyph is a type of chart), collecting data and graphing data. These also make a wonderful community building activity as students learn more about each other and find people they have things in common with.
This Snowman glyph is the perfect math activity to add to your snowman or winter unit. Connect your themed learning to math and analyzing data!
This Snowman Winter Glyph Includes:
- Cut and Paste Glyph activity (Color and Black & White options included)
- Coloring Glyph activity
These glyphs are perfect for a whole class activity or an independent math center. Your students will love this fun seasonal activity!
Writing activities designed for Kindergarten or early writers. These writing prompts will have your kinder students writing every day with activities designed just for kindergarten! Make a monthly writing journal to watch your students' progress.
January, month 5, has prompts for simple sentences using some sight words. The objective is for the students to choose words that make sense and write them to complete the sentence.
• Week 1 has the word can. Students write words that make sense and draw a picture of the word.
• Week 2 uses the word is. Students write words that make sense and draw a picture.
• Week 3 focuses on the word like. Students write words that make sense and draw a picture.
• Week 4 focuses on the words can see. Students write words that make sense and draw a picture.
Do you need activities for your literacy centers ? When it's cold outside your students can have fun searching for winter thematic vocabulary! Simply print and laminate these picture cards/sentence cards to “hide” in the classroom.
The students should find a word/sentence posted in your classroom and write it in the correct box on the recording sheet.
There are three levels of the recording sheets so you can differentiate this activity.
1. Match the picture on the recording sheet to a picture card.
2. Find a picture card that has a word with a specific letter.
3. Find a sentence card that has the word on the response sheet.
Engage your kindergarten, first and second grade students during the winter season with these interactive winter themed scrambled sentences. Your students will love the seasonal sentences and they won't even realize they are perfecting their sentence writing abilities. This Winter Sentence Resource include scrambled sentences that the students will put into order. There are three different winter themed build a sentence activities that are perfect for December, January and February. These Scrambled Sentences and great writing activities for centers, the writing station, morning work, small group instruction and even intervention!
Winter Scrambled Sentences Includes:
Activity 1 - Scrambled Sentences Cut and Paste
12 worksheets included
Students will:
• read the sentence
• build the sentence (cut and paste)
• write the sentence
• draw a picture to go with the sentence
Activity 2 - Pocket Chart Build a Sentence
12 sentences included
Students will:
• Build the sentence using the word cards
• Write the sentences they made
Activity 3 - Write Winter Sentences
25 word tiles included
Students will:
• Read the words on the word tiles
• Use the words to build a sentence
• Write the sentence they build
• Draw a picture to illustrate the sentence
Teach your first, second and third grade students about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his life accomplishments. Allow Dr. King to inspire your students to solve problems peacefully and show acts of kindness and caring for each other at school and at home. This Martin Luther King, Jr. resources includes a non-fiction reader about Dr. King, and a half page student reader too! This MLK resource includes coordinating language arts and math activities too.
This MLK Resource includes the following activities:
• A non-fiction read aloud to your class that contains background knowledge about Martin Luther King, Jr.
• A half-page student reader
• A flap book reading comprehension activity
• A class book writing activity
• Classroom Nobel Peace Prizes - students watch for acts of kindness and recognize their classmates with a peace prize.
• 8 calendar math task cards based on days and dates in the month of January related to MLK and an answer sheet.
• Scrambled sentences detailing facts about MLK and response sheets.
• Build an Sentence worksheets
• A class book writing activity
• Classroom Nobel Peace Prizes - students watch for acts of kindness and recognize their classmates with a peace prize.
• 8 calendar math task cards based on days and dates in the month of January related to MLK and an answer sheet.
• Scrambled sentences detailing facts about MLK and response sheets.
• Build an Sentence worksheets
Your students will love all of the MLK Activities!
Homework Calendar First Grade Editable January 2020 Free
If you have specific objectives this month that are not included you can edit each day’s item by highlighting the text you want to change and typing a new skill.
Make homework meaningful for your first grade students with this FREE January Parental Involvement Homework Calendar. Students and their families will have fun doing activities such as:
· Find something nonliving. (a rock or soil)
· Look at the moon each night through this weekend. Record any changes you see.
· Read and discuss a nonfiction book. Identify important facts or details in the book.
· Look at a dictionary with your child. Point out the definitions and correct spelling of the words.
· Talk about the basic needs of food, clothing and shelter.
There is an activity for every weekday. (Does not include weekends or holidays.)
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