I made a little freebie to go with this week's plans. Just click above to download. I am going to work on making more interactive notebook flaps to add to my Bears!! packet. Here are my plans for the week. I made this Soft C Literacy Center Packet to use this week. The ...
Phonics
-ing Centers & Visual Plans for the First Week of January
Are you ready to go back on Monday? I do miss my class, but it was so nice to be off! I love "stay-cations." My poor dogs are going to be so sad when I go back. I made this -ing literacy center packet to align with my Words of the Week packet. We are learning about -ing ...
Magic e and Plans for the Week
This week in first grade we are focusing on magic e. With our new Words of the Week phonic sequence, we decided to teach Magic e earlier in the year. Many of the students are already reading above grade level and need to understand Magic e in order to successfully read books at those ...
First Grade Words of the Week & a FREE YEAR LONG SCOPE & SEQUENCE
I know many of you have been waiting for this! It is finally done. After years of an outdated phonics scope and sequence, my colleague, Janine, and I decided to create a new scope and sequence. Our old one was based on an outdated Harcourt series we no longer used. We came up with this first ...
Phonics Themed Centers & Thanksgiving Updates
Twelve years in first grade and I am still busy cutting and laminating every Sunday night! I like to change things up and keep up with the new standards. Hence, all my new phonics based literacy center packets. Our district is shying away from a basal series and I wanted to make ...
Visual Plans for the Week of 11/5 – th digraph focus and bats
This week we are learning about bats, subtraction, short o, and the th digraph. The students are pretty good with short o, so my literacy centers this week will have more of a focus on the th digraph. I created a whole literacy center packet around it! Here is a peek ...
R-Controlled Vowels File Folder Word Walls
I love making file folder word walls with pictures and my students love using them! I just finished my R-Controlled Vowel File Folder Words Walls and posted them to TpT (click {here} to check them out). I am so close to reaching 2,000 followers! I am touched that there are that many ...
Words With Bonus Letters
Ms. M posted last week about needing help with bonus letters. I sent her my Words With Bonus Letters File Folder Word Wall from TpT. Then Erika from The Honey Bunch emailed me that she was doing a post on Bonus Letters and would give me a shout out. So I checked out her post and ...
Read/Write the Room Worksheets
Read/Write the Room is a staple center utilized in my print rich classroom environment. Each week, the students take clipboards, a pencil, and a worksheet and look around the room for words with a specific phonic element. They then record the words on worksheets like the one pictured ...
