Pumpkin exploration, pumpkin investigation, or just pumpkin day! Whatever you call it, your students will love these fun, hands on science, reading, writing, and character education activities! Watch my Facebook Live video about this topic here. All of the free printables I’m going to share in this post are available in our Facebook group files here. Pumpkin Exploration: Let them…
Fire safety is such an important topic to expose our students to. Whether you’re discussing fire Safety during Fire Safety week in October, a community helpers unit, or any time of the year, here are some of my favorite books and activities to use with students. Fire Safety Books This post contains affiliate links. If there is a Gail Gibbons…
In First Grade (and pretty much every grade) building reading comprehension and retelling a story is SO important! I know that I am constantly working to help my student build their comprehension skills. In my class, I read aloud to my students everyday, and then we retell the story together using a retelling rope. If you’re not sure what a retelling…
Teaching CVCe words: It has SO many names: magic e, sneaky e, silent e… Whatever you call it in your class, teaching your students about the vowel, consonant, e rule is an important skill for reading and writing development. I absolutely LOVE teaching CVCe words using Sneaky e because my students think it is so fun. Here’s why: I tell them…