First grade gifted activities

Learn how to encourage critical thinking and grow students problem solving abilities with enrichment activities that are fun and engaging.

FREEZE is the math movement game of every elementary teacher’s dreams! It combines academics, social skills, movement, AND fun into one amazing activity.

Gifted kids tips for helping gifted students and making sure their work is challenging, meaningful, and fun! So many great activities ideas and how to emotionally support the advanced learners in your classroom or your child at home.

Gifted and talented activities 1st grade but these ideas can be used for any elementary classroom!

Are you looking for ways to challenge gifted students in your classroom? Do you want to foster their intellectual and creative development? If so, you’re in the right place. In this article, you’ll find tried-and-true strategies and activities to engage and challenge gifted students in the regular classroom. Keep reading to find out how to create enriching learning activities for your gifted students and help them grow to their full potential.

Yes! You can challenge your gifted kids! With this list of 100 Games for Gifted kids.

I've been teaching gifted and high achieving students for the past 15 years. In that time, I've come to have a great understanding of what motivates bright minds and what turns them off. I have a soli

My favorite Back to School Activities in my first grade classroom! These are my go-to activities for the first week of school!

Hi friends! I have been working hard all day on this blog post and I hope it helps you in your support of GT kiddos in your classroom! As the GT teacher for my grade level, I'm expected to take 18 hours of training on supporting GT kiddos, and I just finished last weekend. It

Are you struggling with differentiating instruction for gifted students? Check our ideas out here for teaching tips and ideas for engaging high achieving students in the classroom. It is important for teachers to engage all learners in the classroom but can be hard to balance gifted and talented activities along with everything else. Find more information here on how to challenged gifted students here.

How can you support your gifted and talented students to thrive in your classroom? Provide them with daily challenge!

Each challenge connects to a read aloud book to help students connect to the activities and is designed specifically with first graders in mind. They build simple projects to give them a firm foundation in engineering. The lessons align with First Grade NGSS covering all of the engineering standards.

Supporting gifted students in the classroom is so important. We want students to be engaged and learn all year long. There are many ways you can differentiate for these learners through extension activities, guided reading, and projects. I'm sharing a few specific ways you can support gifted students in the classroom.

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Looking for engaging and differentiated ways to teach elementary gifted students? Using no-prep, differentiated tic-tac-toe menu boards with auditory, kinesthetic and verbal activities are perfect for early finishers, gifted students, and enrichment. Choice board menus are great for reviewing and extending what you've taught in class, perfect for the back to school season or at the end of the school year. Check out these teaching tips to simplify your instruction and spend hours lesson…

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Early finisher activities for elementary school classrooms that foster student choice and student engagement.

If you have been following our blog, you might have seen our post about our favorite teacher hack, earlier finisher packets! If you missed it, don’t worry, I will sum it up real quick for you. Essentially, despite teaching different grade, Emmy and I realized we were both having the same Issue. Kid

Looking to foster relationships among your students during back to school? This blog post is filled with fun Getting to Know You activities for kids! From icebreakers to games, get creative ideas to promote friendship and community in the classroom. Perfect for kindergarten, first grade, or 2nd grade, these activities encourage communication through making friendship bracelets. Explore these free back to school activities for exciting ways to build connections.