Morning centers 1st grade

Get tips and ideas to create a calm morning routine in your classroom! Read about my favorite ideas for morning procedures using a visual chart, activities for morning work and morning tubs, a morning choice board, and creating a calming environment for your students! Find step-by-step Morning Procedures slides that will help students to be independent while completing procedures. Perfect for early elementary teachers in kindergarten first grade or second grade during back to school time!

You can give students a soft start to the school day, as well as incorporate essential practice with these strategies.

My blog post contains Amazon affiliate links which means that I earn a few cents from anything purchased through my links. I use that money to purchase items for my classroom. Last year, I began starting our day with morning bins as a paperless replacement for morning work. I love the versatility morning bins. You can get as complicated or simple as you want. I try really hard to use materials that I already have in my classroom. Below I've listed over 50 ideas for you, most of which I've…

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Start your day with morning tubs for morning work. There are so many benefits to starting your day with some activity time. It gives your students a chance to work on math skills in a fun way and it gives you a chance to do all the things needed in the morning. Click to read my number 1 reason for using morning tubs for morning work.

In my first fews years of teaching if you would have asked me what my favorite part of the day was I would have never said the morning. My morning routine used to be the opposite of calm with worksheets for morning work and kids constantly getting up to ask me to read them the directions. Once I shi

Ditch the worksheets and give morning tubs a try. This post shares 12 ideas that give students a fun way to work on math and literacy skills as well as fine motor skills and spatial awareness. It is a social way to begin the day that really calms my class and sets the tone for the day. #morningwork #gradeone #centerideas #literacycenters #mathcenters #morning tubs

Our calendar time is math based and engaging. Check out this resource that is the perfect interactive calendar for kindergarten or first grade!

Learn how to set up a STEM based paperless morning work schedule in your elementary classroom.

For K-1 students, centers are one of the most developmentally appropriate things that you can do for them. Let me give you the break down on each of my 5 centers, and how I manage them!

By doing morning tubs, writing journals, and a morning meeting your students will start the day sucessful. Morning routines for children are essential to a good day in the classroom.

Morning Tubs are my go-to every single morning with my 1st graders. They come in, put their things away, complete a quick morning work sheet on their desks, and then move onto their tubs. Every time I post about Morning Tubs on my Instagram or Facebook page, I get tons of questions, so I thought that I would put together an “All Your Questions Answered” post about Morning Tubs for you. #MorningTubs #FirstGrade #MorningWork

Embrace a soft start to your school day in the first grade classroom. Use Good Morning Tubs to give grade one students a fun way to work on math and literacy skills as well as fine motor skills and spatial awareness. It is a social way to begin the day that really calms my first grade and second grade students and sets the tone for the day.

I've made some big changes to how we do math centers in my first grade classroom. Read to see what I've changed and why I love it!

Why I got rid of morning work and switched to soft start instead. Use morning tubs to start your day by building creativity and community.

The end of the year is upon us, and I'm excited to tell you about the First Grade May/June Morning Bins here to save the day! I couldn't be more thrilled

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Need help with morning work ideas for your classroom? I'm sharing what I use for hands on morning work that my students love...

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