1st grade centers

Make center time in your classroom one that is filled with engaged learning and exploration. As students work independently you are ready to work with reading groups or do small group instruction. But getting your centers set up is the beginning. This blog post details your step by step process for setting up a center rotation that your students will love. It includes literacy center and math center ideas as well as tips for organizing centers all year long.

Take a look at number sense workstations for kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and place value workstations for third grade!

Need some ideas and organization for your guided math small groups? In Part 3 of my Guided Math Blog series, I'm sharing all about my small group instruction in elementary. I love using a math workshop structure to schedule my math block in my 1st grade classroom. Get ideas for scheduling math rotations, grouping your students, planning differentiated small group lessons, hands-on math activities for the teacher table, guided math assessment, small group material organization systems, and…

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!

Engaging sentence building activity to teach your students about sentences and their parts. The perfect addition to your literacy centers in kindergarten and first-grade!

Click to find out how I run this low-prep math fact fluency center in my classroom all year long!!

Setting Up Your Reading Centers - Simply Creative Teaching

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This free Kindergarten sentence building and writing center is perfect for practice with making simple sentences for beginning writers!

Use these five tips when planning, creating and implementing your literacy centers in your elementary classroom!

I love to see how excited 1st Grade students get over working with money. This unit is loaded with hands-on and engaging math centers that help students

Working on sight words in preschool, Kindergarten, and 1st grade is a HUGE skill! That's why this "Build a Sight Word" activity with FREE recording sheet is so great! Click through to see how to set up your own literacy center so your classroom or homeschool students can master their sight words. And make sure to pick up your freebie while you're there! {preK, Kinder, & first graders}

Who doesn't love the Dollar Tree? They have figured teachers out and keep the fun stuff in stock for hands on fun in the classroom. I found the "coolest" materials there yesterday! I picked up these little tongs and plastic ice cubes and knew what I wanted to do with them immediately! My students love using tongs and the ice cubes are perfect for writing letters and words on. Take a look! I will include these in our fine motor bins that we use every morning and have students work in pairs to…

These free first grade reading games are great to use as first grade centers or in your first grade guided reading groups. Simply print the activities, and they are ready for use in your primary classroom!

These tips for running 1st grade math stations will help you make your math center time more effective. Use them in your first grade classroom to create a more engaging center time!

Science of Reading is taking over elementary classrooms, and today I’m sharing how to incorporate Science of Reading centers into your classroom. Science of Reading has 5 components: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension. These components can be used to create play centers or center games. I also like to use multisensory word work in centers as well. Check out my K-2 classroom no prep centers and center management and get started today!

I love the versatility of dry erase pockets! They are great for so many reasons; they are easy to prepare, easy to clean, durable, and students LOVE them! They are great to use for checking for understanding and guided practice. Students can hold them up like dry erase boards to quickly show you their work. Today I wanted to share a few of the First Grade Math Mats I created to use in dry erase pockets. They are great for whole group and small group instruction. Once the mats are introduced…

My Kindergarteners have been rocking their CVC words this year. I am so proud of them. I found the best way to teach short vowels, is to expose kids to them in a variety of methods. We talk about them in whole group and in guided reading. Students get independent practice in morning work buckets ... Read More about CVC Word Work {Freebies Included}

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

Tips and Ideas for Early Finishers Activities in 1st Grade Do you ever have students who finish their work in .5 seconds and ask, okay what do I do now?...