Mandy's Tips for Teachers

First Grade Fun- Here is another engaging activity for How To Writing! We made popcorn in the air popper! The kids were mesmerized!

Let's talk about reading comprehension in first grade! Our kids have made so much growth this year and we are SO proud of them! We have been using high interest, nonfiction text to apply a variety of comprehension skills as a review. Last week we read National Geographic Kids: Snakes by Melissa Stewart to review skills like connections, comparing and contracting, text features, and key details! The kids LOVED it!

We are keeping How To Writing fun and hands on with simple activities! We made these crepe paper butterflies and wrote how to make them!

Anyone able to edit a short, mini unit for first grade for me please? It is only about 50 pages. Editors will get the final produce for free! Just leave you email below and I will randomly select a few names. Thank you!

FREEBIE ALERT! Is everyone else swimming as hard as I am this year? This year has been really tough, but I was able to make this simple place value matching activity for Halloween (two-digit numbers). Feel free to grab is for FREE here!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-clPz3Bc-iMFO-3xWYoTnR0IyWqky0GS/view?usp=sharing

This is so true it hurts a bit 🤣

Anyone working on retelling? We are hard at work learning story elements and then seeing how they fit into a retell! Check out the unit and a FREEBIE below!

Freebie: https://bit.ly/3sY2phX
Story Elements: Unit: https://bit.ly/3mLgsWV

One of my biggest surprises of this school year(of let's face it, many) is how much difficulty students have had using scissors and glue. It makes sense when you think about how many digital activities students did last year vs hands on....but I hadn't even made the connection. Anyone else seeing similar concerns?

https://mandystipsforteachers.com/interactive-notebooks-in-primary-grades-part-one/

I look at this at the start of every year.

https://www.facebook.com/516175153/posts/10164102779575154/

I am not at 20 yet and it still looks right 😂
https://www.facebook.com/332010413480308/posts/4849884001692904/

I really love this lesson. It so so important and applies to everything we learn in first grade!
https://littlemindsatwork.org/persevere-lesson-never-giving/