Activities for 1st Grade
This is a job for… The Question Mark!
Submitted by: Sheila
June 3rd, 2010
Categories: 1st Grade | Reading & Writing
Estimated Time: 10-20 minutes
Description: In teaching beginning sentence structure and punctuation, make the lesson hands-on by creating Super heroes The Period, Question Mark, and Exclamation Man!
Swat It!
Submitted by: Nichole
June 3rd, 2010
Categories: 1st Grade | 2nd Grade | 3rd Grade | ESL | Language Arts | Reading & Writing
Estimated Time: 10-20 minutes
Description: I use Post-it® Notes to write Sight Words, Vocabulary Words, or Spelling Words (which ever we are working on at the time) and place them randomly on the board for an exciting 2 team "I spy" type game of locating words.
Answer of the Day
Submitted by: Jennifer
June 2nd, 2010
Categories: 1st Grade | 2nd Grade | 3rd Grade | 4th Grade | 5th Grade | 6th Grade | 7th Grade | 8th Grade | Art | ESL | History | Language Arts | Math | Music | Reading & Writing | Science | Special Education
Estimated Time: 0-10 minutes
Description: An "Answer of the Day" is clearly posted where students check in on a dry erase board. Throughout the day students add Post-it® Notes to our question board to display what a possible question might be. This activity can go along with any topic and gives every child an opportunity for recognized success.
Favorite Flavors
Submitted by: Amanda
May 24th, 2010
Categories: 1st Grade | 2nd Grade | 3rd Grade | Kindergarten | Math
Estimated Time: 10-20 minutes
Description: As the year winds down, my Kindergarten students and I like to talk about the summer, and the kinds of things we like to do, and of course, like to eat. We use Post-it® Notes to draw our favorite ice cream sundae, complete with ice cream, bowl and toppings. We sit in a circle on the rug and take turns presenting our 'favorite flavors' to the class. We use the Post-its to create a graph - each child sticks his or her post-it to our chart paper under the appropriate flavor to create a bar graph. When we finish the activity, I surprise them by telling them we will have an ice cream sundae party, complete with all our 'favorite flavors'!
Post-it Cover-up
Submitted by: Danielle
May 24th, 2010
Categories: 1st Grade | 2nd Grade | 3rd Grade | History | Language Arts | Math | Reading & Writing | Science
Estimated Time: 0-10 minutes
Description: Use Post-it® Notes to cover up key words in a big book, chart, or poem to determine if students can figure out the missing words using context clues.
