1st Grade

Any and all homeschooling resources that are appropriate for first grade.

Reluctant Writer Activities

5 Writing Activity Ideas for Reluctant Writers

Fun activities can go a long way to helping a kid who hates writing get more comfortable and improve their skills. When students gain just a little bit of confidence in their writing abilities, it can make writing much less frustrating. Here are a few fun writing activities that have worked well with my child …

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Syllable counting cards on table, child clapping hands and stomping feet to count syllables

Counting Syllables: Fun Activities + Teaching Tips

Are you looking for fun ways to work on pre-reading skills? Maybe you are wondering how in the world to teach counting syllables. Or why we need to teach counting syllables in the first place!? Wondering how to teach syllable division or identifying syllables to your kindergartener or preschooler? Well, then you are in the …

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Make it fun to practicing counting money with these hands-on activities free printables.

Free Printable Hands-On Activities for Counting Money

These free printable counting money activity worksheets are great for practicing counting coins and creating amounts of money using different coin combinations. Counting money is one skill that requires hands-on activities. Holding the coins in their hands helps students learn so much faster and more thoroughly than just seeing the images on a worksheet or …

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Free story template for young reluctant writers.

Reluctant Writer Activity: Draw & Write Story Template

Today, I’d like to share one of my favorite reluctant writer activities – my free, printable Draw and Write Story Template. Being a reluctant writer is very common in the early elementary grades. Writing is a hard skill! It takes memorization, patience, fine motor skills, grammar knowledge, the list just goes on. So, it’s understandable …

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Christmas Activities for Busy Moms – DIY Candy Cane Ornament

You know when you spend minutes hours looking at Pinterest Christmas crafts and just keep thinking “Oh, I wish I had time to do cute Christmas crafts with my kids.”?  The holidays are so busy as it is, then through work, housework, meals, and everything else in and when do we have time to actually …

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