This post is your one-stop shop for transforming your first-grade classroom into a vibrant hub of discovery with 9 engaging activities throughout the month of March. We'll delve into the fascinating world of St. Patrick's Day with festive crafts, lively music, and authentic Irish stories.
March will also see us celebrate the importance of reading with a week dedicated to Read Across America, featuring guest readers, book parades, and interactive read-alouds.
The magic of the 100th day of school will be celebrated with exciting learning stations where students will explore numbers to 100 through hands-on activities like building 100 towers, creating 100-bead necklaces, and writing 100-word stories.
We'll embark on a fascinating journey through the life cycle of butterflies, observing caterpillars transform into chrysalises and emerge as beautiful butterflies.
Creativity will flourish with engaging March writing stations, inspiring students to write poems about spring, compose stories about leprechauns, and create imaginative pieces based on their own experiences.
Foundational skills will be strengthened with captivating St. Patrick's Day phonics passages, incorporating letter sounds and blending activities into the festive theme.
We'll make math fun with exciting March math games, including games that involve counting shamrocks, identifying numbers on a lucky number line, and solving word problems related to St. Patrick's Day themes.
Get ready to ignite your students' imaginations and rediscover the joy of making learning an adventure!
Click Clack Moo, I Love You! Book Study
Learn the Luck of the Irish – Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with this Engaging Learning Unit!
Looking for a fun and engaging way to teach your students about St. Patrick's Day? This easy-to-use resource provides everything you need to bring the magic of the holiday into your classroom.
What You'll Find:
- Learn About St. Patrick's Day: Explore the history and significance of this festive holiday through engaging reading passages, KWL charts, and interactive cut-and-paste activities.
- Develop Key Skills: Practice fine motor skills, enhance vocabulary, and improve writing skills with engaging writing prompts and descriptive activities.
- Easy Prep: Simply print and go! These click-and-print resources are perfect for classroom instruction, independent learning, or even distance learning.
This comprehensive unit will make learning about St. Patrick's Day an enjoyable and memorable experience for your students.
Butterfly Life Cycles
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Transform Learning with this Engaging Butterfly Life Cycle Unit!
Help your students witness the wonder of metamorphosis with this interactive and engaging butterfly life cycle unit.
What You'll Find:
- Explore the Butterfly Life Cycle: Learn about each stage of the butterfly life cycle, from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly.
- Hands-on Activities: Engaging worksheets, interactive journals, and vocabulary cards make learning fun and interactive.
- Digital Version: Easily share and assign activities to your students through Google Classroom.
- Cross-Curricular Learning: Integrate butterfly life cycle learning with science, language arts, and art.
This comprehensive resource will make learning about the butterfly life cycle an exciting and memorable experience for your students.
March - Read Across America Week
Celebrate Read Across America Week with Ease!
Read Across America Week is a fantastic opportunity to ignite a love of reading in your students, but planning can be overwhelming. This all-in-one download simplifies the process and provides everything you need for a successful celebration.
What's Included:
- Comprehensive Reading Plan: A detailed plan to guide your reading activities throughout the week.
- Engaging Reading Responses: A variety of reading response activities, including story retelling, character analysis, and main idea identification.
- Creative Extras: Fun activities like book character dress-up ideas, a reading log, and bookmarks to enhance the celebration.
- Easy Prep: Most activities are no-prep or low-prep, allowing you to simply print and go!
Make Read Across America Week a memorable success with this comprehensive and easy-to-use resource.
March - Texas History Month
Explore the Lone Star State with this Engaging Texas Unit!
This comprehensive bundle provides everything you need to teach your students about the wonderful state of Texas!
Part One: Texas Symbols, Maps, and More
Delve into the heart of Texas with engaging activities covering state symbols, maps, flags, governors, and more.
- Interactive Activities: Cut and paste activities, differentiated worksheets, and engaging posters make learning fun and engaging.
- Teacher-Approved:
- “This was a great resource to use throughout our week dedicated to ‘everything about Texas.'” – Julia G.
- “It's hard to find current Texas resources for our young students.” – Jen M.
- Aligned with Standards: Covers key social studies concepts and aligns with many state standards.
This unit is a fantastic resource for teaching about Texas and sparking a love for learning in your students.
March & St. Patrick's Day Math Games
“Kiss Me, I'm Irish” Math Fun!
Looking for an engaging and easy-to-use math activity for St. Patrick's Day? These fun-filled math mystery pictures are perfect for practicing addition and subtraction skills!
What's Included:
- Four Engaging Pictures: Reveal a rainbow, four-leaf clover, pot of gold, and leprechaun as students correctly solve the math problems.
- Dual Purpose: Practice both addition and subtraction with problems ranging from addition to 15 to subtraction to 20.
- Self-Checking: Students can easily check their own work by revealing the hidden picture as they solve the problems correctly.
- Easy Prep: Simply print and go! These engaging activities are perfect for math centers, morning work, or early finisher activities.
Make learning math fun and festive with these St. Patrick's Day Math Mystery Pictures!
February Writing Station
Tired of “I'm Done” after two minutes? Spice up your writing block with this engaging March writing station set!
These 5 diverse activities, from free-writing inspired by images to procedural writing about the butterfly life cycle, keep students writing and learning. Each format offers differentiation options, allowing you to tailor the challenge for every learner.
Perfect for independent work or as a supplement to read-alouds, these activities are a lifesaver for both you and your substitute teacher. With engaging themes like “Leprechauns” and “Rainy Days,” your students will eagerly dive into their writing journals.
What's Included:
- Free Write: Spark creativity with image prompts like “A Leprechaun in My Classroom.”
- Look and Draw: Observe, draw, and describe pictures like a butterfly.
- Procedural Writing: Master “First, Next, Then, Last” with topics like the flower life cycle.
- Draw and Write: Combine art and writing with three-object prompts.
- Doodle Drawings: Complete the picture and write about it, like finishing a rainbow.
This set is a guaranteed hit, ensuring “aww, man” comes from students wanting more writing time, not wanting to stop!
Spring and March Phonics Passages
Closing the reading gap is harder than ever, which means phonics and fluency are more important than ever! This set of Spring Phonics Fluency passages is part of a series of holiday themed passages that focus on sight words, decoding and reading fluency for Spring.
These Spring Phonics and Fluency passages can be used for:
- small group instruction
- independent station activities
- at home activities/homework
With three levels of difficulty for each of the 4 Spring fluency passages, there is something for all reading levels in your classroom to flex their phonics muscles:
-Short Vowel Sentences
-Short Vowel Passage
-Long Vowel Passage
BONUS, there are also 4 sight word “look and find” activities in each product that students LOVE, but also give them the extra sight word and heart word recognition practice that they need!
What's Included:
Four Topics of Spring Phonics and Fluency Passages:
*Each with three levels of difficulty (see above)
- Puddles
- Plants
- Spring
- Nests
BONUS: Four Spring Sight Word “Look and Find” Activities
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