Do your students need extra practice with isolating beginning sounds? These printable beginning sound picture sorts will give them the extra practice they need! These are 2-way sorts, and several consonant sounds are included! There are 30 sorts in all! These will give your students tons of practice with isolating and sorting beginning consonant sounds. The consonant sounds included are: b, c, d, f, g, h, j, l, m, n, p, s, t. This resource includes a variety of beginning sound sorts, and includes some voiced/unvoiced sorts as well. These printable short vowel sorts are easy on ink, as they are completely in black and white. They are easy to copy for your students. You can use them for assessments, whole class activities, or use them for literacy centers. They make great homework activities. You can choose different sorts to differentiate for your students. Sound sorts are a great way to help your students hear sounds and show what they know! Sound sorts also help with fine motor skills, concentration, sorting/classification, and problem solving! *This product is NOT intended to be an alphabetic resource and does not include all letters/sounds of the alphabet! This resource is intended to give your students practice with isolating and sorting both voiced and unvoiced consonant sounds using the beginning phoneme of each word.* Check out my other sound sorts as well: Ending Sound Phoneme Isolation Sorts- n, p, t, g, b, d, m, l, k and s. This resource includes a variety of ending sound sorts, and includes some voiced/unvoiced sorts as well. Short Vowel Picture Sorts- every vowel combination is included, as well as single letter sorts (ex. a/not a) Consonant Digraph Phoneme Isolation Sorts- includes th, sh, ch, ph, wh, wr, kn, and ending ph, sh, th, ch, and ck. There are also sorts that include beginning and ending sound sorts for the same sort, such as begins with sh and ends with sh. Concepts of Print and Print Awareness Printable Sorting Activities- includes letter/word sorts, capital letter/lowercase letter sorts, letter/word/sentence sorts, picture/word sorts, and number/letter sorts. There are 5 of each sort included. Beginning Blends Phoneme Isolation Sorts- includes 58 beginning blends sorts featuring s-blends, r-blends, and l-blends.

These Concepts of Print and Print Awareness sorts contain simple, easy prep sorting activities for your students. These are printable activities. There are 5 different sorting activities with 5 versions of each sort. The sorts are: letter/word sort capital letter/lowercase letter sort letter/word/sentence sort picture/word sort number/letter sort These simple sorts can be used in many ways. They can be used in a small group, as a whole class activity, or in a center. They can be sent home as homework or used as a "when I'm finished" activity. You can differentiate your sorts by giving your students the sort they need- some students may be ready for a letter/word/sentence sort, while others need just a letter/word sort. These are easy to prep- just print and go! Check out my other sorting activities as well: Beginning Sound Phoneme Isolation Sorts- includes b, c, d, f, g, h, j, l, m, n, p, s, t. This resource includes a variety of beginning sound sorts, and includes some voiced/unvoiced sorts as well. Ending Sound Phoneme Isolation Sorts- n, p, t, g, b, d, m, l, k and s. This resource includes a variety of ending sound sorts, and includes some voiced/unvoiced sorts as well. Short Vowel Picture Sorts- every vowel combination is included, as well as single letter sorts (ex. a/not a) Consonant Digraph Phoneme Isolation Sorts- includes th, sh, ch, ph, wh, wr, kn, and ending ph, sh, th, ch, and ck. There are also sorts that include beginning and ending sound sorts for the same sort, such as begins with sh and ends with sh. Beginning Blends Phoneme Isolation Sorts- includes 58 beginning blends sorts featuring s-blends, r-blends, and l-blends. My sorts are also available in a money-saving bundle.

Do your students need extra practice with isolating beginning sounds? These printable ending sound picture sorts will give them the extra practice they need! These are 2-way sorts, and several consonant sounds are included! There are 30 sorts in all! These will give your students tons of practice with isolating and sorting ending consonant sounds. The consonant sounds included are: n, p, t, g, b, d, m, l, k and s. This resource includes a variety of ending sound sorts, and includes some voiced/unvoiced sorts as well. These printable short vowel sorts are easy on ink, as they are completely in black and white. They are easy to copy for your students. You can use them for assessments, whole class activities, or use them for literacy centers. They make great homework activities. You can choose different sorts to differentiate for your students. Sound sorts are a great way to help your students hear sounds and show what they know! Sound sorts also help with fine motor skills, concentration, sorting/classification, and problem solving! *This resource is intended to give your students practice with isolating and sorting both voiced and unvoiced consonant sounds using the ending phoneme of each word.* Check out my other sound sorts as well: Beginning Sound Phoneme Isolation Sorts- includes b, c, d, f, g, h, j, l, m, n, p, s, t. This resource includes a variety of beginning sound sorts, and includes some voiced/unvoiced sorts as well. Short Vowel Picture Sorts- every vowel combination is included, as well as single letter sorts (ex. a/not a) Consonant Digraph Phoneme Isolation Sorts- includes th, sh, ch, ph, wh, wr, kn, and ending ph, sh, th, ch, and ck. There are also sorts that include beginning and ending sound sorts for the same sort, such as begins with sh and ends with sh. Concepts of Print and Print Awareness Printable Sorting Activities- includes letter/word sorts, capital letter/lowercase letter sorts, letter/word/sentence sorts, picture/word sorts, and number/letter sorts. There are 5 of each sort included. Beginning Blends Phoneme Isolation Sorts- includes 58 beginning blends sorts featuring s-blends, r-blends, and l-blends. My sorts are also available in a money-saving bundle.

Do your students need extra practice with middle sounds? These printable short vowel picture sorts will give them the extra practice they need! These are 2-way sorts, and every vowel combination is included. There are also single letter sorts included as well (a/not a). These printable short vowel sorts are easy on ink, as they are completely in black and white. They are easy to copy for your students. You can use them for assessments, whole class activities, or use them for literacy centers. They make great homework activities. You can choose different sorts to differentiate for your students. Both single page sorts and a 2 page sort (sorting sheet on one page and pictures on the other) are included. Sound sorts are a great way to help your students hear sounds and show what they know! Check out my other sound sorts as well: Beginning Sound Phoneme Isolation Sorts- includes b, c, d, f, g, h, j, l, m, n, p, s, t. This resource includes a variety of beginning sound sorts, and includes some voiced/unvoiced sorts as well. Ending Sound Phoneme Isolation Sorts- n, p, t, g, b, d, m, l, k and s. This resource includes a variety of ending sound sorts, and includes some voiced/unvoiced sorts as well. Consonant Digraph Phoneme Isolation Sorts- includes th, sh, ch, ph, wh, wr, kn, and ending ph, sh, th, ch, and ck. There are also sorts that include beginning and ending sound sorts for the same sort, such as begins with sh and ends with sh. Concepts of Print and Print Awareness Printable Sorting Activities- includes letter/word sorts, capital letter/lowercase letter sorts, letter/word/sentence sorts, picture/word sorts, and number/letter sorts. There are 5 of each sort included. Beginning Blends Phoneme Isolation Sorts- includes 58 beginning blends sorts featuring s-blends, r-blends, and l-blends. All my sound sorts are also available in a money-saving bundle.

Do your students need extra practice with isolating and identifying digraphs? These printable consonant digraph picture sorts will give them the extra practice they need! These are 2-way sorts, and several consonant digraph sorts are included! There are 29 sorts in all! These will give your students tons of practice with isolating and sorting consonant digraphs. The digraphs included are: th, sh, ch, ph, wh, wr, kn, and ending ph, sh, th, ch, and ck. There are also sorts that include beginning and ending sound sorts for the same sort, such as begins with sh and ends with sh. These printable are easy on ink, as they are completely in black and white. They are easy to copy for your students. You can use them for assessments, whole class activities, or use them for literacy centers. They make great homework activities. You can choose different sorts to differentiate for your students. Sound sorts are a great way to help your students hear sounds and show what they know! Sound sorts also help with fine motor skills, concentration, sorting/classification, and problem solving! Check out my other sound sorts as well. Beginning Sound Phoneme Isolation Sorts- includes b, c, d, f, g, h, j, l, m, n, p, s, t. This resource includes a variety of beginning sound sorts, and includes some voiced/unvoiced sorts as well. Ending Sound Phoneme Isolation Sorts- n, p, t, g, b, d, m, l, k and s. This resource includes a variety of ending sound sorts, and includes some voiced/unvoiced sorts as well. Short Vowel Picture Sorts- every vowel combination is included, as well as single letter sorts (ex. a/not a) Concepts of Print and Print Awareness Printable Sorting Activities- includes letter/word sorts, capital letter/lowercase letter sorts, letter/word/sentence sorts, picture/word sorts, and number/letter sorts. There are 5 of each sort included. Beginning Blends Phoneme Isolation Sorts- includes 58 beginning blends sorts featuring s-blends, r-blends, and l-blends. These sorts are also available in a money-saving bundle.

This All About Me Book is a great way to get to know your students, and works well with an "I'm Special" or "About Me" Social Studies unit of study in a Kindergarten classroom. This could also be used with Pre-K/Preschool classrooms if the teacher does the writing portions. These are perfect to complete and leave on desks as a display for a Back to School Night or an Open House. The pages can be used as a book or standalone, like on a bulletin board. There are 22 page options included in this book. You can use as many or as little of them as you like! Pages Included: All About Me cover page (2- 1 with a picture, 1 blank) This is Me! This is My Family When I Grow Up My Home My Friends My School (2- 1 with school name, 1 without) My Teacher (2- 1 with teacher name, 1 without. Also includes "My Teachers" pages for classrooms with multiple teachers and/or paraprofessionals) My Birthday My Favorite Color My Favorite Food My Favorite Animal My Favorite Book My Favorite Things (2) I Like...

Counting Book for Number Reinforcement: This Counting Book is designed for Pre-K or Kindergarten students who are working on counting and number sense. The students will be able to draw the specified number of objects on a ten frame, and then be given a second opportunity to draw the number of objects again. You could also allow students to use bingo daubers or stickers to represent the number. On each page, the number and number word are an open font so students can decorate or color them to reinforce the number and number word. A second version of this book is now included. It gives students the opportunity to represent the number on the ten frame, write the number, find the number, and draw that number of objects. This book contains pages 0-10.

Counting Book for Number Reinforcement: This Counting Book is designed for Pre-K, Kindergarten, or first grade students who are working on counting and number sense with teen numbers. The students will be able to draw the specified number of objects on a ten frame, draw the number of objects again, write the number, and find the number. There is an alternative option with a number bond as well. You could also allow students to use bingo daubers or stickers to represent the number. On each page, the number and number word are an open font so students can decorate or color them to reinforce the number and number word. This book contains pages 11-20. There are 2 slightly different versions included.

Do your students need a little extra help with learning their name? These activities are a fun way for your students to have a little extra practice with their name, while allowing them to have some fun! Included activities: -Letters in my name/letters in my friend's name sort -Letters in my name/not in my name sort -# of letters in my name -Name puzzles -Decorate the first letter of your name These activities are great for beginning of the year Kindergarteners or Pre-Schoolers! Each activity is printable- no laminating and cutting required! For more great name activities, check out my blog post, "What's In a Name?"

Looking for a great activity for the end of the school year? This End of Year Memory Book is a great way for your kindergarteners to chronicle their school year. Each page in the book is a half a sheet to help save on paper at the end of the year. The students can work on this during the last week of school to keep them engaged and still working! The pages in the book have big lines to make writing easy for little hands! Pages in the book include: 3 front cover options (boy, girl, and gender neutral) All About Me My Favorite Things My School My Best Friend My Teacher My Favorite Field Trip What I Love About Kindergarten Autographs pages Photographs pages (if you have photos of your students, they could glue or tape those in their memory book!) I also have versions available for First and Second Grade as well.

Do your students need extra practice with isolating and identifying beginning blends? These printable beginning blends picture sorts will give them the extra practice they need! These are 2-way sorts, and several beginning blends sorts are included! There are 58 sorts in all! These will give your students tons of practice with isolating and sorting consonant digraphs. The blends included are: st, sp, sk, sm, sn, st, sw, sl, pl, fl, gl, cl, bl, br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr and tr. There are s blend sorts, r blend sorts, and l blend sorts. These printable are easy on ink, as they are completely in black and white. They are easy to copy for your students. You can use them for assessments, whole class activities, or use them for literacy centers. They make great homework activities. You can choose different sorts to differentiate for your students. Sound sorts are a great way to help your students hear sounds and show what they know! Sound sorts also help with fine motor skills, concentration, sorting/classification, and problem solving! You can get these and all my other sound sorts in a money-saving bundle! Check out my other Sound Sorts: Beginning Sound Phoneme Isolation Sorts- includes b, c, d, f, g, h, j, l, m, n, p, s, t. This resource includes a variety of beginning sound sorts, and includes some voiced/unvoiced sorts as well. Ending Sound Phoneme Isolation Sorts- n, p, t, g, b, d, m, l, k and s. This resource includes a variety of ending sound sorts, and includes some voiced/unvoiced sorts as well. Short Vowel Picture Sorts- every vowel combination is included, as well as single letter sorts (ex. a/not a) Consonant Digraph Printable Sorting Activities- includes beginning and ending consonant digraph sorts. Concepts of Print and Print Awareness Printable Sorting Activities- includes letter/word sorts, capital letter/lowercase letter sorts, letter/word/sentence sorts, picture/word sorts, and number/letter sorts. There are 5 of each sort included.

You've got your number sense centers covered with this easy to prep Number Sense Activities Bundle. These games are not themed so you can pull them out to use anytime during the year! There are 33 different easy prep games, and most of the games have multiple options so that you can use them throughout the year or differentiate your instruction. Both color and black and white options are available for most games. Recording sheets are also included as appropriate. These games use items you probably have in your classroom, such as cubes, ten frames, playing cards, and more. All the game pieces and gameboards are included, and are easy to prep. Also included are student instructions for each game that can be printed and placed at each center. This Number Sense Activities Bundle covers numbers 0-20. It covers skills such as number recognition, counting, 1-1 matching, counting on, writing numerals, representing a number of objects with a drawing or number, comparing numbers, subitizing, and composing/decomposing numbers. Games Included: Fill the Cup Grab It, Count It! What's In The Bag? Roll It, Build It Bump! Roll and Cover 5 in a Row Build It! Collect 10 First to Fill Number Line Build It Five Frame Fill Up Roll and Remove Go Fish! Number Memory Race to Trace Roll N' Write What's Missing Race to 10 Spin and Trace: 5 in a Row Spin and Trace Number Writing Count Around the Room Order It! Battle! What Comes Next? One More, One Less Toss It! Hide It! What's Under the Cup? Subitizing Sort Number Puzzles Cut and Paste Puzzles Ten Frame Match

This "My First Day" Crown is perfect for your students to create and wear on the first day of school! This contains 12 different "First Day of School Crowns" that you can print on cardstock and allow your students to cut them out and color them. Then they can wear them on their first day of school! There is a crown for Preschool, Pre-K, Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade, and a generic one that says "Today is my First Day of School!"

Sorting and categorizing can be very beneficial learning opportunities for students. These Vocabulary Concept Sorts will give your students the opportunity to sort everyday objects into different categories. There are 7 different sorts included, in both color and black and white. The categories included are: Healthy/Not Healthy Food Pets/Farm Animals/Zoo Animals Sunny Days/Snowy Days/Rainy Days Land/Air/Water Transportation Furniture found in a Living Room/Kitchen/Bathroom/Bedroom Animals that Crawl/Walk/Hop/Swim/Fly Christmas/Halloween/Thanksgiving/Easter The sorts with multiple categories can be broken down into smaller sorts of 2-3 categories each. I included extra categories to allow flexibility in differentiating instruction. Also included are 2-way, 3-way, and 4-way blank sorting sheets for sorting. They are blank so that you can differentiate instruction, or your students can sort the same set of cards by a different attribute or theme. You could also use the sorting cards in a pocket chart or on a flat surface. I also have included some Sorting Cut and Paste activities as well. There are 6 different Cut and Paste activities that will allow your students to show what they know, and will also provide practice with cutting and gluing.

Looking for a great activity for the end of the school year? This End of Year Memory Book is a great way for your first graders to chronicle their school year. Each page in the book is a half a sheet to help save on paper at the end of the year. The students can work on this during the last week of school to keep them engaged and still working! Pages in the book include: 3 Cover options (boy, girl, and gender neutral) All About Me My Favorite Things My Best Friend My Teacher My Favorite Field Trip Why I Love First Grade My School Autographs pages (2) Photographs pages (if you have photos of your students, they could glue or tape those in their memory book!) I also have versions available for Second Grade and Kindergarten as well.

Looking for a great activity for the end of the school year? This End of Year Memory Book is a great way for your second graders to chronicle their school year. Each page in the book is a half a sheet to help save on paper at the end of the year. The students can work on this during the last week of school to keep them engaged and still working! Pages in the book include: 3 Cover page options (boy, girl, gender neutral) All About Me My Favorite Things My Best Friend My Teacher My School My Favorite Field Trip I Love Second Grade Because... Autographs pages (2) Photographs pages (if you have photos of your students, they could glue or tape those in their memory book!) I also have versions available for First Grade and Kindergarten as well.

"Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3, How Many Coconuts are in the Tree?" Students will love making their very own coconut counting easy reader book. I have included pages for numbers 0-10 so you can use the pages you feel are appropriate for your students. At the beginning of the year, I just use 0-5 for my Kindergarten students, but more advanced students could make a book with more numbers. There are two options for assembling your book. The students can put the pages in ascending or descending order. I have included a different ending page if you choose to put your book in descending order. This alternative page says, “Now there are 0 coconuts in the tree!” There is also a page with a blank line so that your students can write whichever number you would like without tracing the number. For the coconuts, you can use bingo daubers, stamp thumb prints, dot stickers, use the included coconut pictures, or have students draw their own coconuts. This book would make a great math center or could be completed whole group. The repetitive text makes it easy for students to read on their own!

Fact Fluency: Addition and Subtraction! Are your students fluent with their facts? The new Common Core Standards require that all first grade students know their addition and subtraction facts to 10 fluently. In order to achieve this fact fluency requirement, students must practice and memorize these facts. One way of measuring if your students have learned their facts is through fact fluency assessments. You can measure your students' growth easily through this assessment tool, as a chart for tracking student levels is included. All you need is a timer! This is structured so that students can work at their own pace through the facts. Once a student masters their fluency facts, they can move to the next level. There are multiple assessments for each of the fact levels. Students can also track their own growth by using the individual fact fluency charts included in this pack. Also included are flash cards for students to practice their facts, and certificates to send home when a student has learned their facts. Since the students systematically move through the levels, the data collected could be used for RTI progress monitoring or other data collection purposes. Included in this pack are: - a letter to parents explaining the program - fluency assessments for addition and subtraction (4 of each addition fact set 0-10 plus doubles and doubles +1, and 2 of each subtraction fact set 0-10- PLUS horizontal options and differentiated options with 15 problems each!) - flashcards for addition facts to 10 and subtraction facts with differences of 10 -class and individual fact fluency tracking sheets -student achievement certificates for each fact fluency set -information on how I manage a fact fluency program in my classroom - 2 class data wall options where students can track their own fact fluency growth -"SWAG" tags for celebrating student growth -sticker cards for tracking individual student growth Though I use this in my first grade classroom, it can also be used to meet the Kindergarten fluency standard, or with struggling second graders who need more practice with their facts.

Building relationships with your students is important, but building relationships with their families is imperative to having a successful year. Family journals are a journal sent home weekly with a new prompt for the student and an adult in their household to respond to. The prompts will encourage communication between the student and their family member. Then they will return the journals to school, and you will read and respond to what they have written. The details on how you use these journals in your own classroom are up to you, but I provide details about how I have used these in my own classroom. The process is flexible, so you can make it work for you! There are Frequently Asked Questions included as well, so you can troubleshoot any issues that may arise while trying to implement these. The insights I learned about my students and their families were so helpful when meeting their needs and making connections with them. Included in this file are journal prompts to use with your students each week when you send your journals home. There are 88 different journal prompts that cover a variety of topics. Included are Everyday Journal Prompts, Seasonal Journal Prompts, and Would You Rather Journal Prompts. Also included are single page journal prompts, with all the prompts on one page, if you only needed them for a small number of students or homeschool setting. You will also receive instructions on how to start using family journals in your classroom, and a note to send home to your students' families to introduce the journals to them. These journals can be used with most grade levels, and I have included prompts for grades Kindergarten-fifth when specific grades are mentioned.

One of my favorite things to do at the beginning of the year is class graphs. They are quick activities that allow me to get to know my students a little better. This bundle contains 11 different graphing activities from 4 different products available in my store. You can use these activities at the beginning of the year, but they can also be used year round if you wish. Included Are: "What's In a Name?" (A Freebie!)”- Name Graph "This Is The Way We Go To School"- Transportation Graph We All Scream for Ice Cream! - What is Your Favorite Ice Cream? - Do you like your ice cream in a cup or cone - Do you like sprinkles? "You Are Special!- Getting to Know You" Graphing Activities-- - What Color are Your Eyes? - What Color is Your Hair? - What is Your Favorite Color? - When is Your Birthday? - What is Your Favorite Pet? - Do You Have Brothers or Sisters? -Are You a Boy or a Girl? There are 2 versions of each graphing activity included- 1 is a single sheet of paper that can be blown up on a poster maker and filled out with your students. They can write their names on the lines. The second option allows the students to create the graph as a class on a piece of paper or in a pocket chart. There are cut-out pieces enclosed for this option.