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First Grade Learning Centers (7 products)

Learning Centers Kindergarten - First Grade Classroom SuppliesThe Best of The Mailbox Learning Centers

Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
Price: $16.95
Product #: 2061023
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NEW! This handy teacher resource is packed full of creative learning-center ideas. Your students will get the benefit of hands-on learning with the best learning-center games and activities from THE MAILBOX magazine. Now featuring ready-to-go, full-color, tear-out pieces for select centers!

The teacher-tested activities in this handy educational resource will let your kindergarten and first grade students learn at their own pace as they build basic skills. Your students will practice a number of key skills with these creative learning center ideas, such as:

  • Letter knowledge
  • Letter-sound association
  • Word recognition
  • Word families
  • Writing
  • Patterning
  • Addition and Subtraction
  • Graphing
  • Measurement
  • Plus more K-1 skills!

The center ideas in this teaching resource book are organized by center areas, such as language arts, math, science, fine-motor skills, art, and dramatic play. So whether you want to set up a word family center or have students practice their addition and subtraction skills, finding the perfect activity is a snap. Reproducible patterns and a variety of pull-out, colorful cutouts are included to help you create your centers in record time.

128 pages


first grade, second grade, third grade learning centers teaching suppliesBest of The Mailbox Learning Centers

Grade Level: First Grade - Third Grade
Price: $14.95
Product #: 2001455
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This resource is designed to provide an extensive collection of skill specific, teacher-created, easy-to-make learning centers for today's busy teacher. The learning centers include illustrations, complete instructions, and corresponding reproducible patterns.

Choose from a multitude of motivating formats and themes. Use them to:

  • Reinforce basic skills
  • Provide individual student practice
  • Motivate hands-on learning
  • Adapt favorite games to new skills
  • Supplement learning on themes

Pages: 112


first grade learning centersCentered On Success: 20 Leveled Learning Centers

Grade Level: First Grade
Price: $19.95
Product #: 2060820
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Creating just the right math or language arts learning center for every student has never been easier! Reinforce essential skills while promoting independent learning with the kid-pleasing center activities in this resource.

Features 20 ready-to-go centers to help you reinforce language arts and math skills through appropriately challenging learning experiences. Best of all, each center adapts to two different skill levels or tasks so you can match each activity to individual students' needs.

For convenience, the two levels are color-coded (yellow and blue) for easy identification and management. Simply choose a specific level for each student to complete or encourage each child through both levels (first yellow, then blue). After each student has successfully completed a blue level center, have him complete the accompanying reinforcing skill sheets.

Each center contains all the basic materials you need, including full-color, tear out pages for easy center set-up and implementation. Also included for your convenience are full-color center labels, a center management checklist, and motivating student rewards.

Each center includes the following:

  • an easy-to-scan teaching page with a skill description for each instructional level, a list of provided materials, step-by-step directions for preparing and using the center, and one or more center options for enhancing or extending the activity
  • a full-color center mat, suitable for laminating
  • first-level activity cards (yellow) programmed for self-checking
  • second-level activity cards (blue) programmed for self-checking
  • one reproducible skill sheet suitable for additional reinforcement and assessment of a featured skill

Our self-checking centers for first grade cover important skills in language arts and math, including:

  • identifying beginning and ending sounds
  • identifying short and long vowel sounds
  • rhyming words
  • identifying word families
  • sequencing three sentences
  • using ending punctuation
  • capitalization
  • alphabetizing
  • sequencing numbers
  • adding and subtracting to 18
  • identifying whole numbers and fractions
  • identifying coin values
  • telling time
  • identifying information on a picture graph

Pages: 168


first grade math learning centersLearning Center Collection: Math

Grade Level: First Grade
Price: $19.95
Product #: 2061011

 

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All New! Ten Engaging, Grade-Specific, Ready-to-Use Centers Designed for Basic Skills Enhancement

Build essential skills. Engage students. Provide independent practice. Each collection features ten ready-to-use centers that are designed to build important skills and provide instant feedback while saving you preparation time. These durably constructed centers are designed for years of use, feature vibrant colors, and are self-checking, saving you time and providing truly independent learning opportunities for your students.

You will receive the following 10 ready-to-use learning centers:

  • Place Value 1s, 10s
  • Addition to 5
  • Addition to 10
  • Addition to 18
  • Subtraction to 5
  • Subtraction to 18
  • Counting by 5s and 10s
  • Money to 50 cents
  • Time to the Hour and Half Hour
  • Fractions 1/2, 1/4

learning center collection language arts first gradeLearning Center Collection: Language Arts

Grade Level: First Grade
Price: $19.95
Product #: 2061012

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All New! Ten Engaging, Grade-Specific, Ready-to-Use Centers Designed for Basic Skills Enhancement

Build essential skills. Engage students. Provide independent practice. Each collection features ten ready-to-use centers that are designed to build important skills and provide instant feedback while saving you preparation time. These durably constructed centers are designed for years of use, feature vibrant colors, and are self-checking, saving you time and providing truly independent learning opportunities for your students.

You will receive the following 10 ready-to-use learning centers:

  • Initial Consonants
  • Initial Consonants
  • Final Consonants
  • Short Vowels
  • Long Vowel Spellings ai, ay, ea, ee
  • Digraphs ch, sh, th, wh
  • Word Families an, ap at
  • Blends sl, sk, sn, st
  • Opposites
  • Ending Punctuation . or ?

Map Skills Social Studies Teaching Supplies & ResourcesKnow Your Map Skills Geography Centers

Grade Level: First - Second Grade
Price: $17.95
Product #: WR00167
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This teacher resource features 10 self-contained and enjoyable learning centers—with manipulatives, reproducibles, colorful maps, and activities—that help reinforce key geography skills. Each center includes a combination of high-interest, hands-on activities and reproducibles that can be easily stored in a folder and used in independent and small group settings.

The centers reinforce a range of geography skills including understanding neighborhood, state and U.S. maps, the compass rose, map keys and symbols, directions words, location, place, regions and more. These concepts and activities have been developed in accordance with state standards and the National Geography Standards set forth by the National Council for Geographic Education.

Each center includes:

  • Colorful photos and captivating illustrations
  • High-interest, hands-on activities
  • Reproducibles
  • Teacher instructions
  • Self-checking answer keys
  • Student progress checklist

By using the engaging activities in these learning centers, students will:

  • Recognize direction words
  • Understand what a map is
  • Identify land and water on a globe
  • Learn about map keys
  • Practice using a compass rose
  • Become familiar with regional relationships

128 pages, full color.


learning centers for primary classroomLearning Centers Through the Year for Primary Classrooms

Grade Level: Kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade
Price: $29.99
Product #: 1000059
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This is an ideal resource for establishing learning centers in your classroom. It provides all the directions and patterns necessary to set up 10 learning centers for every month of the school year - September through June.

This book includes learning centers for the following areas each month: reading, puzzles and games, math, science, seasonal special, art, drama and stories, social studies, writing, and hands-on.

These 100 activities will keep children actively and enthusiastically involved in independent learning activities.

Pages: 384


First Grade File Folder Games / Centers (3 products)

File Folder Centers Language Arts Kindergarten - 1st GradeFile Folder Centers: Language Arts

Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
Price: $19.95
Product #: 2060926
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Durable centers that are ready in minutes!

No coloring or gluing required!

  • Fun practice for a dozen basic skills
  • Ready to cut out and use
  • Self-checking for instant assessment

Grab their attention and focus on essential skills. These durable, easy-to-use file folder centers provide fun, self-checking practice of basic skills for your students. Tear out the ready-to-use center, cut out the cards, and go!

With this teaching resource you'll get 12 complete, self-checking learning centers. No time-consuming preparation or costly materials are needed. Simply tear out each file folder center, cut out the center cards, and use!

Each center provides practice with an important language arts skill for grades kindergarten - first including:

  • initial consonants: n, p, t
  • initial consonants: d, f, h
  • initial consonants: b, l, s
  • initial consonants: c, m, w
  • colors and color words
  • uppercase and lowercase letters
  • short vowels: a, o, u
  • long vowels: a, e, o
  • rhyming
  • ending punctuation
  • word families: -an, -at
  • initial digraphs: ch-, sh-, wh-

These engaging file folder centers are perfect for independent practice or for early finishers. Have a whole new assortment of learning centers ready in just minutes with this teacher resource! They're so easy to prepare, you can try them in your classroom today!

104 pages


Classroom File Folder Centers Math: Kindergarten and First GradeFile Folder Centers: Math

Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
Price: $19.95
Product #: 2060923
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Durable centers that are ready in minutes!

No coloring or gluing required!

  • Fun practice for a dozen basic skills
  • Ready to cut out and use
  • Self-checking for instant assessment

Grab their attention and focus on essential skills. These durable, easy-to-use file folder centers provide fun, self-checking practice of basic skills for your students. Tear out the ready-to-use center, cut out the cards, and go!

With this teaching resource you'll get 12 complete, self-checking learning centers. No time-consuming preparation or costly materials are needed. Simply tear out each file folder center, cut out the center cards, and use!

Each center provides practice with an important math skill for kindergarten - grade 1 including:

  • ordering numbers to 20
  • matching sets and number words to numerals
  • adding sets to 10
  • adding to 5
  • adding to 10
  • adding to 12
  • adding to 18
  • subtraction facts to 7
  • subtraction facts to 10
  • subtraction facts to 18
  • fact families to 12
  • fractions: 1/2, 1/3, 1/4

These engaging file folder centers are perfect for independent practice or for early finishers. Have a whole new assortment of learning centers ready in just minutes with this teacher resource! They're so easy to prepare, you can try them in your classroom today!

104 pages


classroom materials - file folder activitiesFile Folder Activities for Learning Centers

Grade Level: Preschool - 1st Grade
Price: $24.99
Product #: 1002209
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Here's everything you need to know about file folder activities: how to make them, the materials needed for each activity, how to store them, how to introduce the activities to the children, rules and standards to be used for each activity, when to use them, and how to incorporate volunteers in carrying out the file folder activities.

This book will provide you with a rich source of creative file folder activities that may be used in interactive ways in your classroom.

Over 70 activities for 16 different learning centers. Each activity will include the following items:

  • Instructions for making each activity
  • Directions for the activity for both children and adults
  • Activity pieces
  • Pages to reproduce
  • Charts
  • Graphs
  • Answer keys
  • Activity labels for file folder tabs
  • Decorative activity titles for the fronts of the folders

There are both self-checking activities and hands-on activities. In addition, this book will identify your file folder activities by themes and by skill areas so that it will be easy to pull out an activity to reinforce the concept you are working on.

Also included are activities that children can make copies of to take home and show parents what they are doing in the classroom.


Pages: 352


 

 

 


 



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