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Thank you to all the teachers out there! 

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Happy 2015!

Happy New Year New Year's Resolution Project - Phenomenal First Grade

Primary Teachers! 

Are you looking for a New Year's Project to do on your first day back from Winter Vacation? Check out Phenomenal First Grade's Flip Book Project. It's a great welcome back project and ice breaker to get students back in the swing of things!

Oh...if you buy it, you will be notified each year when I update the file to a new flip book for the new year!

In this file, you get three pages to do a first grade project for New Year's. It's a great welcome back activity for the students after the winter break. This year, Scholastic came out with a book about a squirrel and his New Year's Resolution. I plan to read that before completing this project. Check out the preview file for complete directions and details. Students learn about what it means to make a resolution. They write theirs and the resolutions of three of their friends. They complete a flip book project that can be attractively displayed

Don't forget to visit Phenomenal First Grade December 1st and 2nd! Cyber Monday and Cyber Tuesday all of our products are 28% off!

Halloween Skittles Graphing and Fall Science and Math Centers by Phenomenal First Grade!

Get your Fall Materials at 15% off until Halloween!

In this Zipped file, you get all the materials to complete a 4 station Fall Celebration. We use these centers as our culminating activity to our Properties of Matter Unit for our Science Curriculum in our First Grade Classrooms. But, these centers can be done as individual activities with your class in Kindergarten, First, or even Second Grade. We use our learned property words to identify and describe different things in fall. We use our sensed to describe and compare as well. The four centers are: Comparing and Contrasting Apple Juice Vs. Apple Cider, Comparing 3 different types of apples, Pumpkin Observations, and Changing Matter through changing the appearance of white frosting. All Centers have follow up recording sheets to describe each with property words. The graphs for the Apple Juice vs. Apple Cider and Apple Comparisons are available on hard copy or on the Smart Board. There are 17 files altogether. Directions and materials needed are also included in the preview file. Banners for display are also included. It's a great way to incorporate fall study into your curriculum! 

In this zipped file you get a set of graphing materials to create a Skittles bar graph. There is a sorting sheet, the bar graph, and a results page. Also included is a Smart Board file with all three components for demonstration, or to do as a whole class activity. The Smart Board file has colored circles to demonstrate sorting, colored blocks to demonstrate graphing, and the results page to demonstrate the written component. A banner is also included to display student work after the activity is completed.

This is always a lot of fun!

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28% OFF ALL PRODUCTS AT PHENOMENAL FIRST GRADE!

It's Back to School time! 

Time to figure out what you need and what you want. 

Time to stock up with the big sale! 

All items are 28% off at Phenomenal First Grade!

Maybe time for a full year pack. We have a big selling First Grade Math Facts Fluency Pack!

Let's talk about data!

In September, I had  0% of students able to achieve 90% of facts correct in 2 minutes. (27 correct facts in 2 minutes.)

After working diligently with the students and parents with this pack, 87.5% of students reached 90% or higher on our fluency assessments in May. (27 facts in 2 minutes in both addition and subtraction!)  

*That was 14 out of 16 students at 90% mastery and above! (Both students that didn't achieve 90% were in the 85% to 90% range!)

Listen to what buyers have said about this pack:

"Great pack!"

"This will be convenient to use with my students."

"Great skill building tool!"

"This has been very helpful in terms of helping my students learn math facts."

"WOW!"

"Both my parents and students are enjoying this!"

Check out the rest of the comments!

I'll be starting this in the first two weeks of school! It was that helpful! I introduced it at the Open House in the beginning of school and parents were happy and thankful to have an easy organized way to help their children achieve mastery of their facts!

Check it out!

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EVERYTHING'S 28% OFF FEB 27TH AND 28TH - PHENOMENAL FIRST GRADE

28 % off of all of our products! Great time to stock up! 

Here's just a few of our CCSS Products that have been selling like CRAZY!

This is our Story Element Bundle - There are 4 different CCSS Story Element Comprehension Studies in this group. There is one for the Main Character, The Setting, The Problem and Solution, and Story Mapping. There are over 200 files. With each pack there are minilessons for 1 - 2 weeks of Reader's Workshop lessons. There are printable, colorful anchor charts in both 8" 1/2 by 11" and tiled poster size. Graphic organizers for each with a corresponding rubrics are also included. Smart Board files containing all anchor charts are also in each of the packs. Corresponding text selections are also in each pack. Take a look. If not for this year, next year. It's literally months of lessons ready to go for you. (All packs are also available separately as well...go to our store to see them!)  http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Phenomenal-First-Grade-Phonics-And-Reading

This is our Math Facts Fluency Pack for First Grade. (Works with addition and subtraction fluency within ten CCSS) Teaching math facts to first graders requires a well organized system. This system can be done in class or sent home for parents to help. I currently run it as a home to class system. There are directions on how to set up this system. It starts with addition and builds fact set by fact set. There are practice pages that can go home for parents to time their children. The practice pages are cumulative. Side a has the new fact only and side b has the cumulative facts. There are flash cards as well. Also included are teacher probes for progress monitoring. You can monitor student progress regularly by timing them say their facts. There is also a student progress tracking sheet, a math facts log to be sent home to parents, and student graphs so students can track their own progress. 

This is our Sight Word System for 35 weeks of words. It's the best of both High Frequency worlds! A unique mix of Fry and Dolch Words make this pack a necessity. There is a combination of all 150 Dolch and Fry words mixed together. All the beginning words get covered. This will help your students not miss any of those words! Included in this pack are cumulative assessments. There are also graphing/writing exercises. There are trace and write practice pages. There are also copy, write and sentence practice. Cumulative fluency practice grids are also included. It's a great time to buy this!!!

Happy 2014!

Happy New Year From Phenomenal First Grade

Our New Year's Resolution Project is $1.00 off today and tomorrow!

First Day Welcome Back Project ---DONE!

Let students ease their way back in with discussion and movement!

 

Adds vocabulary of resolution and how to put it into action.

 

Happy Holiday Freebie from Phenomenal First Grade!

Phonics Workshop - Short a - Everything you Need is a FREEBIE!!!

This pack has 24 pages of short a materials! --FREE!!!
Word Wheels, Picture Cards, Smart Board Files, Word Sorts for all of our short a word patterns! FREE

Download now and follow our store!

Happy Holidays!
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Happy 2014!

Happy Holidays from Phenomenal First Grade!

We have updated our Resolution Flip Book Projects fro 2014!

Only $3.00

Check out this great vocabulary building project to ease into that first day back after winter vacation!

It gets the kids up, moving, discussing and writing!

28% off CYBER MONDAY & TUESDAY!

Don't forget!

We are offering 28% off of all of our products tomorrow and Tuesday! (12/2 and 12/3) 

Check out our CCSS Materials for First Grade!

Here's a few:

The short and long vowel packs are all of our phonics materials. They are also offered by separate components and by vowel. They are a great help to any phonics instruction. They can be used as ready made stations or centers also!

Check out our other CCSS Phonics Materials!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Phenomenal-First-Grade-Phonics-And-Reading/Category/Phonics

Plus many many more!

Don't miss it!

This is the BUNDLE you've been waiting for!

Phenomenal First Grade– Common Core Story Elements Studies in First Grade 

THIS IS THE BUNDLE YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR!!!

In this zipped file you receive everything you need to teach a Common Core Study of all of the Story Elements. Our story element studies are our most popular packs. This file is a bundled file of all of our story elements studies:

The Main Character, The Setting, The Problem & Solution, and Story Mapping.

Each pack contains weeks of lesson plans and materials. Each has a progressive set of lesson plans in a Reader’s Workshop mini lesson format. Each has graphic organizers with rubrics to go along with it. Each has a set of anchor charts that are printable in a poster size or a small page size. Each has the Smart Board files with the anchor charts and practice pages in it. Each has banners and posters to display student work.

This pack is literally weeks and weeks of lessons. Individually, these packs would cost a total of $27.00. This bundled pack sells for $22.00. A great bargain!

CYBER MONDAY SALE...GOES MON. TUES. & WED.!

We are having a SALE!

28% Off ALL of our materials Monday 12/2 and Tuesday 12/3.

20% off ALL of our materials on Wednesday 12/4

Great time to stock up on First Grade Common Core Materials!!!

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20% OFF COLUMBUS DAY SALE!!!

HAPPY OCTOBER! HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY!

We are having a 20% off sale from today (Monday, October 14th) through Wednesday (October 16th).

Great time to stock up.

Fall Products: 

Fall Centers

Halloween Skittles Graphing

Fall is a great time to start teaching about the Setting in First Grade.

We have Common Core Packs for each of the Story Elements and Story Mapping!

  

Sunday Night Shopping!

What are you looking for?

We all have things we need for our classrooms, right? 

How long do you spend looking on Pinterest, Teachers Pay Teachers, and Teachers Notebook?

Do you know what you need and just can't find it?

If you do, let us know....

We can help! If you know what you need, we can make it for you.

Check out our store on Teachers Pay Teachers to see some of the things we make for First Grade...Pictures of some of our products are also displayed on our Facebook Page. Check out our past blog posts to see what our philosophies work ethics are. cdiorio.blogspot.com. 

If you teach first grade and see something on our store that you like, but would like it a little bit differently...we can do that too!

We will stand behind any product we make! You won't be disappointed! Give us a try. We can do it!

Email us at dioriocl@gmail.com if you have something in mind! 

Here Comes the Fall!

What are you doing this Fall in First Grade?

Check out our Fall Centers!

In this Zipped file, you get all the materials to complete a 4 station Fall Celebration. We use these centers as our culminating activity to our Properties of Matter Unit for our Science Curriculum in our First Grade Classrooms. But, these centers can be done as individual activities with your class in Kindergarten, First, or even Second Grade. We use our learned property words to identify and describe different things in fall. We use our sensed to describe and compare as well. The four centers are: Comparing and Contrasting Apple Juice Vs. Apple Cider, Comparing 3 different types of apples, Pumpkin Observations, and Changing Matter through changing the appearance of white frosting. All Centers have follow up recording sheets to describe each with property words. The graphs for the Apple Juice vs. Apple Cider and Apple Comparisons are available on hard copy or on the Smart Board. There are 17 files altogether. Directions and materials needed are also included in the preview file. Banners for display are also included. It's a great way to incorporate fall study into your curriculum! 

It's a great time to start teaching story elements!

Check out our Main Character and Setting Packs!

In this zipped file you receive everything you need to teach a Common Core Unit on studying the main character in a first grade classroom. 

There are seven different lesson plans set up in the Reader’s Workshop Model of minilesson, meeting, connection, teaching point, active engagement, independent reading, conferencing, and share. The lessons can be used from a 2 – 3 week period and done over more than one day.

There are lessons for interactive read alouds to introduce and practice engaging students in the main character of the story.

There is a list of mentor texts we have found success when studying the main character.

There are anchor charts already created for you that are colorful and engaging. The anchor charts are in a Smart Board File that is editable if you have a Smart Board. There are also hard copies of the anchor charts that can be tile printed pdf posters that you can put together and write on as you see fit if you don’t have a Smart Board. These can be posted in your classroom. There are also copies of the anchor charts in an 8 ½ by 11” format if you’d like to reuse them in small group instruction or copy packets for your students to keep with them. There are three different anchor charts for different lessons. The first describes what the main character means and why it is important to tell about it. The second is a chart that tells the criteria students can use to help identify the main character. The third is a discussion chart for using past mentor texts. The next two pages of the Smart Board file are large copies of the graphic organizer to model for the students. One they can use as a model for themselves. You can use the large poster version also to write on and post in your classroom for support. The last chart is the rubric used for the Main Character organizer. There is a lesson on how to use this effectively to teach students to begin looking at and assessing their own work. The rubric can be printed in both 8 ½ by 11” or tile printed as a poster to hang in your classroom. 

Also included in this file is a banner to display of student work and a poster that states the chant used to help students remember what the main character is. 

What’s great about this pack is it almost a ‘blank’ format for students to learn the content through. We have similar things for the other story elements so once the students learn this type of process, you can filter the content through.

The goals for this unit is for students to identify the main character of a story using specific references to text. The Common Core for first grade focuses on students being able to go back to the text to cite specific evidence that helped them draw their conclusions. This unit focuses on and practices that skill. They start whole group, then it filters down to small group and finally independently. Some students may be able to do the more intricate independent work at this point, but the unit differentiates itself so all students are successful. This is the beginning. We are giving students a lesson in how to organize their thinking. We are teaching them how to show they understand text. We tell them to show they understand. This is one way for them to experience success at showing they understand.

In this zipped file you receive everything you need to teach a Common Core Unit on studying the setting in a first grade classroom. 

There are seven different lesson plans set up in the Reader’s Workshop Model of minilesson, meeting, connection, teaching point, active engagement, independent reading, conferencing, and share. The lessons can be used from a 2 – 3 week period and done over more than one day.

There are lessons for interactive read alouds to introduce and practice engaging students in the setting of the story.

There is a list of mentor texts related to fall and Halloween we have found success with.

There are anchor charts already created for you that are colorful and engaging. The anchor charts are in a Smart Board File that is editable if you have a Smart Board. There are also hard copies of the anchor charts that can be tile printed pdf posters that you can put together and write on as you see fit if you don’t have a Smart Board. These can be posted in your classroom. There are also copies of the anchor charts in an 8 ½ by 11” format if you’d like to reuse them in small group instruction or copy packets for your students to keep with them. There are three different anchor charts for different lessons. The first describes the setting and how to tell about it. The second is a T chart of where words and when words for you to build with your students. The third is an actual T chart to use with a mentor text or read aloud to chart the where and when. The next pages are blank setting organizers that you can use to fill out as a model or a whole group read aloud. The blank setting organizers come in three different versions. One with no lines for writing, one with one line for writing and one with 2 lines for writing. It’s differentiated for you to choose which fits the needs of your students best. There is also a rubric and a lesson to teach your students how to begin looking at and assessing their own work. The rubric can be printed in both 8 ½ by 11” or tile printed as a poster to hang in your classroom. There is also a copy of it in the Smart Board file.

Also included in this file are two different banners for display of student work. One tells what the setting is and one tells how students tell the setting.

What’s great about this pack is it almost a ‘blank’ format for students to learn the content through. We have similar things for the other story elements so once the students learn this type of process, you can filter the content through.

The goals for this unit is for students to identify the setting of a story using specific references to text. The Common Core for first grade focuses on students being able to go back to the text to cite specific evidence that helped them draw their conclusion. This unit focuses on and practices that skill. They start whole group, then it filters down to small group and finally independently. Some students may be able to do the more intricate independent work at this point, but the unit differentiates itself so all students are successful. This is the beginning. We are giving students a lesson in how to organize their thinking. We are teaching them how to show they understand text. We tell them to show they understand. This is one way for them to experience success at showing they understand.

These are the anchor charts that come in the Smart Board file and are editable. They also come as 8 ½ by 11” pages and tile printed pdf posters that can be used if you don’t have a Smart Board. The hard copies can also be printed to hang in your classroom if you have a Smart Board and want to post your anchor charts.