Past, Present and Future

Singular and Plural

First Grade Student Timeline

First Grade Student Timeline - Great Activity for Open House and a great keepsake for parents! A nice addition would be to place the student's current school picture above the seven.

A second student example

Templates for Timeline  -  Students can use all templates or some and add their own drawings

 

Open House Project - Using Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives to describe oneself.  Begin with an example about a teacher named Mrs. Teacher.  Then have each child  complete the templates drawing a picture of themselves and writing nouns, verbs and adjectives that tell all about them. 

Discuss the different types of nouns used to tell about Mrs. Teacher.  Students will then complete the same template about themselves

Continue the same activity with verbs and

then with adjectives.

End with a drawing and the caption This Is Me!  All templates are below.

 

Templates for children to make their All About Me Book

Nouns that tell about them

Verbs that tell about them

Adjectives that tell about them

Wrap Up Ending

Word Detectives are Back to Find Silent Letters

Many words have silent letters that are not pronounced. This often confuses beginning readers who are learning to decode words.  It is important to familiarize children with these sounds so that they learn to read the words correctly,  A fun crossword puzzle and video are included,

silent b

 silent t

silent h

silent k

silent w

silent l

silent gh

Additional words with silent letters follow

 Silent Letter  Crossword Puzzle

Answers

 

 

Consonant Digraphs ph and gh make the sound /f/

When h is joined with p or g,  a consonant digraph is formed.  Ph and gh make  /f/.

ph = /f/

gh = /f/

ph examples

gh examples

Activities

video

slideshow to share with children

https://www.slideshare.net/lynnsuccess/digraphs-ph-and-gh-make-the-k-sound