First grade classroom games

Students can use the "word wall" template in Wixie to create their own word wall. Assign to each learner so they can add words they do not know from books they are reading or hearing. Have students look up the meaning in a dictionary or ask a parent or teacher to help them define and add a picture and even voice recording.

Have students use Wixie's image, text, and recording tools to create their page, combine them together into one file in your teacher account, and publish online, as PDF, or print. Explore step-by-step directions for this idea. Search "partition" in Wixie to find a range of practice and play activities that ask students to "partition circles and rectangles into two and four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, fourths, and quarters, and use the phrases half of, fourth of, and quarter of.

Is it summer yet? In any case, it's time to build a sand castle. Search "castle" at the Wixie home page and drag the shapes to make a virtual sand castle. Great activity for learning to build composite shapes! Petroglyphs are objects carved into rock by prehistoric people.

Search "petroglyph" at your Wixie home page to find a template. Assign to students and they can use the Eraser tool to "carve" their own petroglyph image. Use the microphone tool to tell the story of the rock art. In order to build foundations for future measurement, students need to understand that you "express the length of an object as a whole number of length units, by laying multiple copies of a shorter object the length unit end to end.

Have students use pennies to measure small objects in their home, by lining them up along side it. Search Wixie for "length" to find templates like this one to practice their skills. This sort of activity helps students build the technology skills they need for future online testing.

Encourage your students budding inquiry by using a modified approach to the scientific method. Search "inquiry" at the Wixie home page to find the Inquiry - Primary template. Have students use it to draw pictures and describe how they learn about the world. The template guides them to begin with observation and hypotheses to progressing to thinking about how they can test their idea and then analyzing the results.

The Ancient Egyptians counted with base ten as well, using sticks to represent 1 and a cow pen to represent These symbols make a great next step to moving from counting units to representing quantities with symbols, in other words numbers! Topics: Wixie , covid Creative Educator.

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Pixie Software for student publishing and creativity. Wixie Online student publishing and creativity platform. Frames Create animations, digital stories, and stop-motion. Share Create web sites, epubs, and presentations. Wixie Integration. Create a digital greeting Even though it has only been a few days, if you are practicing social distancing, your child is likely missing friends and family. Learn about artist Piet Mondrian and color in his style Dutch painter, Piet Mondrian, is best known for his work that used primary colors, white and black in simplified lines and shapes on canvas.

Get a lesson in 5 E's-style You can also use Mondrian's technique to explore color and shape words and practice counting in the Mondrian Math lesson plan.

Read a story and compare yourself to the main character Read a story on your own or with a parent. Think about: I live I look like I feel I have Create a collage Add images to a blank Wixie page to represent something.

Explore antonyms Explore antonyms with your child. Step-by-step directions for creating antonyms in Wixie 7. Seeing Shapes lesson plan with literature connections, samples, and more 8. Make a wish Search for "wish" at your Wixie home page and open the My Wish activity. Take a 5-senses walk Go outside and walk around your yard or neighborhood. Share learning about community helpers with a sentence strip Now more than ever community helpers are essential to the health and success of our world.

Use virtual manipulatives Math manipulatives provide a tangible way to help students see and grasp the nature of numbers and procedures. More ideas for using Wixie's library of virtual manipulatives for math Explore life cycles As changes in the seasons become more visible, get students thinking about cycles in nature. Send a virtual high five Many people are going above and beyond to respond to the pandemic. Reading comprehension: character and setting Read a book on your own or with a parent.

Simple surveys and great graphs Survey your friends, family members, and neighbors about a favorite book, sport, food, game, or at-home activity. Adapt your favorite picture book It's SchoolLibraryMonth! Make a map To help students build map reading skills, have them go outside their home with the help of a parent and figure out which direction is north, south, east, and west.

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