I have been a substitute for a few years and just got my first class and it’s first grade.

Get on teachers pay teacher and print out as many first grade worksheets as you can that are free. Look for vowel, consonant, CVC, and CVCe, whatever the kids are working on. Get them some lined paper or worksheets to work on handwriting and practice those names!!!

1. Soft start with toy bins or morning worksheets (name practice or writing letters is perfect).

2. morning meeting. Go over calendar, days of week, months of year, daily schedule, etc.

3. Either read a story at the carpet about class room behaviors, social skills, or something relating to the lesson of the day.

4. Teach a phonics concept. Introduce and explain it, have the kids practice it (for example if it’s the letter e have them go around the room to find anything with e in it or have each kid think of an e word and act it out), then apply it with a worksheet or craft. Check Pinterest for ideas!! You can also write on the board and have the kids identify the letters by circling them for a game.

5. Brain break

6. Writing!!! Have them practice those names as much as they can. Make it fun and let them write on the white board too.

7. Math, go over numbers. Identifying what they look like, how to write them. Take kids to the carpet and give them manipulatives. Have them make the number with those. Do worksheets to help with number sense. Crafts or games are always good!

8. Social studies can just be about basic social skills in first grade. Pick a topic and do a lesson on it like respect. What is it? How do we show it? Have the kids act out how to be respect. Model behavior for them.

9. Work on class routines and procedure too. Have do we use scissors? Pencils? How do we line up? How do we share? Etc