Start Fresh with Our Daily First Grade Warm-Up

When students are groggy, overstimulated, or anxious, getting them to focus in the morning is a tall order (and we don’t mean a tall latte order).   

But when you have a structured assignment for them to look forward to, students will enter the classroom with something else to concentrate on.  

Inside this presentation, you’ll find 83 pages packed with English language arts and mathematics-based activities to engage distracted minds and enhance focus in the classroom. 

Display a slide on your interactive whiteboard for students to complete when they enter your class each day and watch their minds wake up. Students can record their answers in a warm-up journal or a mini dry-erase board.

This Daily Warm-up includes a spiral review of first grade-level standards that focus on learning objectives like: 

• Building CVC words
• Grammar and punctuation
• Shapes and colors
• Sorting and ordering
• Numbers and operations

And a lot more! 

This one download includes 50 interactive tasks that playfully challenge young minds. If you only did one warm-up activity per day, you’d have enough for months.  

Tips for Differentiation + Scaffolding 

In addition to morning warm-ups, use this activity any time you need to bring students’ minds back to learning, like after recess, lunch, and independent playtimes. 

The activities in this teaching resource vary in complexity and the time needed to complete them. Put students in pairs or teams to collaboratively complete the activities or use them in a 1:1 intervention setting. 

Above-Level 

Provide the student(s) with our Grade 1 Level 3 or Grade 2 daily warm-up to challenge their skills. Alternatively, require students to list important vocabulary words from the activity that helped them complete their answers. 

Below-Level

Use the Grade 1 Level 2 warm-up to bring students up to speed. Additionally, provide students with similar completed assignments, posters, and anchor charts to help them draw on past lessons.   

Easily Prepare This Resource for Your Students

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to choose between the PowerPoint or PDF versions of this resource. Answer keys are included with slides where applicable. 

Project the slides onto a screen and work through them as a class by having students record their answers in their notebooks or mini whiteboards. 

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