Spring is a season of new beginnings and fresh starts, making it the perfect time to infuse your 1st-grade classroom with some spring-themed ideas and activities. As the spring fever hits, I love incorporating some fun Spring classroom activities that fit in with our daily routines, but also add some extra engagement! Here are some of my favorite Spring Classroom Activities (plus some fun Spring FREEBIES!)
Spring No Prep Math Pages
Brighten up the day with these Spring math worksheets! Designed for first graders, these worksheets are perfect for morning work, independent work, or math folders. Plus, each page features a fun Spring joke that your students will absolutely adore! When the weather gets warm, I love having students take a clipboard outside and work on these with a partner!
Find the No Prep Math Worksheets here!
April Solve the Room
Solve the Room is one of our favorite math center routines in my first grade classroom! Each week, one of our math center tubs that students visit is Solve the Room.
I tape a new set of math task cards around the classroom. When students visit this center, they grab a clipboard and a recording sheet and walk around the classroom solving the math problems. After they finish, they visit the Grading Station and check their work! Read more about how I run math centers in first grade here!
Click Your Grade Level to find April Solve the Room!
Go On A Task Card Easter Egg Hunt!
Looking for a fun and engaging way to celebrate Easter while reinforcing math skills in the classroom? Consider going on a math task card Easter egg hunt! This is one of our favorite Spring classroom activities in 1st grade!
To set up this activity, simply print out math task cards, cut them out, and place them inside plastic Easter eggs. Then, hide the eggs around the classroom for students to find.
Students can open up the egg, solve the problem, and write the answer on their recording sheet! This activity encourages active learning and problem-solving and is a great way to add some Easter fun to your math curriculum!
You can use any task cards for this activity! Click here for the addition and subtraction word problem task cards that I used!
Earth Day Freebies
Earth Day is an excellent opportunity to teach children about the importance of protecting our planet and how they can make a difference. In our 1st grade classroom, we celebrate this occasion by reading books about the environment, discussing the three R’s (Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle), and engaging in Earth Day activities.
Here are a few fun Earth Day FREEBIES to use in your classroom! First, here are a couple No Prep Earth Day Printables! You can find them in my Differentiated Color by Code set and my No Prep Math pack, but I wanted to share these with you for free!
They are perfect for morning work or a partner activity this week.
If you’re looking for a fun Earth Day craft to do with your students, I included a couple options!
You can find all of the Earth Day freebies here!
April Numberless Word Problems
As I prepare to send students on to second grade, one of my goals is for students to be strong problem solvers. I found that Daily practice is essential for building our problem solving skills!
Students absolutely love these fun, seasonal story problems and are SO excited to see what happens in the new word problem each day.
Numberless Word Problems are an amazing tool for helping your students develop problem solving skills! PLUS they are an easy way to differentiate word problems to meet the needs of all of your students!
We use these numberless word problems as a daily math warm up.
- I display the problem (without numbers) on the smart board
- We read the problem together (usually I read first then we choral read)
- I give students think time and we go over the Problem Solving Questions (Poster Included)
- Students discuss with their math partner through a Turn and Talk
- We discuss what is happening in the problem and strategies that we could use to solve.
- Finally I switch to the slide with numbers in the problem and give students time to solve on dry erase boards or their student work page.
- Students share their strategies for solving.
Find the April Numberless Word Problem Pack here!
Spring Color by Code
Who doesn’t love Color By Code?! They are a FAVORITE in first grade for working on developing addition and subtraction fact fluency! These fun, Spring Color by Code pages are differentiated to meet the needs of all of your learners! Each Spring picture includes 3 levels so all students can be successful!
You can find Spring Addition and Subtraction Color by Code here!
April No Prep Craft Freebies!
Looking for some free Spring Classroom Activities? These Writing Crafts are the best for an easy, no prep Fun Friday activity! (or anytime you need a little break to sip your coffee) I love how simple they are for my first graders to work on independently! Plus they look adorable on a Spring bulletin board! Find them here!
