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Research suggests that the first 5 minutes a student spends in your classroom each morning will set the tone for the entire day of learning… If they come in and have a focused task, it is much easier for them to remain in that mindset of learning through the day.

When your students enter your room what is the mood? What are your expectations? Is there a clear goal?

If your morning trickle in as I call it is chaotic and unsettling, chances are it's pretty hard to ever get your students back on track and at their best for learning.

For the past couple of years I resorted to quiet background music and morning work to get my students calm and focused. Unfortunately my school also served breakfast in the classroom so coco puffs and chocolate milk were part of that equation as well. You better believe I pleaded my case and even showed my research, but apparently kids need to eat and they need to eat in my classroom so that's what they did for the last 5 or so years…I lost count when breakfast pizza came to town.

The music and morning work was enough to keep that tone of learning happening for us. {even with sausage and syrup flavored mini corn dogs–really America?}

However, one thing that makes me a little batty, is keeping up with the copies for my student's morning work. Don't get me wrong, I worked long and hard on my morning work and I feel that it is valuable for them, but scurrying to the copier is not my fave at the crack of dawn or at sore feet thirty in the afternoon….

That's where this comes in friends! It's revolutionizing my morning routine!

Each student will take out their Rise and Shine Binder in the morning as they trickle in and get settled.

(Also in black and white and you can put this stuff in a plastic folder if binders are out of the question for you)

Students will do some write on wipe off activities for the number of the day. Depending on your grade level, you can make this number smaller or bigger. Being a first grade teacher, I plan to go with the days in school.

Using color coded cards, (colored card stock brights) students will build the number of the day (Kinder will not go up this high at first)

There are different wipe off formats depending on the ability of your class.

I would start on the left with kinder and firsties and work our way to the right hand side. They can make shapes, color patterns, add seasonal erasers, buttons, coco puffs…whatever you have on hand!
We can also move on to more activities as our students are ready!

I included number charts ranging from 1-20 to over 200. Students can use them for reference while working through their wipe offs.

When the must dos are finished, Ralph Rushy McRusherson can play games that are stored in trading card holders and color coded. Just the words color coded make me happy but if you want to keep it simply just white tag will work perfectly fine

Perhaps Ralph wants to play tally concentration with a partner or just by himself.

When Suzy slowpoke finishes her last cinnamon roll and is ready, she can play tens match up in her binder or with a pal. (there's more of these games too)

Students can choose color coded words or letters of the week and read, build, write, and spell to their heart's content!

Trace,Build, Read, Sound! (Both capital and lowercase) Kinder and First Grade for Sounds Review

This is editable so you can customize it for your sight words or spelling words!
You can add them weekly as you go through the year!
It has kinder and first grade words to get you started.

Another reason I am so excited about this binder is because when people come to tutor or support my students that struggle, this will be a resource full of so many necessary concepts for every child! They can grab the binder and review all these concepts with their tutor or their helper.

So how do you make a binder?
One trip to Walmart will set ya up! (or any office supply)
Shopping list is included in the packet so you don't have to make sure you remembered everything!

One package of cheapy dish towels cut into quarters become erasers to keep in the zipper pouches!

Finally, you can take it a step further if you need and you can add a section for your beloved morning work of choice! I plan to have them do the morning work on certain days of the week!

Make a much cuter morning work divider than I did pretty please…how embarrassing!

This is my first set of morning work. It's not included in this Rise and Shine binder. I added it in myself! 🙂
Language Morning Work for the year
Math Morning Work for the year