Beam Bouncers

An engaging, high-impact 4-week literacy skills program for young learners. Features highly visual, fun printable worksheets focusing on beginning letter sounds, CVC phonics blending, sight word reading, and short stories.

An introductory science lesson for first graders to establish their scientific identity, explore the five senses, and set up their very first Interactive Science Notebook.

An interactive worksheet designed for a classroom or outdoor Senses Walk. Students observe the environment around them and record their findings using their five senses.

An immersive 1st-grade GLAD unit focused on the Colville National Forest ecosystem. Students explore food chains, interdependence, seasonal changes, and local keystone species through visual charts, rhythmic chants, and rewarding literacy achievements.

An introductory first-week science unit for 1st graders to explore scientific identity, observation, and the five senses through interactive notebooks.

An introductory worksheet where first-grade students draw themselves as super scientists and reflect on scientific traits like asking questions and making observations.

A five-day modified animal classification unit focusing on the five main vertebrate groups, designed with extensive visual support, sentence frames, and tracing options for modified learning.

A high-energy, 15-minute introductory lesson for 1st graders to explore how animals move, categorize them by travel types (flying, swimming, crawling), and connect their physical body features to their motion.

A comprehensive guide for teachers detailing how to set up science notebooks, facilitate the first week's activities, and prompt sensory observations in 1st grade.

An immersive 1st-grade GLAD science and literacy sequence that guides young learners from the sunny surface to the deepest, darkest trenches, using cooperative learning, narrative inputs, and hands-on modeling.

A highly interactive, hands-on introduction to the five senses designed for young learners. Students explore sensory stations, identify sensory organs, and practice observation skills.

An interactive slide deck introducing first graders to what a scientist is, the five senses as their primary scientific tools, and notebook organization.