March 1st Grade Early Finisher Task Cards

Description

Keep your students engaged all month long with these March 1st grade early finisher task cards! Designed to reinforce essential math and literacy skills, this set provides fun and independent practice for students who finish their work early. Whether used for morning work, centers, small group activities, or extra enrichment, these task cards help students build confidence while reviewing key first-grade concepts.

Math Skills Covered:

• Composite Shapes – Identify and create new shapes by combining smaller ones.
• Missing Addends – Solve equations by finding the unknown number.
• 10 More, 10 Less – Strengthen number sense and place value understanding.
• Fractions – Recognize and compare simple fractions.
• Word Problems – Apply math skills to real-world situations.
• Comparing Equations – Determine if equations are true or false.
• Number Bonds – Build a strong foundation for addition and subtraction.
• Addition & Subtraction to 20 – Improve fluency with basic operations.

Literacy Skills Covered:

• Degrees of Comparison – Learn how to compare using adjectives (big, bigger, biggest).
• Contractions – Practice reading and writing common contractions.
• Past Tense Verbs – Develop an understanding of past-tense word forms.
• Vowel Teams – Strengthen phonics skills with common vowel patterns.
• Sight Words – Boost reading fluency and word recognition.

These March 1st grade early finisher task cards provide an engaging way to review and reinforce first-grade skills while promoting independent learning. Perfect for busy teachers, they are low-prep and easy to use in any classroom setting. Keep your students learning and growing this March with these skill-packed early finisher task cards!

Want to extend learning in centers, small group work, morning work, or homework? Check out these worksheets that are perfectly aligned to the task cards:

1st Grade Early Finisher Worksheets – March

Want to learn more about how I set up this early finisher system in my classroom? Check out this blog post:

Early Finishers – Setting Up for Success Early Finishers

Do you have a wide variety of levels of students in your classroom who may need a challenge or a little more assistance? Check out my Early Finisher Task Cards for these additional grade levels:

• Pre-K Early Finisher Task Cards – March

• Kindergarten Early Finisher Task Cards – March

• Second Grade Early Finisher Task Cards – March