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/sh/ Sound Work
What letters create the /sh/ sound? Have your elementary learners study the sound, write different words that use the sound in their letter boxes, and read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish! After this mini-lesson, can your...
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Giants, Wizards, Elves
This game is a combination of tag and the rock, paper, scissors game. Giants beat elves, elves beat wizards, and wizards beat giants. The set-up determines who becomes the taggers and who is trying to run back to safety.
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MINTS: A Capitalization Trick
Create a poster with the acronym MINTS to help youngsters to remember when to capitalize in sentences. In this capitalizing lesson plan, students reinforce the rules of capitalization with this acronym during their writing activities. A...
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Brown Bear Phonics
Students listen to Brown Bear, Brown Bear and imitate the style of Eric Carle in writing a sentence. In this writing lesson, students use the beginning and ending sounds of words to write an Eric Carle type sentence. Students create...
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Light
In this light worksheet, students read what makes light, the speed of light, and the electromagnetic spectrum. Students complete 12 matching, 8 fill in the blank, and 9 word problems.
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Light
In this light worksheet, students match 12 terms related to light and the electromagnetic spectrum to their definitions, they order waves by their speed, they analyze the energy and wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum and they...
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World Smiley Day
In this World Smiley Day lesson plan, learners complete activities such as reading a passage, matching phrases, fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, multiple choice, unscramble the words, sequencing, unscramble the sentences,...
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Animals Up!
Students design and build a pedestal or platform that holds a toy animal. In this building lesson, students use knowledge from a prior lesson as they build a platform or pedestal for a toy animal using on index cards. They learn the...
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Shaving Cream Snow!
Students spray shaving cream on a table and then play with it. In this art lesson, students make lines with their fingers and can even use other objects as well. Students attempt to make a snowman, snowflake or anything related to snow...
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Whole Child: Parenting Skills
Students and parents participate in a variety of activities intended to develop both the growth of the child and the parenting skills of the adult. They role-play daily activities, manipulate dough, discuss the rights and...
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Multisensory Sight-word Strategies
Students engage in a lesson that uses sight word strategies in order to increase reading comprehension. The skills are applicable to rote skill, math facts, formulas, etc... The lesson includes sample exercises for the teacher to use for...
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Don't Wake the Baby - Phonics
Students explore beginning reading through the use of phonics. They practice making the /sh/ sound and create a list of /sh/ words. Students practice saying tongue twisters containing /sh/ sounds. They model writing the s and h...
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Group Initiatives
Students explore the names and qualities about members in the group. They each say their name and something about themselves. Students gather around in a circle. They listen to the teacher as he or she says the name of someone and throws...
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Achoo!
Young scholars examine the /ch/ digraph using a tongue twister and Grace Maccarone's poem, "Itchy, Itchy, Chicken Pox." They recite the tongue twister, write the letters, and imitate a sneeze each time they hear the /ch/ while the...
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Helen Keller
Young scholars describe several obstacles overcome by Helen Keller and identify adversity in their own lives and think about their views of dealing with it and ways of overcoming it.
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Christmas Celebrations
Second graders view a video of the Nutcracker ballet and then compare and contrast holiday celebrations in Germany and the United States. They use the computer to write a paragraph exploring their observations.
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123/ABC Hopscotch
Students practice alphabet recognition, alphabet sounds, and number readiness while playing a hopscotch type game.
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Computer (Keyboarding)
Students practice typing the letters on the left side of the home row of keys. They complete time tests and examine their results. They discover words from those letters as well.
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Shhh
First graders identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /s/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new...
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Yikes! Wow! An Interjection
In this grammar worksheet, students learn about interjections. They then use what they learned to answer the 14 interjection questions on the page. The answers are located on the last page of the packet.
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ABC Fun and Letter of the Week Activities
Students explore the alphabet. In this language arts lesson plan, students develop their fine motor skills as they participate in activities that require them to identify the letters of the alphabet.
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Zoom! Zoom! Zoom! I'm Off to the Moon Sequencing Lesson
Students practice sequencing. In this sequencing lesson, students listen to the book Zoom! Zoom! Zoom! I'm Off to the Moon. They put the story events in sequential order using a graphic organizer.
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Icky Sticky
Young scholars recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /i/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in words and pictures.
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Write My Name With Shaving Cream
Students write their names using shaving cream. In this write my name instructional activity, students practice forming letters using shaving cream. Students follow appropriate conventions of print to convey a message and use spacing and...