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Practice Writing the Number One
In this number one worksheet, students color a picture of a character from Winnie the Pooh, then practice tracing the number.
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Practice Writing the Number 5
In this number 5 worksheet, students practice tracing, then writing the number 5 and color a picture of 5 animals. A reference web site is given.
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Practice Writing the Number One
In this number 1 instructional activity, students color a picture of a squirrel, then practice tracing the number 1. A reference web site is given.
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Practice Writing the Number Eight
In this number 8 printing worksheet, students color a set of 8 leaves, then practice tracing and printing the number 8.
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1-800-MATHFUN
Students complete a number and letter recognition activity by creating phone numbers for businesses. In this telephone number lesson, students brainstorm telephone numbers that include words. Students translate numbers to their numeric...
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Odd or Even?
There are multiple objectives at play here as scholars solve addition and subtraction problems and determine whether the sums and differences are odd or even. As they solve these, encourage pupils to observe patterns. What happens when...
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In Depth with the Full Spectrum
Students explore the basic color wheel and the ways that artists use color to guide the viewer's attention through a painting's composition. A creation of a sense of depth in a two dimensional space and the effect of color on mood and...
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Primary and Secondary Colors
Red, yellow, blue. Orange, purple, green. Introduce kids to primary and secondary colors with a series of videos and a 19-slide presentation that shows how mixing primary colors produces secondary colors.
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Getting in Shape
Students create tangram rockets out of shapes and practice shape recognition.
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Ordering Numbers to 1000 (F)
In this Christmas math instructional activity, 1st graders order the Christmas ornament numbers from lowest to highest using the lines on the right.
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Ordering Numbers to 1000 (E)
In this Christmas math instructional activity, 1st graders order the Christmas ornaments from lowest to highest using the lines on the right.
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Colored Pencil Value Practice
Budding artists discover what color value means with regard to art. They read the definition of color value at the top of the page, choose three different colored pencils, then use the provided spaces to create color values with each. By...
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Pixels, Pictures, and Phones
Take a real close look at your phone screen. What do you see? Here's an activity that provides guidance on how to look at a smart phone screen in order to see the pixels and to see how the phone creates colors and motion on the screen.
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Making Models of the Solar System
Students make several models of the solar system to learn the positions of the planets in the solar system as well as relative distances and sizes. Creation of these models will help them identify the planets by size, shape, color,...
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Elements of Art: Student Assessment
What a neat test! The class is asked to draw and color to create examples of eight elements of art. They focus on each element (line, value, shape, form, space, texture, primary and secondary color) by creating an original piece in each...
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Ten Little Monsters
In this number and reading worksheet, students practice their reading skills and number recognition by singing the words to the 'Ten Little Monsters' song. Students also illustrate the monster numbers.
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Practice Writing Number Six
In this tracing numbers worksheet, 1st graders practice writing the number 6 by tracing the number 6 and then tracing the word six.
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Hula Hoop ABC Relays
Adding hula hoops to any activity can present a fun challenge. This worksheet explains how to conduct an activity that combines the recognition of capital/lowercase letters and a hula hoop relay. Outside on the playground, each student...
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Hot and Cold Colors
Students experiment with the color and solar energy absorption. In this color and solar energy absorption activity, students spend two days discussing and experimenting with the concept of energy absorption. They paint cans with...
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Reintroduce Soft-g
Do your scholars know that the letter g sometimes steals the j phoneme? Explore the letter g using these strategies combining pronunciation, recognition, letter sound, and word examples. Scholars examine the letter shape and listen to...
Star Wars in the Classroom
"Shakespeare and Star Wars": Lesson Plan Day 12
Class members compare the final 30 minutes of Lucas's Star Wars: A New Hope with Act V of Doescher's play, William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope and consider how the choice of media influences viewers' impression of the...
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Participles
In this recognizing participles in sentences worksheet, students read definitions and examples of participle usage, read statements, identify one or two participles, and write the noun or pronoun they modify. Students write 34 answers.
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Who Has More Money?
Coloring and money combine in this fun instructional activity! First and second graders count the amounts of money represented in each, and then color the person or animal who has the most money. They then draw the correct coins to add...
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Reintroduce /t/
Use these strategies to connect letter pronunciation, sound, word examples, and recognition, focusing on the letter t. Emerging readers examine the letter and listen to you say the /t/ sound. As you explain how to do it, they try...