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My Five Senses by Aliki
An assessment designed to examine scholars' reading comprehension skills takes place over three days. Starting with a read-aloud of My Five Senses by Aliki, learners then take notes and discuss their most memorable moments with a peer....
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The Five Senses - Magic School Bus
Students identify five senses, draw parts of body that relate to each of the senses, hear different sounds in the environment, write those experiences in their journals, and list at least four objects/things that relate to each of the...
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Lesson Plan Three: Sense of Hearing and The Ear
Learners use their sense of hearing to observe sounds at school, label parts of the ear, and write their own version of the "Ears Hear" poem by following the example provided.
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Describing Words
First graders practice using describing words. In this descriptive word instructional activity, 1st graders read the story The Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs and match the pig descriptions to their names. They play a game where they...
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Exploring the Five Senses
Young scholars explore the five senses. In this science lesson, students complete activities online in which they research the five senses.
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Number Patterns
Help your young scholars to identify even and odd numbers. For this number sense lesson, they read the book Madeline and use counters to identify which number has a "partner." Learners write down odd and even numbers on a whiteboard.
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Architecture: It's Elementary!—First Grade
Build an interest and appreciation for architecture in your young learners with this fun 10-lesson art unit. Engaging children in using their five senses, the class first observes the environment around them, paying special attention to...
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Counting, Properties of Numbers, and Reasoning about Numbers
Five days of lessons develop number sense and counting patterns, including odd and even numbers, 5s and 10s, doubles, and ways to make 10. Each session opens with fun finger play to reinforce counting and reasoning about numbers. Various...
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All Aboard!
Learners recognize and identify onomatopoeia. They will read the book All Aboard! A True Train Story, by Susan Kuklin. After reading the book, they list and illustrate examples of onomatopoeia. Then they write a poem or story using...
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Building Numbers to 5
Young scholars compose groups of items up to the number 5. In this number 5 lesson plan, students also connect names to numbers, record sizes of groups, and compose and decompose groups.
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Numeracy Lesson Plan: Reception
Students examine number sense by participating in identification activities. In this number value lesson plan, students practice counting from 1-10, identifying number flash cards, reading clocks and multiplying basic numbers. Students...
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Ten by Ten
Learners participate in hands-on activities using a hundreds chart and counting toes and fingers. They discover the patterns that are created when counting by ten. After a lecture/demo, students practice by using a worksheet embedded in...
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Arthur's Eyes
Students learn about the parts of the eye. In this eyes and vision lesson, students the story Arthur's Eyes and create a KWL chart about eyes. Students label the parts of the eye, examine the eyes of different animals to compare them...
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Number Line Locomotion
Here is a great lesson that incorporates movement into academic learning. Students improve addition subtraction skills by using number lines and locomotor movement.
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Agriculture Counts
Students practice counting. In this early numbers lesson, students learn about the beginnings of agriculture and how it ties into math. Students practice counting objects related to agriculture.
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Guided Reading Activities with Pizzazz
Get the most out of your guided reading lessons with this collection of literacy materials. Offering a system for using color-coded tags to mark pages while reading books, as well as an assortment of comprehension and grammar worksheets,...
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Number Sense
First graders practice rounding 4 digit numbers using place value concepts. In this estimating sums and differences instructional activity, 1st graders explore clustering, rounding, and front end estimation as methods for rounding decimals.
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Money: Kids and Cash
Students discuss what a bank is and what it is used for. In this mathematics instructional activity, students solve problems related to interest and percentages.
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Use Symbols to Subtract
Students practice crossing out items in a group in order to complete subtraction problems. In this subtraction lesson plan, students watch a PowerPoint presentation and then practice problems on their own.
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Things in a Line
Little learners recognize symbols, objects and how to depict numbers. For this matching lesson, they can match the number names with a set of items, model ordinal numbers, and complete a cute, cartoon-character worksheet.
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Making Words
Students add letters to teacher provided endings to make new words. In this phonics lesson, students learn to make new words using word families. A sample worksheet is provided and a rubric
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The Sound Monster - Words That Make Sounds
There are words in the English language that actually make sounds, such as vroom, and, buzz. Here is a clever lesson which introduces young readers to these sound-making words. They play an interactive game on the computer that has them...
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Full Stops
This is an incredibly detailed and thorough plan. It is all about full stops - which is the British way of saying, "Periods." First-year learners practice the skill of knowing when to use a period, and understand what periods are meant...
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Sweet Tooth - Full Stops
Young writers engage in a lesson which reinforces the concept of when to use periods, "full stops" as they're called, when writing. There is a terrific online activity built into the plan which gives the kids valuable practice, then a...