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Color It Recycled!
Students melt old crayon stubs and mold them into interesting shapes and characters. They can add paper clips to created hanging ornaments!
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My Own Picture Dictionary
Students create a picture dictionary that includes images of people and things that are important in their lives. They identify pictures of people and things that are important in their lives.
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The Bear Necessities: A K-2 Computer Activity
Students demonstrate understanding of basic facts of polar bears based on their completed worksheets. They then demonstrate basic skill at scrolling on a Web page and identify key points in text.
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Cultural Corner- "Mexico"
Students use print and electronic resources to gather information about Mexico. They present a mini-museum to share with students, parents, and other interested classes around the district. They present their information in a video...
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Plants
Students identify and label parts of a plant. They will construct a plant from art material and describe the purpose of each part for the plants survival. Students author a book with pictures and words or a story about a plant.
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Probably Pistachio
First graders practice making logical predictions from information they are given.
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Five Spelling Games
Students follow directions to complete activities that help them learn their weekly spelling words.
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Vowel Catcher
Learners reinforce their knowledge of different vowel sounds while playing a form of tag.
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Animal Tag
Young scholars play a chasing, fleeing game after choosing an animal to role play.
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Cafeteria Compost
Young scholars gather information on composting. They create their own compost pile using proper materials from the lunchroom. They work together to record observations.
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Look but Don't Touch:
Learners complete a graphic organizer after identifying three interesting facts from a web site. They role play that the NASA space probe has landed on Mars where a large animal was found and they develop the important questions they...
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Synonyms and Antonyms
Students explore and respond to poetry. They define and identify synonyms and anotnyns. They create antonym pairs in English. They create synonym pairs in English and Spanish.
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Guess Which Word?
Students listen to clues to a mystery word. They use phonics and language skills to figure out a mystery word.
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Places in our School Yard - An "I Spy" Book
Students create a class big book using the "I Spy" game format and adding 3 clues to help readers guess the areas of a naturalization project.
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Seeing Shapes
Young scholars study a variety of geometric shapes by taking pictures of items representing the shapes with a digital camera. They identify the shapes by using software to paint on the image.
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"Greenhouse" Sprouts Garden
Students grow sprouts in soil inside clear plastic bags. They record and monitor the growth for five days, and present their findings to the class.
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Seeing Shapes
Students discover different geometric shapes such as triangle, square, rectangle, and octagon. Students incorporate the use of technology by taking pictures of shapes around their school using a digital camera.
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The Crying Baby Sound
Students recognize the short vowel a in spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ in words and sentences. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and read sentences...
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Beanbag Switch
Students walk around to music playing. They switch beanbags with other students. When the music stops they go to a P.E. station the same color as their beanbag.
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Stepping With The Opposite Foot
Students start to explain what foot they need to step with when throwing a ball.
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Story Quilts
Pupils create a classroom story quilt based on a story (or series of stories) read as a group.