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New Year's Resolutions for Teachers

For Teachers 1st - 6th
New Year's can be a time for teachers to make resolutions as well.
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Sensational Slime

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students mix solutions of polyvinyl alcohol and borax. They predict what happen and record their observations. They prepare a T-chart comparing Jell-o to their mixture.
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A Zoo Book for All

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
A visit to the local zoo launches an integrated life science/ language arts research project into the habitat, feeding habits, offspring, lifespan, and other interesting facts about animals. Each group selects two animals to photograph...
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Full Dolch Word List

For Students K - 3rd
Sight words are listed based on how frequently they are used. There are 250 words on the list. This would be a good, general resource for a teachers of grades 1 - 3. It is useful to know what words your class should know, and how well...
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Predictable Chart/Sentence Building with "Goodnight Moon"

For Teachers 1st
First graders work on a series of modeled reading and writing lessons based on "Goodnight Moon." students work on pages of a predictable class book.
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Creating Weather Journals

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students create weather journals. In this weather science lesson, students use digital cameras to record the daily weather and write a paragraph in a weather journal.
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Insects

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students study the characteristics and basic needs of insects. They compare and describe similarities among insects. They examine the body structure, covering, and movement of insects and also, examine insect life cycles in this unit of...
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Gymnastics Unit Culmination Field Trip

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students participate in various gymnastics and tumbling activities and take a field trip to a gymnastics gym where they work with trained gymnastics coaches. This gives the student the opportunity to explore and experience gymnastic...
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Making Good Decisions

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students read a local town meeting sheet about a problem they are having, and come up with solutions. In this decisions lesson plan, students analyze the problem and come up with solutions to the problem. Students discuss how to make a...
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Beginning Sentence Completion Exercise 35

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students examine 10 sentences that are missing words and select the appropriate words to complete each of the sentences and match them to the sentences. Student answers are...
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The Seasons of Thanks

For Teachers 1st
First graders explain the Native American cyclical concept of time
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Elmer the Elephant

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize the short vowel E in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /e/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and spell...
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We All Need Sleep

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners examine and discuss the importance of getting a good night's sleep everyday. They discuss why we need sleep and develop a class chart of reasons why children need sleep. They complete a sleep worksheet and discuss the answers...
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Monster Mouse

For Students K - 1st
In this reading instructional activity, students read a story about a little mouse. Students answer reading comprehension questions and practice printing letters M, C, B, P, and E.
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Nouns on the Farm

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this early childhood nouns worksheet, students practice using nouns as they complete 10 sentences with a noun or nouns from the word bank.
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Little Mouse's New House

For Students K - 2nd
In this "Little Mouse's New House" worksheet, learners use their reading fluency and comprehension skills to read the 10 page story. The story includes illustrations.
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Water 1: Water and Ice

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate water in its solid and liquid form. In this states of matter lesson, students experiment to see what happens as water goes from a solid, ice, to a liquid, water, and back again. They write about and illustrate the...
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Shadows All Around Us

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students create shadows. In this shadow casting activity, students read books about shadows, view a demonstration on shadow casting and then practice shadow casting on their own. Students cast a shadow using the position of the sun.
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A.M. and P.M.

For Teachers 1st
 In this ordering and time activity, 1st graders review the meaning of A.M. and P.M. and discuss what they do during the day. Students chart their responses and then make a book of their daily activities.
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My Owl Babies Miss Momma

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students investigate the relationship between children and parents by reading a book about owls.  In this story analysis lesson, students read the book Owl Babies and participate in a role play based on one of the characters....
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My Weather Dial

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students construct a weather dial. In this weather lesson, students examine different types of weather and design a weather dial for use during the daily math meeting.
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Actions Exercises

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this verbs instructional activity, students fill in the sentences with verbs for activities they see in the pictures. Students complete 20 sentences total.
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Time & Itineraries Two

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students explore time management by participating in clock reading activities. In this itinerary instructional activity, students define a list of time telling vocabulary terms and practice reading analog clocks with a partner. Students...
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I've Been Working in the Neighborhood

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore community helpers. For this social studies lesson, students research a variety of community helpers. Students choose a community helper and explain why they would want to spend a day helping that worker.

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