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Tallest and Shortest
Students look at 3 rows of objects, circle the shortest object in each row and then draw an X on the tallest object in each row. This worksheet provides good practice for an important visual skill.
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DOT, GOT, SPOT, PLOT
In this penmanship worksheet, students are asked to copy the words "cot", "dot", "got" and "spot" on the corresponding lines. Word boxes are provided for visual learners. Note: D'Nealian lettering is used throughout.
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Discussing One's Health
Learners explore common health issues. In this health and literacy lesson, students match simple health statements with appropriate visual representations. Learners prepare and perform dialogues in which health issues are the...
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Vocabulary Cards 2nd Grade A-L
Use a set of math vocabulary cards to enrich your second graders' knowledge. Whether you bring the cards to a math center or put them on a word wall, this resource will help even your struggling math learners with basic definitions and...
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Vocabulary Cards 2nd Grade M-Z
Math vocabulary has never been easier to understand! Use vocabulary cards to bring word walls to your classroom, helping kids make the connection between important math terms and easy-to-understand illustrations.
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The Land Around Us - Lesson 3
While the content of this lesson is more specific to the first grade, the directions given to work on a PowerPoint are well written. These directions could be used by anyone, with any content. Younger learners may need help reading the...
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We Tell Stories
Young readers bring characters to life by working in small groups to script and perform stories that contain a community concept. Detailed questions and activities are outlined for the class. Consider having your groups create...
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Sequencing Events
Using The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, pupils practice sequencing events in a story. After reading the story, they head to the computer lab to use Kidspiration to sequence events. Then they create their own books to demonstrate...
Dick Blick Art Materials
Have a Ball!
M.C. Escher's "Hand with Reflecting Globe" and the work of Dick Termes, inspire this activity. Kids check out their reflection in a Christmas ornament or a bubble filter and recreate this distorted image on a vinyl ball.
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Scissor Skills
In this scissor skills worksheet, learners practice cutting from one point to another. Students will be cutting along a variety of line shapes for dexterity practice. Next, learners cut our fish and glue onto the tank that has the same...
Perkins School for the Blind
Build a Word
Get out those scrabble tiles and a braille tape labeler because today we are playing a build-a-word game! Label several sets of scrabble tiles using the braille labeler, place them in a box, and have children take turns pulling letter...
Museum of Disability
A Picture Book of Louis Braille
Teach kids about the beginnings of the Braille writing system with a lesson about Louis Braille. A series of discussion questions guide young readers though A Picture Book of Louis Braille by David A. Adler, and once they finish the...
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Find the Real Mother Goose
In this picture matching activity, students examine 6 similar pictures of Mother Goose. Students color the one picture that is different from the others.
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Folklore; The Story Of The Milky Way
The students choose and read a Native American Folktale, analyze and sequence the story-line using a graphic organizer, then make a "woven" story blanket (from construction paper) depicting character, plot (including problem) and outcome.
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Take a Trip on the Chandelier
Students discuss the lines, shapes, and patterns used to decorate a 19th-century chandelier that was made to look like a hot-air balloon. In this art lesson students discuss the chandelier and then create a papier-mâché sculpture of a...
Lerner Publishing
Meet the Dinosaurs
Take your class of youngsters on a prehistoric adventure with this four-lesson series on dinosaurs. Accompanying the Meet the Dinosaurs books by Don Lessem, these lessons engage children in writing their own dinosaur books,...
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Make Them the Same- Drawing Comparisons- Dog and Squirrel
In this drawing activity, students examine the first picture in each box and draw the missing details in the second picture in each box. They compare the pictures of a dog in the first set, and the pictures of a squirrel in the second set.
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Thanksgiving Cut and Paste
In this cut and paste worksheet, students color 7 Thanksgiving related pictures and paste them onto a series of rows to finish the pattern of each row.
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Big Colorful Daisy
In this daisy worksheet, learners use a colorful picture of a daisy for any purpose. Students may use this as a story starter or graphic organizer. There are no directions.
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Venn Diagram
In this literacy worksheet, students use the Venn Diagram that is designed for the given lesson. The sheet is information for teachers.
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"The Little Red Hen"
In this story telling worksheet, students listen to the story "The Little Red Hen", color and cut out five farm animals to make finger puppets and six kitchen or farm items.
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Color The Shapes In The Shape House
In this color the shapes in the shape house learning exercise, students utilize the primary colors red, blue, green and yellow to color the shape house as directed.
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Scissor Skills
In this using scissors worksheet, students follow a set of directions to cut from one point to another. All point begin and end with a set of related pictures, 4 total.
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Lines and Shapes
First graders identify different kinds of lines found in common shapes. They discover ways in which an artist utilizes lines in a painting.