Need some fun activities to augment your lessons on vowel patterns and phonemic awareness? Peruse a series of worksheets designed to help little ones with their early reading skills.

Caps for sale! Get your class into some monkey business with a fun set of activities based on Esphyr Slobodkina's Caps for Sale. Pupils practice tracing lines between caps and monkeys, identify colors of caps,...

Young scholars thank their freedom fighters. In this Veteran's Day lesson, students honor members of the U.S. Armed Forces by designing a program to pay tribute to them. Young scholars use technology tools to conduct interviews, take...

Students explore the role of workers and their jobs in the community. They write a friendly letter to a community worker expressing appreciation for the work they do and their importance to the community.

Students, as a class, interview musician to find out more about him/her as an individual. Students then write thank you notes and include, by naming or drawing, one fact learned about the musician.

In this ESL writing practice activity, students trace upper and lower case letters A-J. A reference web site for additional activities is provided.

Listen to the sound of children's fingers flying across their keyboards as they perform these fun typing lessons. From creating alphabet books and multimedia presentations to researching presidents and writing class...

Students explore new words through letters or letter groups. In this lesson plan about words, students use index cards to build new words. Each index card contains one letter or letter group. Students utilize different strategies like...

Students culminate a service project associated with a Cinderella study. In this service project lesson, students write letters to thank donors and sponsoring organizations for their donations of shoes. They practice their presentation...

Students practice using free association as a pre-writing technique as they list things that they are thankful for. They share the lists of words and apply them when they write a descriptive essay or poem after identifying commonalities...

In this math challenge worksheet, students read 5 story problems and use their problem solving skills to write equations in order to solve each of them.

Students explore how to transplant trees in their community. In this citizenship lesson, students construct a map of where to plant trees and then plant the trees.

Young scholars plan a service project. In this service learning instructional activity, students demonstrate their understanding of philanthropy as they plan a stone soup party.

Pupils discuss, analyze, and interpret "Portrait of a Dutch Family" by Fans Hals and then create subject specific projects for assessment. This cross-curricular lesson is well-suited for Language Arts or Visual Arts classrooms and...

Students actively practice spelling words. In this spelling activity, students use a flyswatter to swat at letters that spell each of their spelling words.

Discover activities to help learners increase self-awareness, build peer and family relations, and develop positive self-esteem. Here you'll find six suggestions for instilling a sense of confidence and self awareness in youngsters. Each...

Students generate questions to ask volunteers. They conduct interviews to determine volunteer's motivation. They write thank you letters to volunteers.

Students brainstorm the basic needs of the community and create a chart. In this volunteerism lesson plan, students recognize people in the community who have given charity in the community. Students read biographies of these charitable...

Students write poems of respect. In this character education lesson, students use the words "please," "thank you," "excuse me," and "I'm sorry" in acrostic poems that define the polite words and phrases.

In this whole alphabet printing practice activity set, learners follow numbered directional arrows to print both upper and lower case letters. They trace one row of the upper case letter, one row of the lower case letter, before printing...

Students practice spelling words with the long e sounds using ee or ea. In this ee or ea lesson plan, students complete words using the ee or ea pattern, identify rhyming words, and write a rhyming poem using ee words. Using word and...

In this science worksheet, students create an imaginary zoo. Students write information about their imaginary insect, including its name, how it eats, hears, seeing, smells, and eats.

Students interview community members who have lived there for a long time. Using the internet, they research the city of Sunset Hills and share their information with the class. In groups, they decide on a mural theme and design their...

Students read about the gingerbread man and have community members come to their class saying where they have seen him. In this community lesson plan, students listen to different community members about how the gingerbread man has been...