This is an awesome resource for any elementary or middle school teacher about to start a new school year! This resource includes an extensive list of activities for introducing the members of your class to each other. Some of the ideas...

First graders find angles in their classroom. In this geometric figures lesson, 1st graders identify, describe and classify angles they see in their world. Students create pictures that contain angles and display them in the room.

In this vocabulary activity, students participate in 30 activities pertaining to the 8 short words in a word bank. Students complete a word search, find rhymes, generate sentences and fill in missing words. These are easy 2 or 3 letter...

In this early childhood alphabet review activity, learners identify letters that follow specific letters in the alphabet as well as letters that come before specific letters. Students also place words in alphabetical order to reveal a...

Students participate in a letter matching game that pairs students so that they can introduce a new friend. They listen to the Shel Silverstein book, The Giving Tree and write a letter to the class telling them what they will give to the...

Young scholars practice pronouncing the correct consonant sound.

Students practice spelling the words on their spelling list. They read each word after the teacher writes them on the board. They trace the words with their fingers to help them remember them. They take a quiz over the spelling words.

Young scholars create an alphabetized list about their favorite topic using the Alphabet Poem Brainstorming worksheet or creating a list on the board with the class. They think of a word that starts with their letters that relates to the...

Students are introduced to the vowel pattern that produces the /oo/ sound in words. Through matching, listening, and spelling activities, students recognize the phoneme /oo/ and it's placement in words. They write a message using words...

In this ESL verb activity, students write an infinitive verb starting with each letter of the alphabet.

Students read different types of folktales. They participate in many activities in which they examine characters found in the tales. They create their own folktales and shares them with the class.

Students research the health benefits of apples and create a bulletin board showing the scientific facts they find.

In these vowel activity worksheets, students fill in the missing vowel letters for 78 word. Students then write 10 sentences using the words they formed.

Students are read a book but not told the title. They determine the main idea of the story and possible names for the book. They develop their own story and illustrate them to show their classmates.

Students practice the alphabet using a variety of songs, books and activities.

In this math learning exercise, learners solve the problems in the box grids with the operation of addition. The answers are used to create a secret code message.

Learners participate in an activity to help them remember their alphabet. They write letters out of plaster and walk through the woods identifying different objects that begin with each letter.

Students are read the story "Gingerbread Baby". They write their own letter to the author telling her about their favorite part. They ask questions and hopefully they will receive the answers from her as well.

Students discover how clouds form. They use the internet to read about the formation of clouds. They work together in groups to create their own clouds. They identify and label the four cloud types.

Students are read the story "Gingerbread Baby". They create a mold of a gingerbread out of paper. They decorate one side of the paper and write their own story on the back.

Students classify animals according to if they can or cannot fly.

Contains plans for at least seven 20- to 30-minute sessions about alphabet books. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to sites used in the lessons as well as...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will assist students in recognizing all initial consonant and short vowel sounds (a-z, ch, sh, th) in speech and writing; to identify and write correct initial letters in response to the...

This is a handwriting activity for first graders. The students learn the importance of their name and learn to properly write their name in a fun activity.