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Oh Say, What Can You See?
Students take a walk outside and use their sense of sight to discover things in their world. They record their observations and compare their observations with those of their classmates.
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Tell Me All About It!!
Students discuss the importance of comprehension and the use of summarization. Through guided practice, they follow five steps in finding and highlighting important information, while deleting information that is not needed. Using the...
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State the Facts
Students, while silently reading the book, "Mr. Pilling's Pond," by Patricia Nikolina Clark, and "One Good Turn," by Bette Anne Rieth, discuss how to summarize each book. They review the five steps to summarization and write them down.
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When A Says Its Name
Students are introduced to the concept of vowel digraphs. They identify the digraph /ai/ in spoken language. After a brief discussion, students apply the rule for reading and spelling words containing the /ai/ digraph by playing word bingo.
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Animal Adaptations
Students use items from boxes to dress up classmates as animals adapted to a given environment.
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Anger Management Strategies for the Classroom
Here are some strategies to help students deal with anger management
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I Pledge Allegiance
What does showing respect look like? What behaviors show disrespect? After modeling such behaviors, primary graders create a flag that they hold up while demonstrating respectful behavior as they recite the Pledge of Allegiance. The...
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Guess My Shape
Students describe shapes to other students who have to guess that shape. In this shape lesson plan, students describe shape attributes to other students. Then those other students have to guess the shape that is being described to them....
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Ocean of Words
Students explore aspects of the ocean. For this ocean wildlife lesson, students watch a power point presentation on the ocean. Students complete a worksheet on what they learned.
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Invent on the Spot
The best inventions come from a problem that needs to be solved! Given a container with holes in...
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Shhh!!! I'm Reading!
Learners practice reading silently decodable texts in this lesson. They discuss the importance of being able to read silently. They then practice silently reading "Wemberly Worried." An assessment/checklist is included in this lesson.
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Litter Detectives
Young scholars develop a positive attitude against littering by creating solutions to help reduce littering.
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Be a Fire Safety Monitor
Learners examine ways to deal with unsafe fire situations. They determine what to do when someone else is casing a dangerous fire situation such as playing with a lighter, burning candles near curtains, or smoking in bed. Working with a...