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The Rainbow Fish
Students listen to The Rainbow Fish and discuss the meanings of friendship. This is a wonderful way to open up the school year on the very first day of school. After the story, students make a paper chain with all of their names linked...
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The Rainbow Fish
Students are read the book "The Rainbow Fish" and summarize each page. They discuss actions they should be displaying to others. They critique the book and role-play being friends to end the instructional activity.
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Math by M&M's
Students learn Counting and have fun all at the same time. They also learn subtraction and adding at as young as you want. They can eat M&M's when the self-taught lesson is finished.
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An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
Students share their ideas about doctors and relate to their classmates. Then they refer to their prior knowledge and information discussed to explain and support their ideas and prepare for a visit with a doctor by charting ideas,...
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It's About You
Students build connections between census information and community decision-making by reading a reader's theater script. In this reader's theater lesson, students practice reading fluently and learn about the government. The reader's...
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I'm Special
In this celebration of the individual worksheet, students state things that make them special. Students have an opportunity to share positive attributes of themselves.
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Shapes and Colors
In this shapes and colors worksheet, students analyze a picture of a house that is made with squares, rectangles and triangles. Students follow the directions to trace and color each of the geometric shapes they find in the picture.
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Triangles and Rectangles
In this geometric shapes worksheet, learners study five pictures of trees made out of triangles and rectangles. Students follow the directions to trace and color the shapes they find in the picture.
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Triangles and Ovals- Ice Cream Cones
In this geometric shapes activity, students look for ovals and triangles in a picture of three multi-scoop ice cream cones. Students follow the directions to color each shape they find.
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Shapes and Colors Practice- Squares
In this geometric shapes worksheet, students learn to recognize the square shape. Students analyze a picture of birthday packages and trace the squares and color them red.
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Squares and Triangles in a Picture
In this geometric shapes worksheet, students analyze a picture of a house and trace all the squares and triangles. Students color the shapes according to the directions.
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Circles and Squares: Lemonade Picture
In this shapes and colors worksheet, students analyze a picture of a glass of lemonade and trace all the circles and squares. Students color the shapes according to the directions.
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Squares and Ovals: Face Picture
In this shapes and colors worksheet, students analyze a whimsical picture of a face and trace all the squares and ovals they see. Students color the shapes according to the directions.
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Shapes and Colors: Robot
In this shapes and colors instructional activity, students analyze a picture of a robot and trace the squares and rectangles they find. Students color the shapes according to the directions.
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Know Your Nose: Learning About the Sense of Smell
Young scholars explore their senses of smell. In this sense of smell instructional activity, students read The Popcorn Dragon and research the sense of smell on a designated website. Young scholars identify scents and play an Internet...
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Tracing Exercise
In this tracing instructional activity, students prepare to learn to print by tracing 20 straight dotted lines from left to right. Students then color a picture of a bus.
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Drawing Straight Lines
For this pre-printing practice worksheet, learners use straight lines to connect a set of dots, then color the resulting picture. Page has multiple links to additional resources.
Dr. Seuss Enterprises
A Poem a Day
Celebrate National Poetry month with a quote a day from Dr. Seuss's books. Each poster includes the date (a day in April), a quote from a book, an image from the book, and a thumbnail of the book cover.
Education Outside
What Are Grains?
This activity is like having a show-and-tell. Bring in lots of items, or packaging, from the grain group. Bread, rice, cracker, cereal, oats, you get the idea. Perhaps first start by checking in and asking what the class knows about...
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Healthy, Happy Teeth
Students demonstrate the right way to brush their teeth and why its important to keep them clean.
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Self-Esteem Activities Using Puppetry
Puppets provide a wonderful way for your students to explore self-esteem and other issues.
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Water Safety
Students examine water safety for the beach. They discuss the three safety rules, demonstrate various ways to rescue a person, participate in the stingray shuffle dance, and complete a crossword puzzle quiz.
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An Honest Cigarette Ad?
Students recognize the intended audience for a certain advertisement They recognize advertising techniques aimed at the intended audience and create their own advertisements about the truth of cigarette smoking. Students begin to see...
Nemours KidsHealth
Germs: Grades K-2
Students demonstrate knowledge about germs. In this health lesson, students investigate what germs are, how to protect the skin by comparing the skin to apple skins, and the proper hand washing technique for getting rid of germs....