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Ethnic Folklore in Your Classroom: Traditions, Tales, and Treasures from Tijuana to Timbuktu
Pupils create their own festival. In this folk life lesson plan, students research their folklore history by interviewing their parents and grandparents, organizing the data found, and presenting that material to the class. Pupils have...
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Final Steps - From Cinderella Project
Students culminate a service project associated with a Cinderella study. In this service project instructional activity, students write letters to thank donors and sponsoring organizations for their donations of shoes. They practice...
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Welcome to the Class
Students read "The Brand New Kid" and identify the behaviors of a student who helps others with their work. In this conflict resolution lesson, students predict what will happen and how the problem will be resolved. Students discuss the...
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Responsibility and Jobs
Students identify community helpers. For this philanthropy lesson, students read Strega Nona and identify different characters' responsibilities in the story. Students use character traits to describe the main characters and make a list...
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The Teacher is Missing
Students create a set of class rules. In this literature lesson, students listen to the story "Miss Nelson is Missing". After listening to the story, students brainstorm and develop a set of class rules.
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Understanding Folklife and Folklore
Student examine the basic characteristics of folklore. For this folklore lesson, students complete activities to identify two kinds of folk, folk groups, and folklife. Students list daily activities in their home, identify folk groups...
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Family Folklore
Young scholars complete activities to explore family folklore. In this folklore lesson, students define in writing family folklore, identify aspects of family folklife through discussions of their own traditions. Young scholars identify...
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Family
Students draw a picture of something they enjoy doing with their family, or something special about their family. Students share their pictures with the class, and then they will be displayed in the classroom.
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Kindergarten Phonics
Students are introduced to the letters and phonemes for C, L, N, P, T, and A. They identify each letter in its upper and lowercase forms. Students differentiate the letters from each other and practice identifying objects and pictures...
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Linked Together: One Day
Young scholars understand the rights and responsibilities of belonging to a community.In this citizenship lesson plan, students illustrate eight citizen rights and share them. Young scholars define the meanings of nationality and...
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What's All the Buzz About?
Students discuss why we should be kind to one another. In this social skills instructional activity, students read and respond to a story about how saying mean things can hurt someone's feelings.
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From Polliwog to Frog
Students examine how frogs change. In this life cycle lesson plan, students create a model to show how a frog changes throughout its life. Students will show the process of frog metamorphosis, from polliwog to adult frog.
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Who Can We Help?
Young scholars define philanthropy. In this community service lesson, students assess as a group who at school needs help. Young scholars write letters to offer their assistance where they've found areas of need.
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Using Our Talents for the Common Good LESSON 2: How Can Our Talents Be Used Together?
Students decide what talents are and how they can be used to help others. They recite a poem and write journal entries about using their talents.
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Froggy Goes to School Activity Card
In this reading instructional activity, students respond to the book Froggy Goes to School by completing an activity at home with a parent. Students cut out 6 name cards and paste them next to the desk for each character in the story.
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Animals A to Z Activity Card
In this reading worksheet, students respond to the book Animals A to Z by completing an activity at home with a parent. Students hunt through the book and look for 16 pictures and check them off on the chart when they find them.
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Learning About Emotions
Young scholars participate in a series of activities about identifying different feelings and emotions. In these oral language and discussion lessons, students use pictures and photographs to get them involved in oral storytelling...
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Kwanzaa Activities
Students listen to a book about Kwanzaa and discuss the holiday and its importance. For this Kwanzaa lesson, students make crafts after they read and discuss the story.
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How Can Our Talents Be Used Together?
Students investigate their individual talents. In this togetherness lesson, students listen to the poem "Togetherness Chant" and change the final stanza from play to work. Students brainstorm how they can use their individual talents for...
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Kwanzaa Flash Cards
Students study Kwanzaa. In this art lesson, students compare Kwanzaa with the American holdiay known as Thanksgiving. Students decorate seven cards with the seven lessons of Kwanzaa written on them.
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Giving Generously
Students are read a book about giving. They discover that giving to others is rewarding. They also locate China on a map and make their own rice cakes.
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Alike and Different
Students compare and contrast objects and are introduced to a Venn Diagram. In this alike and different lesson, students make observations regarding properties of objects. Students classify object and build ideas about variables....
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Wisconsin Rt I Center: Word Families Letter Combinations [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn about teaching phonics through word families and letter combinations. Teachers will learn how to implement the use of word families and letter combinations, understand how to measure progress with word...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Beach Ball Word Families
A great fun activity to use with students to practice fluency and word families.