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Read Aloud: "The Bookshop Dog"

For Teachers K
Students listen to the book "The Bookshop Dog" and discuss what happens when there is a change in their lives. They create a class T-chart about changes and feelings, develop a graph related to the story, and define key story vocabulary...
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Proud to Be Me Mobile

For Teachers K - 2nd
Student create mobiles to promote self-awareness and discovery. In this creative hands-on mobile instructional activity, students use large star patterns to create a mobile that reflects a theme they've chosen, representing something...
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Thanksgiving For Preschool

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, make turkey hands, eat gingerbread cookies, and more to learn about Thanksgiving. In this Thanksgiving lesson plan, students also write what they are thankful for.
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Kinder Poems & Songs

For Teachers K
Students complete a year-long unit for poetry and songs. In this poetry and songs lesson, students complete nine lessons for animal songs and animal poetry to improve their understanding of rhyme, rhythm, and poetry.
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Red: Learning Colors

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
In this worksheet on the color red, students look at a set of 10 pictures and color red those things that could be red. [All 10 items COULD be the color red]
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Pattern and Shading

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students dentify patterns in their everyday environment. They create several types of pattern, including hatching, crosshatching, and stippling and discover that hatching lines may be drawn horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
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Printing Practice Worksheets- The Whole Alphabet

For Students K - 1st Standards
In this whole alphabet printing practice worksheet set, students 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...
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Baby Chick Coloring Page

For Students Pre-K - 1st
For this coloring page, students color a baby chick sitting in a cracked egg. The chick has a bow in his hair and a ribbon is around the egg.
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Tracing Lines Worksheet: Tracing Curved Lines

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this drawing curved lines worksheet, students follow the balls bouncing across the page by tracing the 3 curved lines from left to right.
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Tracing Zig Zag Lines

For Students Pre-K - K
In this tracing inverted V lines worksheet, students trace zig zag lines from the butterflies on the left side of the page across the page to the right side. Students trace 3 lines.
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Our Daily Five

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the food pyramid through a class discussion, hands-on experience with food items, and a floor game that helps them to identify the food group involved. Lesson extensions include the use of play money, art, and dance.
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Spiders Are Fun

For Teachers K
Students study facts about spiders using a number of literary forms, including stories, poems, and songs. They work with consonant sounds by matching pictures with the beginning consonant sounds. They design art projects that emphasize...
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Dr. Seuss Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars read classic children's books. In this Dr. Seuss lesson, students read the Seuss classics The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs & Ham and Horton Hears a Who. Young scholars create models based on story characters and discuss...
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Dinosaur Upper Case Letters

For Students K - 1st
In this printing practice worksheet, students learn to form all upper case Zaner-Bloser alphabet letters. Students examine the examples, then trace 4 letters. Each letter is inside its own dinosaur shape.
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Cut and Paste Balloons

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
In this color recognition instructional activity, students color the three different balloons by the colors red, yellow, and blue. Students cut the circles out and paste them into the picture.
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The Mitten

For Teachers K - 1st
Students listen to the story The Mitten, and visit a website about the story's author. Students create masks of the animals from the story and present a play of the story.
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Thanksgiving Placemats

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss and list the things they are thankful for this year. They look for these words or things in magazines. They create a placemat with their pictures or words from the magazines. They share them with the class.
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Finger Painting With a Purpose

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
With finger painting lessons and activities students can see their hands and fingers as tools for creativity.
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Rock Around the Clock Math

For Teachers K - 2nd
An engaging and fun lesson on telling time is here for you. In it, young time-tellers listen to the song, "Rock Around the Clock," then use Judy Clocks to practice telling time to the hour and half hour. Finally, using paper plates, each...
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Red Circle, Red Circle, What Do You See?

For Teachers K - 1st
Young learners explore shapes and colors. They listen to Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. and use the same language pattern to create a color and shape book of their own. After that, with the leftover magazine...
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There Was An Old Lady That Swallowed a Fly

For Teachers K
Students complete activities with the book There Was An Old Lady That Swallowed a Fly.  For this literature lesson, students hear the story and recognize the animals. They create fly soup and discuss healthy foods and junk...
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Clouds

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, cut out shapes, and more to learn about clouds. In this clouds lesson plan, students go outside and look at cloud shapes and voice what they see.
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Oceans

For Teachers K
Students become aware of the differences between ocean water and lake water by smelling, tasting and seeing. They distinguish between land and bodies of water on a globe and gain increased awareness of oceans and life.
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Shadows

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, learn about the letter s, and eat raisins all to learn about shadows. In this shadows lesson plan, students also go outside and look at shadows and sing songs about shadows.