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Communities Around the World
Students investigate the idea of community by taking a field trip. In this civics lesson, students participate in a supervised walk around their neighborhood while identifying characteristics and objects that make their home town...
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Who Are You?
Students complete self projects such as a collage, an acrostic poem, a mural, and more, to show their similarities and differences. In this similarities and differences lesson plan, students can do these projects individually or in groups.
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Mexican Memory Match
Students explore memorization by participating in a fun class game. In this Mexican culture lesson, students identify important Mexican symbols and utilize these images to play a memory game. Students match flash cards containing the...
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Father Time
Students create a memory book and acrostic poem for Father's Day. In this Father's Day lesson, students appreciate unique things their fathers do for them. Students create an original project for their father.
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Encouraging Writing Through Combined Photos
Students practice writing skills through using photography to help create a writing prompt. They investigate how images can be used to create new ones that related to each other. This is similar to making a collage except now the images...
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Ready to Rhyme with Hop on Pop
Students complete worksheets by circling similar letters used in rhyming sounds. They form rhyming words using index cards and play a game of rhyming Bingo. They use letter tiles to form the rhyming words in the Dr. Suess book "Hop on Pop."
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ABC Scavenger Map
Students explore phonetics by participating in a class game. In this alphabet sounds lesson, students collaborate in a ABC's activity where they identify a random letter, the sound it makes, and place it in it's correct spot on a mat....
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Spelling List 26: Sight Words, Prefix "in-," and Academic Vocabulary
In this spelling worksheet, students copy a set of 21 words two times each. Words are sight, academic or have the prefix "in." A website reference for additional resources is given.
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Spelling List 17: Sight Words, Final Blend "-nd" and Academic Vocabulary
For this spelling worksheet, students copy a set of 21 words two times each. Words are sight, academic or have the final 'nd' blend. A website reference for additional resources is given.
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Spelling List 16: Sight Words, Final Blend "-st," and Academic Vocabulary
In this spelling worksheet, students copy a set of 21 words 2 times each. Words are academic, sight or have the final -st blend. A website reference for additional resources is given.
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How to Make an Edible Brown Bear
Students follow directions on how to make an edible brown bear. In this following directions lesson plan, students make their bear out of bagels, peanut butter, crackers, and more.
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Classic Storytelling with a Technology Twist
Students use technology to improve their knowledge of literary terms, math, and technology skills. In this technology storytelling lesson, students learn about character, plot, and setting in various stories by using technology like...
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Foods and Languages of the World
Young scholars review Mexico's location and language and learn to pronouns 10 new Spanish food words. Students listen as the book, Corn is Maize is read, touching and passing around an ear of Indian corn. Young scholars discuss the...
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Life Cycle Of Painted Lady Butterflies
The Very Hungry Caterpillar is the inspiration for this project-based learning activity. Kindergartners create a lifecycle chart for a butterfly with four sections: egg, caterpillar, pupa, and butterfly. It is a three-dimensional...
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Demon Masks
Students, using a story for inspiration, create their own demon mask. They are to use lots of color, texture and imagination.
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Crater Creation
Students examine the Oregon state quarter and discuss how Crater Lake was formed-geologically and according to Native American legend. They practice making predictions and identifying the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Students communicate and express ideas through drawings that represent the stated ideas. They use a pattern book after listening to the story, "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?"
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I've Got News For You!
Students explore their hometown newspaper for ideas. They create their own classroom newspaper.
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My Heroes Picture Book
Students create picture books about family members and friends who are heroes.
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Places where I see the flag
Students talk about flags from different countries and how during the olympics they can see flags from many different countries.
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Name Squares
Students examine the sounds the letters of their name make. They read Dr. Seuss' ABC Book and Mary Engelbreit's Put Em All Together. They practice writing the individual letters of their names in squares.
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Routing Explorers
Students read excerpts from an explorer's journal and then become investigators and navigators themselves. Students answer questions about the difficulties and time it took for the explorers to travel from Washington to New Orleans and...
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Hidie Ho H!
Students become more familiar with the letter and sound of h by using the poem, Humpty Dumpty. They are given a sequencing sheet, a pair of scissors, crayons, and a piece of construction paper and told to put pictures in the correct order.
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Transportation Types
Students answer questions after listening for details that identify many different kinds of transportation.