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Read and Review
Young scholars create presentations to discuss a book they've read using a video format. For this reading and speech lesson, students video tape a presentation about a book they've written a summary for. Young scholars then produce an...
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Introduce Vocabulary: The Itsy Bitsy Spider
Pupils explore language arts by reading a children's book in class. In this story vocabulary lesson, students read the book The Itsy Bitsy Spider and identify the use of specific vocabulary words. Pupils define the selected vocab words...
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Creative Cubbies
Learners get comfortable in the classroom. In this early childhood visual arts lesson, students engage in an art activity that encourages individuality and creativity using a variety of art materials to decorate their cubbies.
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My Summer Vacation: Traveling
A classic lesson idea, kindergarteners share stories about their summer vacations on their first day of school! First, your young learners will listen to you talk about your summer vacation, making sure to use plenty of visual aids. Then...
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The ABC's of Breakfast
Learners identify the food group of various culturally diverse breakfast foods and discuss the importance of eating a healthy, well-balanced breakfast every morning. They then try different foods that begin with the letter A, B and C and...
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The Counting Caterpillar
A daily counting routine builds a caterpillar with 100 body segments (marked with symbols to indicate 2s, 5s, and 10s) by the 100th day of school. Provides structured repetition as part of the morning routine so that by 100th day,...
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Pick a Number, Counting On
This is a quick learning game that can be played on a daily basis during transitions or as a part of the morning meeting. Using number cards or numbers placed on sticks, pick a number at random. Read the number to the class and then ask...
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Breakfast: Grades K-2
Students investigate nutrition and the role breakfast plays in everyday life. In this healthy eating activity, students discuss their own breakfast habits and the meal they would prefer to have every morning. Students...
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Growing on My Own, Kids on the Grow
Students participate in an after school program that promotes critical thinking, concern for others, recognizing differences, accepting differences, self-motivation and personal safety. They cover how kids develop, expressing different...
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Capitalize Proper Nouns
Learners practice capitalizing proper nouns with a straightforward activity. As they circle the proper nouns that need to be capitalized from each sentence, they write them correctly from the paragraph.
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Backwards Day
Students create ways to do things backwards. In this cross-curriculum activity, students participate in various backwards activities for an entire day. Students recite the alphabet backwards, spell their names backwards, and read stories...
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Guest Teacher Plans: Kindergarten
Emergencies happen. Be prepared the next time you have to call in a substitute with a lesson plan designed to meet the needs of a kindergarten class. Throughout the day, class members work with number and alphabet cards, identify numbers...
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First Then Visual Schedule
Here is an app especially designed for care providers of children with autism or other developmental delays that will help them build customized picture schedules to help support the behavioral needs of their students.
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Jan Brett Author Study
Expose young children to the wonderful works of author and illustrator Jan Brett using a few of her stories such as Armadillo Rodeo, The Mitten, or Daisy Comes Home through a unit study.
Great Books Foundation
Picture-Books in Winter
Five questions challenge scholars to make inferences after reading a poem, "Picture-Books in Winter" by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Dinosaur Days
Students investigate the age of dinosaurs while examining the characteristics of three kinds of dinosaurs. They examine plant eaters, meat eaters, and flying dinosaurs while determining how to classify things. They rotate through centers...
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My Week Ahead Chart
For this upcoming week chart template worksheet, learners fill in the Monday through Sunday blanks with morning, afternoon, evening, and bedtime events.
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Christmas Morning Surprise
Students "plant" mints for Christmas. In this Christmas lesson, students "plant" starlight mints in the ground. You switch the mints with candy canes, so when the students come out they think their mints have grown.
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Fit For Life
Young scholars participate in a daily school-wide fitness program which takes place every morning following morning announcements. They complete a warm-up, a cardiovascular workout, a strength and endurance workout and finally, a cool...
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Gymnastics Unit Culmination Field Trip
Students participate in various gymnastics and tumbling activities and take a field trip to a gymnastics gym where they work with trained gymnastics coaches. This gives the student the opportunity to explore and experience gymnastic...
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A Day on a Farm
Young scholars discuss their morning as they prepared to come to school. The teacher guides the discussion so students understand ways they relied on agriculture to accomplish tasks. Young scholars view pictures of various farm...
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Mark Twain Olympics
Students, during the last week of the year, are placed into 12 teams to represent countries of the world. All of students participate in a school-wide Olympics that involves 4 rounds of fun activities.
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Consonant Cowboy/Letter and Sound Recognition
Students play an educational computer game, complete a letter recognition activity and close the game appropriately. They sing the alphabet song as the teacher holds each corresponding card with the letter and picture as support.
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Fish, Fish: Teaching K Students About Things That Live in the Sea
Pupils participate in activities designed to help them connect the words to the animals they are studying. Octopus is reinforced through playing a game, "Octopus Tag." Students play a cooperation game of passing bean bags from student to...