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A'planting We will Go
Germination is an amazing process that results in amazing things. The book The Tiny Seed is the inspiration for a set of activities that will help build early literacy, observation, language, and writing skills. The class observes how...
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Fun in the Sun
Students learn about safe summertime play and responsibility. In this Clifford-themed lesson plan, students read Clifford Keeps Cool, use a time line to discuss the story, and participate in a summertime picnic activity.
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Fun With Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Students complete various activities for the book, "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom." They listen to the story, construct a coconut tree, create paper letters for the coconut tree, and write about their favorite part of the story.
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Solid Waste and Our Natural Resources: Utilizing the Story THE LORAX
Students gain an introduction to our planet's solid waste problem and our personal responsibility in curbing and solving said problem through the use of Dr. Seuss' book, The Lorax. After hearing the book, class discussion follows.
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Wild Things
Students draw a literacy response picture demonstrating knowledge and appropriate use of computer hardware components (monitor, mouse) using KidPix and Kidspiration software with a minimum of two different pictorial details on their...
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Musicians and Vampires
Students practice techniques and strategies for understanding the parts of a story to help them remember what they've read. They review and analyze the elements of a story and how to find them first in a paragraph and then in a book.
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All About Bugs
Students read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and practice the days of the week. In groups, they create a puppet show, design cards of the "days of the week," draw their favorite part of the story, create a visual representation of each...
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Community Helpers
Kindergartners learn who community helpers are and what contributions they make for the community. They will hear a story outlining various community helpers, their jobs, and tools, create a graphic organizer connecting community...
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Our Five Senses
Students use their five senses to describe what's in a mystery bag. For this senses lesson, students use a graphic organizer to collect words for a sensory poem.
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Looks Like Respect, Sounds Like Respect, Feels Like
Students explore philanthropy through art. In this service learning instructional activity, students discuss the diversity in their community and use their senses to create tolerance posters.
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Everyone Is Special
Students discuss tolerance. In this philanthropy lesson, students read the book A Very Special Critter by Gina Mayer and discuss the character's disability. Students role play how to be tolerant of a new student with a disability.
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What's Your State Symbol?
Students explore their state symbols. In this symbolism lesson plan, students use a variety of resources to research the symbols that represent their state. Students discover the state flower, state flag, and state bird.
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Let's Learn About Jobs
Students evaluate the jobs that their parents do. For this literature-based social studies lesson, the teacher introduces the concept of work both at home and on the job and leads the children in the creation of a Venn diagram to aid in...
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Reading Pattern Books
Students investigate pattern books. In this literature lesson, students read the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? and use echo and choral reading strategies. Students identify the pattern in the text and write about the...
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Spend, Save or Donate
Young scholars identify the difference between spending, saving, and donating. They brainstorm reasons to give and options to donate. They sing a song about donating to charity.
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Hats
Students listen to a read aloud of "Hats, hats, hats," by Ann Morris focusing on the variety of hats. They play a file folder game categorizing hats from the book.
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Oh Say Can You See?
Pupils discover the meaning of patriotism through literature, songs, and poetry. They also identify patriotic symbols and activities such as the flag, the Pledge of Allegiance, the Star Spangled Banner, the bald eagle, and monuments.
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Piggie Pie!
Learners explain about their experiences on the farm and draw pictures to show what they know. Students read the recipe for the piggie pie that Gritch was going to use. Learners estimate and then measure how many pigs it would take to...
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Lesson Eight: Depending on Others
Students consider what real needs are and how people meet them. For this community lesson, students read A New Coat for Anna and utilize a landscape picture map to help them discuss community.
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Habitats Past and Present
Young scholars explore the changes in animal habitats. In this ecosystem lesson, students use the Internet to explore the changes in the environment since the 1700's. Young scholars complete a Venn diagram to compare the differences in...
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Character Education-Perseverance
Students learn what it means to stick to a task through the re-telling of the story, "The Little Engine That Could." Personal application is made to their own experiences with the completion of, "I think I can..." endings.
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America the Beautiful
Students listen to story America the Beautiful, discuss places in America they have visited, define beautiful, and create and illustrate class book with pictures and words from song, America the Beautiful.
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Lesson Nine: Size and Scale
Students investigate scale as it is related to maps. In this map lesson, students read Jack and the Beanstalk by Carol North. Students then compare the setting in the story to a landscape picture map to help them study scale.
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Constrating Cinderellas/ Connecting LA Cenerentola
Young scholars contrast the traditional Cinderella character with a modern, independent and socially conscious Cinderella. To activate prior knowledge by eliciting from the students some of the familiar story elements of the traditional...
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