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Everyone Has Feelings
These activities promise to provide a day full of fun for young learners as they explore feelings and emotions. Learners participate in two sing-alongs with the songs "Smile" and "If You're Happy", they color emotion masks, and finally...
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Valentine Singing/Guessing Game
Students sing songs and explore different vocal sounds. As they sing songs, students discover and mark phrases. They sing songs as a class, in groups, and individually. Students, in groups, play a guessing game with the songs.
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All About Me - 2
Students recognize beat vs. no beat, sing and improvise on do, me, so, and la, and perform creative movement to music in this Kindergarten Music instructional activity. Emphasis is placed upon the Wiggy Wiggy Wiggles CD and creative...
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Water Bottle Flowers
Students create recycled art. In this visual arts lesson, students follow the provided steps to create their flowers made from recycled water bottles.
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B is for Banana
Learners practice and perform the song "B is for Banana" using their knowledge of basic rhythms in 4/4 and student-created rhythm accompaniment based on speech. This excellent lesson is provided by the MENC (National Association for...
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Texture Fun
Students play a guessing game. In this performing art lesson, students guess what each ingredient is by touching each while being blind folded.
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Winter Waltz
Students pretend their room is an imaginary frozen pond. In this performing arts lesson, students create the illusion that they are skating on the pond by using wax paper on their feet. Finally, students get in the winter mood by...
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Phytochemicals
Students create movement, improvise rhythmic accompaniment, practice, and perform the song "Phytochemicals" in this excellent elementary-level General Music lesson. The lesson includes lesson challenges for more advanced students.
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Fit Kid
Young scholars practice and perform the song "Fit Kid" while learning the basics of motion and music and dynamics in this elementary-level instructional activity for the General Music classroom. The instructional activity emphasizes...
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Kids Spring Playtime
Students enjoy going outside. In this performing arts lesson, students blow bubbles or fly a kite enjoying the outdoors.
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Salad Sisters
Pupils practice and perform 8 and 16 beat rhythmic patterns in 4/4 using the song "Salad Sisters" as a basis in this elementary-level General Music lesson. An amazing lesson for teaching cooperative music composition techniques and rhythm.
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May Baskets
Students create a May Basket. In this cutting and pasting art lesson, students use pictures of flowers from magazines to create a bouquet of flowers. Students cut the pictures out, past them to toothpicks and arrange them in...
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Crayon Resist
Students color a picture with bright crayons. In this art lesson, students brush a thin coat of water color paint over the picture with the paint only sticking to the uncolored areas.
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Snowman Q-Tip Painting
Students draw an outline of a snowman onto a piece of paper using the white crayon. In this art lesson, students use Q-tips to make dots inside the outline with white paint.
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Digital Illustration- Partner Draw
Young scholars explore changes in their digital images using a wacom tablet. In this digital portrait lesson, students answer questionnaires and create a portrait of themselves using a digital paint program. Young...
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Bean Name
Students write their names on pieces of cardboard. In this art lesson, students outline the letters with glue and place beans on the glue.
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Hidden Rainbow Pictures
Students use colors of the rainbow and color patches on the paper remembering to press hard. In this art lesson, students use the black crayon anc color all over the paper covering all of the first layer of color. Students then use the...
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Keepsake Handprints
Students spread out model magic on a plate. In this art lesson, students press their hand into the model magic to make an impression in the clay. Students let it dry for at least 24 hours and then paint the handprint. Students enjoy...
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Crayon Shapes
Students create an Easter Basket stuffer. In this holiday art lesson, students melt crayons together over a small cooking pot and pour the melted crayons into a candy mold. Students let them dry and are able to color with the...
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Discriminating Phonemes
Develop the fluency of beginning readers one sound at a time with this phonemic awareness lesson. Through a series of whole-class instruction, independent practice, and collaborative learning activities, children practice...
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Mother Goose Caboose
In this Mother Goose learning exercise, students color the nine different shapes one color, cut each piece out and glue them together on a separate sheet of paper. Students follow each direction as they piece together their trains.
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Scissor Skills
In this using scissors learning exercise, students follow a set of directions to cut from one point to another. All point begin and end with a set of related pictures, 4 total.
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Color Words
For this color recognition worksheet, students follow the directions and identify colors. Students have nine blankets which they are to color a certain color.
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The Shape of a Melody
Students explore the melody in music. In this music instructional activity, students listen to samples of music and interpret the color of the melodies.