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Sunny Day Shadow Pictures
Students explore shadows. In this art lesson, students put black construction paper on the ground and place objects on the paper. Students leave and when they come back at the end of the afternoon the sun has faded the black paper with...
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Treasure Rocks
Students mix ingredients together until it forms a soft dough. In this art lesson, students flatten the dough out and put small trinkets, wrapped candy or anything else they would want to hide in the rock. Students form dough up and into...
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Experimenting with Colors
Students experiment with mixing primary colors together using frosting and pretzel sticks.
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Sound; Year 1
Students, on a listening walk around the school and its grounds, make notes/comments on the range and variety of sounds in each environment. They listen to recorded sounds and attempt to recognize them.
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Name Plaque
Students create name plaques that are decorated in colors and designs that reveal aspects of their individual personalities.
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Lego Block Center
Students participate in an activity in which they build homes out of Legos. They work together to build the home and a hospital. They identify the role of each building they build for their community.
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Making a Paper Kite
Students listen to a read aloud of Pat Hutchins, The Wind Blew. They create a kite using construction, paint, tissue paper, and yarn.
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You've Got My Money!
Students recall Orff instrument families and specific instruments so that they can put sound effects to certain words in a scary story to make it more interesting.
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MUSICAL MYSTERIES
Students explore the orchestra and identify the sounds of common musical instruments.
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MUSICAL MYSTERIES
Students examine how music can influence our feelings, describe things, and create special effects.
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Color Mixing
Students have cups of different colored water. They add a new color by using a medicine dropper and see how new colors are formed.
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Flowers
Students create flowers out of coffee filters, green construction paper, pipe cleaners, scissors, and glue in this quick and easy pre-Kindergarten lesson for Spring time. The lesson is broken down into six short steps with clearly...
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Paper Bag Easter Bunny
Students create paper bag versions of the Easter Bunny in this spring time lesson for the Kindergarten to 6th grade classroom. Included with the lesson are step-by-step instructions for successful implementation and a short list of...
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Toilet Paper Roll Easter Bunny
Students create "toilet paper roll" easter bunnies using toilet paper rolls, scissors, glue, construction paper, cotton balls, and markers. This activity can be accomplished in as little as 30 minutes but could take longer for younger...
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Drama with Children I
Students participate in activities to introduce them to drama. They mimic facial expressions, pretend objects are something else, and play "Chinese Whispers". They create puppets and theater boxes, masks and costumes, and write scripts...
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Turkey Songs
Students listen critically to music and answer questions about the music, sing a song on so, mi, la and do with a constant pitch center, and maintain steady beats in this Kindergarten Music Lesson. State and National Standards are...
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Aerial Photography
Young scholars are introduced to a basic property of light and how we use this property in our everyday lives. They understand how this image is inverted because light travels in straight lines.
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Which is Different?
In this which is different worksheet, students view a picture of three ducks and one boat, then determine which one is different from the other ones and circle their choice.
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Get Set-- Sorting in a Venn Diagram
In this sorting worksheet, students examine drawings of 10 tropical fish, some with stripes and some with spots. The instructions tell students to sort them using a Venn diagram which is labeled "stripes" and "spots." It is unclear how...
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Babies At Play
In this babies at play learning exercise, students practice viewing a picture of babies playing in the Fall and color the picture with vibrant colors.
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Prize Winners
In this fruit coloring page activity, students choose and circle the fruit in each of four lines that is the largest. Students color in each fruit with appropriate colors for each one.
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Even More Go Togethers
In this matching similar items activity, students match up and color the five items on the left to the five items on the right. Students draw a line to match up each item.
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Go Togethers
In this objects that go together worksheet, students match up and color the four objects on the left to the four objects on the right. Students draw a line from one object to the other that matches.