Practice gross and fine motor skills with fun Christmas- and holiday-themed activities. These holiday lessons include songs, games, and other engaging activities for both gross and fine motor skills. Kids will love pinning the nose...

Wrapping presents, singing Christmas carols, writing Christmas cards and learning holiday vocabulary are all wrapped into this one exciting ESL lesson plan.

Thanksgiving is a cherished tradition in the United States and Canada. Introduce the beginnings of the Thanksgiving celebration with a resource that features reading comprehension activities, vocabulary exercises, and a short...

Third graders study Thanksgiving. In this physical education and spelling lesson, 3rd graders play a race game by being the first group who can spell the word Thanksgiving first.

This St. Patrick's Day, young writers imagine they found a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. After a class discussion and brainstorming, scholars compose a narrative essay making sure they incorporate transitions and at least three...

A repetition poem is the focus of a lesson that challenges scholars to compose an original piece. To add meaning to their poem, authors choose words to repeat at the start of most lines.  

Students investigate Thanksgiving by reading a children's book.  In this holiday instructional activity, students read Arthur's Thanksgiving by Marc Brown and create a turkey fact book after reading an electronic encyclopedia....

Download a reading and have learners follow along on a transcript about Labor Day. A series of worksheets follow that include matching, filling in blanks, and unscrambling word spellings. An online multiple choice activity is also...

Students investigate conditional verbs. In this conditional verbs practice lesson plan, students explore the use of conditional verbs as they review the verbs and practice their grammatical skills by completing a worksheet.

Students practice vocabulary and spelling. In this holiday lesson, students complete word searches focused on different holidays. 10 word searches are included.

Young scholars write rhyming poems using rebus. With pictures instead of words, authors create original work about things they love. 

Julius Caesar need not be Greek to kids. The background information and suggestions for teachers, as well as the activities for learners, make this curriculum guide a must-have for your Shakespeare curriculum library.

Fourth graders find change for an amount given. In this real life subtraction lesson, 4th graders use an advertisement to select items to "buy." They figure out how much money they would pay the cashier and how much money they will get...

Students improve their chasing, fleeing and dodging skills in a cooperative, fun, holiday game using white (fleece) snowballs.

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...

Combine your lesson plan on patriotism with a lesson plan on comparing and contrasting. Focusing on The Star Spangled Banner, Take Me Out to the Ballgame, and The Old Folks at Home, this lesson plan prompts learners to compare and...

Students decorate a tree with ornaments which represent different locomotion skills such as crab walk, stretches, jump rope, and jumping jacks. Great for holiday week.

Students practice their addition by participating in a Christmas Tree activity.  In this holiday math lesson, students complete math problems at their desk and match their answers with ornaments on a tree.  Students are given...

Students demonstrate counting skills. In this number sense lesson, students glue numbered feathers onto a turkey pattern in numerical order.

Fourth graders investigate the holidays by performing a song with their class.  In this Christmas lesson plan, 4th graders recite some of their favorite Christmas songs and read the lyrics to the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas."...

Fix fragments and run-ons. Kids practice editing a piece of their own writing, read, and take notes of common examples. They practice connecting independent clauses and then use the information to edit previously written pieces. Note:...

Keeping a steady beat, singing soft, loud, and in unison - sounds like music class to me! First graders practice these skills while listening to the song, "I Mailed Myself to You" for Valentine's Day. This is a simple and age appropriate...

Students review rules of writing emails for letters, informal to a friend and formal.  In this writing lesson, students sort email strips into these categories and then review examples of good and bad semi-formal emails. Students...

Rolling three strikes in bowling is known as a turkey—but in a Thanksgiving-themed bowing game, every pin is a turkey! Young learners practice hand-eye coordination, ball rolling, and weight transfer with an engaging game of Turkey Bowl.