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Dolphins
Students explore sea life. In this cross curriculum fine arts, science, and P.E. "dolphins" lesson plan, students sing songs and play games about dolphins, perform water experiments, create mosaics, and use their five senses to explore...
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Treasure Hunt
Students dribble a ball while moving. In this dribbling lesson, students participate in a game in which they dribble from "poly spot" to "poly spot" gathering basic shapes identified as 'treasure".
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Linear and Locomotor Movements
Students develop locomotor movements. For this dance movement lesson, students identify lines and develop creativity while performing to "Cha Cha Slide". Students discuss how to create dances and difficulty of movements.
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The Little Red House
Students develop the first developmental skill in Gross Motor Coordination, Fine Motor Coordination, Auditory, Language, and Visual areas using the story "The Little Red House."
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Magnify The Monster In Me
Students gradually develop fine-motor movement skills with the mouse, while building on the gross-motor movements they are already able to make with the mouse. It encourages students to look at the same painting different ways, and...
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Read Aloud: "The Bookshop Dog"
Students listen to the book "The Bookshop Dog" and discuss what happens when there is a change in their lives. They create a class T-chart about changes and feelings, develop a graph related to the story, and define key story vocabulary...
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Paper Mache Caterpillar
Learners read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, and practice fine motor skills by using scissors and newsprint strips, and balloons to create paper mache caterpillars.
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Dot to Dot Page: Tractor
In this tractor worksheet, students demonstrate their fine motor skill development by drawing lines connecting the dots from 1 to 40 completing the picture.
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Weather Watch Activity Guide: Groundhog Day
Exactly what do groundhogs know about weather? Not as much as your science students will after completing these lessons and activities that cover everything from the earth's rotation and the creation of shadows, to cloud...
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Group Turkey Wreath
Students use cutting skills and pencil rolling to create paper curls.
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Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down: Grasping the Idea of Evolution
Students compare their performance of a series of tasks using their thumb and fingers to their performance of the same tasks without the use of their thumb. They discuss the role of fine and gross motor skills and speculate on the role...
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Birds of a Feather
Pupils investigate birds and complete a variety of bird-themed activities. They read books and observe birds noting their physical characteristics, development and life cycle stages.
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Picture Dictionary
Students create picture dictionaries to encourage the development of letter-sound recognition. In this alphabet project, students cut out pictures from magazines and glue them onto tagboard, and then write the name of the picture below...
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Origami
Students, through active participation in Japanese origami, demonstrate their skills in this cultural art form and develop an appreciation for other cultures.
Basic Handwriting for Kids
Verb Practice
In this verb learning exercise, pupils complete sentences by choosing a verb from a list of three options provided at the end of each sentence.
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A is for American Sign Language: The Letter Aa
In this printing practice activity, students follow the dotted lines and numbered arrows to practice printing two lines of both uppercase and lowercase A. If online, they can view an animation of how to form the letter.
Basic Handwriting for Kids
Practice—Vertical Lines
In this tracing vertical lines learning exercise, students practice tracing 8 dotted vertical lines and then write 180 vertical lines on their own on the lines provided.
Basic Handwriting for Kids
Prewriting Practice: Right Fourth and Half Circles
For this prewriting practice worksheet, learners trace and print right fourth and half circles starting from the top line and the middle line. Students complete three writing activities.
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T is for Two: Letter Tt
In this letter Tt worksheet, learners study the stroke patterns for the capital and lowercase letter Tt. Students trace and then print both letters several times. Learners finish by tracing and printing the word two.
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Letter Uu
In this letter Uu worksheet, students study the stroke patterns for the capital and lowercase letter Uu. Students trace and then print both letters several times. Students finish by learning the sign language sign for the letter U.
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Magnificent Magnification!
Students magnify their digital artwork to develop their motor skills with a mouse. Using the artwork, they discover how to look at it from different perspectives. They answer discussion questions as they complete the activity.
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Let's Make Play Dough
Students create their own play dough to use for art projects. For this art lesson, students measure, pour and mix the ingredients to make their own play dough. Then, students use the clay to create their own sculptures.
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Corn Cob Painting
Students explore creativity and imagination. In this lesson about art, students experiment with different tools used for creating prints. Students use ears of corn with kernels and without kernels, tempera paint, paper plates for the...